Sympathetically, Andreessen and others like him are simply reacting to years of being yelled at by overly woke progressives. They’re just refusing to be lectured any further. But in that refusal, they’ve started making an equal and opposite error. They now assume that any idea that’s transgressive, that’s edgy, or that pisses off the morality police must be good. It’s the nihilistic idea that anything that makes the woke gatekeepers mad must be based and worth defending. No criticism can ever have a legitimate point.

This is how you get JD Vance defending the “I love Hitler” crowd and it’s why Andreessen reacted so viscerally to the pope’s idea that morality should be a part of developing new technologies. It’s the attitude that says ‘Because someone gave me an annoying, moralizing lecture, I don’t have to pay attention to morality’.