So how do you feel if you're Kanye West (or at least "Kanye West," Twitter personality)? Well, you know you're amazing and no one feels worse about it than you. You're a superstar and no one could possibly be more alone. Acknowledging this, your heart swells like you're becoming a better person while all the time you remain convinced that you were already awesome anyway. Self-pity mixed with delusions of grandeur—the identifying marks of a very particular type of asshole who feels like he should be congratulated simply for meaning well.

And nowhere do you get such a good approximation of what it feels like to be Kanye than [...]