What are you reading right now?

I ordered the pete burns autobiography. He was the singer of the band dead or alive. Their biggest hit was you spin me ( like a record).
Im not a big fan but he is a very interesting character to say the least.

Ill start reading that once it gets here in a couple days.

Shamen's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

Haven’t gotten too far into it just yet but so far I’ve been enjoying it.

"Our Bones are Scattered" by Andrew Ward

The Cawnpore massacre during the Indian Mutiny 1857

Brenden wrote:Started... The Better Angels of Our Nature.

What are you thinking of it? I've never read anything by Pinker, all I know is that pessimist-in-chief John Gray (of Straw Dogs fame) has been throwing some serious shade at the guy.

I'm reading After Virtue by Alisdair MacIntyre. He's just casually demolished the core underlying principle of utilitarianism (maximise happiness) in a single paragraph.

Consider: if we are to maximise happiness, we must know what happiness consists of (at the phenomenal level, neuroscience, your EEG scans are powerless here). Many things make me happy, for example 1) drinking wine (pleasure), and 2) not feeling like absolute death the next morning (health). How can I reconcile these two sources of happiness? By not drinking wine in excessive quantity? Impossible. They are clearly incommensurable, and I steadfastly put my faith in wine.

You know, I get why people are annoyed by Pinker, but nothing he writes is actually objectionable. It's just that his message has no power or meaning for the kind of people who want to really change things.

Pinker would argue that addressing the problems of today depends on understanding our history as a species, and the constant refrain that we're living in a dystopian hellscape that can and should be burned to the ground is the product of an ahistorical perspective which could veer our efforts to better our society off-course.

But no, you're right. Enlightment Now has the exact same energy as a hyopthetical 2020 Hillary rally whose campaign has adopted the slogan "America is already great!"

To Face the Daring Maoris by Michael Barthorp

The New Zealand war in 1845-47

Forest Mage by Robin Hobb

Im reading some questionaire some dude posted about sti testing. It's multiple choice like the tests we took in highschool. Oooh I hope I passed and get a good grade for once!

René wrote:

Jryski wrote:Im reading some questionaire some dude posted about sti testing.

It was actually a dudette

My bad! I meant, dudette!

Jryski wrote:

René wrote:

Jryski wrote:Im reading some questionaire some dude posted about sti testing.

It was actually a dudette

My bad! I meant, dudette!

How dare you two, with your presumptive gender binary labelings! For shame!

Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb