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	Message: : I have read Forrest of B.org's book, The Codex Quaerentis. . It is all : about the philosophy of Commensurablism, and Forrest's political opinions. : What is commensurablism? The tl;dr of it is: it's common sense. : There's a misconseption we all have, including myself before reading, that : "common sense" is equivalent to "common knowledge," or : stuff obvious things everyone knows and can work out easily. But we see : around us that this idea of common sense fails to live up to the reality : of how people behave. But now I know, after reading, what common sense : really means. : Common sense isn't sense that everyone has. It's sense that is universal . : It is useful to anyone, no matter the context. : As such, it's written in terms-of-use-agreement-ese, a style that takes : multiple readings to sink in. This is necessary to communicate exactly : what he means to elaborate; nothing more, nothing less, and no false or : ambiguous interpretations. That said, reading the codex for philosophical : enlightenment (which is a term that is defined in the text) is far more : worth your time than slogging through an end-user agreement to tick a : checkbox. : It paints a backdrop to the morality that bleeds through Marathon Eternal. : I'll give some more in-depth and spoilerific feedback to the man himself, and : then when I've run out of excuses to delay it, I'll move on to another : book review for the story forum. Something I'm dreading could spit on my : childhood. As an old-fogey on this ancient forum for a game made on : fossilized hardware, 'modernized' takes on things I regard classic gets on : my nerves. Reboots of things in the modern era that were period centric : that make me say "leave it alone"; kids in cartoons whipping out : smartphones in cartoons make me groan that it's so obviously dated; : franchises dragging on long after they've been spiritually put to death. : Literature is a medium where I'd say we've come farther than the : sophisticated advancements of movies and video games, which is odd when : the only technology to work with is text on pages, but if you do some : googling, you'll see that theory on writing style and what makes good : literature has come a long way, with the bottom end of the quality : spectrum classified as "mary sue fics." : But the book I'm about to read is one case where I'm not welcome to updating : the writing style. At least, not in the way I've been told it's written. : I'm not sure if I'll make a multiple-part Tour-of-Duty series of posts or : it will all just be one big analysis in one piece. : I'm going in with a huge negativity bias, but, if I learned anything from : codex quaerentinis: even if there's no hope, try anyway.
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