Yes, I am definitely plainly incompetent for not noticing a trivially recognizable pattern...

> This article attempts to establish disjoint categories "good rationalist" and "cultist."

...that you have denied in another comment in the same thread. I guess that makes two of us plainly incompetent.

I can't even tell what you mean to try to criticize here. Are you saying that because one may tell what the article tried to do and failed, it didn't fail? I can try to answer your point here, but you need to put in the effort of making it make sense, first.