[ExI] kirinyaga

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:34 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> BillW when I read this comment, I remember you had said something about
> another book being depressing, so I asked myself why I generally don’t find
> dark books depressing.  The answer I came up with: the European-educated
> shaman (and the other dark character from Stuart) are caricatures.  Dark
> writing is often filled with symbolism, and are intentionally exaggerated
> for the shock value.
>

Poe's Law applies, unfortunately.  It is too often impossible to tell if
this is the case, or if it's not an exaggeration at all and it is a serious
proposal.  Too often, it really is a serious proposal.

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