Yes, James Lindsay is not “easy reading”.
But he’s a force to be reckoned with in the fight against the sin (crime) of cultural Marxism, wokeism, scientism.
Academics run amok, without significant opposition, birthed that evil. James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and others like them are taking the fight back to the intellectual hothouses from whence the evil sprouted.
Pray for them.
Here's a good example of how he inserts colloquialisms...
Utopia is the possibility of what may be when all oppression is removed [according to proponents of CRT, for example]. Put otherwise, we might not know what Heaven will look like, but it’s not this and we’ll know it when we see it—now get in the car.I completely agree with you. He's well worth reading...even if it takes several readings to catch onto his lingo.
James Lindsay has done a good job of locally analyzing modern Scientific Gnosticism and connecting dots to certain ideological concepts such as Marxism et al.
The reason he is not easy reading is due to his lack of delving into and revealing Gnosticism's deepest level of meaning. By this I mean for example, if speaking about the deepest level of meaning with respect to the Revealed Word of God it is God Himself. He is eternally existing Reality and from Him is our every answer to worldview questions such as, where did everything come from? What is man? What is life? What is consciousness? What is wrong with man and the world? (the question of evil) And is there life after death?
At the deepest level of meaning with respect to Neo-pagan and pantheist Gnosticism, both scientific and occult New Age is---nothing. There is nothing there but a theoretical void, matter, and energy. Though New Age personalizes void, matter, and energy, there remains nothing. These two views are the reigning Gnostic views of non-reality. Both of them are forms of metaphysical nothingness.