[paultopia]

Glad someone finally stopped pulling punches in describing Yarvin's wickedness and imbecility.

There's a kind of elegance and charm to this style of just heaping abuse on people who richly deserve it---Hunter S. Thompson was its greatest practitioner and this is in that tradition nicely.

[quantummagic]

> Glad someone finally stopped pulling punches in describing Yarvin's wickedness and imbecility

That's much too simplistic and mean spirited. We're not going to address the problems we're facing with personal dismissals. Yarvin, the man, isn't the problem. Some of his ideas are ridiculous and unworkable, but they're motivated by something real and unaddressed by many other commentators. The current zeitgeist, which is centered on personal attacks and dismissals is contributing to our problems, and inability to make any real progress at addressing them, by increasing factionalism and intellectual silos.

Edit: As to the addition you made to your comment, we live in a very different world than when Hunter S. Thompson was making his contributions.