I mean, if you want to convert normies, Hasan really is the ideal spokesman, he just strikes me as inauthentic at times, but that's probably because his content has some commercial considerations. Just seems like he's got the depth of someone who regurgitates ideas rather than synthesizes his own.
So what? This isn't a bad thing.
I guess I come from a place where one exalts and lionizes thought leaders, not placeholders.
What place would that be?
France in the 1960s, but to an unhealthy degree
Elysium.