Kulturkampf

[benji]

Nobody can explain any of this, they're just repeating it because they saw it and it seemed pretty good to them. Somebody said it so if I repeat it I'll be seen as smart like them, never asking if that person was seen as smart in the first place.

It's all treated like this kind of memetic sorcery where the power exists within the terms and phrasings, so you can just flop out sentences or paragraphs full of these things and be "well informed" even as they are entirely contentless. But it's not my job to educate you on how what I said is actually this incredible thought that shows how stupid you are.

Says the guy stealing his shit from Nate Silver.