oligopsony:

oligopsony:

this book probably isn’t for everybody, but if you follow me then it’s almost certainly up your alley, so windmill slam that pledge button RIGHT NOW

phil has been kind enough to provide me a draft peek (thus corrupting this, but not the previous, endorsement - unless you believe in the time-twisting power of acausal exchange) and one thing I have to say that jumps out at me, and immediately puts this book ahead of 90% of the rest of the Hostile Readings Genre, is that it’s willing to acknowledge “yes, part of the reason that I’m spending so much time on This Thing I’m Hating is that it really is quite compelling.” 

and I won’t lie and say I don’t like what gets called Sneer Culture, but this reads right off the bat like it comes from an alternate reality sneer culture that has accepted such principles, and is better for it - because it’s more willing to engage with the strange ideas it places itself against, and it’s more willing to place itself against actually formidable opponents. Fellow Sneerers, take note!