That's not a fair reading of the central thesis to my memory (which is going back more than 15 years, to be fair). This is meant constructively: Some of the r

That's not a fair reading of the central thesis to my memory (which is going back more than 15 years, to be fair). This is meant constructively: Some of the rhetorical devices you've chosen ("childish", "dumb", etc.) nearly always read to me as coming from someone who hasn't understood the work they are commenting on, so I suspect you might communicate more effectively with different choices.