[fermienrico]

New Yorker, I found, is always obtuse, long-winded prose that fill up 14 pages where the whole thing can be, if it was written like a normal article, summarized in no more than 3 pages. It is prose porn for writers and readers alike.

If I want good prose, I read the the Cabinet Magazine which is far superior in writing, curtness and straightforwardness while not affecting the charming and poetical aspects of writing.

Furthermore, New Yorker has inappropriate political and social undertones that is very offputting - they don't belong here and but its beat into place. Any informed reader would see through it. If you enjoy that sort of a thing, great but it's not my thing even if I agree with the underlying message.

[waheoo]

I don't even need to read the article to know this is going to be a long winded piece of popular bullshit.

Just look at the title, manages to demean and belittle an entire industry that is entirely required for a functioning economy and society.

Y'all wonder why blue collar America thinks we're stuck up entitled pricks? Maybe it's because we are.

[creato]

This article basically boils down to "scientists suck, the government sucks, truck drivers have everything figured out". Pretty much the opposite of what you are suggesting. There's a layer of humility which obfuscates this a little.

[wiz21c]

yep I thought like that too. I don't know truck drivers, but the way the title is put, it seems to oppose the "genius" of a nuclear bomb to, well, a mere truck driver. I'm not entirely sure the people behind the bomb were smarter than a truck driver. The human qualities needed to decide to work on a bomb or not, which to me is infinitely stronger than what it takes to be a physicist or mathematician, can be found as well in a truck driver...