who is a public Intellectual you found interesting ten years ago who has aged badly? what went wrong?
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I wasn't reading his new stuff to be clear, just reflecting on and sometimes revisiting the stuff of his I'd read in college. I still think about some moments in Parliament of Whores regularly, and any insight I think it has feels overpowered by remembering the accompanying jokes
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but it might also be a "Seinfeld Is Unfunny" things, Irish papers had a prominent columnist who basically stole O'Rourke's shtick and applied it to Turning Point-level culture war stuff and it exposed just how flimsy the style was for me.
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(tho that said, the only thing I've seen of his from post-2004 was a quote from a speech that was so unfunny and sanctimonious, so maybe tha it has happened in general for him too)
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Anyway, he did inspire me to put together this shitpost, so it evens outpic.twitter.com/n6b4mKLFhn
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I thought he was v. funny as a teen in the 80s. Dunno if it's me or him.
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