>>17678978
I always think the saddest thing about Lindsay Ellis and other fuckups like Contrapoints is that they're clearly smart and creative, they aren't total retards or anything, but they live in a world (woke progressivism) where the smartest you're allowed to be is a midwit. The highest post in the land is "peak midwit." Anything above that is too elitist for the progressive worldview. So they hit that point and then try to lie to themselves that their hordes of literally mentally retarded normalfag fans are enough to fill the void, as you say, but you know damn well that tranny fag Contrapoints sees the normies as demi-conscious subhumans. Lindsay probably does too but lies to herself that "we're all equal, we're all just having fun on this wild wacky earth :^) time to go to another theme park, I love fun!" and that it's a perfectly good use of her mind and her creativity to make watered-down critical theory videos about Disney remakes.
She must constantly sense that she is the queen of the kiddie table. She must feel the at least occasional vertigo of being an adult in a room full of children, with no exits. But she's stuck, what's she gonna do, redo the last 20 fucking years of adulthood and base her life on something other than her MA in film studies? After all, she excelled beyond her mediocre normie peers in regurgitating the progressive crit theory jargon stuff and doing creative pop culture critiques, and it made her stand out when she was 22! That's worh building a life on! She was destined for this!
It has to eat away at them. People capable of great creativity and productivity were simply not meant to lie to themselves that the plebs are their peers forever. You don't have to despise the plebs to know they're not your peers. Being "head pleb" is not a substitute for letting your excellence shine.