These are people who have largely insulated themselves from outside critique. Over the years, though, due to social media and the proliferation of publishing platforms, the volume on these outside critiques has gone up more and more, until it finally reached the point where they can hear it.
Read MoreBefore I really get going on the speculation, though, I want to talk about the end-of-history fallacy. There is a tendency to assume that the present state of affairs is somehow the final form of the world, that history is the story of how this current moment emerged. But the monstrosity of our current moment is making this harder and harder to swallow: the covers have been ripped off and we can see the poorly-made Rube Goldberg machine of history for what it is.
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