Is there a way to approach this sensitively?
A brand new video showed up on FDR yesterday, entitled
Farewell Father, an emotional reflection on fathers and mortality and such.
Since it was presented without preamble or commentary, it is unclear why this particular video was produced. He actually wrote the poem years ago for a friend and "analyzed" his own work so that you could learn what goes into a great poem
in this other video that showed up on YouTube in 2007. (No lack of self-love there!)
But this video is simply an intensely emotional presentation--a collection of old family videos (I don't know whose) underneath that same poem, this time read haltingly by Molyneux.
Has it happened then, that his own father has died? And is this video the emotional send-off from son to father?
Now the insensitive part. If he's so emotional about it, why didn't he just pick up the phone and talk to the guy in the last decade? Why did he make podcasts for his followers where he writes his father off as an "evil man"?
From where did the emotion spring--that drove him to create such a beautiful reflection--when Molyneux has assured all of his defooers that when their own parents die, they will feel nothing but relief?
And how could someone who believes "nearly all parents are horribly bad" produce such a poem in the first place?
Oh, I suddenly get it. I don't really want to build an argument about his contradictions and self-indulgence right now. Because I keep thinking about the sad complexity of emotions, memories, and "first principles logic" that must be at war in his mind.
I just feel really, intensely sorry for the man.
