It’s always amusing to point and laugh at how your enemies on one issue are also compete fools on another. It’s even better to see that your allies on one issue are also excellent human beings on others. Here’s Laurie Penny on crypto today, giving exactly the “SJ with a heart and an appreciation” take you’d expect.
Oh my god that piece is great. I might have to add Penny to my list of people I read just because their writing is so much fun, next to Michael Lewis and Matt Levine.
I am…surprised…by this reaction. I’ll be honest, the article infuriated me.
There’s a whole journalistic genre that is “I, a member of the cool intellectual elite, will make evaluative comments about the minutiae of some people’s clothing and social affect while promising an insight into the workings of the world that somehow never comes.” I always hate it.
Sigh. On some level I don’t understand why there are all these online publications offering purported wisdom, given that you can get a much better product for free with very little effort.