When Day Breaks, The Factory, and The Database (for the punchline more than anything) are a lot more fun than this one, that's for sure. I do think it's supposed to be portraying the cultists as madmen, so I'm not buying that the writer has a fash agenda, more that they failed to effectively counterpoint the cultists because they were having too much fun writing them to consider that they needed to be contrasted with something sympathetic from the perspective of the Foundation.
Montauk becoming a cultist was a pretty dumb heel-turn stinger, too. Would have made way more sense for him to destroy critical information and logs to obfuscate the Scarlet King, given that the rest of the article clearly shows that explaining the Scarlet King is what gives it substance and power, so making it into a mystery again would effectively be "containing" it.
When Day Breaks, The Factory, and The Database (for the punchline more than anything) are a lot more fun than this one, that's for sure. I do think it's supposed to be portraying the cultists as madmen, so I'm not buying that the writer has a fash agenda, more that they failed to effectively counterpoint the cultists because they were having too much fun writing them to consider that they needed to be contrasted with something sympathetic from the perspective of the Foundation.
Montauk becoming a cultist was a pretty dumb heel-turn stinger, too. Would have made way more sense for him to destroy critical information and logs to obfuscate the Scarlet King, given that the rest of the article clearly shows that explaining the Scarlet King is what gives it substance and power, so making it into a mystery again would effectively be "containing" it.