Human Brain EnthusiastHonestly, read or watch whatever you want, just dont give people or companies money who use it for hate criming.
However I reserve the right to call you names if you read shit like Ayn Rand or racist drivel from she who must not be named.
Fabian Transchel@thomasfuchs I am here to disagree with you.
Read Atlas. Read Mein Kampf.
We must know what it looks like.
HP on the other hand is no loss 🤷♂️
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@ftranschel @thomasfuchs I read a bit of Mein Kampf once, when I was trying to learn more about early-to-mid 1900s dictatorships. Honestly it was of no value to that effort and I ended up throwing the book in the rubbish burner. Painfully whiney self-involved drivel. I learned far more from reading the Wikipedia page on the book and following a few links to contemporary literary analyses.
@ftranschel @thomasfuchs part of the problem of just reading the books directly is that the work itself inherently doesn't provide you with any framing, so unless you're already familiar with the belief systems and accompanying zeitgeist surrounding the work it's really quite hard to reliably discern the why of it. which might be fine if you're just reading out of curiosity (although I wouldn't recommend putting yourself through that; the writing is abysmal) but it doesn't teach you much.
@gsuberland @ftranschel Agree, Mein Kampf is absolutely unreadable drivel. It's honestly worse than like a LLM-generated novel. The only proper use of that book is for toilet paper.
F4GRX Sébastien