Asking that a critic read those sequences in their entirety is asking for a huge sacrifice; little is offered to show it’s even close in being worth the misery of reading inept writing or the time.
Indeed, the sequences are long. I’m not sure about the others here, but I’ve never asked anybody to “read the sequences.”
But I don’t even know how to describe the arrogance required to believe that you can dismiss somebody’s work as “crazy,” “stupid,” “megalomanic,” “laughably, pathologically arrogant,” “bonkers,” and “insufferable” without having even read enough of what you’re criticizing the get an accurate understanding of it.
ETA: Edited in response to fubarobfusco, who brought up a good point.
That’s a fully general argument against criticizing anything without having read all of it, though. And there are some things you can fairly dismiss without having read all of. For instance, I don’t have to read every page on the Time Cube site to dismiss it as crazy, stupid, pathologically arrogant, and so on.
Indeed, the sequences are long. I’m not sure about the others here, but I’ve never asked anybody to “read the sequences.”
But I don’t even know how to describe the arrogance required to believe that you can dismiss somebody’s work as “crazy,” “stupid,” “megalomanic,” “laughably, pathologically arrogant,” “bonkers,” and “insufferable” without having even read enough of what you’re criticizing the get an accurate understanding of it.
ETA: Edited in response to fubarobfusco, who brought up a good point.
That’s a fully general argument against criticizing anything without having read all of it, though. And there are some things you can fairly dismiss without having read all of. For instance, I don’t have to read every page on the Time Cube site to dismiss it as crazy, stupid, pathologically arrogant, and so on.