Comparing to who else?
I'm looking through this again, and there were just so many places where he makes dubious but absolute statements without backing it up at all, and we're to take him at his word. "It is simulation that is effective, and never the real". OK, man. Or the way he throws in vague sentences for effect. I mean, I can't start a chapter with the sentence "The apotheosis of simulation: the nuclear" while keeping a straight face.
Anyway, like I said, I think eventually it builds into something cool and tangible it you stick through it, but it takes a lot of digging.
JAMES THURBER: Did you read the French translation?
READER: No, I read it in English.
THURBER: That explains it. It suffers greatly in the original.
[This was told me by my father. I can't find a published source, and a web search doesn't turn up anything similar. My father interviewed Thurber once, but this isn't from the version that was published, and it doesn't sound like something Thurber would have told about himself. Epistemic status: probably apocryphal.]