Revenge of the Poseur Nerds

Last night, I was telling some friends about Peter Thiel and one of his intellectual gurus, Curtis Yarvin. I ended up pointing them at a great piece published in The Baffler in 2014: Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich . Then, out of curiosity, I went looking on the Internet to see if anyone had made any commentary on that piece. What I found was plenty of unabashed nerd-bashing.…