What are you reading right now?

jadis · 01-17-2026, 04:02 AM

The problem with Dostoyevsky is that it's not a writer where you read the whole thing all the way through once and then can sample your favorite passages at leasure, dip in and out etc. You must read the whole thing as quickly as possible in a feverish state.

jadis · 01-24-2026, 08:58 AM

The Uncomfortable Truths About Immigration

jadis · 05-02-2026, 02:52 AM

Rereading one of the formative and defining books of who I am for the first time in years

jadis · 06-29-2026, 05:05 PM

https://www.theconundrumcluster.com/...transformation

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America has a bomb sitting in its lap. There are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of Americans who hold beliefs so crazy that they likely would have been grounds for hospitalization in the past. The things people will support are objectively depraved: jailing people for self-defense, providing irreversible pseudoscientific surgeries to mentally-ill children, letting criminals steal with impunity, allowing tens of millions of people to illegally immigrate for the express purpose of politically transforming the US. What’s more, they are passionate about this support. It is not cynical or financially motivated for the overwhelming majority. Rather, it taps into their deepest feelings, messages that they’ve heard for years and even decades. Conservatives, even if they understand the issues facing the country, generally do not seem to grasp the size of this bomb and what it means for resolving political problems today.

01-17-2026, 04:02 AM	#7521 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 2,172	The problem with Dostoyevsky is that it's not a writer where you read the whole thing all the way through once and then can sample your favorite passages at leasure, dip in and out etc. You must read the whole thing as quickly as possible in a feverish state. __________________ Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

01-24-2026, 08:58 AM	#7522 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 2,172	The Uncomfortable Truths About Immigration __________________ Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

05-02-2026, 02:52 AM	#7523 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 2,172	Rereading one of the formative and defining books of who I am for the first time in years __________________ Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.