You Can't Sell a Book That's Like, Oh, It Would Never Work Here

I wonder how much of it is purely selfish versus knowing that you can't pitch actual sacrifice to America in a book, right? Yeah. Like you can't, you're not going to sell a book that's like, we all need to purposefully make our lives significantly worse. Or else there'll be consequences. What you can do is say, what if we tinkered with the neoliberal order a bit, state side, and over there, we instituted a brutal global regime of oppression in order to save us and save our way of life. That's a book you can sell. It's so telling that he keeps mentioning these little inconveniences of daily life as a middle-aged guy in