In Which I Read that Dragon Book - Part 4 - The Final Chapters
Finally, after three more endings, I have finished this book. In addition to the last chapters, I also read the acknowledgements. If I’d known how furious the experience of reading all this would make me, I would not have read it before bed – but alas, there I was at 3:18am, raging at the ceiling.
The book itself turned out to be pretty low impact. The sister turns dragon and wins a Nobel Peace Prize. The dragons put an end to war; All war is over. (I may have injured my eyes rolling them at this point.) But even though the dragons have changed the course of all human events by ending war, we still end up with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as presidents. It’s just that they have to be political with dragons, too. I don’t know – it just feels to me like if you significantly shift the course of human history (by, say, including dragons and I don’t know, ending all war?!?) the American people might make better presidential choices.
But also – the dragons end war? I mean – cool, I guess – but it feels like the old chestnut of “if women ran the world, there’d be no war.” Which – maybe so – I sure would like the opportunity to find out – but also women like Marjorie Taylor Green exist and so does Amy Coney Barrett and also Lauren Boebert. We’ve got a lady fascist in the highest office in Italy. I just don’t buy the women are naturally more peace loving thing, which this book feels like it’s leaning into.
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