What I am Reading and Have been Reading

Well in my usual style I'm reading too many books at once! Somehow in recent years, I've found reading a few books at once very effective for learning more than one thing at once.

Ishmael- Daniel Quinn
This one I have finished- and I would not recommend it at all, except for a section that discuss the Bible, and the idea that the story of the fall of Adam was written from the perspective of outsiders viewing it occurring- and that in their view man heading towards an agricultural based existence was a negative thing. The suggestion in the book was that it was written by the Semites.

Living Dolls
I also read this recently. Disturbing and fascinating. I am glad to live a life without the media. But also the more I read things like this, the more I think feminism needs to become a new movement of equality. Where men are embraced and encouraged to be part of a greater change that sees genders treated equally and fairly.

What I'm Reading

No Logo- Naomi Klein

Very interesting, but slightly depressing- at least so far. Initially I felt that I should go through all our clothes and cut the labels off!

I have recovered since, and left them all alone. At least there is very little in our house where we are directly 'branded'.

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2025

I've lost some level of respect for Naomi Klein in recent years.  It seemed that she was a quality journalistic style investigator, however she wrote a very odd book on Naomi Wolf, which I haven't read in it's entirety, just sections of, and I came to the conclusion that she had some odd agenda going on.  Eventually I listened to Naomi Wolf at an event, and I came to the conclusion that she was correct in the idea that Naomi Klein was purposefully using her platform to other Naomi Wolf, as Klein's family had connections to BigPharma.

This post discusses Naomi Wolf's view.
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-naomi-klein-othering-me-due-to-family-ties-to-vaccine-money/