He's lost the plot. Maybe never really had it, except in a narrow window of specific insight into the human condition. But broader global dynamics? Forget it. His emotionality is his undoing here. Macro-reality is too much for him.
That's my take on JBP too, he can dissect an individual extremely well, but macro reality he can't seem to grasp. I daresay that he has a rather childish concept of christianity, Judaism and Israel by association, he can't comprehend evil.. poenology, and psychopathy, despite his psychological knowledge. He can extremely well denounce the hypocrisy of communism, hiding behind certain concepts to disguise totalitarianism, but he takes every word from the right at face value, even when they justify the worst of humanity.
The situation with JBP is almost tragic, sometime ago, at the start of his popularity, he posed a very interesting question: "When does the left go too far?", a question he had researched quite well and that he brought up as a valid discussion point. But now, it seems that he has forgotten about the other side of the coin, or is unable in this case to identify when the situation has gone too far, or maybe he's unwilling.
I think it's unwillingness... or maybe even he's incapable of going there, his devotion seems almost religious. He used to ask a lot "would you be the concentration camp guard?" his attitude online lately would place him in that very spot without loosing any sleep apparently.
Yeah, I agree, I don't think he's been groomed by Schapiro and Bibi either. And I don't think him joining the Daily Wire gang had anything to do with Israel, but rather their tradcon views. It was probably just a coincidence that their views on Israel aligned.
right, or maybe it wasn't a coincidence, maybe he gravitated towards them because he actually shared their world view, so it wasn't so much that they groomed him into their world view and he adopted it so that he could belong, is that he resonated with them all along and simply found its way to them. I remember getting an iffy feeling when he became good friends with that Rubin guy and thought, why would he be so fond of him? well, this may be why.
I suppose it's really sad, that it's incredibly predictable where people will go and what their reaction to an event will be just by knowing a bit about them. JP Sears is another one of such voices that used humor to deliver truth, but he was also such a compassionate individual, to take such a stance on this topic, just because he adopted the "right".. is disappointing.
I wonder if they have considered that they're falling for the lies of the same media empires that they have denounced as liars before.
And I can't help feel that this massive trick is being played out on all of us, oppose the Irak invasion, jump on the left, but not too quick, because Obama needs opposition, jump on the right, support Trump because Biden and Clinton are lunatics, and support the Walsh and Shapiro and Peterson and JP Sears, Kennedy... but not too quick because now they all support Israel and so on... and I can't help but think that someone is looking at all this and laughing at people freaking out, not about what's actually going on, the carnage and lies and death and destruction, no.. people are freaking out about picking a side.
And so they observe their surroundings, and the public figures they hate.. and pick the opposing side, by default. No one is really thinking about anything, it's like no one's an adult anymore.
I remember Laura's words from way back.. there is really a program for everyone to vector one's thinking, attention and choices.
Interesting times indeed.