All great picks! I love Heinlein. His quote has been the motivation for me to fix all kinds of things things myself and enjoy/learn from the process many times!
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
I have read that Solzhenitsyn quote many times. Very powerful. But not well understood in the West: it is accurate only for urban populations - they folded. But not so for rural populations. They fought back against the Bolsheviks like fiends! I their case, mostly against the collectivization of agriculture (made them peasants again). Very often with proverbial pitch forks - shovels, farm implements etc. They were eventually subdued - but many Bolshevik operatives were killed doing so.
After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldous Huxley...The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene...The Honorable Consul by Graham Greene. That was my summer reading. Now I've started Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Huxley is a literary hero. The cabal destroyed him. They burned his house down and his library and he died shortly there after in 1963. It's easy to paint him as a cabal member. He was a writer who was outing them and they destroyed him for it.
Thanks for commenting! You may be right. I've always liked some of his quotes and quips, and like to think they stand on their own. If we want this country to move back towards a culture of civil debate and free thought, we have to abhor cancel culture even-handedly, IMHO.
Huxley was an insider. He was a psychedelic pioneer who had a lot of personal data on his mescaline and LSD use. I believe that's what the perpetrators were targeting when they burned him out, but it could've been other info they were trying to destroy. The library that contained much of William Blake's marginalia was also destroyed in a fire about 100 years prior. That's what Jesuits do to books.
I read Gulag VolIII earlier this summer. I joked to my friends that this was my light summer read! Love Solzhenitsyn! Dry, dry, dry, dry, dry humor. HISTORY ,Humanity.
All great picks! I love Heinlein. His quote has been the motivation for me to fix all kinds of things things myself and enjoy/learn from the process many times!
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
I have read that Solzhenitsyn quote many times. Very powerful. But not well understood in the West: it is accurate only for urban populations - they folded. But not so for rural populations. They fought back against the Bolsheviks like fiends! I their case, mostly against the collectivization of agriculture (made them peasants again). Very often with proverbial pitch forks - shovels, farm implements etc. They were eventually subdued - but many Bolshevik operatives were killed doing so.
After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldous Huxley...The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene...The Honorable Consul by Graham Greene. That was my summer reading. Now I've started Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Huxley is a literary hero. The cabal destroyed him. They burned his house down and his library and he died shortly there after in 1963. It's easy to paint him as a cabal member. He was a writer who was outing them and they destroyed him for it.
Thanks for commenting! You may be right. I've always liked some of his quotes and quips, and like to think they stand on their own. If we want this country to move back towards a culture of civil debate and free thought, we have to abhor cancel culture even-handedly, IMHO.
Huxley was an insider. He was a psychedelic pioneer who had a lot of personal data on his mescaline and LSD use. I believe that's what the perpetrators were targeting when they burned him out, but it could've been other info they were trying to destroy. The library that contained much of William Blake's marginalia was also destroyed in a fire about 100 years prior. That's what Jesuits do to books.
This is shocking
https://youtube.com/shorts/pO3-8gYK4Fw?si=K-E9oVDnwPk_sdMm
After The Hunger Games (in theater re-release) take your kids to see The Creator to start a great AI discussion!
Watch trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex3C1-5Dhb8
WANT TO FEEL OLD? The Hunger Games Movie, which is in re-release in theaters this week, came out in 2012!!!
Anyways, take your kids to this "classic". I will.
Interesting point!
If you just dropped off a child at college and need to lighten the f up, watch this (all the way:)
https://youtu.be/_L2fazw5Y9k
Boys are not the problem.
Discovery and Wonder lead to Knowing (book)
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0oY294Pp5QwmEgNmhBtMgi3VS8HiHso9w1ZB2WYHsSSHSqkKLKwyUMakNHJTZSb1rl&id=100000554734694&sfnsn=mo
I read Gulag VolIII earlier this summer. I joked to my friends that this was my light summer read! Love Solzhenitsyn! Dry, dry, dry, dry, dry humor. HISTORY ,Humanity.
That is a great speech. The lady knows exactly what is going on.