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The Logic of Envy - Rob Henderson's Newsletter

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Back in 2013, a blogger called “The Last Psychiatrist” stated that he was writing a book “of and about porn.” A year later, he stopped updating his website and seemingly disappeared. I discovered his work a little after that. I saw The Last Psychiatrist referenced several times on Slate Star Codex. Other writers and smart people described him as a genius. He was adamant about his anonymity, at one point saying: “I'm thankful to those who defend me, and I'm not surprised by those who hate me, but either way you are missing the point. I don't matter. It's debatable whether my ideas matter, but for sure they matter much more than I do.” In 2021, seven years after he’d last updated his blog, The Last Psychiatrist released two books under the pseudonym Edward Teach, M.D. -Sadly, Porn (1000~ pages) -Watch What You Hear: Penelope’s Dream of Twenty Geese (114 pages) Here is how the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin described the experience of reading the seventeenth-century It

Share “Envy is a frenzy that cannot endure the fact that other people possess anything.” —François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Back in 2013, a blogger called “The Last Psychiatrist” stated that he was writing a book “of and about porn.” A year later, he stopped updating his website and seemingly disappeared. I discovered his work a little after that. I saw The Last Psychiatrist referenced several times on Slate Star Codex. Other writers and smart people described him as a genius. He was adamant about his anonymity, at one point saying: “I'm thankful to those who defend me, and I'm…

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