You can take out the x from both sides, and the y would still not be a horizontal line. In their eagerness to 'deconstruct' the narrative, do the authors merel

You can take out the x from both sides, and the y would still not be a horizontal line. In their eagerness to 'deconstruct' the narrative, do the authors merely provide another example of Dunning-Kuger by overestimating their own cleverness?