/lit/ - Literature

>>14964667
SSC comment section please leave, you're not wanted here. It's not like you let us post whatever we want in your neighborhood. Also Scott is a terrible writer.

>>13620587
>>13620623
/r/TheMotte, please leave
also you linked one of Scott's worst essays
you just know Ozy forced him to write that one at the point of a dildo

>>13293334
>one of the greatest modern thinkers
Scott Alexander couldn't find a coherent thought with both hands if he sat on it. His entire shtick is reading some pop-lit trash from the NYT bestseller list, regurgitating its main points (or, I should say, what he thinks are its main points) in language even a redditor could understand, and then coming to grand conclusions that are, as this >>13293350
anon pointed out, pure cope, since he can't actually handle the implications of anything he reads if it doesn't fit with what he already believes. Then his commenters blow him the fuck out and the process repeats next week, with nothing learned by anyone except a bunch of autistic blog-specific terminology for phenomena that aren't new and already have names.

He also Googles himself constantly and cares about what other people think of him so much that he collects all the instances of people dunking on him and posts them, ostensibly to show that since he gets flak from all corners of the political spectrum that must somehow mean he's smarter than all of them. They're fucking hilarious:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/08/testimonials-for-ssc/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/13/more-testimonials-for-ssc/