Why wank wins

LIMy 2025 article An essay on wank proved to be startlingly widely read. It made its way around a large part of the internet, sparked quite a lot of discussion and still garners quite a few readers, even now. It was, to my mind, not too bad an article, but as is quite often the case with the first inceptions of an idea, a bit scattershot and often not very tight argumentatively. What this is to…