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Finished reading The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Wants to read Remote: Office Not Required

Finished reading Sword of Destiny

Finished reading Mistborn: The Final Empire

Finished reading Children of Dune

Finished reading The Hero of Ages

Finished reading Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Finished reading Operation Bounce House

Finished reading The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

Finished reading How to Win Friends & Influence People

Rated Dungeon Crawler Carl 9/10

Finished reading Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Finished reading The Darkness Outside Us

Wants to read Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Rated Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class 8/10

Liu's intentional focus on material realities and call to structural analysis that frames our reality in terms of actionable discourse that subverts mainstream moral pandering that has enmeshed itself with even common-day rhetoric is a necessary one.

The conditions affecting the working class are not solely the doings of the uber-wealthy; we have close proximities to the actors that shape our lives and personal interiority, and they have more immediate detrimental effects and greater lasting impacts. The PMC does not get enough actionable critique (modern liberal discourse refuses this of anything it encounters) mainly due to their occupancy in the public sector that purports a rhetoric of the common good, and Liu does it in a compelling manner.

Her call to use the systems as places to engage and learn to construct working-class ideas and break through the noise with whatever privilege we have in whatever context we share is necessary. We are just as much working on the system as we are working for it. But the resistance and rage must be channeled first inward and then externalized: a deliberation with ourselves as voyeurs of empire and the masters of its destruction.

Wants to read Lady of the Lake

Wants to read The Writing on the Wall: Signs of Faith Against Fascism

Wants to read Blood of Elves

Reading A Short History of Decay

Added The Mercy of Gods to Currently Reading

Finished reading The Invasion

Finished reading The Message

Wants to read The Egg

Wants to read The Martian

Rated Mort 8/10