>What strikes me as the issue is that he identifies literally anyone who may level any criticism at him as acting in bad faith: purely participating in a game o

>What strikes me as the issue is that he identifies literally anyone who may level any criticism at him as acting in bad faith: purely participating in a game of status and an inferior one at that. Where did you get that? I read this part of the article as describing a mental model the author believes in. Thinking about it, the model matches up to my experience of the world. A thinker needs to be able to express their best thinking. If this is what he believes and can argue for, that's an intellectual service. We can use our own intellect to agree or not.