I don’t think he’s necessarily a genius, but he is a force for good and a great writer. We do need someone to keep saying the truth, keep saying what’s right and what’s wrong, this is literally how we win the information war currently waged against us.

It’s the same of the genocide experts calling out genocide, or the eco-activists calling out climate change. It might be obvious common sense to you, but it might not be to other people, and this is precisely why it needs to be shouted from every rooftop we have available.

Oh, and also, if you actually read his works he clearly does more than just state the obvious and coin new terms (even though both of those are important too). He is deeply and intimately familiar with the technical and social structures of the modern internet, his analysis of various phenomena and trends is usually on-point and has some predictive power. Most importantly he offers solutions to the issues facing us, and practices what he preaches too.