TFW you see a quote of a dumb tech opinion mixed with a shallow but popular literary misreading and you have comp.

Baldur Bjarnason

TFW you see a quote of a dumb tech opinion mixed with a shallow but popular literary misreading and you have comp. lit. degree so you feel compelled to follow the link and it’s even worse—just the shallowest, “I’m so surprised about these unsurprising things with obvious causes, btw here’s a book I misunderstood” garbage—but the misreading is so compellingly wrong that you’re tempted to explain the literal text of the book but you realise you’ve already spent more time than any of this is worth

datarama

@baldur To be blunt, tech bro literary comprehension is often less "subtle misunderstanding that someone with a comp.lit degree will notice", more "a goddamn 10-year-old with a library card could call bullshit on this".