It has good advice for getting out into reality and connecting with everyday people, something that is great for wellbeing and will rebuild the community that everyone seems to lament the loss of these days. The best resistance to fear and shock doctrine and propaganda is to get away from the world of constructed reality (narratives of the media and internet) and to build your own narrative of personal experience in the real world. The fear culture wants you to become reclusive and isolated because that divides people and reduces their collective power.
Another good point was to support the organizations which work to protect rights and fairness and information. Support journalists who are ethical and speak the unwanted truths, support unions that fight for livable wages and worker safety and against exploitation, support libraries, support public education. Many times these institutions are undermined by propaganda (like the corruption charges that brought widespread union busting) or deliberately underfunded to the point of dysfunction, in order that a collective benefit can be turned into a profit stream.
The sensitive might object to the unsubtle Trump bashing here and there in the book because he didn't also attack Clinton or for whatever reason. First, Trump won: no one bashed the actions of McCain or Romney once Obama won. Second: the uncomfortable truth is that much of Trump's rhetoric and actions is from the same playbook as history's fascists. It's good that people are talking about that.
Criticisms
It is a short book and doesn't do much detail: the 20th lesson is literally "Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, all of us will die under tyranny." There is no followup explanatory text like for the other lessons.
Its prologue implicitly accepts the American religion: the founding fathers and their all seeing wisdom. The prologue speaks in glowing words of American democracy and freedom and ignores that early America gave democracy only to landowners and worked to protect wealth from too much mob democracy.
Good book, if short.
It has good advice for getting out into reality and connecting with everyday people, something that is great for wellbeing and will rebuild the community that everyone seems to lament the loss of these days. The best resistance to fear and shock doctrine and propaganda is to get away from the world of constructed reality (narratives of the media and internet) and to build your own narrative of personal experience in the real world. The fear culture wants you to become reclusive and isolated because that divides people and reduces their collective power.
Another good point was to support the organizations which work to protect rights and fairness and information. Support journalists who are ethical and speak the unwanted truths, support unions that fight for livable wages and worker safety and against exploitation, support libraries, support public education. Many times these institutions are undermined by propaganda (like the corruption charges that brought widespread union busting) or deliberately underfunded to the point of dysfunction, in order that a collective benefit can be turned into a profit stream.
The sensitive might object to the unsubtle Trump bashing here and there in the book because he didn't also attack Clinton or for whatever reason. First, Trump won: no one bashed the actions of McCain or Romney once Obama won. Second: the uncomfortable truth is that much of Trump's rhetoric and actions is from the same playbook as history's fascists. It's good that people are talking about that.
### Criticisms
It is a short book and doesn't do much detail: the 20th lesson is literally "Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, all of us will die under tyranny." There is no followup explanatory text like for the other lessons.
Its prologue implicitly accepts the American religion: the founding fathers and their all seeing wisdom. The prologue speaks in glowing words of American democracy and freedom and ignores that early America gave democracy only to landowners and worked to protect wealth from too much mob democracy.
Good book, if short.
It has good advice for getting out into reality and connecting with everyday people, something that is great for wellbeing and will rebuild the community that everyone seems to lament the loss of these days. The best resistance to fear and shock doctrine and propaganda is to get away from the world of constructed reality (narratives of the media and internet) and to build your own narrative of personal experience in the real world. The fear culture wants you to become reclusive and isolated because that divides people and reduces their collective power.
Another good point was to support the organizations which work to protect rights and fairness and information. Support journalists who are ethical and speak the unwanted truths, support unions that fight for livable wages and worker safety and against exploitation, support libraries, support public education. Many times these institutions are undermined by propaganda (like the corruption charges that brought widespread union busting) or deliberately underfunded to the point of dysfunction, in order that a collective benefit can be turned into a profit stream.
The sensitive might object to the unsubtle Trump bashing here and there in the book because he didn't also attack Clinton or for whatever reason. First, Trump won: no one bashed the actions of McCain or Romney once Obama won. Second: the uncomfortable truth is that much of Trump's rhetoric and actions is from the same playbook as history's fascists. It's good that people are talking about that.
Criticisms
It is a short book and doesn't do much detail: the 20th lesson is literally "Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, all of us will die under tyranny." There is no followup explanatory text like for the other lessons.
Its prologue implicitly accepts the American religion: the founding fathers and their all seeing wisdom. The prologue speaks in glowing words of American democracy and freedom and ignores that early America gave democracy only to landowners and worked to protect wealth from too much mob democracy.