The True Believer

Luke Burgess: Have you ever read Eric Hoffer's The True Believer? He points out that the people who participate in social movements are typically wealthy, but also paranoid. And to me, like that tension, that tension existing, is quite rare throughout history and especially at the kind of Brahmin left level for New York Times reporters. But this goes back to like the communications technology thing, right? You know, being able to see someone like Elon Musk on TV, right? I think that that was not necessarily a feeling that was, you know, that was nearly as present and that that drives a lot of this kind of reaction, right?