Books
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Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber. I think I already mentioned The Dawn of Everything, which is similarly fascinating, but Debt is so full of insights and quotable quotes, and ties them together into a coherent and compelling thesis. Both books explain why “it doesn’t have to be this way.”
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@mclaincausey said in Books:
The Dawn of Everything
now that sounds interesting! Thanks for mentioning it
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@mclaincausey said in Books:
Speaking of violence.... You want violence, try reading this one I finished last night: Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy by Philip Freeman.
Absolutely brilliant. I judge a book, to a great extent, by how many times I disturb Paula, by reading out a passage. She almost does not need to read the book now
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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Thank you very much. By disturb, I mean annoy her by interupting her reading. I learned a long time ago not to read out stuff that will disturb her. I finished Ice Master, yesterday, I read out nothing of that.....
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The live intro to the Shades of Indigo doc today (see movies thread) was by Dr Linda Brassington a textile artist and researcher who is featured in the film. She has a book out called “Indigo and Resist Dyeing
Performance, Metaphor and Materiality in Contemporary Cloth” which sounds intriguing. Tempted to get hold of a copy based on her talk, even if most of it will probably go over my head.
Note: I haven’t read this yet, but it sounds like the sort of thing that would interest people here.
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@mclaincausey said in Books:
@Giles I am so glad you and P enjoyed / will definitely enjoy it. Hannibal was a badass. What wild times those were!
Yeah thanks. I've been thinking about it a lot. I actually said out loud last night, that I think what we were like back then, was probably a truer reflection on what humans are like. This "civilised", polite, woke facade we have is just that, a facade. And it does not take a lot to dislodge it.
The human race did not get to the top of the food chain/dominant race by being nice......
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@Giles could be. Another book I mentioned here (the Dawn of everything) challenges that though and highlights a lot of archaeological evidence that humans have formed all sorts of ways to live before we invented the state 12,000 or so years ago, some authoritarian and brutal and others more egalitarian.
