This one is bad. “I struggled to find a reason to keep reading it” level of bad. And that was despite me agreeing with basically every part of the message.
Far too preachy and condescending to be either convincing or entertaining. Takes too long to get to the points, makes too many points, and isn’t at all elegant in conveying them. The vibe I get from this: an exhausted rant, sloppily dressed up into something resembling a story.
It’s hard for me to imagine this piece actually changing minds, which seems to be the likely goal of writing it? But if that’s the intent, then the execution falls short. Every point made here was already made elsewhere—more eloquent and more convincingly—including in other essays by the same author.
This one is bad. “I struggled to find a reason to keep reading it” level of bad. And that was despite me agreeing with basically every part of the message.
Far too preachy and condescending to be either convincing or entertaining. Takes too long to get to the points, makes too many points, and isn’t at all elegant in conveying them. The vibe I get from this: an exhausted rant, sloppily dressed up into something resembling a story.
It’s hard for me to imagine this piece actually changing minds, which seems to be the likely goal of writing it? But if that’s the intent, then the execution falls short. Every point made here was already made elsewhere—more eloquent and more convincingly—including in other essays by the same author.