One thing which was really exposed in 2020 was a total abject failure of the self-styled "Intellectual Dark Web" (or 'IDW') to address the monumental fraud of the Establishment's 'global pandemic' narrative. All these supposed 'philosophers' & 'conservative' intellects ran away.

This mirrored the same failure of 'Progressives'. Both of these social media-inflated camps on the Right & Left literally ran away from challenging the obvious litany of bogus claims/assumptions sold under banner of #COVID19 'pandemic'. Both of these mercurial movements failed.

Imagine, the biggest pseudo-science psychological attack on individual minds, society, against liberty - the most popular psychologist, Jordan B. Peterson, goes 100% AWOL. His fans will say it's because he was sick. Hard to see how he'd disappear at history's biggest ever moment.

This proves that the IDW was not a real intellectual movement, but more of a fashionable media personality-driven/social media-driven bubble.

They melted like the snowflakes they've spend the last 7 years deriding and building their media mythos over.

And BTW - George Floyd... rioting and cities burning, BLM, Identity Politics-driven 'woke' inspired violence on biggest scale ever seen... and what was Jordan Peterson's response? He never commented on it. AWOL.

I realize he might be incapacitated, but not even Tweets from bed?

Shapiro, Rubin, the Weinsteins - all ran away from the issue from day 1, playing along the Establishment line, save a few late anti-lockdown grunts after it was safe to do so.

2020 Lesson: when the SHTF, these people will leave their herds wondering outside their castle walls.

And don't get us started on Joe Rogan...

Verdict:

IDW = Bona fide Snowflake.

I think Jordan Peterson has done some great things over years, no doubt helped many people etc, exposed + brought many important issues to the surface for debate - but his disappearing act on COVID is biblical & totally inexcusable considering how he had positioned his brand.

So in 2020, it became visible how the "Intellectual Dark Web" = intellectual gatekeepers (of the Establishment).

They were always mainstream. Their great achievement was always making good people believe they were 'alternative'.

Fairly obvious by now that the 'Intellectual Dark Web'(IDW) eg. Shapiro, Rubin, Sam Harris, the Weinsteins et al, serving up epic word salads - are nothing more than yesterday's Liberals reinvented for the YT/podcast market, and whose politics are essentially Neocons warmed-over.