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tough read

will post my comments to this book once i finish, crushed a large section in the plane instead of sleeping or screens!

“i want to meet the millionaire of american sadness…shake his hand and say “its been an honor to serve my country”

sunflowers

there is a lor more context then this but gay men = narcissistic?!? sound like anyone 🍊👨‍✈️

“Only then did I realize that a color could be so dangerous” a shade a light a mix of electromagnetic radiation hitting our eyes

I wonder, we often talk about assimilation and whether or not we should be striving for it within the immigrant community. I don’t want to talk about that question. I want to talk about ease. My guess is that , in America, assimilation is hard. Learning english is hard and the american education system probably doesn’t help. Free community college? Just some thoughts

don’t let “the other kids live more then you”

“Becauss freedom I am told is nothing but distance between a hunter and its prey”

slowly getting through

This is my take on abundance:
What Ezra Klein js saying is this… “my world view is right, so lets crash through all of these public regulatory frameworks that give a voice to local communities on what they want to do”. But ezra… your world view isn’t always right. Houston is racist, and you saying houston is better then liberal cities is omitting that most people don’t want to live in houston!

same

damn this boon is a hard read

I think I want to sit down and dedicate an hour to this book every day/other day and read a chapter. Im starting !

The back to the land movement!

Hmm thoughts so far:

(1) there are a lot of names and references i really don’t know which makes it hard to read
(2) was the greatful dead really apolitical? is that possible in the late 1960s or was that a fever dream
(3) the war on drugs!

this is the type of book i am going to need a pen for

Its the slow burn that is killing me, the slow decent into opioid addiction

Fossil fuel extraction has always killed people…. beyond us caring about the future it has taken the lives of millions, we just never really think about that. I’d be curious to talk to Vaclav Smil about that. How much historical death could be attributed to fossil fuel extraction?

definitely making progrss but slowly… the point about pay and lowlifes and children is kinda real though

okay its starting to be a bit better but this book is fucking wordy

ooft this is taking a while to understand

wow….

so being paramilitary is subject to arrest but being in the Ulster County Unionists or the British Army and ur good?? sorry does this make me a radical?

As I am reading, I am thinking… these irish prisoners are treated better then american prisoners rn… wtf

Violence follows oppression; this book has me thinking about the connection between the IRA and the Black Panther party. But also the innocents caught up in the struggle for equality.

What made catholics feel oppressed in British Ireland? And, in what caused loyalism?