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So what happened is that Cade Metz was going to write a benign story but was pressured by his bosses to write an anti-SV hit piece or lose his job. And so, in a heroic act of self-sacrifice, he wrote it in the most boring and tortuous prose possible so that no one will read it.
Serious take: this is great for Scott. "SSC is bad because problematic SV people think it's a haven for free thought" is going to bring a lot of smart and curious people over. The dumb and incurious will get bored and forget this tomorrow. And the sneers were already here.
If you think the OP is 100% a joke, here's a bit from Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing: https://t.co/mhyiIJ1oO2
And shout out to the illustrator, Jon Reinfurt. You know, I really think that if I wanted people to know that Scott is a genius storyteller who is a must-read for all independent intellectuals but I had to do it from the pages of the NYT I couldn't have done a better job. https://t.co/UU7E0X1Ux0
@yashkaf that vibes with my experience reading it 😂 https://t.co/80FOV523a5
main thought I had while reading nytssc was "this is bad writing. people read stuff like this?" not bad as in evil bad as in someone made a meal by adding an incoherent combination of spices to stale rice and putting it in bread as a sandwich 🤨 it was just all over the place https://t.co/F7LmXC4R16