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Well WTF that is twice this week that I have been burned by reading the author’s introduction. (Crossing was the other one.)

I get that this book is 40 years old or w/e, but don’t put a major plot spoiler of a character’s end of story death on page 5 of the introduction to that story. Annoying.

Caesar:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once

Cassius
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Looking beyond the caustic prose, I do agree with some of the authors’ assessments of the failings of modern western culture.

I do not agree with their assessment that the solution to fix our culture is a violent uprising to install an authoritarian communist regime.

I still find it interesting to read passionate material from alternative viewpoints.

Always interesting to read a book that’s content is legitimately inflammatory to the point of getting it banned or put on gov’t watch lists.

At points so far I find the writing style to be pretty cringey. It’s like a 17 year old edgelord just dripping with condescension for their peers because they enjoy bread and circus and working a job instead of heeding the author’s call to have a violent revolution.