{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Neoreaction a Basilisk by Phil Sandifer \u2014Kickstarter", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/143712081128/", "html": "<a href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027287602/neoreaction-a-basilisk\">Neoreaction a Basilisk by Phil Sandifer \u2014Kickstarter</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://oligopsony.tumblr.com/post/143711636913/neoreaction-a-basilisk-by-phil-sandifer\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oligopsony</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http://oligopsony.tumblr.com/post/143686029328/neoreaction-a-basilisk-by-phil-sandifer\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oligopsony</a>:</p><blockquote><p>this book probably isn\u2019t for everybody, but if you follow me then it\u2019s almost certainly up your alley, so windmill slam that pledge button RIGHT NOW</p></blockquote>\n<p>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\u2019s willing to acknowledge\u00a0\u201cyes, part of the reason that I\u2019m spending so much time on This Thing I\u2019m Hating is that it really is quite compelling.\u201d\u00a0</p><p>and I won\u2019t lie and say I don\u2019t 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\u2019s more willing to engage with the strange ideas it places itself against, and it\u2019s more willing to place itself against actually formidable opponents. Fellow Sneerers, take note!</p></blockquote>"}