I’m getting in the mood, the reading mood. I’ve grabbed a bite of toast and I’ve had some delicious chocolate mousse yogurt — as I type, the microwave warms the water for my green tea. It’s nirvana. I do all of this in preparation for one of my favorite styles of reading: I’ll read three or so pages from one book, flip to another, and another for about an hour or so. Today, I’ll use this reading style while reading Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man — I’m in love with this book, Marx’s Capital: Volume I, and Ernst Mandel’s An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory. After I’ve finished my reading procedure I’ll probably move on to reading Zizek’s notes on the events in France.
(It's gotta be a good urine color before it's ready)
1 comment:
If your urine is that dark, you're dehydrated.
I read Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization" last year and thought it was okay. You might like it. My favorite idea in the book is that a healthy society operates on the assumption that resources are abundant. After looking at many different political philosophies and their concomitant theories of human nature, all of them assume resources are scarce and that human nature is selfish, greedy, fearful, and uncooperative. They make these assumptions, of course, because without them it is very difficult to devise logical arguments for the necessity of a) a governing institution or b) anything that resembles a coherent notion of distributive justice. Marcuse, though, has said some interesting stuff. Too bad he never developed a robust, plausible political philosophy.
Anyhoo...enjoy your tea!
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