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on a tangent Wittgenstein also had horrible family drama (several brothers taking their own lifes) and personal exploration of and uncertainty about homosexuality, and he went to the same school as Hitler at the same time, at a very similar age.

http://gayinfluence.blogspot.com/2012/04/ludwig-wittgenstein...



No citations and the writing style make this feel like a pretty sketchy "thing on the internet".


oh it matches all serious Wittgenstein biographies. back in the late 1980s in my catholic highschool we discussed in philosophy class that Wittgenstein was gay.


Yeah the Hitler one was weird. He also lectured Alan Turing




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