Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
Every personal finance book ever written assumes you live in a stable country with a stable currency, a reliable banking system, and a functioning legal system (hello America, this advice is not for you). If you are r...
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Avatar is a movie about how imperialism is bad, and then it became the highest-grossing film of all time. The irony is so thick you could build an oil pipeline through it. Michael Parenti once wrote about how Hollywoo...
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Frantz Fanon was a Black psychiatrist from Martinique (a French colony, surprise) who went to Algeria during their war of independence and realized that treating the mental health of colonized people was a joke. A com...
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A coup d’etat is French for “blow against the state.” It is not a revolution (revolutions involve people, coups involve uniforms). It is not a civil war (too slow, too messy). It is definitely not an election (those a...
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Discourse on Colonialism is the shortest book on this list and the one that will change you the most. It is 80 pages long, something you can read in an afternoon. You will never see a banana the same way again (seriously, after Cesaire, bananas become a symbol of colonial exploitation. You cannot unsee it).
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