You know, every libertarian goes through his period of revelation, and almost al

You know, every libertarian goes through his period of revelation, and almost all of these poor fools write an ‘introduction to libertarianism’ of some sort as a means of trying to understand it themselves, and of sharing their revelation.

But you know, the evidence is pretty clear: Saying something synthetic about a topic (most intellectuals) requires two years of work on top of six years of specialization. Saying something innovative and intelligent in any discipline takes six to nine years of hard work, and two to three years to write down.

The world doesn’t need more intros. Revelations are for diaries and autobiographies.

A PhD takes what – on average six years? The great thinkers seem to take seven to ten, or even twenty. It depends on whether they publish in the interim (wittgenstein, Nietzche) or they don’t (spinoza, kant).

SPecialization has really hurt our intellectual movements.

A side effect of propertarianism and testimonialism is that all disciplines can use the same language, and the same structure, and all that changes are the names and processes of specific applications in the spectrum from the subatomic physical world on one end, to epistemological truth at the other.