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by biohacker42 6093 days ago
Can we all agree that oversimplification in jokes and comics can be very funny, but it can not be taken seriously? And it can not be taken seriously in essays or essay-like blog posts?

That's the sort of overgeneralization that drives people mad. I suppose that's what attracts me to writing it

Sure enough, but does reading it get you anything? Amusement? Certainly not insight, his whole point is moving past insight and staying in the shallow end of the intellectual pool.