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kleinbl00  ·  776 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00s Reviews: "The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation" by Caitlin Fisher

I mean, this

Was worth reading. It wasn't worth recommending? Bruce Gibney also hates his parents but at least he does some research, asks around, formulates hypotheses and defends them, etc. Caitlin Fisher decided she wasn't expert enough to write a chapter on religion so she asked one of her friends, an ex-baptist who is still very very angry at her religion, to write a few paragraphs about how much religion sucks. Thing of it is, her level of understanding about everything else is as poor as her understanding of religion yet she felt no need to investigate it further than a cursory Google search.

It's an... incurious book. A long-form tumblr smackdown. There were no references she used that I was unfamiliar with and the majority of them I've read (haven't read any Dave Ramsay). But... most of them were Atlantic articles? Cherry-picked for whatever statistic she needed in the moment? To provide a structure for "here is why I personally am angry about something I read online and here personally are why you should personally leave me alone."

On the plus side it's a 5-hour audiobook and since I do audiobooks at 1.5-1.75x it was begun and done in the time it took me to trim the rhododendrons, rake up leaves and hang up christmas lights.

    How is she building a better world?

by paying them $3k to workshop your book

I would quote some text but it's center-justified and I don't want to catch a disease LOL