The thought leaders of the right are more fascinated by the implications of their position than they are willing to learn. Whether it's Yarvin on history, Thiel on theology, or Peterson on anything, we are presented with these autodidactic prisms that, like conspiracy, gratify without enlightening. Yarvin critiques democracy like an 18th century aristocrat for the same reason that Thiel calls Greta Thunberg the Antichrist. These are the actual limits of their education.