I guess I’m just kind of surprised, you know, that it’s even possible for someone like Bob to be like this. I mean, I know that probably sounds hilarious to a lot of people, like, especially the people who have been wary of Bob from the start—I’m sure for them, it’s just like: Yeah, this is what guys like Bob do. This is who they are—but I guess I’m just really confused about how you can make it through life this long and have a whole career as a writer and a thinker and still be such a little bitch. LOL. Like, I used to think it was kind of annoying when people would say that Bob was such a man, you know, that all the things he was saying could only be said by a man whose life had been just like Bob’s—I used to just kind of be like: Yeah, okay, sure, I mean, you’re right, but that’s not the point. What about all the other stuff? What about the interesting stuff?—but now when I look at Bob, it’s really hard to see anything other than a little rich boy who can’t even be proud of his wife. I mean, it’s actually fucking pathetic. I’ve been trying to think back to all the things he’s written that have actually changed my life, or like, all the conversations we’ve had that have been sort of mind-blowing or next-level, and it’s impossible to get it out of my mind that he’s losing his shit right now over a reality show. Like, that’s actually what he’s doing. He actually can’t handle the fact that my mom stole The Winstocks from him. And, meanwhile, Bob’s whole thing is about truth, you know—his whole MO is about being really honest with ourselves and investigating all the ways that we’re committed to bullshit and all the ways we’re prevented from being free—but it’s almost like he’s never actually taken a minute and been like: What kind of bullshit am I committed to? What kind of weakness is actually holding me back? He says he does: like, in all his books, he says that he’s been so ruthless with himself, so unsparing. He says that his entire philosophy is a process of throwing out past selves until he arrives at a new one. But what does that all amount to if it ends up looking like this? It’s not even disappointing, you know? It’s just really, really sad. And more than that, it’s boring.