And of course his own work is full of political and social commentary that he doesn’t seem to have noticed, such as the value of large well-funded government space agencies, evidence-based scientific research and policy, well-implemented and rigorously tested incremental technological development, or international cooperation and diplomacy to solve a huge global crisis, all of which he presumably thinks are good things. It wouldn’t be the first time that an unreflective author hasn’t examined their own views or how they might be evident in their writing.
