<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Spike, I don't want to be shocked. I want to be entertained. My daughter reads dystopian, post nuclear world war sorts of books and I asked her why. She said that in the end they triumphed over their troubles. Fine, but not for me. Why read an entire book about a guy who doesn't triumph in the end except to prove that there are truly irrational people among the intellectual elite. His son and everyone else has moved on to the modern world. He hasn't. I get the symbolism - it's just depressing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:37 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:34 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>
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