Was Christopher Hitchens Most Enlightened Thinker of Our Time?

Possibly. If not, he certainly came across as such.

Hitchens is a giant piece of shite. frick that dude.

I wonder if he was deliberately sent to confuse the point regarding Orwell

I preferred the writings of his brother.

ain't That interesting...
what rule was That I crossed?
is philosophy off limits>?

While I agree that he was right on the most important question that faces man, he was always drunk which I feel is the opposite

your standard atheist here, perhaps too young to understand why this guy was so important

seemed to me more like a clever writer who would say abrasive things to get people who already agreed with him to cheer

i don't really see too many philosophers or cultural critics as being remotely hero-worthy though. i do find it incredibly lame when people use the term "enlightened" unironically though

Hey, where did OP go? I feel like he abandoned us. That's awfully rude of him.

Most enlightened thinker of our time? Haha, not even close. That's a laughable statement.

He was eloquent, that's for sure. He was good at criticizing people and doing so very brashly. But a lot of his beliefs were backwards and many of his arguments crumble when you think about them at all critically. He defended the war in Iraq up until his death and mocked people who suggested that it wasn't a good idea or that it wouldn't be as easily won as the Bush administration insisted. He often abused science in his arguments, appealing to things like evolutionary psychology that he obviously had no understanding of.

Yes