His books definitely err towards a sort of fash-adjacent libertarian moral. Like I can probably sum up at least half of them with “the based chad maverick scientist comes in and saves the day from the ineptitude of weak soy government/corporate establishment scientists, with his rugged basic common sense and some catch that Crichton thought sounded clever.”
It’s funny that in his most famous book by far the libertarian capitalist completely screws the pooch by trying to save money, gets eaten alive by his own creation, and in the end the government has to save the day with napalm (though they don’t get everything and the Amazon is undeniably screwed forever after the end of the book).
Think about it: the decadent soy corporate scientists caused the problem and endangered everyone for money, while the rugged manly scientist who digs in the dirt and wears a cowboy hat saves the day. The book he wrote about nanomachines was pretty much the same: weak corporate scientists make the problem by being naive and soy, the manly outsider engineer who got screwed over by a manager who was selling secrets to China comes in and saves the day with a flamethrower.
It’s all entirely in line with how libertarians can sometimes see that corporations are bad, but they focus on the dumbest shit like the corporation not being publicly racist enough or letting women be managers sometimes.
Why Michael Crichton? Just because it’s like… “pre-woke”?
His books definitely err towards a sort of fash-adjacent libertarian moral. Like I can probably sum up at least half of them with “the based chad maverick scientist comes in and saves the day from the ineptitude of weak soy government/corporate establishment scientists, with his rugged basic common sense and some catch that Crichton thought sounded clever.”
It’s funny that in his most famous book by far the libertarian capitalist completely screws the pooch by trying to save money, gets eaten alive by his own creation, and in the end the government has to save the day with napalm (though they don’t get everything and the Amazon is undeniably screwed forever after the end of the book).
Right? How the fuck Crichton wrote something as anti-capitalist as Jurassic Park is still a mystery to me
Think about it: the decadent soy corporate scientists caused the problem and endangered everyone for money, while the rugged manly scientist who digs in the dirt and wears a cowboy hat saves the day. The book he wrote about nanomachines was pretty much the same: weak corporate scientists make the problem by being naive and soy, the manly outsider engineer who got screwed over by a manager who was selling secrets to China comes in and saves the day with a flamethrower.
It’s all entirely in line with how libertarians can sometimes see that corporations are bad, but they focus on the dumbest shit like the corporation not being publicly racist enough or letting women be managers sometimes.
cuz he’s a MANLY MAN writing about DINOSAURS and EPIC TIME TRAVEL