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This is so dumb. I would love it so much if it were not mostly an edgelordfest of racism and queerphobia, and also if it were not based on The Origin of Consciousness And The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and trying to be clever with it, because it really does just come down to "ancient peoples and/or oral traditions are stupid and less capable than written traditions which engender consciousness".

so the thing is that my reading goal for 2026 is to stop reading books i hate. this is the year my dnf shelf dominates. last year i read days of rage, it took me months, and nothing good came of it except my roommates referring my stretches of hate-reading as The Days of Rage. So, goodbye to My Government Means To Kill Me, instead i will be seeking out better books rather than suffering through miserable ones.

I don't know if I'll actually finish this one. The concept is wonderful but the execution feels somewhat lacking at times, and there are moments with long exposition about queer Berlin, which I would much rather have shown to me, especially as someone who knows a moderate amount about queer Berlin at this time, as otherwise it feels sometimes like reading a primer on the matter. We'll see how the next bit goes.