Everyone remembers when Bari Weiss, in 2018, wrote an article for the New York Times that profiled an emerging phenomenon known as “the Intellectual Dark Web”. Now, this loose subculture of writers, scientists and podcasts has separated. What happened?
Calling yourself the 'Intellectual Dark Web' has to be the gayest possible thing imaginable, especially when the intellectual content in question was only controversial from the point of view of undergraduate leftists with cluster B personality disorders.
The first piece on the IDW I've seen that doesn't mention Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and the Weinsteins but instead of bunch of people I've never heard of save Gad Saad.
Thanks, another great commentary from you. And I thought the "I" in IDW was for "insufferable". Shows how wrong a guy can be. I liked it better when Fukuyama was focused on Sweden; gotta wonder what Huntington thinks of how Fukuyama and Zakaria turned out. Personally, I think the US Left, where I once resided, has always had a totalitarian streak and is fundamentally different -- and less well-read (not including Tom Hayden and Denis Hayes) -- than its European counterpart. That said, good luck in Qatar and all the best!
Interesting. The Cantor brothers are Eric and Bret Weinstein. Eric has a Theory of Everything, but it's not a theory, or even a hypothesis, but a conjecture, since the dog or the Russians ate the underpinnings for it 20 years ago, and besides he's too busy managing Thiel Capital or something to bother about it, other than making vacuous videos about it - not a single paper on ArXiv or even viXra. Bret's line of work is writing popularized science books, although he and his wife probably are making tens of times on their podcast what they made as professors at a state college in Washington, where the Sixties went to die. The podcast is a rehash of what has been obvious for the past 18 months or so, with at least one raging error in each session, and usually more - but I'm not going to be goaded into paying to "fix" them. Rebel Wisdom is done for now, it was interesting until I made a real effort to engage and found that, like Gertrude Stein found out about Oakland, Califirnia, that there really was no there, there. Surely we can do better for intellectuals than this lot.
Bugs me when a writer of some aclaim in some field starts a substack in response to some need in that field, then as that need wanes they start writing about subjects in which they have no acclaim.
I highly respect Dr. Malone but he is a fine example of which I speak.
Will share this one.
Hilarious. Pushed me over the line to buying your book. Thanks. A very nice addition to the week.
Calling yourself the 'Intellectual Dark Web' has to be the gayest possible thing imaginable, especially when the intellectual content in question was only controversial from the point of view of undergraduate leftists with cluster B personality disorders.
The first piece on the IDW I've seen that doesn't mention Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and the Weinsteins but instead of bunch of people I've never heard of save Gad Saad.
Where are you getting this Hinjuslamanity thing? Google only shows this and Nic's piece.
Thanks, another great commentary from you. And I thought the "I" in IDW was for "insufferable". Shows how wrong a guy can be. I liked it better when Fukuyama was focused on Sweden; gotta wonder what Huntington thinks of how Fukuyama and Zakaria turned out. Personally, I think the US Left, where I once resided, has always had a totalitarian streak and is fundamentally different -- and less well-read (not including Tom Hayden and Denis Hayes) -- than its European counterpart. That said, good luck in Qatar and all the best!
Brilliant😂
Mike Balls, author of The Puss Crushing Manifesto.🤣😂🤣
Surprised you didn’t discuss mace wielding anti-woke firebrand Len Jamesy
His name is Gad Saad.
Interesting. The Cantor brothers are Eric and Bret Weinstein. Eric has a Theory of Everything, but it's not a theory, or even a hypothesis, but a conjecture, since the dog or the Russians ate the underpinnings for it 20 years ago, and besides he's too busy managing Thiel Capital or something to bother about it, other than making vacuous videos about it - not a single paper on ArXiv or even viXra. Bret's line of work is writing popularized science books, although he and his wife probably are making tens of times on their podcast what they made as professors at a state college in Washington, where the Sixties went to die. The podcast is a rehash of what has been obvious for the past 18 months or so, with at least one raging error in each session, and usually more - but I'm not going to be goaded into paying to "fix" them. Rebel Wisdom is done for now, it was interesting until I made a real effort to engage and found that, like Gertrude Stein found out about Oakland, Califirnia, that there really was no there, there. Surely we can do better for intellectuals than this lot.
Little off topic
Bugs me when a writer of some aclaim in some field starts a substack in response to some need in that field, then as that need wanes they start writing about subjects in which they have no acclaim.
I highly respect Dr. Malone but he is a fine example of which I speak.
"COREV-18" too. Feel like I woke up in an alternate universe. Trump remains however