Post #1992886
2026-05-04 19:19 UTC
@Tattie What an excellent thread. For me, the frustrating thing about Dawkins is that he was once a serious thinker and has done good work, in his time, but seems now to have become the thing he set his face against. John Cleese Syndrome, you might call it. Or Germaine Greer Syndrome. Either way, a tragedy, really.
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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-05-04 19:52
@hedders thank you! And yes, a lot of figures have fallen in similar ways.
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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 19:01
@hedders@mas.to @Tattie@eldritch.cafe "I've told you once." -- John Cleese, opening of Monty Python "Argument" sketch
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@angiebaby@mas.to 2026-05-10 00:05
@hedders@mas.to @Tattie@eldritch.cafe I suspect he received a substantial amount of money from one or more of the AI companies and he did the math and realized he's 85 years old and would probably like to live out the rest of his life on a fat bed of cash.