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Eye opening must read

Revisado: 04-23-24

The similarities between wokeism and cultural revolution as a tool of communist are stunning. The book tells a well-researched, stunning story.

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Outstanding introduction into Stoicism

Revisado: 10-09-22

This is an outstanding, well researched introduction into Stoicism using the biography of Marcus Aurelius as an example. The author is a psychologist how uses stoic ideas in his practice. I found the correlations to cognitive therapy and other psychological techniques really interesting. I was listening to the book while reading the graphic novel "Verissimus" from the same author. Highly recommended!

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Very good introduction into stoicism

Revisado: 08-09-22

The book is well researched and is a gripping introduction into stoicism, as it relates the philosophy to people and their stories. However, the performance is poor. A professional reader would have been better.

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Some good points, but overly critical of ‘science’

Revisado: 08-09-22

The book has three parts. The middle part explains totalitarian using a psychological model that follows Hannah Arendt’s work, but is MUCH easier to read and more concise. The first part is an extensive criticism of science which much complaining that science is often hard to reproduce and of the limitations of measurements. This criticism ignores the success of the scientific method, for example, the small pox vaccine DOES work, antibiotics work against certain bacteria and planes do fly. Just because the COVID ‘vaccine’ was botched does not negate the scientific, empirical method. It illustrates corporate and political greed. The third part tries to develop an alternative and talks a lot about chaos theory and body mind connections, arguing that these observations are part of a new ‘ science’. This part is overly speculative. In the end much boils down what the definition of ‘science’ is. The middle part arguing how atomized individuals form totalitarian masses is well developed and fits lots of observations, but it was already described by Arendt. It is still worth revisiting.

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Really good introduction

Revisado: 08-09-22

Short and concise, also puts the emperor in a larger picture. The text also gives a short introductory into stoicism.

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Realistic assessment of treatment of men

Revisado: 07-24-21

Good insights into treatment of men by society and in divorce court. Liked the cold truth summaries.

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good idea and concept, but verbose

Revisado: 02-07-21

The main thesis is that fragile objects form very stable networks/systems. These networks are anti-fragil and they thrive on changes/challenges. For a system, such as a human body or the economy to be anti-fragile (an not just mere robust), the whole system needs to gets stronger when changes destroy individual components (muscle fibers after training or bankruptcy of companies).

This concept certainly holds truth and is worth thinking about and the book is worth reading.

A drawback of the book are the length and many anecdotes and side stories in the book. There is also a tendency to see everything black and white and a lot of statements sounded like everything was better in the past, as in ancient Greek or Phoenica (i.e old Lebanon). As a molecular biologist myself, I found lots of the criticism of modern science one sided: yes there are mistakes in medicine, often driven by corporate greed. HOWEVER: look at the success of Spinraza, a new drug against spinal muscular atrophy that clearly saved kids lives. Finally, economic sciences, sociology, etc are not sciences similar to chemistry, physics and math, the latter really improved peoples lives.

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very good after getting over the first hour

Revisado: 05-12-20

good ideas, but heavy on new age and indian mythology, would recommend listening, as the book is concise and to the point

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way too predictable

Revisado: 02-21-19

had high hopes for this 'noir thriller', but no comparison to Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / lift to the gallows. The plot is very predictable and the ending sappy.

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good thoughts, enlightening

Revisado: 02-21-19

good introduction into the manosphere, highly recommended. However, it comes out a bit too negative overall, lacking a positive outlook or way of action

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