(11-24-2023, 04:02 AM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ]I am not Joseph Bronski (though I suppose I can’t prove this one way or the other). I do still want to know if he’s grifting or retarded, though looking at your post you probably see him as the latter.
He is kind of grifting and not. He's not a cynic out for your money. He wants to be a
respected intellectual figure. He's quite opposed to what he sees as manipulation and grift, but his
intellectual work is, to my cynical eyes, a manipulative path of shortcuts and attempts at stealing glory.
But at the same time I believe the first and most convinced with this crap is Bronski himself. He's trying to stamp his name upon existing observations by passing them through his personal filter of unnecessary statistics, neologisms, and petty contrarianism. But he wouldn't admit this with a gun to his head.
I obviously linked him as a joke, but if the poster who believes moldbug is
refuted would like to share real examples I would be very interested in seeing them.
And as for Moldbug's recent activity, yes maybe he should be playing the political animal game. He seems decently well positioned to do so considering he seems relatively financially secure, his name can't get worse with the powers that be, and he's earned the attention and respect of some powerful people. Maybe to some extent we can't see he
is playing these games. And on the other hand, consider the assets I just listed, he
is doing rather well. His life is not defined by encounters with pigs like Burgis. He did a weird run of podcasts with 2000 regular listeners saying the same thing over and over again, maybe that's a tactic to cast wide for a time, kind of hold between events and get some more attention. You can say that's a waste, I don't know what he had going on at the time.
As for the Burgis talk in particular, I think there's great value in that particular one. Yes, Burgis is a retarded pig. But he's also meant to be something of a big gun for internet nigger communism. He wrote the book on using philosophy, facts, and logic to own ben shapiro. Yarvin obviously didn't take this guy seriously and was just having fun teasing out how hard his values get owned by reality. A big public clash and humiliation like this isn't going to convince Burgis fans. But if you take a curious intelligent male (the only people who matter as
minds) who isn't yet settled in these matters of politics and ideas, if he's an autist who still believes in
debate and whatever, he gets excited by conflict. If he sees this what's he going to think? By occasionally making a showing in a more adversarial setting against libtards this leaves a nice standing reminder for the internet that when it comes to making a case the libtards have
nothing. The minds of their movements get obliterated as hard as random stupid women on twitter who catch the attention of Steve Sailer. They don't have minds. Mind is incompatible. Moldbug keeps talking about cool. Yeah, he's an old nerd, but an old guy who can effortlessly humiliate people who hate him. That's
nerd-cool. Which in the battle for minds is what's needed.