I have spent some time trying to get it to criticize "The Ministry for the Future" for not being radical enough and can't seem to get past its pacifism filter or something.
I have spent some time trying to get it to criticize "The Ministry for the Future" for not being radical enough and can't seem to get past its pacifism filter or something.
I actually really like that book, if not as radical as I would prefer like you said
The children of Kali are pretty cool
real. they're portrayed as like heroes at least lol
Those chapters are the best ones, although the former Pakistani wetwork guy is cool too.
They couldn't do "Children of Kali Save the World" because it'd never be published and put in bookstores, lol. KSR is too much of a lib, so instead we got "PMC lanyard technocrats save the world" by telling off people at Davos, inventing carbon crypto and using special tech to save the ice caps.
did we read the same book? it does go a little too far into "tech will save us", especially with the weird ass crypto shit, but there are several subplots implying/outright stating that violence is needed and necessary, I don't know any libs who would write a book like that. Like honestly the book is also a little too adventurist at times with the drones that nonstop assassinate rich people in the book
You know, that's fair. It probably was the right choice to background the harsher stuff. I guess I was just feeling more bloodthirsty when I read it lol
The author did an interview on rev left. He basically says his reasons for not writing that version of the book is it would ring hollow for a comfortable white USian to write that book. He could probably write anything and get published at this point in his career (my opinion not his).