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Too Dense for Consumption

Revisado: 05-15-20

I listened to this book desiring to gather a better understanding of the Greeks, particularly the political thought. All of it was interesting. My critique is that it really requires one to be very familiar with Thucydides and the Peloponnesian Wars, and we'll acquainted with many of the lesser known figures. I often complain that education is dumbed down. In this instance my criticism is that the material is much too dense to follow without a first rate knowledge of the Peloponnesian War and all of the actors in that story. I suppose it's my job to know this, but that's why I rented the book! I know Pericles, and Themistocles, and Alcibiades but I don't know anything about King Agis or Nicias or two score other figures that are part of this grand epic tale. The professor need to slow down and help the listener with the dramatis personae and the military history and places that he mentions so often. I think it's too dense for what it professes to be- a discussion of political thought, instead it is a dense retelling of the war with names and places and generals such that I was lost.

I think it's a good book, but not for those who have not read Thucydides within the year. Too muchn in too little time.

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Trite

Revisado: 05-04-20

if this work was intended to be frothy and vacuous, it succeed. Begins with giving the astrological signs of the justices and degenerates from there into standard, threadbare politically correct pablum. Remarkable only insofar as the entire work deals with important cases and history changing decisions without stumbling over a single insight or legal concept. Not worth the time...

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The History of the Bible as Seen by a Pagan

Revisado: 03-22-20

This is Christian history as seen by a cynical secularist. Interesting but flawed. Unbalanced and unfair. Thel professor presents the story of the Bible from the perspective of a skeptic and cynic+certainly not orthodox nut rather a summary of what non-believing scholars speculate-which is the academic reality of post- modern theology schools, but disengenuous because the lecturer allows the neophyte to believe this is what Christians actually think. In this regard, the lectures are worse than flawed, they are deceptive.

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Brother Martin

Revisado: 10-25-18

I've read this before. But hearing it made me weep this time. The distilled eloquence and wisdom of this man belong to the ages. He rises above his time and place. The words are eternal. May generations continue to read and learn from this letter. I am proud that the Church and my country were, and continue to be, home to this great man.

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Foolish Prattle

Revisado: 10-23-18

Michael Brooks. Where to begin? What breathtaking foolishness. What astonishing lack of insight disguised as cleverness. This is essentially a little exhortation for the politicalization of science. His wit and tropes are all the tired rants of the little world of University brainwashing. We need no rules. Drugs open the mind. Little pedestrian souls cannot comprehend the genius of those who are beyond the normal restraints of order. He is an advocate for the ubermenche! Churchhill who he disparages in this cloudy narcotic haze once warned of the "perversion of science" by the Nazis. He was speaking of the use of science as a tool of the state, funded and certified and policed not by peer review but by the power of the "apparatus" of more enlightened persons. Brooks does not address this problem because he's never thought about it. Science today is almost entirely an enterprise underwritten directly and indirectly by government and it's extended organs of big education. Science has become so enthralled by government money that it has lost objectivity and has become an exponent of politics. And poor useful idiot Michael Brooks either cannot see this or has been purchased by this corruption. Just more psuedo-proto-gramschian jibberish to pull everything by default into the state. Why? Because the smart people know best. Just ask the "anarchist" Michael Brooks. He's snickering as he blows things up and pulls down tired ideas of objectivity and order. He is making the world better. Until he's pushed into an oven built by scientific socialism. What an idiot!

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