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Vinay Gupta's ironic deconstruction of enlightenment in the SSC comments is brilliant and he is my hero, even if his satirical impersonation of the enraged guru wannabe who has his serenity questioned is a bit mean to the real enlightenment salesmen
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It is a peculiar kind of enlightenment that makes you permanently wake up in a movie in which you star as an invincible warrior of a sacred many thousand year lineage that is being hounded by filthy rationalist maggots in the comment section of a nerd blog
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Heh it’s more of a 40%-ironic act. It’s almost a Borat type character he plays, but in service of a non-ironic “make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan” type mission, in this case hexayurtstan 😀
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