???? I’m so confused about what happened here. The aliens part (as stated) isn’t a red flag for me, but the Kant thing seem transparently crazy to me. I have to imagine there’s something being lost in translation here, and missing context for why people didn’t immediately see that this person was having a mental breakdown?
I would imagine that other people saw his relationship to Kant as something like Kant being a Shoulder Advisor, maybe with additional steps to make it feel more real.
In an enviroment where some people do seances and use crystals to clean negative energy, they might have thought that if you believe in the realness of rituals things get more effective. So someone who manages to get to the position to literally believe they are talking to Kant instead of just to some abstraction of their mind of Kant being more powerful.
I do think they messed up here by not understanding why truth is valuable, but I can see how things played out that way.
I would imagine that other people saw his relationship to Kant as something like Kant being a Shoulder Advisor, maybe with additional steps to make it feel more real.
In an enviroment where some people do seances and use crystals to clean negative energy, they might have thought that if you believe in the realness of rituals things get more effective. So someone who manages to get to the position to literally believe they are talking to Kant instead of just to some abstraction of their mind of Kant being more powerful.
I do think they messed up here by not understanding why truth is valuable, but I can see how things played out that way.