Gary Shteyngart

Yes.

And breakups, et cetera, all this stuff.

But we were still a wonderful unit.

I don't think these people have that on that level.

What our society has done, what these platforms have done is that they have made being mentally ill a very profitable thing, being openly mentally ill.

A profitable thing.

And I think that reaches up to a commander in chief.

You know, there is this sense that if you flaunt the fact that you are you don't know what you're doing, you're completely out of it.

But you do it in this way that combines humor and trolling and all this kind of stuff.

You know, it's almost like a carnivalesque atmosphere.

Look, I'm completely crazy.

I'm beating myself up with a hammer, you know.

And people will pay for that.

They will pay for that.

But what happens to that person is nobody cares.

Right.

If tomorrow he OD'd, you know, I don't think even his followers would care.

They'd be like, OK, that was interesting.

You know, I'm going to I'm going to find someone else who beats his nose with a hammer.

That's interesting in a very grim way to put it, like that these relationships that they feel real, but they're not real.