Why do midwits hate these guys so much?

The only knowledge I have of Pinker was some absolutely absurd Ted Talk he gave that a friend made me watch
The premise was that the world is great and always improving and he justified this with the most bullshit use of statistics I've ever seen in a professional presentation, just absolutely retarded numbers that a high schooler could have told him made no sense. He picked two dates to compare and I remember that one of his numbers was literally "Number of wars being fought," and the decrease was met with applause. I wish somebody had interrupted him to ask how many fucking wars were being fought in 1942.

>Hitchens is a decent writer and mediocre thinker
>mediocre thinker
No, no, NO HE IS NOT. He says nothing, nothing at fucking at all. He is the ultimate virtue signaler.

Pinker is deservedly hated for being a neoliberal shill. As for the other 4, they are hated mostly by christian larpers who can't refute them so they forced a meme.

Fuck you retard

Bullshit. He's written dozens of insightful essays on major works of history and literature. He had an encyclopedic memory for historical and literary anecdotes, and he knew many influential writers and politicians.
I am about to make a factual declaration about you: you believe in God and/or you are opposed to the war in Iraq. I personally guarantee that one of these is the case, because if it wasn't, and you had actually read Hitch's literary criticism, you would not hold the opinion you expressed.

I just read god is not great and letters to a young contrarian, I didn’t know that much about him maybe I assumed too much, but those books sucked and his interviews are garbage too.

he really is a genius about biology. the selfish gene and the extended phenotype are some of the clearest logic I've ever seen on that subject.

Midwit persons invariably possess unwarranted self-importance.

His writing/commentary about atheism is literally the least interesting and least developed category of his writing. Read Arguably and Love, Poverty, and War. For any lover of literature and history, these are engaging, great collections.

>Why do midwits hate these guys so much?
midwits hating midwits is only natural

You just posted 4 core midwit pop-philosophers. Is this bait?

These guys are not even midwits, they're literally all sub-100 IQ. I don't know how midwits can even bear to listen to them

Guénon permanently refuted their ilk.

Which book?

Refuting Midwits and Their Ilk

You've got it wrong, midwits worship these neoliberal jesters

I like Dennett on ethics, less impressed on Philosophy of Mind. I think Chalmers kind of BTFO'd him and it shows in his reticence to attempt to refute Chalmers directly, on his own terms, he hasn't even attempted a categorical refutation of the Hard Problem.

Even stating this is bound to start a Philosophy of Mind argument in this very thread. Anyway Dennett will be remembered fondly as a profound Philosopher who lost his marbles when confronted with the big question of his era.

The dandelion hair doesn't look so out-of-place here.

>I like Dennett on ethics
why

His Compatibilism lends itself to giving people moral responsibility for their actions.

Who cares, humans are cattle anyway

You have to be 18 to post here.

you're so deep.