I think the Ryan Holiday arc is fascinating. He became a bestselling author and hero of the founder class for writing these fantastic books about stoicism and the ancients. Then, he sees that this world he's enmeshed in (personal growth, VC land, austin tech world, tim ferriss and naval adjacent) is in many ways fundamentally at odds with the subjects of his books (Marcus Aurelius, Plato, et al.) So, what do his readers do? Instead of trusting him and following along in his critique of hyper capitalism and Elon, they lash out and cancel him as if he's a communist libcuck. I can't remember another example of such a beloved writer being shat on so relentlessly, in a way that is so antithetical to the content of his books. The stoics valued self-examination, restraint, virtue, wisdom, temperance and courage. His readers are treating him with malice, teenage disdain, they sound like children. Did any of you read any of his work?