Is he just posturing for his fans?
I see so many statements of this nature from him and I just can't believe that a person that successful can be so monumentally stupid.
Clearly, you're not a student of history then. The trope of folks being good at one thing and believing that this can be extrapolated to other things is based on an almost infinite history of humans doing this exact thing, from politicians, business leaders, engineers, scientists, artists and just ordinary folks. When you couple this with the amplifying effects of having the money to surround yourself with 'yes'-folks that continuously reinforce your 'brilliance', and having the power that results in politicians kowtowing to you, then it is incredibly difficult to break out of that supreme belief in your own genius. It is literally a trap as old as humanity.
Then they say something like 'I believe in strongly held beliefs, held weakly'.
I'm so bored of debating people with opinions on things they've spent zero time researching or even thinking about. Just say you don't know. It's okay.
no one is going to talk with you if you're drawing out all the nuance of medical regulation (nearly an 5k essay to broach) with nuance.
Then why should anyone talk with you about it? What would be the point?
So he's responding to his incentives, railing at the constraints on the ingenuity and productivity of people like himself. Likely underdeveloped empathy does not help.
Don't forget that he is an unapologetic, very public drug user.
Every time he says or does something stupid, I just assume he's high. It helps explain a lot.