It has some of that to it, for sure. (I find all of the psychoanalysis more of an obstacle than a stepping stone, but a lot of people seem to like it.)
I’ll need to re-watch and pay more attention. Previously put the sniffing down to his role as a full-spectrum Typhoid Mary of postmodernism, intimately accompanied by a miasma of biological and memetic plague vectors.
Hyperstition?
It has some of that to it, for sure. (I find all of the psychoanalysis more of an obstacle than a stepping stone, but a lot of people seem to like it.)
All that sniffing… Suddenly it’s all clear, the man must have a massive habit to fuel his super-massive ego.
Still it always makes him good to watch…
I’ll need to re-watch and pay more attention. Previously put the sniffing down to his role as a full-spectrum Typhoid Mary of postmodernism, intimately accompanied by a miasma of biological and memetic plague vectors.