This is a brilliant novel.
And not at all an exaggerated prediction for a near-future.
The whole Mental Parity thing (no one is smarter than anyone else) is in line with the whole trans thing (sex is a social construct, not a biological reality; I’m female if I think I am), faith-based science, postmodernism (there is no objective true and false; there is ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth’), The Death of Expertise, anti-intellectualism that goes back at least to the 1950s, Idiocracy …
Normally, I excerpt exceptional quotes, but I have too many … p5, 10, 14, 21, 69, 71-4, 99, 109, 115, 125, 138-143, 181, did I say 181?, 245-248
Read it. Just … read it.
