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It's very difficult to listen to someone who's ideologically possessed because it gets drony very quickly. He moved out of the domain of the conjunction of his personal experience and his and his genius let's say and into the ideological domain. It could have been anyone saying those things, he said they were fascinating but then he talked about trump for ten minutes. If you're speaking and you're boring yourself  you feel weak and stupid and ashamed and like you're sacrificing your good name.