"maybe that happened with (gender, capitalism, hierarchy, race, etc)" they don't do that, because it's uncomfortable
snow crash is barely even distorting anything for story purposes, our neal knows some shit
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. He's got really bullshit evopsycho ideas and 90% of what he thinks he knows about linguistics is just wrong.
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yeah, the way the snow crash virus winds up working is, uh, heavily dramatized to say the least
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but he isn't wrong that the human capacity for language is first and foremost an enormous security vulnerability
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I mean, if you want a story about "language as a security vulnerability" Miéville did it way better. But he doesn't think it's the TRUTH.
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which Miéville? i promise i'm going to get the rest of the way through IRON COUNCIL, pinky swear
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I can't read his New Crobuzon setting stuff, i think it's awful, so if you get through Iron Council you've done better than me!
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oh, what's a little total loss of the will to live from PERDIDO STREET STATION's three independent incredibly depressing endings
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