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It's a sharp read so far, some bits could be shorter but I've already started to apply its lessons.

Its been an interesting read so far, kind of weirded out by the idea that people are using logic to decide something illogical like love though. That's just me however.

Finished the intro where Liu purports that the PMC ability to stronghold virtue/values is strangling political change. They did this in #Occupy then Bernie using obfuscation. Recently I think they did it with BLM and the 2020 Election.

Questions I have are:
Where would the terrain of battle be against them?
Were PMC aware they hollowed out these institutions?

Author is a firecracker, so I'm excited to read more.

Good read. Since I started reading it, I've had more diverse conversations around politics with others and would say that I'm a little more patient and open.

A good book, and I've subbed to New Discourses (one of the authors outlets) to learn a little more about them. I come to similar conclusions but differently, since I'm not a classical liberal like they are.

This has been a longer read for me, simply because I'm applying the concepts of the book. I am not a reader of fiction at the moment- not because of elitism or snobbishness, but simply where I am in life.

This is certainly a book where one can find pearls, here. The authors are kind of pretentious and crypto-rightoids, but there's some bits of wisdom.

Weird how the authors use 'she' quite often, though.

Dropping this book

Not really feeling a whole lot of this so far. I'm fighting my bias against the author of this book, but among the little bits of wisdom you get, you're given a little insane simplifications and some odd moments. Author seemingly starts saying roughly that you don't need to pay people a lot if they're happy, and they don't need to see their kids as much.

Mostly, that's not what I want to see in the world.

The ending section about creating narratives wasnt bad. I'm confused about someone calling Marxism postmodernist, but whatever.

Hate when the author makes themselves the subject, but God blessed me here in that author only Marilyn Manson's himself a little bit in the intro. No torture with jokes or childhood sentimentalism. Perhaps this is just the intro.

Still, has kernels of wisdom . Identity isn't your project. Maintaining diplomacy between your factions matters. Curious, what are the class compositions of his movements?

Lots of useful stuff in here about how to trace influence and relationships in big orgs and corporations.

Interesting read insofar as the way he classifies elites vs populists and war at 3 different levels. I disagree with some things like how he classifies Mussolini, and how he thinks of split labor (he has an internal contradiction!). It's simple and breezy, and I would love for somebody to do an verification against geographic and economic data.

Great book, and has lots of great insights around some of the discourse of the current moment and why IDPOL is a ruling class politic and a defending of inequality. The comparison of racial science to witchcraft works very well. We will fight this with solidarity.

This book was amazing. I really love how every character is like guided by a weird sexual animus. Roupenian isnt just a social media darling -- her shit is good. Like I was really shocked about how a lot of these stories ended. Check this book out I never got that fart sniffing thing authors do or that overly cringy tone.