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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      7 months ago

      it strikes me that thereā€™s quite a similarity in how the lesswrongs have this continuous drive for so-called ā€œsecret knowledgeā€ to how others are about sacred geometry and ā€œhidden universe secretsā€. anyone else pick up on something like that?

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        I think of it as an evolved version of what a lot of the new age cults did with quantum woo ā€” itā€™s a thin veneer of knowledge designed to trick folks who think theyā€™re too smart for religion into a religious mindset. the Rationalist version of the veneer is particularly thick, but the end goal is the same: Magic is Real and You Can Be The Gandalf