[ot][spam] ranting re doctorow’s new book
Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many
gmkarl at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 15:12:20 PST 2022
i mentioned the newer âattack surfaceâ book to somebody recently, and
i think i erred when i said it looked to me like it complied with the
state more than the previous,
i developed this opinion from the medium.com link advertising it. it
described the new book as âredeemingâ readers, and it described it as
âadultâ-like and the older as âchildâ-like.
in my experiences of intense authoritarian influence in the usa
mid-2010s, grassroots views were considered âchildâ-like, while
accepting authority was described as âgrowing upâ to be an âadultâ,
similarly grassroots hacking was considered criminal and evil. it was
distressing to me to see this messaging in the doctorow article, and i
figured doctorow had sold out.
since, i have learned that doctorow is strongly associated with
medium.com, blogging there with high frequency (recent article on
neuroimplants), and i found a different website that lists terms in
the new masha attack surface book. i recognized every term i skimmed
as something important for people to learn about. so, i am thinking i
should judge it less quickly, but it still looks weird, i wonder who
picked the phrasing i responded to.
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