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Something that always stuck with me about Michael Moore's 2004 documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11' over the years was a gruesome, gruelling clip where he showed a montage of horrific brutalities perpetrated by the US on its various unfortunate third world enemies, all set to a Ramones cover of Louis Armstrong's 'Wonderful World'.
For years I had to hunt down and verify the truth of the multitude of horrors in that clip one by one.
These days you can do it by reading one book.
IDF2 (18-10-22)
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With everybody talking about Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix.
You guys should read The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters.
It's the only serious book on him.
You can read the book without reading the gory bits as Mr Masters says, murder/dismemberment.
This book is not murder pornography like most books on serial killers.
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What value in the book sets it apart from all the Dahmer documentaries, shorts, series, and articles we've seen/read over the years?Originally Posted by IDF2
Respectfully.
IDF2 (30-10-22)
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It is a serious study of a mental man.
It is a look at the reality of what he did. Which was very, very sick in the extreme. Brian Masters's books are not like most serial killer books. They are not mental pornography. They are a serious study, but very readable.
UnFulfilledScott (05-01-23)
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Other opinions are allowed
Age doesn't equal maturity - just look around !
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UnFulfilledScott (05-01-23)
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Watched an interview with this comrade on The Majority Report earlier today.
Just bought the book on the strength of her performance on MR but if she writes half as good as she speaks it should be riveting.
For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal?
In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below.
Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies. Where these policies “succeeded,” relatively speaking, was in their enrichment of certain parties, including employers and foreign-trade interests, who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here, Mattei argues, is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism.
Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, much of it translated for the first time, The Capital Order offers a damning and essential new account of the rise of austerity—and of modern economics—at the levers of contemporary political power.
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Toolbox (06-01-23)
John Keegan - The American Civil War
First book of the year and a really excellent account of America's civil war.
I visited Gettysburg before. Memorable trip.
IDF2 (19-05-23)
John Keegan - The First World War
Brilliant and harrowing.
Two more great books I read during my ban...
Hitler and Stalin / The Holocaust...grim stuff, but interesting reading. Both by British military historian Laurence Rees.
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