If You're Going To Be An Edgy Contrarian Challenging Conventional Wisdom, You Should Know What The Hell You're Talking About

On Yarvin and crackpots

Curtis Yarvin is among the right-wing figures with the greatest air of mystique. Because he writes in an impenetrable haze of irony and jargon, while being constitutionally incapable of making a point with less than fifteen tortured analogies across less than 5,000 words, a careless reader can mistakenly have the impression that he is providing deep pearls of wisdom that have been hidden. Figuring out what Yarvin thinks—or why the hell he thinks it—is quite a challenging task, and as a result, readers reticent to think they’ve wasted their time often can fool themselves into thinking he is making profound points. Yarvin is the right-wing equivalent of continental philosophers—wholly incapable of clarity, concision, or correctness.

Yarvin recently made a staggering and embarrassing error.