Re: Dark Enlightenment

Quote from: AnonyMint on March 02, 2014, 04:51:33 AM

Warning, this will exceed the intellectual capacity of most readers here. This is intended for the high IQ audience of Eric's blog.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355212.msg5457696#msg5457696

I voted "most of them". I agree with ESR's comments:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5238&cpage=1#comment-424645

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>Out of curiosity, why do you believe this ideology worthy of a lengthy series? Nothing against it, Im just wondering what the trigger was.

Because they have a flavorful mix of dangerous truth-telling and utter bogosity going on.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5238&cpage=1#comment-424636

Quote from: ESR

...Furthermore, if it were actually true, the DE would be entirely a noisome fever-swamp of bad ideas, rather than just rotten in spots.

I haven't read it but I assume that dark enlightenment was a very interesting book. If people will be enlightened despite how things were delivered, may it be in a darker way, I would prefer learning it on that way.