> It feels like I'm seeing a lot of articles lately that get deep thinkers quite wrong, or which use their personal character flaws to invalidate their ideas.

> It feels like I'm seeing a lot of articles lately that get deep thinkers quite wrong, or which use their personal character flaws to invalidate their ideas. I completely agree... it's very frustrating seeing this happen to many thinkers that had a strong influence on me. I've recently seen similar 'takedowns' of Thoreau, Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Kipling, and many others that grossly misrepresent the ideas these people had, mention some personal failings, and then conclude that these people did nothing of value. It's incredible that people writing these articles feel entitled to write a dismissal/rebuttal of a deep thinker, when they haven't even taken the time to understand the ideas.