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It's just occurred to me recently to recommend this, but one of my favorite all time works of literature is White Noise by Don DeLillo. It's a pretty decent satire of modern consumptionism, academia, media, and other aspects of society. But I read it a year and a half ago though, before I had really been exposed to anything from LessWrong - to my recollection, there is nothing in it that would bother me now, although I'm not entirely certain of that. If anyone else has read it, I would appreciate their comment on this.
As a trigger warning, it also explores violence as a theme and there are a couple of moderately graphic scenes, if I recall correctly.
I haven't read White Noise in a long time, but remember loving it.
D'you mean that the stuff in the novel that's satirized doesn't seem to warrant satirizing? I'd agree that a lot of what the novel mocks or caricatures is basically harmless, although I'd find the clusterfuck around the airborne toxic event outrageous if it happened to me in real life.
There's a chapter that describes one character shooting another in some detail. (There might be other graphic scenes I don't recall.)
I don't mean anything specifically, I'm just not sure there weren't some quotes or themes that would induce major eye rolling now.