It’s sims all the way down for Elon Musk and sophisticated nihilists everywhere!

“What? Me, worry?”

“What? Me, worry?”

The sophistry of nihilism is nothing new in philosophy – more’s the pity. Now Elon Musk goes that ancient game one better – by insisting we are all living in a video game.

No one actually believes any of these absurd anti-reality, anti-human-efficacy claims. The people who mouth them are simply jacking off in public, trading astounding anti-intellectual pronouncements for evanescent Incandescent rewards. But their claims are not without consequence, and that’s why this matters.

Church this week takes Musk to task, but it also takes to task the people tasked with defending reality, most especially the ever-evasive Ayn Rand Institute:

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