A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

Wow this drags so badly! It feels like it should have been a long article precisely because every tangent drags and isn't meaningfully tied back together- in theory every nonfiction book of this style could be an article, but it's the breadth of stories and how they are interwoven that makes them book-worthy, not the repetitive fanfiction-y prose practice of just walking us again and again through a hypothetical emotional landscape of someone who does not matter to the matter at hand. At points I felt like I had forgotten what I was even supposed to be taking away.
Also, something about this felt really... ideologically strange, as in inconsistent. I feel some type of way about libertarians, sure, but I felt like Hongoltz-Hetling could not decide if he thought libertarians were idiots or not. Some of the concessions he gave during the longwinded explanations felt... just brazy that he let them slide without comment, and some got such overwrought takedowns it felt like a series of quote tweets on Twitter with a million likes. Just strange!