In mid January i posted about started to read Crime and Punishment, fast forward to some days ago, i finished it and now im trying to read Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeno.

I feel a little down because i took to long to finish the book, considering that I’m basically a neet, brazilian developer market is wild rn, so i got lots of freetime, but mostly spend it on the computer watching youtube and playing games, i try to cope myself thinking that partly this isn’t completely my fault since i was a tv baby, and my education was lacking, teen years were spent playing video games basicaly (which is how i learned english), so i never read anything before making 23 (im 24 now), trying to pick up the habit now.

Now impressions so about Open Veins and divided, i like Galeano’s writing style, he uses kinda of a poetic language to make it more engaging and to make you feel the tragedy, but the time and space constant jumping makes hard to follow the point, when he doesn’t do it, damn it hits heavy, stuff i never heard about like brazilian military giving sugar poisoned with arsenic to natives.

Anyway, not gonna lie, even tho this book is crucial to understanding latin america, im procrastinating in reading marxist theory, so far after two years of discovering communist I’ve read only the manifesto and didn’t understood much of it, alls i know is capitalism is shit and socialist countries did amazing things and i want those amazing things.

so, what you people think?

  • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    so i never read anything before making 23

    I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

    i try to cope myself thinking that partly this isn’t completely my fault since i was a tv baby, and my education was lacking, teen years were spent playing video games basicaly

    Definitely isn’t your fault, and I don’t think it was about your education tbh, mine was fine and I was the same. I think it’s more being socially isolated (in my experience). It got to a point where all I did was watch yt and didn’t do anything I was interested in, like playing guitar, trying programming languages or even playing videogames.

    What I ended up doing was make a channel specifically to listen to music, and pass my old channel to another account I don’t ever use (so I don’t delete the comments and playlists). Though every day I still open yt in the afternoon expecting the slop to appear, and feeling kinda disappointed. Not that you should do it too, if you’re fine with yt.