Yay sunshiney weekend!

I did enjoy reading a work of fiction whose geographical orientation was so different to how we normally perceive the world

I LOVE anything set in Central Asia, so I will read this one but with my expectations lower than they would have been.

lthough I think the former are often ill-informed, ill-advised, or counterproductive, to equate them with the latter is ridiculous, because it does not take account of important things like their relative power.

Exactly!