That was before he lost 8k+ followers. I've been holding onto it, waiting for the big drop to come, so I can make him lose some more.
from a logical standpoint I would say it's easy to fall into the ego trap when you have 80k followers defending and propping you up, it's easy to fall into an intellectual rut (same thing all academics suffer from, a lack of divergent thinking). I agree though, too much gusto and bravado and not enough listening and thinking.