Bridget Phetasy

is embarrassing to me and i realized it was very gen x of me to say i don't care but it did feel and saying you know like get off it's a very almost older get off my lawn yeah it yeah it does i get why people reacted strongly to it and and they're gonna tell me that i'm gonna be irrelevant and you know they they make comparisons whatever six seven six seven listen

So this idea that, oh, I'm popular and that means I'm right is such a very strange thing

I understand it from, if you're young, I can understand that.

But from somebody who's older, it seems like you should know better.

Yeah.

Oh, totally.

I mean, it goes back to a couple things that you said.

I really do try and ground myself in those recovery principles all the time, one of which is principles before personalities.

So like you, I try not to get bogged down in too much of the personal mudslinging.

I have friends and family members on all sides of the aisles.

I see the same thing in media.

And I actually think it should be that way.

It's healthy to be able to have conversations with people who disagree with you.

And I do think turning everything, as James Lindsay is always talking about, this friend-enemy distinction makes it very easy to kind of divide and conquer people.

And we have outside forces who are influencing this from other countries.

Now...

There's also a lot of truth in the idea that, and this was really embedded in this piece, I've never peaked.

So I have literally built what I made.

Like, truly, I'm still an independent creator.

I've never had a machine behind me.