He fucking truly is. I still remember his masterclass opinion piece on US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Normal people would talk about normal things, geopolitics, world standing, how this affect the sitting president in the polls, etc. Normie shit for mortals.

Friedman instead time-traveled to interview President Lyndon Johnson, Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, and did an astral projection to interview Xi Jinping in his head. Then he air out his whole psychosis episode in the front page of the New York Times. This is a level of galaxy brain beyond the latest Samsung Galaxy phone, beyond my normie comprehension.