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Restarting June 2024…

Restarting…

Haha, so buddy claims to have spent 7 hrs per day hoeing his bean plot during growing season because apparently turning the soil ‘attracts virtue’ (ie. fertilizer). Dude, you got a good crop because the earth was fresh. You would have eventually needed fertilizer if you planned to live on that plot long term and raise a family.

*sigh* Did he just say that the slaves who built the pyramids should have committed suicide rather than degrade themselves to forced labor? Oh, and now he’s describing how the postal system and newspapers are pointless and evil.

However, he’s lost me on the part where he’s preaching about how everyone should build their own home. Dude, you are going back somewhere every night after working on your canon in the woods. Are you staying in one of those spare rooms that you state are unnecessary? What about the disabled? What about single women with small children?

He raises excellent an point about how most folks are paying for a larger and fancier home than they require, and that if we reduced our housing requirements that we’d discover more time and freedom in their lives.

Ok so the dude has an excellent point about fast fashion, but the whole ‘patching your pants’ argument is pulling avocado toast argument vibes.

Buckle up! Chapter 1 and he’s already compared a white mans toil on his own farm to slavery, dismissed listening to advice from old people because they are so entrenched in the economic machine, and made an argument for veganism!

What opinion belongs to you, what belief might be theirs, and what goal is yours to keep our to give back.

In the brain's world, better to have a negative bond than the existential death of no bond at all.

"Love's opposite is not hatred, it's indifference."

Hah, this book is terrifyingly good. Can't put it down.

"I had listened to get for hours and not heard her."

I can't put this book down.

This book is so utterly beautiful. I wish it to never end.

This is cute! Well done, so far.

Ugh this is getting too Christian for me... Going to keep at it and see how it goes.

I'm surprised by how much I am enjoying this book. Curious how I'll feel 2/3 of the way.

Assigned reading from my therapist.