By the by, e.pierce, clinically narcissistic sociopath I can live with (perhaps even learn to embrace!), but Snob? Smug? Troll? Them's is slanderin' words, and I daresay legally actionable.
Smug asshole---10000000000% pure TROLL---clinically narcissistic sociopath here, with an early morning check-in to just say "hello."
Well, actually, to say more than hello, but clearly you're nervous, responsibly concerned that you and I are moving too fast in this on-line relationship. I understand. I applaud you mature caution. By the way, that new moniker above that you've assigned me? I like it! I'm even considering replacing "latouche" with it if I can get the TK engineers to sign off on it. That's quick work from a James Lindsay fanboy! And helpful---I was unaware I was that transparent. We all need help!
Hey Linus---my suggestion? Take your thumb out of your mouth, ditch your "cultural-left" security blanket, shift gears, start working in the language we all agreed upon in 3rd-grade, and make an honest attempt to formulate a few original ideas, rather than besieging us with the netherworldish evils and spells of the "cultural left," presented in a syntax-free, humorless style (gibberish, anyone?) that combines the worst elements of academic jargon and cereal box copy.
"....As the cultural-left continues to marinate and rot in a toxic echo chamber of lies and emotional manipulation...."
This is the updated language (postmodern---ha ha, that's humor) that suggests a slightly deranged 17th-century puritan theologian on the hunt for witches and warlocks. And I understand how a James Lindsay fanboy (among other unsavory identifiers) can be reduced, in short order, to epithetic surrender---"snobbery "and "trollery"---- it's a sure marker of on-line surrender in the battle of ideas, and rather exposes you as bereft of useful, coherent ideas in which to analyze and understand the modern world and the society and culture in which you circulate. Ya oughta get out of the neighborhood more often.
The "cultural-left?" Please. The boogeymen of small minds besotted with the cheap propaganda (and long con) of internet hucksters and faux-intellectual quick-buck artists like Lindsay and Jordan Peterson, fellas whose big comic book ideas easily impress and wow the basement philosophers of the land, many of whom are busy organizing their thoughts and screeds, soon to be converted into "grand theory" pixels suitable for dismantling the Frankfurt School once and for all!
The term "cultural-left" itself is a "straw" category, composed of "straw " men, invented by feverish adolescent minds (often housed in adult bodies), primarily created to relieve themselves of the responsibility of actually contemplating genuine thought and the thinkers who think them, when they open their mouths or start banging on the keyboard.
People who are either too confused, too content, or too unaware that they add nothing to the current national conversation with this empty can of ideas. And that it is their feverish fulminations that best reflect a "rot in a toxic echo chamber of lies and emotional manipulation."
The tragedy? That there is indeed "a market" for this kind of bullshit and nonsense. Evidently a very big market.
Get some help, e.p., and I ain't talkin' bout the clunky prose or the fuzzy thinking....
By the by, e.pierce, clinically narcissistic sociopath I can live with (perhaps even learn to embrace!), but Snob? Smug? Troll? Them's is slanderin' words, and I daresay legally actionable.
Smug asshole---10000000000% pure TROLL---clinically narcissistic sociopath here, with an early morning check-in to just say "hello."
Well, actually, to say more than hello, but clearly you're nervous, responsibly concerned that you and I are moving too fast in this on-line relationship. I understand. I applaud you mature caution. By the way, that new moniker above that you've assigned me? I like it! I'm even considering replacing "latouche" with it if I can get the TK engineers to sign off on it. That's quick work from a James Lindsay fanboy! And helpful---I was unaware I was that transparent. We all need help!
Hey Linus---my suggestion? Take your thumb out of your mouth, ditch your "cultural-left" security blanket, shift gears, start working in the language we all agreed upon in 3rd-grade, and make an honest attempt to formulate a few original ideas, rather than besieging us with the netherworldish evils and spells of the "cultural left," presented in a syntax-free, humorless style (gibberish, anyone?) that combines the worst elements of academic jargon and cereal box copy.
"....As the cultural-left continues to marinate and rot in a toxic echo chamber of lies and emotional manipulation...."
This is the updated language (postmodern---ha ha, that's humor) that suggests a slightly deranged 17th-century puritan theologian on the hunt for witches and warlocks. And I understand how a James Lindsay fanboy (among other unsavory identifiers) can be reduced, in short order, to epithetic surrender---"snobbery "and "trollery"---- it's a sure marker of on-line surrender in the battle of ideas, and rather exposes you as bereft of useful, coherent ideas in which to analyze and understand the modern world and the society and culture in which you circulate. Ya oughta get out of the neighborhood more often.
The "cultural-left?" Please. The boogeymen of small minds besotted with the cheap propaganda (and long con) of internet hucksters and faux-intellectual quick-buck artists like Lindsay and Jordan Peterson, fellas whose big comic book ideas easily impress and wow the basement philosophers of the land, many of whom are busy organizing their thoughts and screeds, soon to be converted into "grand theory" pixels suitable for dismantling the Frankfurt School once and for all!
The term "cultural-left" itself is a "straw" category, composed of "straw " men, invented by feverish adolescent minds (often housed in adult bodies), primarily created to relieve themselves of the responsibility of actually contemplating genuine thought and the thinkers who think them, when they open their mouths or start banging on the keyboard.
People who are either too confused, too content, or too unaware that they add nothing to the current national conversation with this empty can of ideas. And that it is their feverish fulminations that best reflect a "rot in a toxic echo chamber of lies and emotional manipulation."
The tragedy? That there is indeed "a market" for this kind of bullshit and nonsense. Evidently a very big market.