[fckgnad]

My opinion is the status quo of anthropology. Your claiming that the opinion is wrong and not inline with reality? Do you have evidence other then something along the lines of "read the book or your delusional?"

I can tell you other people reading this thread who also believe in traditional anthropology aren't liking what your presenting.

At the very least offer something from the book. Wow. Just wow.

[moloch-hai]

Read it or don't. If you don't want to read, look it up on youtube. You are not obliged to educate yourself, but pretending to education you haven't will reliably solicit unwelcome responses.

[fckgnad]

No one is obliged to do anything. I am saying your attitude makes it so that other people who haven't read the book are less likely to read it when they read your words. You are actively making your viewpoint less popular. You are not obliged to correct or change your attitude. Keep it if you want.

You are also not an educated or unbiased source. There are posts under this topic that lend genuine controversy around the authors of DoE. Your complete and utter failure to acknowledge alternative viewpoints and dismissing questions as uneducated leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth. Especially for some other reader on HN who might've read this book otherwise.

[moloch-hai]

Only you and goatszx seem put out. And, really, do you expect a post here to make a case that took almost 600 book pages to express properly?

[fckgnad]

Be real. You can convince people to read a book without having to copy all 600 pages here. Saying that you're incapable of doing so when every book on the face of the earth has summaries, snippets and reviews to promote themselves is just plain dishonest. It's so obviously dishonest that it's, in fact, a form of trolling. I'm sorry, but this conversation is over as this type of thing is against the rules here.