This is downright Swiftian...if Swift had spent his most famous bit of satire rambling about prices for beef at Irish butcher shops he'd visited.
It's a nicely written bit of prose, but as satire, it's very weak. He doesn't seem to so much reference actual targets' arguments and cast the other side as ridiculous as throw out the central "They're dumb, and they don't get it!" claim and reiterate that at increasingly odd and tenuous length.
I don't have a dog in this fight, so maybe it's just a matter of a piece not meant for anyone but those who already cleave to his POV on the issue.
It's a nicely written bit of prose, but as satire, it's very weak. He doesn't seem to so much reference actual targets' arguments and cast the other side as ridiculous as throw out the central "They're dumb, and they don't get it!" claim and reiterate that at increasingly odd and tenuous length.
I don't have a dog in this fight, so maybe it's just a matter of a piece not meant for anyone but those who already cleave to his POV on the issue.