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More broadly, the defining character of our era is "person who chose 'Contrarian' as a career but is traumatised by people disagreeing with them"

I still have problems to believe the traumatised part. More like pretenders.

ehhhh yeah some people perform it for strategic reasons, but I do think a large number of people have become genuinely psychologically unmoored because their bold, iconoclastic provocations weren't met with universal acclaim

Yeah, agree, so much of it is visibly sincere upset, they do the whining even privately.

Yeah, the students thing always baffles me. Has nobody read the Golden Notebook? The students are usually wrong!