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Wants to read Thinking, Fast and Slow
Wants to read Blood of Elves
Reading A Short History of Decay
Added The Mercy of Gods to Currently Reading
Finished reading The Message
Wants to read Nightshade and Oak
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.
Finished reading The Invasion
Wants to read Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Wants to read The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis
Finished reading Sunrise on the Reaping