Luke Smith

Luke Smith. I used to watch his content. Read all his articles. But here's the plain 411. He's a LARPer. He rails against people who don't actually do anything useful in life, while himself making videos and articles on the internet as if he's saving people. His whole video on the economy being fake is essentially just paraphrasing someone's book with no real additional insight.

His article on veganism are either misguided or outright wrong in several places. He says that domesticated animals can't survive in the wild, as if sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats can't do exactly that. He says how it would take essentially ten pounds of broccoli to get the same amount of protein as a pound of steak, forgetting that beans and legumes in general are extremely protein dense. He says how vegans are just starving themselves, forgetting about grains. He says how veganism is a leftist and modernist phenomenon, before later in the article bringing up a vegan sect from 3000 years ago. It's a total mess.

His article on politics is miserable. He doesn't know what politics are. When he says politics, he doesn't mean a democratic process or political theory. He just means political correctness. He says how poltics don't matter to tradesmen, despite many tradesmen being highly political. He says how you shouldn't be a revolutionary because you're submitting yourself to someone else's ideals, which is exactly what he is implicitly suggesting you should do with these articles, and even a few paragraphs later by telling you books to read and adopt, some of which are written by actual revolutionary insurrectionaries.

He makes an entire article on 'poeticism', which is his philosophy that creating things is good. He rejects hedonism and asceticism, saying hedonism is contradictory because pleasure-filled lives are short lived, and that ascetics are often porn addicts, miserable people, and are surrendering to hedonism by rejecting pleasure. He then says how the highest moral good and the best way to emulate God is by creating things, which is downright heretical. His list of things that are good under the poetic worldview are all vague except 'have kids', the first two items he lists are literally just "affecting the world" and "imrproving what is around you" as good things. None of the items are actually specific. And he acts as if most people don't just end up somewhere in the middle and not totally adopt some insane ideology.

And the last thing is his video on churning credit cards. Essentially using credit card introductory cashback offers to get free money, by spending to the introductory limits on essential goods. But he spends a large chunk of the video talking about his new DeWalt miter saw from the Home Depot as if he's some true traditionalist and based and all that nonsense. He called himself "somewhere in the high echelons of the red-pill" years before owning a miter saw, for all his constant ranting about being traditional and self-sufficient. It's miserable. Then he says how he's not doing anything wrong since this is what the credit card companies allow you to do, but then says how you shouldn't defend credit card companies because they're bad, as if Christ didn't tell us to not repay evil for evil.

Overall his articles are just a horrible experience. He's a doctorate of linguistics, ironic for a man who bashes modernity and useless degrees and elitism. He makes sure you know it, with his ten-dollar words. He'll bring up a Chinese phrase, gush about Chinese being such a good language, then immediately say that the Chinese phrase is only tangentially related. He'll bring up a word like Mystic or Poetic and then explain how actually he means it in the Ancient Greek sense, not that you plebians would know that. Like it's miserable how smug and condescending he is.

And half his website just reeks of larp. He calls people who own websites digital "Landchads", talks about the redpill and can't go a single article without saying the word traditional 10 times over.

Let's look at someone who's actually living the life that Luke LARPs about. Kenny from Mental Outlaw. He posts videos of archery and his chickens occasionally, between videos about cybersecurity and open source things. He doesn't feel the need to post a video of his chickens and gush about how based and trad he is for owning a chicken. He doesn't brag about it, he just lives it. Luke Smith could never.

Luke Smith's articles are drenched with pride and contempt and that 2018-era redpill culture. He's intentionally offensive, a far cry from being a peacemaker. He talks about how traditional he is and how he's religious, but never once really made a video explaining his faith or trying to convert people, other than saying "It's trad", which is about as far as most OrthoBros and CathTrads get. Like give me a break dude.

Honestly he just needs to take a look at his whole website, internet presence, and beleifs he holds. Reevaluate these things, figure if they're actually serving a good purpose. If not, maybe it's for the best to stop playing as some enlightened guru on the internet.