Thanks!

Not if you disbelieve in Gresham’s Law. Me, I believe it applies to literature as much as to monetary policy.

“elite notions of excellence will be obsolete.”

Thank God! There’s far too much excellence in this world, already! We need to make things even more mediocre, or worse! Brilliant idea!!!

“Think I’m crazy?”

No, just misguided, and a little bit idiotic.

I just want to say how fascinating it is to encounter someone, such as yourself, with whom I share absolutely no values whatsoever, based upon your posted comments, above. I disagree with quite literally everything in your post, down to the last comma, and that alone, suffices to refute your nauseating anti-individualistic, quasi-fascistic* “communitarian” thesis.

So, continue to “believe” all you like, but there will never be any community between the likes of you and me, and, I dare say, between you and any number of others. I like it that way, myself.

*So much for your “radically new way of organizing the world”! We’ve heard your tune all too many times before, in the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany, in Mussolini’s Italy; in a word, in the ethos of the anthill…. I’ll pass.

Finally, thanks for pointing me toward the Slattery novel, I’ve put a hold on it at the local library.