No, I think I did exactly the same thing you did. In fact, I went in eager to read what he had to say, and ended up tapping out after the prose became too insuf

No, I think I did exactly the same thing you did. In fact, I went in eager to read what he had to say, and ended up tapping out after the prose became too insufferable. I'm just saying I wish more people would do what you did. Read it, or at least try to read it, or at the very least try to get a good faith understanding of the ideas _in terms the author would agree with_. The default mode, and I think we are all guilty of this from time to time, is to hear somebody beating the war drum, and then go look for a snarky, middle-brow dismissal. It just bothers me that we all seem to be so profoundly uninterested in the actual ideas themselves. This disqualification by personality stuff is so exhausting, and it annoys me that we're all so sure we're right.