A thought on the emotions at the end.
Like most of you, I’ve listened to Knowledge Fight a _lot_, and have felt a lot of emotions at its end. I’m currently in an early part of a re-listen, around late 2017 right now, and I’ve been reflecting on why the end of KF has felt like such a loss. I think I have a reason.
Dan has spent the past near-decade patiently explaining, contextualizing, and reflecting on Alex’s warped reflections of a series of chaotic events that we are all living through. Jordan has served as our collective Id, viscerally reacting to how fucked up everything has been and continues to be. For me, at least, this set of lenses has helped me process a lot of the past decade. I think that’s what a lot of us are grieving now. There’s a sense of shared reality that is no longer there for us to access. Dan has really done a mitzvah in that regard, and I hope he continues his work in some way or form. And I think that one of the directions we as a subreddit could go would be to continue the work of deconstruction, of showing up with receipts to establish a basic shared reality.