Okay so I'm only at like the first chapter but I honestly can't tell if the stupid little bildrungsroman bit about the midwestern tech bro turned feudal lord is intended as satire.
Choice bits:
...(he) found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behaviors were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.
...while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.
Honestlt I'd assume satire but coming from what I know about Stephenson I'm really not sure.
It was egregious even for him. They let him tack an entire nearly-unrelated novella on the back of what I thought was a decent book (Stephenson's political leanings aside). It was almost like he wrote the first part just to sneak in his weird far future eugenics fanfic of his own work.