To be completely honest I don’t think Mein Kampf is worth the read and any other derivative that follow it are just worse takes like “The Turner Diaries”.
Turns out ethno-fascists don’t have anything to back them up except fear and hatred so their fiction tends to fall flat.
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How did you find Rand’s take on relativism?
I’m quite young so I can only compare it to a few things. It felt to me to just be overwhelmingly “Fuck you, I got mine.” Which is… Interesting to say the least when you build your empire on the back of the workers.
Yeah, it just read like the angry rantings of a man left alone with hateful thoughts for too long. I can’t speak to the quality of German in it and I’m certain some translations make his writings seem academic but they all just fall flat if you take a few hours to read up on economics and policy in Europe around the time he wrote the book.
Just the angry rants of some dude who feels like he isn’t getting what he deserves. Some things never change. We just have podcasts for that now.
I’ve forced myself to read Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged, Imperialism by Lenin and various other political works from various philosophies. Do these count?
I’ve found many of them to be dry at best and abhorrent at worst (thanks Hitler).
None of them have changed my mind in drastic ways but have helped me understand the viewpoints of people I talk to.
The joke is swapping Canadian with Cambodian because they both start with a C and have similar syllables.
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I think it’s that Dragon Quest was pretty Genre defining. Not really first of its kind but one of the greats of its time.
Brilliant minds think alike. 
Knew a pilot who’s nickname was über. Last name? Guay.
A lot of the issues you mentioned get solved in season 2. I think there was a network shift and the camera work got better. Later on Amazon pumped a lot of money into the show as well. It’s really worth the watch and I’d love to hear back from you if you do.
If you’re a gamer there’s a Telltale game that follows this account’s namesake. Camina Drummer.
The writers did a fantastic job writing all the dialogue in the books. I would argue it’s on par or even better than the show. Which is hard, considering the writers for the books produced and even wrote the screenplays for the show.
As someone who shares a line of work with Bobby Draper and many other characters, the military jargon and quips are also spot on. Never have I heard such accurate lingo and expression in sci-fi.
The Expanse may be the best bit of sci-fi I have ever had the joy to watch and read.
Reading this felt like the computer version of whatever the SAW movies are.
Torture porn? It’s so repugnant but I want more.
Average 3rd Age user of 2nd age artefacts.
Yeah that’s why I’m curious. I read at about 350WPM so what I consider a fast read may be slow for some.
It also depends on the density of the text. I’ve been struggling through Imperialism by Lenin for like a month.
I’m just curious. How long would you consider a reasonably quick read expressed in hours?
That they are. I just found them recently. They’re certainly out of my usual wheelhouse but I’ve really been enjoying a lot of old folk and country. This kinda bridges the gap perfectly.
It means it gives off middle child vibes. What more do you want?
People round these parts say the day first, then the month. Anything else is attention seeking middle child vibes.
I figured I had to give it a fair shake and use it as a companion to Kapital. While I found Marx’s writing to be strongly focused on the philosophy I couldn’t help but shake the feeling throughout Imperialism that Lenin was trying to sell the reader something.
Which makes sense to me as it was published in pamphlets and the likes leading into the revolution.
Though that unshakeable feeling never went away it did confirm a lot of my feelings and thoughts on globalisation, wealth consolidation and so on.
Lenin didn’t get a faithful customer out of me but his writing certainly helped me understand some of my more authoritarian comrades. I don’t have to agree with people completely to stand beside them.