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Vee Ronald
is on page 40 of 368
I'm having such a hard time reading this hateful, assumptive, accusatory ignorance. For the first time, I might actually put this book down (and probably bury it). Worse, I want to rate it one star and add it as the only book on a DNF shelf.
I don't think, if the first 40 pages are this grotesque and hypocritical, that the rest of the book can redeem itself. I doubt it.
— Mar 20, 2019 06:58AM
I don't think, if the first 40 pages are this grotesque and hypocritical, that the rest of the book can redeem itself. I doubt it.
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Vee Ronald
is on page 35 of 368
Abram is a great storyteller, but a horrific academic. The sheer amount of assumptions, oversimplifications, and segregation (in a work about non-separation) he gets away with in the guise of ideological reasoning is... shameful.
Funny how, in a segment where he accuses science of being entirely unaware of the subjective, he imbues his arguments with such hateful emotions that make them obsolete. Science matters.
— Feb 21, 2019 10:21AM
Funny how, in a segment where he accuses science of being entirely unaware of the subjective, he imbues his arguments with such hateful emotions that make them obsolete. Science matters.
Vee Ronald
is on page 33 of 368
I completely fell in love with this book upon reading Abram's encounters with the environment on a deeply personal and sensory level.
But these accounts soon gave way to accusatory gibberish about science. Abam's own opinions of "Western civilization" soon conflate with his assumptions about what science is - and who does it - to such an inflationary degree.
I feel like I'm reading a pile of hateful ignorance.
— Feb 21, 2019 10:12AM
But these accounts soon gave way to accusatory gibberish about science. Abam's own opinions of "Western civilization" soon conflate with his assumptions about what science is - and who does it - to such an inflationary degree.
I feel like I'm reading a pile of hateful ignorance.
