[dwheeler]

Interesting. I'm still processing this essay.

Perhaps the problem to many is that this approach interrupts the flow necessary for fast learning. When I read a technical tome, I'm trying to understand the technical content as rapidly as I can. Trying to consider the political points, even if I agree with them, would greatly slow my learning via distraction and thus would inhibit the reason I paid for the book. It does feel a little misleading, like a bait and switch, if I had to pay for the book and this wasn't made clear somewhere: "I paid for SQL but I got political assertions instead that I could not easily skip."

I do agree that there is inadequate real political discourse, but this doesn't seem like a solution. But it's a free country, write it and see who wants to be your audience.

[kazagistar]

I dunno, I don't feel a need for flow when learning, and tone-heavy works are oftenjoying my favorite. For example, Learn You A Haskell For Great Good is one of my favorite language introductions, and also very heavy on random colorful tidbits that might distract fom pure technical information.