“Big celebrities, surrounded by whole networks of people dedicated to serving them and keeping them happy, regularly develop massive egos, which often leads to them confidently, and publicly, stating the most ridiculous things.
This is important. We live in a highly interconnected, increasingly complex society, where innumerable people and worldviews end up overlapping constantly. So, someone who is objectively, unquestionably wrong, but still unshakeably confident can end up convincing many others that they’re right.
Often by providing easy answers for complex modern issues, particularly ones that ‘confirm’ pre-existing worldviews or prejudices. This makes them more high-profile, thus more legitimate and convincing, so they gain more support and followers, and the cycle continues.
Left unchecked, it can end up with individuals with no abilities or redeeming traits beyond unshakeable confidence being put in charge of entire countries. And that won’t end well for anyone. You can be confident in that conclusion."
Is he capable of reading?