Why is this the top comment? What value does it add? This is almost a textbook case of “the middlebrow dismissal”.
Paradise Lost is one of the single most influential and brilliant pieces of literature in the history of the English language.
Paradise Lost is one of the single most influential and brilliant pieces of literature in the history of the English language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_in_popular_cultu...
I'm sorry, but the idea that a single paragraph HN comment is some kind of deep philosophical point about the nature of authority is absurd. It was a glib dismissive comment, skeptical not for any well-thought out reason, but simply because they personally didn't understand it. I don't know how precisely I'd define anti-intellectualism, but that comes pretty close.