At a time of personal confusion and pain in my life, Jordan Peterson and the alt right gave me direction and purpose. I eventually realized that purpose was spreading a cruel, antisocial worldview — but not before I inflicted that cruelty on those around me.
People don’t actually like the smart and capable. They like bombastic, big mouth bullies who deliver sound bites and agree with them, or worse yet just a guy they recognize.
Everyone complains about how we only have old guys running for President, when we had several other options in the last primaries. We just picked the worst ones because the others seemed “boring” or people didn’t know them
There’s a little known Aesop Fable called “The Clown and the Countryman” that illustrates something close to this
https://www.infoplease.com/primary-sources/fables-fairytales/aesops-fables/aesops-fables-30