re: #5 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

CLed again:

As an earnest young conservative, I was dazzled by Buckley’s erudition and eloquence——— until I went to Cornell and found out how erudition and eloquence were supposed to work. There are many terms for Buckley’s technique, but “baffle ‘em with bullshit” is my choice.

‘Sokay. I joined you there.

When Buckley used his obviously great intellect in service to the worst people in society, reason simply became rationalizing. Philosophy became sophistry.