I haven’t read enough to comment on the content of the book yet, but a word on the format: When the Jihad books debuted years ago, I found them disjointed and difficult to read. Now they’re still disjointed, but somehow reading is less difficult. I fear it’s not because the books are better, but because I–along with everyone else–have acclimated to the style of writing that pervades our Internet-driven world now. It’s possible to read some newspaper articles from the early twentieth century. Try it; they’re denser and more erudite than today’s thousand-word novels meant for consumption by the urban elite.
We need to start believing the nay-sayers. The G.I. Bill really did lead to the creation of bogus university departments and even of whole universities for the benefit of dullards. Rock ‘n roll music really did bring wide-spread drug use and miscegenation. Typewriters ruined handwriting. The crossbow killed chivalry. And the Internet really is making us dumber readers. Every once in a while, we need to look around and admit that the cranky old bastards were right.
