who is a public Intellectual you found interesting ten years ago who has aged badly? what went wrong?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
the new atheist types everything wrong with them now was still wrong with them then, I just grew up
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v good choice suspect it will be a popular one also suspect that times have changed in such a way that the Need for this kind of voice, for certain quarters, has waned v rapidly lessons for current movements are left to the reader
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I remember very clearly the moment I realized the new atheist people were boring and dumb, and it was my first day in my new dorm room freshman year of college 2011 guy came in, he always wore black t-shirts with slogans, was annoying, and wouldn't shut up about dawkins
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he wrote an essay in one class about how we should make churches pay property tax also he had a thing to look backwards through the peepholes on doors and catcalled to women below in the courtyard anyway enough about him I realized the movement was political not intellectual
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like, being atheist, fine, but being Atheist with a capital A was an Identity, like riding harleys, for antisocial disagreeable people
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I still put them ahead of most of the movements that call them out. Maybe ahead of all.
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but their aesthetics are terrible 
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Swimming in aesthetically polluted waters. If you give Cathedrals to Catholics then New Atheists get Streamline Moderne.
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