I haven’t read the books, though I’m familiar with the thesis. Your essay is afaict a restatement of that thesis. Now, maybe the argument is sufficiently complex that it needs to be made in a book and I’ll remain ignorant until I get around to reading one of these books. But it would be convenient if someone could make the argument in few enough words that I don’t have to spend a month investigating it.
I haven’t read the books, though I’m familiar with the thesis. Your essay is afaict a restatement of that thesis. Now, maybe the argument is sufficiently complex that it needs to be made in a book and I’ll remain ignorant until I get around to reading one of these books. But it would be convenient if someone could make the argument in few enough words that I don’t have to spend a month investigating it.