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There's also the minor subplot about his woke ex-girlfriend in academia. Including him getting dressed down by her academic friends for his privilege enabling him to learn a technical skill by reading a book and practicing. He made the mistake of trying to explain his technical skills as a result of study and practice rather than unearned privilege.
It is like mockery of tumblrinas, but 15 years early.
To quote another famous science fiction author, “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet”. Those lines of theory were percolating within academia for years before they breached out into the body politic.
An interesting example of this is Mrs. Bridge from 1959, where the author is basing much of the background of the novel on his upbringing in semi-affluent KCMO in the 1920s-30s. There are asides and comments from background characters espousing views that wouldn't explode nationwide until the mid-to-late 60s, or even the 70s, yet they were already circulating in non-academic circles by the 50s (assuming the author heard them in the 50s and had his characters say them even though they didn't really say such things in the 30s, but who knows, maybe he's being fully accurate and those ideas really were the talk of upper middle class white people in the 30s).
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Serves him right for trying to mansplain away instead of acknowledging his technical privilege.
That article is right on point and 15 years later on the dot. Neal Stephenson called it, yet again.
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