I have had my own struggle with an idea. I imagine a space alien arriving on earth for the first time. Many would assume he would consider how to fight the natives and take the resources. But what if he simply stared around and asked, "Why am I here on this world." It would be that reality might be much like his old world and yet empty of meaning. His reality might feel so distorted and even delusional that he would feel as if he were drifting in space. There he finds himself alone in a clearing in the middle of the forest, the most power of all beings, asking "Why am I here on this world?" You are on a hike and discover him and you try to comfort him and tell him what it's all about, and how to really dig planet earth. What do you tell him?

Do some people think Tucker Carlson is going bonkers? Thought for 2s I'll check recent coverage and reactions to Tucker Carlson before answering.Yes. A lot of people say that now, including people who used to treat him as a pillar of the right.The short version: Carlson broke with Trump over the Iran war, left the GOP in public, started talking about a third party, called Trump “homicidal” and “incapable of leadership,” said a president who threatens first use of nuclear weapons should be removed “immediately,” and spent a year wrapping the war in Israel-control and conspiracy language. That combination is what flipped “Tucker is a bomb-thrower” into “Tucker has lost it.” mediaite.com Who is saying itTrump and MAGA loyalists. Trump has called him kooky, low-IQ, not MAGA, and irrelevant. That is not a media sneer. That is his old camp cutting him loose. newsweek.com Mainstream conservative writers. Power Line has written about his “descent into madness.” Douglas Murray and similar voices call the Israel-and-Zionist-control line deranged. This is the “he used to be ours” faction. powerlineblog.com His long-standing critics. They always thought he was a conspiracy entrepreneur. The Fuentes interview, the Charlie Kirk eulogy fight, the refusal to give a clean answer on Israel’s right to exist, and the RT appearance just gave them more tape. tvinsider.com What changedCarlson was always theatrical. The new piece is the pile-up: war with a former patron, nuclear talk, third-party vapor, apologies for backing Trump, apologies for old anti-Muslim rants, then a new theory that someone else is running Trump. To people who wanted a populist anti-war critic, that can look like consistency. To people who wanted a Republican communicator, it looks like a man burning his old coalition and reaching for darker explanations. forbes.com The other side of itPlenty of his audience does not think he is bonkers. They think the Iran war was a betrayal of America First and that Carlson is the one who stayed put while Trump and the donor class moved. That is why he still has a large show. “Going bonkers” is the rival camp’s diagnosis, not a census.So: yes, a lot of people think he has gone around the bend. Some of them always did. The new fact is that a chunk of the right now says it too.