>>25614828Nice rec. What's it about. I'm reading these two, picrel.
It's okay, IMO
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>>25614963i found his book very, very, safe, but at least it has helped popularize some tech regulations for children.
What do you guys think of this?About halfway through it and it makes sense.
>>25614970I agree, and I find that half of his argument reads like boomer pandering in a 'back in our day' type reasoning. As an educator, I found the play-based-learning sections interesting, but his own data shows that the lack thereof is not the issue or explicitly relevant to the topic at hand.
>>25614971Oh, I've been meaning to read this. I fear that it could be American-centric, though, where personal opinions and ideologies are treated like sports teams or competing armies - not a simple contestant of ideas or perspectives, but a dichotomous ideological 'war' over popular narrative where social cohesion and conformity matter more than truth.
>>25614794A mind of its own - A Cultural History of the Penis by David Friedman. You straight bros are missing out because I doubt there’s any woman out there who cares about dick.
>>25614794Midwitcore. >>25614828Pseudcore>>25614953Lame/Based. >>25614963>>25614971Reddit. >>25614967Performative.
>>25614794What's up OP, this is weird, but I just spent 10 days at an old lady's house taking care of her cat while she went on at trip. I watched Twin Peaks: The Return for the first time, but anyways, the book in your image was sitting on a shelf under her wall-mounted television. I didn't read it, I was reading Chuang Tzu, but isn't it, like, synchronicitous, man?
>>25615021it happens
i’m never not reading montaigne.>>25615016american
>>25614989It is 100% american centered, and constantly compares and contrasts the american left and right. The author is a leftist jew who writes the same way a Christian apologist losing his faith while writing a book on comparative religion would. It also leans heavily on evolutive psychology so you'll come across several paragraphs long talks about how chimps and early men did this and that. On that regard it's reddit as fuck like the other guy says.Even though that sounds pretty bad, it does go beyond american politics and conventional morality (or what he calls WEIRD morality for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies) and never roots for or condemns either side (he just keeps bringing them up cause that's what he's most familiar with). Everything I've read so far checks out, there's some interesting points I hadn't thought about, and the author's pretty sincere about his biases and misconceptions and so far seems to be humble about it.
Currently reading "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein, which is about the nyc government financial crisis in 1975 when the city went bankrupt after a rather dramatic moment when after years of profligate spending it made a standard bond issue where no banks made a bid to buy them, causing the city to run out of money. While president Ford was initially hesitant to allow a bailout (which after a speech to the chamber of commerce where he essentially said he would veto any federal bailout the NY Daily News famously ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead") ultimately it was decided NYC was simply too big to fail, and it was bailed out in exchange to very painful austerity such as gutting city public hospitals, getting rid of free public universities, and cuts to the police, sanitation, fire dept, and teachers, causing the city to become dirtier, poorer and more dangerous for decades, as well as breaking some very powerful public sector unions.The subject is very interesting but the book is not as objective as I had hoped. She is up front that she thinks austerity was wrong, and that the financial crisis was not a morality play of socialists running out of other people's money, but rather a consequence of federal policies that on the one hand caused nyc to lose its manufacturing industrial base which went overseas (hard to imagine, but nyc had been the heart of a massive garment industry) and on the other hand encouraged people to move to suburbs with mortgage tax breaks and federal highways. She also feels austerity was morally wrong and gives many sad examples of people whose lives were ruined by it.Nonetheless I've been left unconvinced that city leadership was as blameless as she insists. Mayor Beame genuinely did fail to rise to the moment and seemed unable to grasp the city's finances despite having been comptroller, and Governor Lindsey, who had been mayor for the prior decade before letting the house of cards collapse on someone else's watch, refused to raise state taxes or even to let nyc raise its property taxes. Meanwhile aristocratic public sector unions jealously guarded their privileges.
>>25615110This has been in my backlog for years. Is it good?
>>25614970Recently read Coddling of the American Mind and had the same take
>>25615113Yes.
>>25615113no
>>25615110>>25615113>>25615117>>25615118It's quite literally a horror novel. Nothing more.
I'm reading Bruce Campbell's autobiography
>>25615121>Confessions of a Movie ActorWhy don't they come out and call them what they really are? Actors are just adult pretenders.
>>25615042Nope but you're in the Performative Pseud category.
>>25615042any interesting observations in this?
>>25615138none whatsoever.
>>25615137i’m in no category.
>>25615150The goal of every performative pseud is to be seen that way.
417 paragraphs into the Phenomenology of Spirit. I feel like I'm simultaneously learning a lot and nothing. Sache selbst
>>25615153i know i’ve asked you this already, but are you absolutely sure you’re not an american?
>>25615158>performative pseud can't think of anything better than assuming I'm an American Lol.
