I didn't mention that my less-admirable motivation for picking up HA in the first place was that I wanted to be sufficient to an examination like the one you described.

My sense was (and is) that most economic blatherers on crypto-twitter and elsewhere have no fucking clue and have never read HA, nor much of anything else, probably, except the warmed over bullshit that passes as doctrine in this space. So the plan was to read HA with great attention and flex on them, quoting verse, about how dumb it was, and then what could they say?

Except I accidentally wound up loving the book and thinking it was brilliant. Oops.