Books I made it a fifth of the way through Critique of Pure Reason before I put it down, and returned it to the library. Maybe someday. His conception of time and space were interesting, but I just didn't care. I'm a tenth of the way through Wealth of Nations. It reads quickly, which is a nice surprise. Still planning on given Hegel a shot. Will that plan also go down in flames? Seems likely. I also have a copy of Darkwater coming in the mail, and the Library has a complete copy of Seneca's Letters on order. I wish I read quicker. I feel like I'm pretty slow at it. Politics Got a city commission primary coming up Aug 1st. Watching the candidates forum in chunks. There is 8 of 'em, and we got through the first question with no-one running over time. They respected the bell and stopped talking when their minute was up. Fucking amazing. There is also a union contract proposal meeting at fucking 8am the following Saturday. Why 8am? Why? Whyyyyyy? Shit's about an hour a way from here as it is. I'm following the developments within the Democratic Socialists of America interestedly. The closest branch is, you guessed it, about an hour away. Internet Our new ISP provider still sucks.No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
I'm not really far enough in yet to feel comfortable talking about the contents. Some of it is forward thinking, other bits have seemed naive and cold. We'll see how he progresses both strands. The form of those contents are pretty accessible though. He spends a few paragraphs writing in plain language to establish a notion and then moves on to what that development enables him to talk about. It is a conversational work. I wasn't expecting that.