scott reviewed fussell
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i have so many thoughts about this as reading Class was a formative experience for me. i will write them later.
in the mean time everyone should read class
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one of those rare cases where a scott review doesnt serve as a substitute for reading the original in full
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Ok here is the main thing that I have to say about Class and why you should read it.
Class is an introduction to a novel social refactoring, and teaches you how to start Noticing something that we may as well call class.
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What other books would you say are Class-level must-reads?
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really good question. need to think about this.
I think 's The Moral Animal hit me like this on different axes although that may be in the water supply now
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oh probably Finite and Infinite Games
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FAIG could probably benefit from a hand-holding eli5 blog series
a lot of it is so curt that it's not very digestible
I felt the chapter on sex was really important but you need to have a good grasp on what he means by touch etc
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That would be really cool - I tried reading F&IG but whatever good ideas are contained within were completely obscured by the authors lack of understanding of games.
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i don't think the dude picked up Doom even a single time
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BTW, Carse-relevant tweet
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if you didn't know, 'Finite and Infinite Games' is so short because Carse lost his 400pp manuscript in paris and didn't have the stomach to rewrite it until to years later, the point at which he wrote it off the top of his head subtracting all quotes and citations
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people were replying like this is sad but personally i think this is a very based and chadly writing technique