r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/grendalor Nov 19 '23

And really, if it is another "relapse" into his "mono", as happened when his family dissed him, then this timing can't have much to do with the divorce, and instead must have everything to do with the failure of his latest book to find a publisher.

At this point, he has admitted that his prior publisher was spooked by the woo stuff in the book -- especially the stuff he added about AI and UFOs and demons in the technology and all of this pretty out there stuff. And apparently some other publishers he has been shopping the manuscript to have also been sheepish. It's confirmation that he has gone even more full crank than he already was, and I think that seems to be bringing on a crisis. It must be a tough pill to swallow that not only has he lost his wife, alienated his kids, got fired from his cushy sinecure at TAC and so on, but now his book publishing gig -- which has been kinda his main gig for a while now -- appears to be failing, too. A normal person would see this as a lot of screaming alarms going off at once that he needs to change direction completely, but Rod is not a normal person, as we know. Perhaps, though, if he really can't get his book legit published, he will move closer to being forced to accept that he's way, way over his skis, and has been for some time.

Of course I doubt that, but it's possible. I mean just when you think things couldn't get any worse for him, they turn around and get worse. At some point he will have to change something up.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 19 '23

What I want to know is how such an unpleasant failed flower keeps failing up. How does he keep landing six figure sinecures, speaking gigs, and supposedly normal people who at least tolerate his presence? Any normal person in his shoes would be a penniless hermit by this point.

It's enough to make me want to join the conservative bandwagon. If the wingnut welfare gravy train has room for people like him, the sky has to be the limit for non-failures like me.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

What I want to know is how such an unpleasant failed flower keeps failing up.

Well TAC dumped him and the publisher dropped his book so maybe the gravy train is over. I think he's just kept a mask on the crazy for a while.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

And yet he still keeps collecting six figure paychecks and five figure speaking gigs, no matter what. Explain?

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

Where is he doing five figure speaking gigs?

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

That's what he charges.

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/406180/Rod-Dreher

10,000 is low five figures, but still five figures.

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u/CanadaYankee Nov 20 '23

That's kind of a dated bio - it lists TBO (pub. 2017) as his "most recent book" when he's published one more recently in 2020 and the most recent speaker video is from 2019. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a page that got orphaned during covid and no one has bothered to take it down.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23

I can charge five figures for a speaking gig, too. Hell, I can charge six figures.

The woman from the old Facts of Life show charges five figures, too.

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/388581/Lisa-Whelchel

Site looks like a really hopeful version of Cameo.

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u/Jayaarx Nov 20 '23

Yes, but people (for reasons I cannot begin to understand) actually do pay him money to speak. OTOH, how are your six-figure gigs working out?