2026-04-05 10:02 UTC
@adamgreenfield
The kintsugi-ness of the cover, the disjointed quality of the text, and the fact that Stewart Brand is approximately a zillion years old all point to the probability that Brand gave a lot of collected and vaguely related essays and fragments written over several decades to his editor who endeavored mightily to put it all together into a coherent and saleable form before the author could no longer help market the thing.
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@adamgreenfield@social.coop 2026-04-05 10:08
@mokafish That is not at all the case, as you’d be able to ascertain for yourself if you’d read the introduction, but more importantly I’d ask you to reflect on what causes you to dismiss Stewart for being “a zillion years old.” Weigh the text for its faults, and its author for his, certainly. They are prominent enough. But the ageism is ugly.