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"Hmm, well, I, for one, am a little disappointed by the unstimulating responses to what I thought was an extremely stimulating article (my opinion, obviously). Some people found it overdramatic and pretentious."
This is the fundamental problem in having a science fiction author, whose world is science, trying to communicate with a bunch of English majors who were brought up by their Boomer parents to regard science as a threat ("Genetically engineered corn - ewwww! Burn the witches!"). Folks, words like 'monotonic' and 'pyroclastic' have precise technical meanings that, when understood in the context of Brin's poetic usages of them in this article, would make it possible for your ideology-fricasseed brains to actually comprehend what he was trying to say.
