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I will now do a book recommendation thread to close out the year. "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" has aged well. Probably the best treatment of social class. Americans are obsessed with race, but class issues are much deeper.https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/dp/0671792253 …
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" remains probably the greatest American book ever written, and gives you a deeper understanding of America today than any other work.https://www.amazon.com/Bonfire-Vanities-Novel-Tom-Wolfe-ebook/dp/B003GYEGNO/ …
Blood Meridian is probably the most accurate book about the human condition and true human nature. It's a fictional account, in a sense, of the book Sapiens. https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-International-ebook/dp/B003XT60E0/ …
"Read fiction like it's non-fiction." Fiction represent the author's view of the world. It's his or her truth packed into invented characters. Hence why reading fiction gives people a deeper understanding of the human condition than on-fiction does.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ …
"Politics is downstream from culture," because most people learn about the world and form their mental models (Charlie Munger's term) from stories - though usually those stories come from films and shows rather than novels.
A master of fiction like Tom Wolfe or Neal Stephenson is able to embed a non-fiction lecture on a subject (social class / race in Wolfe's case) in a story. In Stephenson's case, he lectures on memes. Snow Crash is my favorite fictional book.https://www.cernovich.com/snow-crash-neal-stephenson-book-review/ …
I am already losing followers. Does the Resistance read anything other than Harry Potter kids books?pic.twitter.com/a2npzVQbSU
Superb book. I've reread it many times.
My next read then it is
Totally transformed how I see people, and Fussell is a really amusing writer too.
A must read to understand current forces in world politics and war.pic.twitter.com/bW5oIAF1Ad
I'm gonna give you an unfollow to close out my year. I followed you purely to try to balance my Twitter feed, but enough is enough. #TrumpResign
I thought Fussell’s essay collection Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays was interesting, too. The titular article from that book: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/undervisningsmateriale/Fussel%20-%20thank%20god%20for%20the%20atom%20bomb.pdf …
Great book--find yourself on the ladder!
I don't know a culture that isn't obsessed with class. It's a human thing. It's an animal thing. There's a hierarchy everywhere. It's one of the struggles of the animal kingdom.
Americans are obsessed with ....whatever propaganda tells them
No way! The same Paul Fussell who wrote a textbook on scansion in English poetry, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
#RenaissanceMan
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