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Christopher Cody

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Smug, Dire, Iconizing, interesting

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-11-23

Forces of nature lift and swallow civilizations, unerringly, relentlessly, as described by this glass-near-empty-minded author, drawing on study and angst, watching clouds, and seeing sky-shards already swirling down at a rate uncertain.

He dismisses invention as any solution and ignores that invention spurted us to the place we now find ourselves.

He perpetuates the technologies he claims are our doom (I unsustainably paid for this book, with a touch, from a server farm and wirelessly received it, listened to it, and rared it... actions in ignorance of the futility of my reliance on those givens, but not in ignorance of his perpetuation of the systems he decries).

I'm not saying he's wrong. How can I? He schedules the collapse ranging from the time you finish this sentence to 500 years from now. In fact, I think he's probably got that right, but I think he's describing his ideology more than the science he claims to be utilizing. Instead, he uses alchemy, I think, to turn gold into lead.

He doesn't see obstacles as challenges to be overcome, but as inevitabilities to succumb to or, optimistically, to endure.

We definitely are in a tight spot, and if nothing is done (he says by at least 1980), we will likely hang 10 down the perpetual wave of inevitability, but if we want any chance at all, do NOT vote him to be our coach.

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Much adu about everything

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-09-23

Lots of information, a firehose really, narrated by Don Draper himself... (if listened to at 1.15 speed), paints an unavoidable vat of boiling distopia out of which is pulled a Krispy Kreme American donut... hot, but not as hot as the oil it just left behind.

He is unapologetically pro-Internationalism, which I, until the reading of this book, have conflated with Globalism, but I now discriminate between, where Internationalism is the altrustic specie of the two... and Globalism is its evil totalitarian twin... the later Peter completely ignores, apparently because of the vast rewards Internationalism has showered upon the golden age of human history.

I may be changing my behavior because of this book, short-term hording of some non-perishable commodities, taking trips sooner than later, upping my garden and husbandry game, but since his timeline is foggy, a thinning fog, I may have time to make better choices than I have in past scenarios when the sky was reported to have pieces of it already flaking off and whirlybirding down. I thank him (and his talented team) for that lead time.

It's a great listen... and a useful one... and may change your perspective on quite a few things.

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Balanced, Detailed, Critical

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Revisado: 07-06-23

The authors pull together and organize many of the most important events regarding the Covid 19

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McCarthy + Poe.... emergent

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Revisado: 11-09-22

McCarthy is an epic poet, masterful, verbally painting with short strokes that illicit tiny animating details. He's relentless with them, loading the story with mood and mystery and mysic that isn't there.

Poe is McCarthy's perfect medium. Richard can voice the scene with distinct characters that, by their hearing, allow us to intuit their own histories, ambitions, and apprehensions. Each character is distinct and alive.

The pairing of these two masters is like that of some fine vintage and veal. What emerges is something undescribable and beautiful.

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Clarity Cleaves Mysticism

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Revisado: 10-13-22

Leonard lays out clearly the pre-Copernican understanding the U.S. Federal Reserve has of the monetary heavens as they think themselves the center of the universe. Leonard familiarizes us with the human struggles of both patient and papal practitioners who know if they push on that artery, the patient's eyes dullen, all the while not fathoming what consciousness actually is. Leonard makes the complex easily grasped. He helps lets us ride with him in the Fed's ATV while its drivers yell "Here, watch this, hold my Brunello!"

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Dare I say perfect?

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-17-22

it is amazingly obvious that Mr. Fry deeply enjoys Greek mythology and is from a time and place where having learned those awfulgod stories and ancient Greek was the thing, because the research needed to accomplish this masterpiece had to have consumed (and fulfilled) a lifetime or so. His performance is as natural and sensitive and artful as can be delivered and has a thick substrate of pure loving humor. The bite-sized stories are fisheyed distortions of human failings (think seven lively sins) taken to extremes afforded only to gods and musicians. I found myself perking up whenever I realized Zeus was deciding to do his eagle-thing. Stephen was perfect for the telling of these stories as he embodies the column of knowledge, love, skill, and effort it takes to produce this weighty of a masterpiece.

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Must read

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-01-21

This is a deep dive into the work product and ethics of the one person who has arguably had the broadest negative effect on our civilization than anyone else in the last 50 years. This book is riddled with ad hominems and assertions of intent, and the narrator's delivery style, while likely the product of pointed consideration, is a taste to be acquired, those distractions cannot drown out the sheer mass of this accounting of history and the personalities that seek to master our world. If a fraction of this information is true (my thinking is that only a fraction may be incorrect), then we have been and are being manipulated by sociopathic psychpaths being enabled by an unelected power broker who has metastasized while being adored.

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Mind: Overt Matter

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-13-21

Feelings from "free" energy, the basis of consciousness. Well postulated and explained. My take is that it is correct, however the "hard" problem's nut isn't well cracked by the inferences given. Very very very close, about the closest I've heard. All in all, a life's work well spent. Tbis is an important piece of history.

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Classic impressionistic gut wrench philosowestern

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Revisado: 10-15-21

The essence of Cormac, splashing the atmosphere with kurt and perfect detail. He is a master of brief strokes of language that string end on end to place the reader (here one is the listener) in the mood and of the scene and story. The narrator is a virtuoso with voices, nailing each character, makiing the wbole experience rich and worth your while.

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Really Unreal

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-12-21

A subtle blend of truth and self dilution from the perspective of a proper propogandist turned dictator. Using a dogmatic foundation, Malice gives us an old family recipe for atrocity a la mort, lets us understand (perhaps) the secret ingredients it takes to perpetuate authoritarianism. It is stratified with irony, inuendo, farce, and prismatic historical accounts of events and people that led our world to the hot mess it has become.

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