There are some interesting insights about the overall viewpoint behind this book, but gosh the tone of this post is vicious. I totally understand frustration with stupidity in fiction, and I’ve written such screeds in my time too. But I think it’s well worth moderating the impulse to do so in cases like this where the characters whose absolute stupidity you’re bemoaning map onto the outgroup in so many ways.
There are some interesting insights about the overall viewpoint behind this book, but gosh the tone of this post is vicious. I totally understand frustration with stupidity in fiction, and I’ve written such screeds in my time too. But I think it’s well worth moderating the impulse to do so in cases like this where the characters whose absolute stupidity you’re bemoaning map onto the outgroup in so many ways.