[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

When I was entering a leash-optional dog park a day or two ago, a guy was leaving with his dog and the Stephenson book Fall.

I really liked Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon and asked the guy about the book said it was great. I still haven't read it but I heard about this study from Bongino.

The linked article suggests that, like so many others I formerly considered admirable artists, Stephenson has been brainwashed too.

[gundog]

Dog park? Dystopian future? Ever read Harlan Ellison’s “A Boy and His Dog”?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

ping

See also "[Voters in 2016] knew there was a great party going on among the liberal elite with all their Hollywood buddies, and they weren't invited,"

[roadcat]

Why are all riots that happen in the USA, populated by extremist left-wing Democrats and other liberals? They are the crazy extremists! Very hard-pressed to find any conservatives making mayhem or assaulting others. Liberalism is a psychotic disease resulting in riotous unhinged behavior. Just dealing with liberal relatives proves that.

[T Ruth]

While the misperceptions that Republicans harbor about Democrats don’t improve with higher levels of education, the misconceptions Democrats have regarding Republicans only get worse with every additional degree they earn.

“This effect is so strong,” the study’s authors note, “that Democrats without a high-school ­diploma are three times more accurate than those with a postgraduate degree.”

This is because degree-granting institutions no longer educate, they indoctrinate.

It is no longer accurate to speak of the "college educated." The reality today is that those with a degree are "college indoctrinated."

[familyop]

And the one organization most hated by those elites is the NRA.

[Steve_Seattle]

Neal Stephenson is a stupid person; he ignores 100 years of leftist terror and tyranny - 100 years of RECENT history, ongoing to this day.

[yesthatjallen]

In his new book, “Fall,” the celebrated sci-fi author Neal Stephenson envisions a future United States split between the violent, gun-toting, uneducated, cross-burning religious fanatics of bullet-ridden “Ameristan” and the peaceful, educated, secular denizens of the nation’s Blue enclaves, where decorum and truth always prevail.

It's mind boggling he has this completely backwards.

Does he actually believe this, is he trying to be provocative, or flipping the script to satisfy his audience?

The violence, gun-toting, and uneducated are in blue cities. No one is burning crosses.

This is the worst of SJWs.

[central_va]

Democrats and Republicans imagine that almost twice as many people on the other side hold radical views than actually do.

Name a radical Republican view on anything? They are such milquetoast losers that the term radical is the last word I would use to describe them.

[x]

It sounds like Stephenson has a very simplistic black-white version of the world. That's not so surprising, since he probably doesn't interact with Trump voters or Republicans everyday -- or ever.

His dystopia is that the Internet is so chaotic and lie-ridden that people in the Red Zone have lost any sense of what the truth is. But somehow -- through diligent policing of discourse, I guess -- people in the Blue Zone have avoided that.

But really, you can turn this dystopia inside out to produce another one -- a world in which speech is so regulated and controlled that everybody thinks alike and nobody dissents. You could call that dystopia 1984, or Brave New World.

Maybe his problem isn't that he paints the anarchic Red Zone in such dark colors but that he makes the controlled Blue Zone look so pleasant and benign. A failure of the imagination, I guess.

[Jacquerie]

<>religious fanatics<>

Imagine a society in which everyone strove to keep the Ten Commandments. How radical a thought.