Séamas O'Reilly: Andrew Huberman revelations unlikely to impact the dominance of the self-help guru

At a time when people are more disconnected, seeking parasocial enlightenment has never seemed more attractive

Seamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

“Good puzzle” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses, “would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub”. 

I humbly submit that a better, and infinitely harder, puzzle would be to scroll through YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok without encountering a clipped video of a guru telling a podcast host the way to become rich, happy or irresistible, via one weird trick that they, and they alone, possess.