Ethics • Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect • Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza
What are you reading in general?
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peter
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Anything that will hold my increasingly limited attention span for more than a few nights. My proclivity changes from day to day - fiction one day, history the next, something else the following........
Started The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist a few days ago and read it for two nights, but it was getting me down so I've shelved it for a while. Last night read a book on maps; great illustration but uninspired writing to be honest. Tonight, who knows........
Started The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist a few days ago and read it for two nights, but it was getting me down so I've shelved it for a while. Last night read a book on maps; great illustration but uninspired writing to be honest. Tonight, who knows........
Your politicians screwed you over and you are suprised by this?
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Saw this while reading the online Brittanica Encylopeidia:Avatar wrote:Speaking of drummers, I quite enjoyed John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm.
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ShoebillThe Doors famously asserted that no one remembers your name when you’re strange, a fact to which this odd editor can personally attest. Hopefully, though, you’ll remember the names of some of these aberrations of the avian world. The beautiful feathered freaks on this list deserve their day in the sun.
Other than that, I found a few graphic novels while clearing out a cupboard.
The Infinity Gauntlet being the best because I mostly just look at the pictures
and the artist has drawn some of the characters wearing really neat jackets,
and I'd like to find me one just like it for winter.
Is that the one that came out around 2014 and was released in the US as just "Capital?" Or was it the follow-up published a few years later?DrPaul wrote:I'm currently some 400 pages into Thomas Piketty's 1100 page Capital and Ideology.
I got a few chapters into Capital and found it interesting, but... Almost text-book dry. In the end, I simply forgot to keep reading it.
"You make me think Hell is run like a corporation."
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
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There are just some books where I am prepared to content myself with the Wikipedia summary - Picketty's works are amongst them. I'm sure they are very good.....but if the central points can be summed up in a few paragraphs without all of the dry background graphs and whatnot, then I'm all in for taking the easy route!
Your politicians screwed you over and you are suprised by this?
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
The main point I took from his work when I was reading it is that the only reliable way to compare buying power over time is by measuring labor. He suggests haircuts and lawyers, as the amount of labor required for each task has remained relatively constant for over two thousand yearspeter wrote:
There are just some books where I am prepared to content myself with the Wikipedia summary - Picketty's works are amongst them. I'm sure they are very good.....but if the central points can be summed up in a few paragraphs without all of the dry background graphs and whatnot, then I'm all in for taking the easy route!
"You make me think Hell is run like a corporation."
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
It's the follow-up, published in 2019.Rigel wrote:Is that the one that came out around 2014 and was released in the US as just "Capital?" Or was it the follow-up published a few years later?DrPaul wrote:I'm currently some 400 pages into Thomas Piketty's 1100 page Capital and Ideology.
I got a few chapters into Capital and found it interesting, but... Almost text-book dry. In the end, I simply forgot to keep reading it.
