I'll have to reserve further comments on the book itself for later, because right now I'm ready to think about literally anything but the intersection of politics and economics.
I found it particularly useful, whilst making my way through the jungle of Picketty's thought, to have a non-technical audience to try and regurgitate the ideas to. In this regard, my partner is a blessing, because they have a deep well of curiosity and tremendous patience with me trying to work out the best way to explain things in real time.
I just finished Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century.
First, I can hardly believe I finished this book. At least a dozen times I gave up on it, and only came back out of sheer stubborn mindedness.
Second, this book has a tremendous number of extremely good insights, and if one can subject themselves to it, they will come out better informed about the world.
I've never experienced domestic abuse, institutional racism, ghettoization, or police states that were specifically arrayed against me, but Noah manages to convey the banal horror of all these things. And where he talks about the love of family, financial hardship, shooting the shit with friends, all the stuff I have experienced, he portrays it in such a way that I take what he says about the other stuff to heart.
The book itself is beautiful. A fantastic meditation on family, religion, society, violence, crime, and lots and lots of racism. Noah has a deep insight, and is a natural storyteller. The moments of joy, of pain, of ridiculousness and triumph and everything else that makes a human life human shine through the work.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I had a copy of the Audible recording that Noah read.
Dave Seaman was already a titan in '94, but I didn't encounter him until his #GlobalUnderground mixes a few years later (what can I say, I didn't know much about clubbing while I was in middle school!) So, this is probably the earliest work of his I've listened to.
Like the Oakenfold, Sasha, and Digweed mixes that came earlier in the series, I hold this to a very high standard. And he's smashing it. Twice already I've gone back to put a kudo down at a particular transition.
#BBC1 #EssentialMix from 1994-03-26, the "Brothers in Rhythm". I'm listening to the version posted by superfast jellyfish on soundcloud.
As with the rest of this project, I'm using the
#MixesDB page to keep track of everything.
(I'm going through thirty years of
#EssentialMix in chronological order, so there will be a lot of these coming up)
I'm only 30m in but this has already been one of my favorites of the early essential mixes. The Future Sounds of London one is great, but a bit too weird; the famous Holmes mix is absolute fire, but very hard. The Weatherall is the only thing that has come close so far.
Absolute banger of a house mix.
