I Have Never Seen Something So Intricately Stupid In All My Born Days....

[The Magistrate]

I gather this person passes for an intellectual in the 'dark web' circles....

[Coventina]

1. Clearly this guy hasn't actually read Marx. What a buffoon!

[LakeArenal]

2. I got as far as "scientism" ( which spellcheck really objected to) and had to stop.

[hlthe2b]

6. Ditto. That was a definite "tell."

[redwitch]

7. Yes!

That jumped out at me , screamed in a terrifying, high pitched voice and now I am filled with despair and all kinds of foreboding.

[sakabatou]

23. Same.

[Ocelot II]

3. Whut?

Is this some college kid who just took his first philosophy course and didn't get any of it?

[txwhitedove]

4. Nah, I didn't read far, either. Gobbledygook.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. Wonder what it's like, living in his mind....nt

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Well, he seems to have a doctorate in math, and had a NYT...

bestsellar, along with a fair amount of people who think he's a conservative asshole.

All of which could be true.

[Chainfire]

10. That sounds a lot like a discussion that I may have had in 1969

while listening to Magical Mystery Tour, after smoking some opiated hash.

[Solly Mack]

11. My goodness. Someone is attempting to sound learned. Let's play along.

Quickly, now. Everyone is to fashion their faces into looks of astonishment.

Now hold. Hold. Hold.

Stop that! No laughing! Stop it, you naughty people! For shame!

[Atticus]

12. He "just dropped in---to see what condition his condition was in! Yeah! Yeah! Oh-oh Yeah-h-h!"

OR, he's just following instructions from the Mother Ship.

[malthaussen]

13. Whatever works.

Probably beats working for a living.

-- Mal

[Harker]

14. Beginning with "until you understand that..."

is a very poor way of getting me to listen, and until James Lindsay understands that, I'll ignore him.

[GenThePerservering]

15. I asked my navel if it was self-pitying

it said "no", and its Pathos was fine, too.

[hwmnbn]

17. BTW...

Welcome to DU!

[niyad]

28. Welcome to our DU family.

[hwmnbn]

16. What a bunch of...

self-absorbed pretentious BULLSHIT.

It's as if Sara Palin took a GED philosophy class.

I feel dumber for reading it.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Yeah, I remember the first time I got high.

[Nevilledog]

19. Best response

Link to tweet

[The Magistrate]

20. That Is Where I Found It, Ma'am

I have lately been reading Graves, The White Goddess and King Jesus, so my mind was rather on myth when this came into view. I think gobsmacked is the technical term.

I am happy to have provided some entertainment of the point and laugh variety....

[Ocelot II]

27. LOL!!

Funniest thing I've seen all day. Thanks!

[Boomerproud]

21. Very glad dear James is sitting around wasting his life.

Please tell me he has a precious podcast.

[Fawkes News]

22. Get ye to a "think tank"

Life is much simpler there.

It's the libs' fault.

[NNadir]

24. Let me guess...the Hoover institution?

[taxi]

25. It's turtles all the way down from where I'm looking. What do you see up there?

[The Magistrate]

26. As Above, So Below, Friend

Turtles up and down from here....

[niyad]

29. it is late and my brain is mush. I see that each of the words is English, but the

bizarre word salad makes no sense.

Perhaps if I had a sufficient quantity of alcohol?