Just a random thought about how authors can deal with incredibly big subjects but fail to actually grasp them themselves. Sorta like how Ray Bradbury thinks Fahrenheit 451 is about how people listen to the radio too much.
Just a random thought about how authors can deal with incredibly big subjects but fail to actually grasp them themselves. Sorta like how Ray Bradbury thinks Fahrenheit 451 is about how people listen to the radio too much.
Orwell's works could mostly have been written by someone who isn't from the left. I mean his most prominent works of fiction are Animal Farm (A work criticial of Stalin) and 1984 (A work critical of Stalin). While the genuine fondness he shows for Marx, Lenin and Trotsky in Animal Farm would be hard to replicate from a right wing perspective, the core message of revolution betrayed could have been written by someone with the political ideals of Edmund Burke.
Gibson rose to prominence by innovating in a genre built around the critique of certain societal trends, and he has somehow absorbed none of that criticism.