I’m still engrossed in Player of Games by Iaian M. Banks

I have been wanting to read non fiction but I’ve been under high stress so reading some fiction has been helpful. I love the world of the culture and am surprised these books aren’t more popular. We keep seeing the same “franchises” being made and remade over.

  • queermunist she/her
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    3 days ago

    Just finished Shock Doctrine. Klein’s observations are on point, economic shock therapy is just the same old quackery as 1950s psychiatric shock therapy was when they tortured people with depression and anxiety. You can’t just shock someone back to being a tabula rusa. All you do is shatter them, and it’s the same when they do it to countries.

    But I think she is overly focused on disaster capitalism as being some kind of new phenomenon, when really it’s more like the same old underdevelopment which has been present throughout all colonialist history. It’s just recolonization.