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I’m really into the book “Ministry of the Future”. It has a lot of shit like that in it.
I read that last year, actually. Potential spoilers:
Just difference of opinion but I wasn't a fan. I obviously think the subject matter is interesting and I liked the sociopolitical basis of the story. But I felt it was bogged way down by an author who was trying to make several parts into some weirdly verbose report to give it a sense of realism (I seem to recall an entire chapter being a written-out list of fictional committee names that were being created to fight climate change). At the same time, when he was writing about the terrorist attacks like swarms of drones attacking infrastructure, it felt really vague and Hollywood, dare I say, even boomer-esque. Just a bit lofty for the sake of action.
You're in good company though, I remember reddit fuckin loved that book so it's probably just not for me. I'm also sensitive to hype and it didn't live up to it.
Yeah, not every book is for everyone. Doesn’t really change whether or not I liked the book.
The book has flaws for sure, but it seemed like it was almost as alarmist as it should be. It seemed utopian to me in the end. He completely missed out on how fascists are going to react to all this for instance.
Yeah, I agree. We need more books like it these days...