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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Economics, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Novel, Politics, Sociology  0 Comments

April 15, 2022May 10, 2021

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present – Yanis Varoufakis

Regardless of the author, writing a Utopia has always been a bad idea.

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Culture, Current Events, Journalism, Libertarianism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Sociology  0 Comments

May 14, 2021March 13, 2021

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) – Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Libertarianism: NOT EVEN ONCE!

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Future, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology  4 Comments

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021

Technopoly – Neil Postman

The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.

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Culture, Current Events, Non-Fiction, Sociology  0 Comments

September 6, 2019April 15, 2019

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure – Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

“The Coddling of the American Mind” might be the next book in the series of doom-saying prophecy, or it may have some actual valid points.

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Non-Fiction, Sociology, Technology  0 Comments

July 13, 2018May 17, 2018

Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman

The end might be nigh, but at least it will be entertaining.

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