[vinceguidry]

You'll never cut through this attitude. It is, as you say, perpetual. HN is their safe space, hence the strong reaction you're receiving. You're going to have to learn how to operate within the mindset if you want pleasant interactions here. Learn to appreciate the dull rationalistic mental sludge.

Putnam himself would feel perfectly comfortable here.

[golly_ned]

The guy who was disciplined for reading poetry on duty during WWII, who threw away his commissioned abstract sculpture would feel perfectly comfortable on a forum clearly hostile to anything that isn't a hard fact or a short thinkpiece about engineering management or an explanation of rust's reference counter?

[vinceguidry]

I like to think that the things that drove him away from society and caused him to seclude himself from it are the very things this community values and seeks to protect.