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Not looking at it from the Torah perspective (although it is objectionable in that respect)–I object to it from let’s get real here perspective. The outline you quote above may be the basis of her ideas, and that’s all fine and nice, but she presents them quite differently in her book. Literally every other page there was a rant about the soulless maggoty wretches trying to suck the souls out of the noble godly paragons of industry and innovation. I can’t pull up the exact quotes because I don’t own the book, but I remember her using the same adjectives to describe the “good guys” and the “bad guys” over and over, and every time one of those little passages came up I was like, “there she goes again…” And seriously, the radio broadcast at the end–I really thought she had made her point by then!
Basically, I do not like it because I feel like whatever point she was trying to make deteriorated into vitriolic drivel. I think it her ideas suffer because they are forced into the novel arc. Expressed in the way she outlines her ideas above, her manifesto would have been a lot more reasonable. So I guess I really object to the novel more than the philosophy. As a Jew I don’t believe in the philosophy, but I don’t have an objection to it over any other philosophy out there.