It’s a book recommendation because what else, right? But it’s a very good one. I looked long and hard for a novel with truly conservative sensibilities. One that shows the horror of COVID lockdowns, trans surgeries, gender insanity, euthanasia, and climate alarmism being used to introduce anti family policies.
And I found it.
This novel is The Merge by Grace Walker.
It’s set in London in the near future. The government decided that there are too many people and is preventing families from having children by levying enormous fines on them. A new technology is being advanced that claims to merge the consciousnesses of two different people in one body. Inconvenient individuals are told to merge with somebody else so that the government can destroy their bodies and save resources. Elderly parents, the sick, the disabled, the babies can be eliminated from society by getting them merged with a healthy person. The resulting merged person is given a new name and plural pronouns.
There are so many things in this supposedly futuristic novel that are very recognizable in the current moment. There’s no mention of COVID or the trans thing. The novel uses figurative language because it’s a novel, not a political screed. But it really hits home.
I was really afraid that the author would chicken out at the end and provide some leftist off-ramp but that didn’t happen. The novel stays good until the closing sentence.
People keep saying that nobody makes conservative art these days but that’s not true. I’m finding quite a lot of excellent stuff, all very recent, that’s deeply conservative. If you read The Merge and you don’t think it’s pro-Christian, pro-life, and against the hubris of humans wanting to be godlike and remake reality, I’d have to ask how sober you were when you were reading.
Absolutely, there’s conservative art and it’s very good. People who say there isn’t simply don’t go looking for art. They project their limitations onto a sphere that they have no intelligence or patience to enjoy.
So yes, merry Christmas, and I hope you enjoy The Merge as much as I did. If anybody wants to come back to this post and discuss the novel, that would be great. I see all comments with the most recent on top of my feed irrespective of how old the post is.
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Thank you for the gift, I will check the book out, it sounds very interesting. Here is a book recommendation gift back: Flesh, by David Szalay. The booker prize winner. It is an enigmatic and fascinating book, I would say it is about masculinity, about choice and about life as a person who probably has a very weak lower bulb?I would be very curious about your opinion. It starts really well, the first chapter is like a great short story, so it is easy to find out whether you would like it. 🙂
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I usually love your recommendations, so I’ll try it, thank you!
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It will be a few weeks before I get to this book but your recommendations have been good in the past so I have it on my To Read List.
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well I just ordered myself a different book you recommended some time ago (private citizens) but my first book for the new year will be the merge for sure! Thanks and merry Christmas
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And after all this, Amazon destroyed my book reviews since 2002. What sense does that even make?
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I wasn’t aware that Amazon does this, but googling ‘amazon deleted book reviews’ reveals that it’s a thing they do regularly for various reasons, apparently with legitimate reviews getting caught up as they sweep out bot reviews and crony reviews, and with little prospect of getting them back… Did this only just happen? Do you have time to find a contact address and complain?
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It was a while ago. The official reason is that I used the word “woke” twice but I believe it’s a complaint by a company whose tea I criticized.
I don’t care enough to complain because the whole thing was me giving Amazon free labor out of kindness. They are destroying their own model because soon people will understand that honest negative reviews are being banned and will stop trusting the reviews.
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I gave up on Amazon customer reviews some years ago. Now glance at what they might say in goodreads.com but don’t have much faith in what is said there either. That is why I usually act on your recommendations.
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Thank you! I’ve been offered money to post fake reviews of books but I angrily refused. Books are sacred to me.
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I gave up on Goodreads when it wouldn’t stop push-recommending me gay werewolf romances.
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