Saul, battling with the tens of thousands of new arrivals in his forum, while struggling to keep the servers from crashing, has turned defensive and absolutist in certain issues. Any discussion of Kyew-anawn gets one booted immediately.
Saul and Wictor still do podcasts together, but they are strained as Wictor cannot talk about most things he wants to talk about. Mostly it is fear of Youtube demonetization. Also Wictor and Saul are at odds on certain things, but Saul tends to be converted to Wictor's optimism over time.
Wictor's theory is that Trump is still President, and that moreover this will be revealed in the near future. Wictor doesn't explain this in detail, as he spends most of his time arguing with and explaining himself to the new arrivals who try to tear him down.
I'll credit Wictor for this: he has enlightened me as how the worst sin in the contemporary world has become being wrong. One is not allowed to be wrong. We are trained to tear down everything we think is wrong. That means it is impossible to disagree with any consensus. The narrative must be held, no matter what. It's a nightmare of groupthink. It means that people of fragile psyche must constantly tell themselves how right they are about everything. Anyone who does this is suffering from mental illness.
Wictor defies the ignorant masses by not only admitting to his mental illnesses, but by allowing himself to formulate guesses that might be wrong.
I could be wrong! he says, shaking his fist at his enemies. It is an act of freedom to say as much. Who on their side could say those words with conviction, without a gut reaction of fear overcoming them?
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