This is terrifying news for all of us. Intelligent people of note betraying a variety of opinion on such a crucial question might mean we have to each answer the question ourselves.
"If a white person is a self-proclaimed 'nerd,' [e.g. 'millinerd'] all jokes around the topic are essentially their opportunity to say that they are smarter than you." - Stuff White People Like
"The anatomy of a blog makes serious conversation all but impossible." -Alan Jacobs
"Blogs are the crack cocaine of writing." -Richard Starr
"Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate." -Emily Dickinson
"The breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that comes to mind is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day." -Strunk & White (p. 73)
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