But in many ways this undersells the true conceptual horror of Nazi Germany, which is not merely, as Moldbug suggests, its human rights record, but the fact that Hitler was a complete fucking nutcase. The dirty little secret about Mein Kampf is that it’s relentlessly and mind-wrenchingly awful in a way that makes Moldbug look like a towering literary and intellectual genius. And he was one of the more put together Nazis; people like Goebbels and Himmler were deranged incompetents of the highest order.

