Alex Schwartzburg

Product needs improvement

Revisado: 11-05-24

Timecodes and chapter markers are off. I suspect the accompanying pdf does not correspond to this edition.

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Revisado: 10-26-23

… in chapter 2, when they describe what “experts” will tell you about how relationships should be. That’s exactly right.

Whatever they’re about to tell me can’t be right. Here’s why…

The authors are claiming that most experts (not them) will tell you, “As an individual, you should be able to emotionally distance yourself from a situation, that your strength should come from within, and,” though unstated, “The reason this is so is because when the energies of two strong people complement each other in a relationship, the results are stability, happiness, and thriving.”
Like my dad told me once, “In Pair Skating, both people need to know how to skate. If one partner relies too heavily on the other, eventually the stumble causes both to crash and break their heads open as their skulls collide with the ice.”

The reason whatever-they’re-about-to-tell-me is wrong is because relationship health, and psychological health, is a question of inner game.

The argument I think they’re gonna TRY TO make, is something like “understanding the feedback-loops and complementary-energies involved in human-interaction is far more important than being able to adapt to the situations presented by your partner, your relationship, and the environment within which you both live.”

Such an argument wouldn’t be wrong, but the reason to accept it (on an existential level) is something like “the more cynical and pragmatic and realistic an explanation is, the stronger that explanation is, and therefore the more correct that explanation is.” It’s sort of an expanded version of Occam‘s razor for advice and guidance.

Here’s the problem: the recognition that one is unable to help those who simply will not or cannot help themselves, if not THE deepest form of cynical acceptance of human wisdom, is AT LEAST MORE cynical or epistemically/existentially sound, and productive, than the counter-argument they’re about to propose.

The very fact that you’re reading a book like this is a good measure of that.

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As always…

Revisado: 10-23-22

…it would be nicer if the author read the whole thing himself. But, short of that, well done!

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Well written and illuminating, but watch out for SOME (minor) biases.

Revisado: 08-18-22

Clearly an important, meaty, and illuminating chronicle of history. I worry there are some paradoxes and contradictions which lead me to caution readers that AG Barr is not without some degree of ideological entrenchment, but by and large I recommend this volume and think it does more good than bad to take the time to read it, regardless of your level of history pre-existing historical knowledge.

It’s just my opinion, but… he really doesn’t like protestors.

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File seems to be corrupted.

Revisado: 05-10-22

It stops playing in the middle of chapter 4 for no reason.

Please fix. Kindly fix. You really should fix. I shouldn’t need to type a required minimum of 15 words to tell you this.

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Read well. Translation selected well. Product improvement needed.

Revisado: 11-21-21

In my view it’s simply unsound practice to fail to include chapter numbers when a text is, itself, numbered. If you can do it for the Muller report, you can do it for Epictetus. Also. I also feel that anything you can read in the public domain ought be available with a simple audible subscription. It’s just greedy to take public works and privatize them. I shouldn’t have to spend a credit on this book. But that’s another matter. Add chapter/item markers. Thank you.

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Audio version Needs a fix

Revisado: 12-12-19

The publishers put the ending of the book “the birth of pleasure written by carol Gilligan has been a production of (XYZ studio)” at the end of chapter 8, instead of the end of the final chapter. This made things pretty confusing. Since it’s long form non-fiction, there isn’t really a plot to go by. I had to jump around and try to figure out what happened. That said, I think everyone should read this book. Very important subject matter.

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