They thought of Vance as their in-house anthropologist, the man who could explain these sad, strange people who had just voted for The Great Satan.

MM also explained it to them, several times and in great detail. But the circus fans simply don’t want to hear anything close enough to reality to be less than flattering, and even Moldbug’s «hypochondriacs» is way too much.

What’s even the point?

As was observed back in XIX century (on the ineffectual flailing of reactionaries in Russia), the problem with a “sober word” is that even IF you have one that’s actually sober, and IF you can make a drunk listen to it… he is still going to understand it in a drunken way.