tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post7031206592453965145..comments2023-10-30T07:45:43.656-04:00Comments on Thoughts and Ideas: Identity as EverythingA Wiser Man Than Ihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-6988565500410192492015-03-17T09:00:45.622-04:002015-03-17T09:00:45.622-04:00Looking Backwards is a socialist classic, and a ro...<i>Looking Backwards</i> is a socialist classic, and a rotten one at that. <br /><br />On the other hand, socialists, like Wells, were perfectly capable of writing good books because they were more concerned with telling good stories than hitting the reader over the head with ideology. <br /><br />If you want to argue that it's been downhill on the fiction front for some time, you'll have no objections from me.A Wiser Man Than Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-18169633067069587352015-03-16T23:33:42.874-04:002015-03-16T23:33:42.874-04:00I actually agree with her, in one sense, more that...I actually agree with her, in one sense, more that I agree with you. I quit reading for the very opposite reason she did, or you might say for the same reason. It was all becoming queer, black power, or other identity power or push. It was offensive. Actually, it went further. Most of the "classics" are socialist idealism, often written before that was tried and failed, but quite often very much in favor of what the rest of the world is and what the US is becoming. I read many of those, before I went further, and then got into history. No more.<br /><br />After reading the culmination of the dream the "classics" end at, Mein Kampf, and then history shortly after that, I began to realize socialism was an evil and there never going to be any good to squeeze out of that lemon. It burns people on piers for gold until it burns itself out, one way or another, often in more than one way.<br /><br />So, no, I recommend avoiding some books, or at least approaching them with caution. For entertainment, I rarely look to Hollywood, I am somewhat careful about music, and I approach books with a quick kill-switch... especially entertainment reads. <br /><br />Guess who wouldn't be read if more people were like her and me? Guess which books wouldn't be published? Bring it on.Doomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392444624210801173noreply@blogger.com