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The cat perching on Matthew's shoulder like a parrot is hilarious for some reason

*giggles about bundling*

I never do this but I've turned up the playback speed to 1.8x LOL

My patience with this is a test. I understand her sentiments, her purpose with this work, but it feels like she's just saying the same 3 phrases ad nauseum. Give me some depth please.

Her pronunciation of capitalism bothers me and this is already very repetitive but it's alright

Re-reading a decade later & I might actually be enjoying it more this time around, knowing where it's going & getting excited about the little bits of detail I've spotted along the way.

"If you hate and fear Russia, if you are jealous of the wealth and power of America, if you despise Jews, if you have a sentiment of inferiority towards the British ruling class, you cannot get rid of those feelings simply by taking thought. But you can at least recognize that you have them, and prevent them from contaminating your mental processes."
Lol there it is, implicit bias training described in 1945.

"The point is that as soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And, as I have pointed out already, the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged. Also, there is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our' side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened"

"The Eltons, the Pritts and Coughlins, each of them simply an enormous mouth bellowing the same lie over and over again, are obvious extreme cases......the most fair-minded and sweet-tempered person may suddenly be transformed into a vicious partisan, anxious only to 'score' over his adversary and indifferent as to how many lies he tells or how many logical errors he commits in doing so."
THIS WAS 1945.

Oh shit it's all the same again

I think I'm ready to be done with this book. It's starting to drag.

I SHIP IT.....ON A SHIP