i read this recently lol it is a little unnerving given where the world is at rn but worth a read!
Mar 16, 2025

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yess audio books keep me alive 😋 this is exactly the kind of recommendation i was looking for!! i wanna learn more about wtf is going on around me and y things r the way that they r. and learning about experiences outside of my own. i’m sure i’ll have to take breaks reading so i don’t go crazy, but tysm for the rec 🫶🐛
Mar 16, 2025
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you might also like a people’s history of the united states - it’s long and a little dense so if that feels overwhelming there’s an audiobook version and graphic novel adaptation (which is titled people’s history of american empire)! there’s also similar books about queer history and indigenous history in the us (a queer history of the united states and an indigenous people’s history of the united states, respectively)
Mar 16, 2025

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Got this cheap copy a month ago and it has kicked off an Orwell obsession. there is something so phantasmic reading this in London 70 ish years later he was writing these essays. Have used this in every essay I can since reading like…. he was so true idk…
Mar 18, 2025
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i read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas recently on recommendation from a fantastic YouTuber named Shaun who has made many video essays from a leftist perspective criticizing right-wing ideology, thoroughly analyzing historic events using dialectical materialism, and recently put out an informative and heartfelt video about Palestine. TOWWAFO is a short read (only five pages) but i have not been able to stop thinking about the questions it raises and the way it relates to being American in the modern age, with all the knowledge we have of the horrors of imperialism and American intervention in the name of capitalism. i highly recommend reading it and meditating on its implications. “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
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an essay they wrote in nov 16 (unfortunately relevant but fortunately resonates?) pairs well with Judith Butler’s new essay in the Guardian
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