Poor sonofabitch. His Rand called him home way too young.
Brizoni has inserted a comment on an earlier post. He picks up right where he left off.
Some may be tempted to engage him, and you are welcome to do so. I do not begrudge the comment space. Just be advised that even after all these months of stony silence, he is just as rigid, scornful, patronizing, and hypocritical as he was when last when we heard from him.
Hypocritical? Indeed. He has always had the keys to Instapunk. If he were working to save the world as he indicts us for failing to do… If he had a case to make beyond fire and brimstone sermons against those who have not converted to his monolithically Old Testament commandments on the nature of reality… If he had any power whatsoever left to communicate rather than condemn… We would have seen him mount the empty pulpit that had a built-in audience of those whom he needs most, the politically like minded who still don’t get why we must be God-haters to defeat the God-haters who are carrying our country, or culture, and our civilization into ruin.
But he’s been a silent boy.
All I’m saying is, choose your battles wisely. Frequently, the prodigal who returns still needs a lesson. But are you and I obligated to be the ones to provide it?
He’s just irresistible.
What a monument. Great graphic.
While I decided not to enter the fray in the linked comment thread, I do give him accolades for his work on the Obama Instapunk book. That was an excellent effort and will stand as a lasting legacy as the Big O flushes the country.
That said, where have you been, B? I understand the need to bow out for a time, and I hope it’s not something terrible going on in your non-digital life. While your condescension was never my favorite tactic on the IP site, your content did provoke me to think from time to time.
Please, stick around for a while. Just don’t piss off the Deerhound too much.
The Deerhound bites.
It was either RJD or RFL who ages ago said something to the effect that when you manage to provoke rage in an otherwise rational conversation partner, that’s how you know you’ve hit a core, unconscious assumption. One that’s so important that the psyche doesn’t even want to acknowledge it, lest it be endangered.
This is consistent with my own experience.
This gets especially interesting when dialoging with atheists, as they like to pretend they don’t *believe* anything, but only accept that which can be *proven*. Um. Yeah.