Pondering it, I believe the reason I keep visiting places like Crooked Timber that have a panoply of the pseudo-educated is that it gives me something to push against — I can better find the flaws and also bright points of my own ratiocination by exposing myself to those who are supposed to be examples of intellectual rigor and probity but who are in reality oafs.

Quiggin knows so little; nothing of science, of anthropology, of sociology, of psychology, of epistemology, of history, of philosophy or human drives — in all of these he’s worse than someone utterly uneducated as he’s been mis-educated. He’s far worse off than someone who is utterly ignorant but willing to learn.

I could literally write a book about all the stupidity and ignorant assumptions embedded in the post to which I previously linked — all the willful misunderstandings, the obdurately and stupefyingly ignorant assumptions and the sophistry, but I have so much better things to do with my time than deal with his pusillanimous pap.