Anarchism

Things like this, which are plainly false:

Would incline anyone to think that there is something 'different' about the way you think. Sticking to this point, I wonder if you thought about all the plant life there is under water before you wrote it. I wonder if you stopped to consider what a plant actually was, before you wrote that. How many plants don't flower, even.

I don't think so. I think you just wrote it down. "Yeah, 2/3rds of all plant life man, something like that, man - fucking end of the world, dude, I'm telling you."

That's what it sounds like to me. Taking no care over what you say, piling on impression after impression and not providing any evidence, that's what I might call beat poetry, but it's not informed debate, it's not argument, it's not, actually, even worth engaging with.

And it has nothing to do with whether or not you have a formal university education. Plenty of people become rational, independent thinkers who have nothing to do with the Academy. It has to do with being precise in how you formulate your statements, following logical principles in your arguments, adopting agreed standards of evidence, and so on.

You say you have been studying 'this stuff' for 15 years. I can tell you: you have started in the wrong place, and you have got nowhere.

Worth repeating this I feel.