Adam Benckeser > Recent Status Updates

Love this prickly ol lady already

"The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger... And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them."

"The cult of the future has turned us all into prophets. The future is the time when science will have solved all our problems, gratified all our desires; ...when all the work will be done by machines so sophisticated that they will not only clothe, house, and feed us, but think for us, play our games, paint our pictures, write our poems."

My man knew how absolutely ****ed things were gonna be 50 years in advance

"Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. Its stock in trade in politics is to sell despotism and avarice as freedom and democracy.”

What year was this written?

Wendell Berry era (Wendell Ber-ra?) loading

Unfortunately have to live with incredibly obvious twist/misunderstanding trope for probably the next 6 hours of audio

"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough."

I think it's hardcovers in general that are embarrassing to read in public but busting out this grimoire lookin thing is a lesson in self-assuredness

Could feel my brain tell me to click a word in this very physical library book to pull up the definition

I'm pretty sure this is the first time a particular character is mentioned as being from Jamaica, and has the exact same accent and tone as every other male character, save the bewilderingly Scottish one.

I got one of the foundational books of the environmental movement, Silent Spring, for signing up for the KCPL reading program today and I'm v excited about it

Why would I care about the details of this woman running errands, get back to the octopus

So far all I care about are the octopus perspective chapters. Give me the octopus cut!

Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill! Such a greatest hits of the truly pernicious stuff you're exposed to as a young evangelical dude and told it's in the name of Jesus. All my homies hate(d) Mars Hill

I was wondering when Wild at Heart was gonna show up. Man I hated reading that at our campus ministry

I won this in a book giveaway on Goodreads! They're real! 😄

We've dispatched with the meta-commentsry and reached the story of the assassination on the anniversary of the event. So good

This does not make me a WWII Dad, but this book is so good

This is hard to read. Chilling and disturbing.

Considered opening this up while my son was playing on the playground but it is also really reinforcing my disgust with that very idea

basically already crying. too susceptible as a father of young boys

Guy at Oddly today told me my book was great and I got to feel what it must be like to be cute

The Libby race against time is going to kill me. I just can't bring myself to go 1.5x on an audiobook either

This book starts counting pages as if it is the same book as Fellowship so it's at like 400 from the jump. Even knowing this, seeing pages 700+ towards the end is an attack on my psyche