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Wonder what he thinks of Starship Troopers. At least, Paul Verhoeven's adaptation of it.

Bestselling Author Proudly Admits To Not Know What "Politics" Means

What a fucking moron

funny how it’s never preaching when you’re the preacher

what a weenie

The author of "minority character who lives in a systematically-impoverished moon hovel and realizes her entire city was sold to a cartel that secretly runs its government" saying he doesn't do social commentary is crazy

The world of Hail Mary: the world is faced with an existential threat, works together, and puts trust in scientists to fix it. Our world: science grants stripped for blatantly hateful/stupid reasons, our health secretary is against vaccines, and our president hates wind power. Clearly no politics

Genuinely heartbroken to discover this author has chud-like tendencies. Who even goes on The Critical Drinker’s podcast like that??? It’s 2026, man. 🫩

Well that's incredibly disappointing. How can someone who wrote Project Hail Mary, be some who watches Trek for the photon torpedos?

"My sole job is to..." perpetually reinforce the status quo, I guess.

@ramiismail.com Such a shitty take from him. I was actually excited about reading one of his books and knowing this is a bummer

Oh? The ending of a book will inevitably validate the author's political agenda? That's an interesting take, Mr. Science Solves All Our Problems Guy.

oh no did this guy write good stories _by accident_

Yeah, it's definitely worse to not see it and claim it doesn't exist.

I'd guess that Weir believes if he just works out all the math and physics down to the very last detail, it will prevent him from making any assumptions that may allow Politics to bleed into the story.

i like that people like this seem to believe in like, mantras, like if you just say "i dont make political art" enough it will magically disappear from your works

"I have no point to make" is such a sad statement

So what he is saying is, that he is unable to even follow what he likes himself. And inadvertently does what he lectures about now. As Blackadder said "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed"

(there is no such thing as a piece of art that is 'just to entertain' - it just means that the person creating it viewed everything in the piece as normalized, whether that's good or bad in the greater scheme of things)

"please lets go back to my favorite episodes of Imperialist Usians killing Asiatic coded human aliens"

How in the hell is the same brain capable of the level of research and writing involved in his books not capable of grasping what the core of Start Trek is??? They're rarely that subtle about it. There's plenty reasons to dislike the new ST shows he mentions, but this is just not it...

Very weird to have this stance in an interview talking about the poor quality of modern Trek - an IP known for its social commentary!

Facts™ People who don't believe in social commentary being in every piece of art has failed to understand the purpose of art

The kind that seem like they excelled in STEM But maybe slept though lit and the humanities

The kind that seem like they excelled in STEM But maybe slept though lit and the humanities

My new collection "The Only Way for Humanity to Tame the Stars is for Planet-Wide Cooperation and Compromise and Other Essays Without Social Commentary" is prompting a lot of questions answered by the title

like, I've read his books, they have pretty unsubtle social commentary, I cannot imagine the guy that wrote those saying that

Not only he's telling us that HE doesn't do social commentary, but that if god forbid we do detect a hint of social commentary in his stories, it is simply not there, it is the product of our imagination, the problem is us.

Definitely seems like the type to pull the "there are two races, white and political" bit out of his hat if reminded that everything isn't about a 6 year olds perspective on space.

Wow, I feel bad for enjoying Project Hail Mary ... the man is being an idiot.

Nothing is apolitical. Nothing.

You can read a book like a book, or you can read it like a magazine, treating it as a fictional documentary that is just recorded events. It is interesting to see people who treat media with no thought in their head realize that it isn't the only way to consume media. And how they justify it.