It ain't perfect but the criticism of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress seems overblown to me. Then again it's my favorite book, so I'm certainly biased. The Profe

It ain't perfect but the criticism of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress seems overblown to me. Then again it's my favorite book, so I'm certainly biased. The Professor, in my opinion, is not presented as being uncritically correct; the errors he makes and the fact that people do end up disregarding many of his thoughts/suggestions are important. Anyways, here's one of my favorite excerpts from the book: "Manuel, once there was a man who held a political make-work job like so many here in this Directorate, shining brass cannon around a courthouse." "Why would courthouse have cannon?" "Never mind. He did this for years. It fed him and let him save a bit, but he was not getting ahead in the world. So one day he quit his job, drew out his savings, bought a brass cannon--and went into business for himself . " "Sounds like idiot." "No doubt. And so were we, when we tossed out the Warden."