originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn’t like links to Yarvin’s substack
archive: https://archive.is/olhGc
dead dove, approach with care before eating
originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn’t like links to Yarvin’s substack
archive: https://archive.is/olhGc
dead dove, approach with care before eating
@dgerard One of the things I like the least about Yarvin is that I really like his writing style. Dammit.
It’s because Yarvin’s writing is bite-sized. He can’t really hold ideas in his head for more than a paragraph or so. Pick any of Yarvin’s famous thought experiments or Capitalised Noun-Phrases and go look up where he introduced it; I bet you that he spends maybe one paragraph defining the idea, one paragraph explaining his solution, and perhaps one more paragraph patting himself on the back for being such a smart libertarian edgelord. The man literally cannot write a five-paragraph mini-essay; instead, he emits dozens of little pellets of undigested words which he expects you to eat.
My condolences. That must feel bad. I am fortunate in that I don’t. All the short sentences. No payoff. Like a boxer who constantly jabs at you—but never risks a straight. For twenty rounds. Yawn.
Guys like this read some big name author once and think that all you have to do to be a good writer is like, have a writing style. And then they proceed to fail upwards forever
real popular genre with the “has never read a single even-slightly-different” fanbase tho
@mirrorwitch OK, by the time he got to the yawn I was also wandering - but that first paragraph sounded like somebody I could like, you know? I had bad wiring in my old house, too.
I’m so sorry
lol