Teresa, when I noticed you had joined the Alecsmackdown, I was elated. My kids were concerned I was laughing so much.
We live in a world where factuality is determined by sentiment: Rawls is one of the Rights' voices, and anything else presented will be disregarded by the true believers. It's sad, but I must say I enjoyed the seeing the dude's insane ideas and methods (counting the pixels on the screen in paint? Asserting that the work 'points' to Mecca, and contains a mithrab, when it might just be oriented on Flight 94's flight path) ripped to shreds and mocked. His certainty is pathological..
I had that moment when I finished Heinlein's Friday, thinking it incoherent, and acting as some sort of summation of Heinlein's 'philosophy' (to use the word losely). It was selfishness and arrogance made literal. I couldn't even enjoy The Moon is a Harsh Mistress any more.
I hope to god I never get to this place with Dickens...
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