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Maybe the brutal terseness, toilet language and straw manning is apparently holding traction against his blogging? It seems the longer, more eloquent, and extre
by foolrush 11y ago
Maybe the brutal terseness, toilet language and straw manning is apparently holding traction against his blogging? It seems the longer, more eloquent, and extremely well researched works that shame PG's ridiculous lower-than-high-school-sociological waxing _do not_.
I know it is often viewed as a grand cop-out to withdraw from an a debate until someone has read XXX, however I can't help but feel that this is the case with PG. Go take some sociology classes. Go study the humanities. Go learn in that place you constantly tell people to drop out from.
Except he won't. He doesn't need to. His privilege buys him a platform, ears, and a ridiculous following that actually defends his pompous soap boxing. Worse, again, is that it simply isn't bringing anything to the table. At all.
So while I am not a huge fan of the language or attack posturing, I also feel better knowing that there is a wave rising up against the derivative pablum PG peddles. The hubris it takes to actually forward thoughts as his and _believe_ they are novel, valuable, or even remotely insightful is... Frightening.
- argonaut 11y agoUh... I'm not saying this legitimizes his arguments in any way, but to interpret your comment literally, he did study the liberal arts - both of them: Paul Graham has a BA in Philosophy from Cornell "and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence." http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html
- foolrush 11y agoI suppose I should have been more explicit with “humanities”, but alas. Have a bump for your accurate correction.