(August 28, 2013 at 3:24 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I think it's pretty easy to tell he's putting on a schtick.
How so? Because it's crazy shit?
If it's schtick, why not act that way as, say, Stephen Colbert does?
It's his intent that matters, and as far as I can tell, his delivery shows that he intends people to take him seriously. So, even if it's schtick, he's not selling it as that, and that would make him worse than if he was a true believer.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
