The Oil Drum

Actually, David, my comment was not an emotional outburst, but an attempt to reveal to Hothgor just what kind of ignoramous he was defending. Hutter is a global warming denier. Hothgor appeared to think differently.

Hutter is not deserving of civil engagement. He is abusive and insulting, without warrant. He misrepresents facts and twists logic. His type is all too common and in a previous era dressed in brownshirts and strutted on the strasse. It is a type frustrated by their personal insignificance who possess an exaggerated notion of their own intelligence, yet who recognize rigorous analysis only by their inability to understand the content. Fundamentally, they hate intellectuals, though they would that the world saw them as thinkers. This is why, in my view, Hutter attacks cogent thinkers like Dave Cohen, Leanan, Westexas and others. Hutter is not interested in civil discussion, though he makes the occasional pretense that he is. He does not want to lose the attention he gets at TOD. He revels in the destruction and degradation he visits upon TOD.

You have recently been attacking TOD as a proxy for the oil industry, David, another agent, you suggest, in the force of environmental degraders and destroyers. But your attack is misdirected. Hutter, the archetypical brownshirt, is your real enemy.