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This book is amazing.

War begins.

This book is honestly one of the most terrifying things I've read.

When you go between Jacksonville and Gainesville and take highway 301, you will drive by derelict buildings and towns wasting away. You wonder, "Why can't we just build a bridge over these towns?" and wonder again, "Why do they resent us?"

A democracy does not need a majority of the insane to perish, just a majority of the sane to be fragmented and divided.

If LA is the lens through which you can understand the South, and Ohio/Kentucky help you understand Appalachia, then Wisconsin is how you understand the rural Midwest.

Beginning the third part of the "Where did my country go?" trilogy

The Deep Story: hardworking white Americans have been waiting in line, and the federal government has helped a bunch of people cut in line.

How do we respond to this narrative?

Continuing my reading into "why has the Right gone crazy", I move from Kentucky/Ohio to Louisiana. Here it is even more clear: LA is a state that has suffered at the hands of bad education, bad governance, and bad corporations. Why do they continually vote for people who will hurt them in the same way, time and time again?

I think everybody who learned economics at U Chicago may be... mentally special.

Honestly, the Explore-Exploit dilemma may change my life.

We're in the middle of an intersection, we ran the red light, and the poor people in the backseat are about to be t-boned.

Well this is terrifying.

I used to watch a lot of NOVA shows on PBS about teams of scientists racing to discover something. It is such a weird concept and makes me think that scientists- be it particle physicists or astronomists- are way more corporate than they let on.

I haven't read a science book in a long time. I've read pop psyche and history and philosophy of science, but not "This scientist studied radios, and discovered that our universe is emanating with the whispers of its birth." It's a lot more relaxing.

I think that "government officials owned stock that would increase in value due to second order effects after the Iraq War" is a too-simple explanation for what brought us to Iraq, but it certainly didn't hinder or slow down the war drums.

I don't think Klein really sets the context before each "Shock story" as much as she could. She doesn't seem to be into nuance. But her description of the post-Soviet collapse of Russia's economy /due/ to the collapse of burgeoning democracy is compelling.

If I had known this book was going to poopoo on the University of Chicago for 50% of its pages, I would've read it a lot sooner.

I didn't sign up for a story about torture but that's what I got.

The Shock Doctrine: Using public crises to institute neoliberal policies undemocraticaly.

The Shock Doctrine: Using public crises to institute neoliberal policies undemocraticaly.