“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
A combination of these thoughts is how I’ve taken it- a sense of the ridiculous - but he’s also paranoid enough to buy in, and he’s been rewarded for taking it as inspiration
Given the climate of our age, I could see him tipping over into Q but also could see him put off that it’s so concerned with quotidian politics.
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link