When the intellectual narcissists are challenged, they don't respond with the humility or reflection one might expect from true scholars or thinkers.
Instead, they double down, they dig in, and increasingly, they drift towards the fringes of right-wing thought, a domain where logic, argument, and intelligent discourse are often anathema, where they'll never be challenged again – or at least, not in ways they can't easily dismiss.
https://joanwestenberg.com/reinventing-the-wheel-to-burn-the-library-the-cycle-of-intellectual-narcissism
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