I'm fully willing to buy the author's assessment of Jeff Bezos' detachment from the reality that we normal folk live in by viewing his (Bezos') interaction with William Shatner post Blue Origin's NS-18 launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU
The clip humanizes Shatner and makes Bezos seem like a creepy narcissistic ghoul in comparison (which is quite a feat assuming stories told about Shatner by many of his former coworkers are accurate).
Given all of the events since then its a bit interesting that despite the thinly veiled not-quite-name-dropping (eg. Gaiman, Chabon, Andrés) he didn't mention the presence of Ghislaine Maxwell who has been to Campfire several times including in 2018.
tastyface•1h ago