AnomalyLady
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What political books have you been reading lately? Or what political books have structured or changed your views?
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I have Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium, The Limits to Growth, and probably some others somewhere.
And I remember a blog by some guy who was born in a southern state, became a socialist, and lived in Mexico for a while before dying in his 50s or 60s. I'm fairly certain his name started with Joe. The part I particularly remember now is his description of buying a mobile home in the south: The buyer has A Plan he thinks will be enough to afford the home, but he doesn't know the salesman's plan to add many fees, so the final sale price is around $200,000, for cheap construction worth around $40,000 that won't last anywhere close to long enough to pay the loan. And now the home construction situation is much worse everywhere. Homes on foundations and costing much more are made worse than those old mobile homes and will probably fall down in 10 years.
And I remember a blog by some guy who was born in a southern state, became a socialist, and lived in Mexico for a while before dying in his 50s or 60s. I'm fairly certain his name started with Joe. The part I particularly remember now is his description of buying a mobile home in the south: The buyer has A Plan he thinks will be enough to afford the home, but he doesn't know the salesman's plan to add many fees, so the final sale price is around $200,000, for cheap construction worth around $40,000 that won't last anywhere close to long enough to pay the loan. And now the home construction situation is much worse everywhere. Homes on foundations and costing much more are made worse than those old mobile homes and will probably fall down in 10 years.
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in The West This book made me realize how important balance is to a society.
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam This book demonstrated how powerful entities become delusional and unable to perceive the world to their detriment.
The Art of War In my opinion this book is pretty much anti-war. Sun Tzu makes it clear it is a last resort and if not done swiftly and with precision war does more harm than good.
As an aside I have several translations and it's interesting to see the differences. One interesting translation was done by a US Marine general who fought at Guadalcanal and got a doctorate from Oxford after the war.
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam This book demonstrated how powerful entities become delusional and unable to perceive the world to their detriment.
The Art of War In my opinion this book is pretty much anti-war. Sun Tzu makes it clear it is a last resort and if not done swiftly and with precision war does more harm than good.
As an aside I have several translations and it's interesting to see the differences. One interesting translation was done by a US Marine general who fought at Guadalcanal and got a doctorate from Oxford after the war.
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Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson is excellent.
