Shakos Metaheuristics: Why Foucault is Our Most-Cited Intellectual

I think this is somewhere in the vicinity of being on the right track.

He's not that good--so some explanation is required.

Contrary to what the author claims, Foucault is more aligned with the left than the right. The author points out that some righties (e.g. Moldbug) cite him...but they're exceptions.

Foucault likes external undermining explanations--that is, explanations of beliefs and institutions that show them to be irrational...and the left loves that shit. He was homosexual and into BDSM--and the left loves that shit, too...especially the academic left. It's kinda like why they like Freud: they want to talk and write about sex--especially kinky sex--and it makes their boring research and teaching more interesting.

   Also: it's easy.

   Not just because, as the author says, it makes it seem like you can understand things without learning statistics...but because it also means you don't have to actually learn to reason, as you have to do in real philosophy. You can just basically say sex and power over and over again. Every time you come up against a hard problem or complex argument, you can just pretend to find some kind of hidden "power" lurking in it somewhere. Even dimwits can pull that nonsense off. At it lets you feel like you outmaneuvered smarter people...

   Anyway, I'm running on no sleep, so I'm being sloppy...but this is pretty much right.