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Different kind of degraded. You are talking morally degraded, and yeah Karsa has super foreign morals. I agree with the Erikson blogpost on the purpose of writing him is, to really bring into the perspective the narrative of "Noble Savage".
I meant degraded in terms of tropes/quality. The first book had this almost preachy take on modern social issues wrapped up into the plot that felt distinctly heavy handed in a way that a high quality author like Erikson should be above. It is also fundamentally at odds with my understanding of his general literary style: he writes civilizations with the dispassionate style of an archeologist(which he is). There's no: "this is right" "this is wrong" only "this is a socio-cultural permutation that could exist, lets explore it in a story". He has overarching themes, but the pro-immigration/pro-refugee stance was so off kilter, so black and white, and so pronounced that it felt like a departure.
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