The 21st-century fraud needs no podium—he has podcasts. His TED Talk is a séance summoning ghosts of better minds. He tweets Aquinas, posts Heidegger memes, and livestreams his ‘deconstruction’ of Kafka while sipping lattes. Depth is reduced to bandwidth, wisdom to virality. His followers? A congregation of the attention-deficit, mistaking his echo for an epiphany.
