I love KSR and I wanted really badly to love this book. But I just couldn’t get into it. The climate catastrophic isn’t my problem. After all, I loved New York 2140. * Scientifically illiterate take on Organic agriculture & Vandana Shiva. * Poor philosophy of morality & punishment. * Apologizes for and even glorifies..
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25 chapters in and I’m bailing
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Big Disappointment
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An accidental dystopian view in the authors view of utopia. It is basically a Marxist/Greenpeace utopia that glorifies terrorism and authoritarianism for the “greater good.” The tech and engineering is well thought out and interesting, but characters and story are naive. The story itself is a bland delivery mechanism for the evangelism. More of the..
Eco Marxism
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Karl Marx was two things, he was a historian and he was a science fiction writer in that he predicted a future, called for a future and talked about the future as if he could say what was going to happen next. As a historian, he was one of the greatest strains we’ve ever had,..
Better
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More Charlie Please!
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We have some narrators here, Fitzgerald the worst among them, who read without understanding of: 1. The material 2. How words are pronounced 3. How sentences work 4. Any accent other than their native one The experience is comparable to an ice pick in the ear. Returning the audiobook and buying a paper copy instead.
Slow to get started.
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