I maintain my description of “general incoherence” remains accurate, a perusal of my previous posts reveals some running themes: There’s also a

Andreessen Optimists, Pinker Utilitarians, Growth mindset, and other actual luxury beliefs

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2024-05-07 17:30:09

I maintain my description of “general incoherence” remains accurate, a perusal of my previous posts reveals some running themes:

There’s also a fifth theme which lingers in the background of the majority of my posts: luxury beliefs, and how the progenitors of such beliefs are blissfully ignorant of they might be perceived to other groups of people.

Despite being a perpetually online gremlin with no actual friends, I don’t read a lot of Substack posts; like most other Internet platforms, the majority of power users here tend to become enamored with the smell sound of their own farts ideas, believing themselves to be the new intelligentsia. That’s how you end up with an unironic analysis of Sydney Sweeney’s “anti-woke boobs.”

Which is to say, I was a little bit late to the party in learning about luxury beliefs, originally put forward by Rob Henderson in his book Troubled.