On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:49 AM, ss wrote: > Nearly two years after the book went online - I find it satisfying that this > is as far as criticism gets. The inability to counter the content speaks for > itself. :) >
Perhaps the only people reading your book are the ones who are already pre-conditioned to believe its contents. Say for example I have a particular affinity towards a hypothetical country in sub-saharan africa. I feel very strongly about whats happening in this country, but I don't have the possiblity to travel there. So I end up doing a lot of research using news reports, articles, think-tank reports etc. All the reports validate my belief that the country is a basket-case in terms of every kind of indicator. Finally I conclude that the populace of this country is suffering, unhappy and bitter. Also validating my conclusion is the near absence of any positive reportage on the said country. There are a couple of local newspapers published in this insignificant country, which report some 'happy' news, but these are very easy to debunk - since every other report that I have read from other sources (and there are many of these...) contradicts these stories- so of course these reports in the local papers simply cannot be credible. Don't you think your book is like the example i have cited above ? (I know many 'credible' books end up being written like this... there are also many film reviewers who publish reviews without ever having seen the film... they simply read the reviews of another reviewer... )
