Miles Silverstein > Recent Status Updates

Checking back in after I’ve finished the unfortunately underwhelming Kenya chapter. The two West African chapters on Senegal and Sierra Leone were also weak. By contrast, the South Africa chapter was very good, as was the Burundi/Rwanda analysis. Seems he’s got a handle on the East and no dog in the race in the West.

What a cool job this guy worked. That being said I have thoroughly been scared straight about Somalia Sudan and Zimbabwe. Helllll na

Remarkable how similar my experience is so far to Dowden’s account of Uganda in the 70s. Funnily enough he only ever mentions Luganda, except for the fact that close to every word he translates for the reader is Swahili. Maybe the Bantu languages just are that similar. I’ll ask my buddy in Malaba.

Everyone’s all like “ohh greatest novel ever put to page” and the novel’s first thirty pages are a guy who just really loves kissing his mom and crying in his room. Typical /lit user

He’s finally made it to South Africa! The only places he spoke somewhat highly of were the countryside in Uganda and Harare.

This dude hates Tanzania despite his entire experience with the country being like a week total on awful public transport and Kafkaesque bureaucracy in Dar. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that there are better ways to spend time in that country.

Gripping, obviously, but also kind of the only book I could even think of reading at this point in my life

This is still a good book he’s just way too invested in Plato and I can’t yet decide if his whole Marxism Must Account For Human Nature point is cogent or silly yet

Most coherent and based piece of neoconservatism I have ever read. Remember when the right was intellectual?

Sorry guys been reading this one slowly for like a week now 4got 2 update the masses. Heading back into a Hegel thing reeeeal bad mon