Status Updates From First Russia, Then Tibet (P...

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His (Karl Marx) contribution to thought was his conception of society as something fluid, in a state of perpetual change and becoming, and his adumbration of a law governing this process.

Adumbration - the act of providing a vague outline, faint sketch, or shadowy foreshadowing of something without giving the full details. AI

The true intellectual is equal to such questions. Having never so much as glanced at a factory in his life, he commits himself to the Intourist Travel Agency, spends three weeks gaping at belt-conveyors invented in Detroit, and returns to proclaim the dawn of human happiness. Meanwhile his opposite, the die-hard, sits at home brooding madly over bugs in the butter.

The Russian part was more descriptive, and a tad boring. The Tibet part, just begun, is a proper travel story, even if currently miserable.

Nearly a quarter into it and it is a book about Bolshevism rather than a travel recount. Interesting, but not what I expected