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OftenBen  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Book Thread Inside

I re-read The Rational Optimist in NYC, because the few Warhammer novels I brought with me didn't even last through the airport before the flight.

Still a good read. Ridley's writing about how the market always seems to be able to supply even the most niche material need is interesting. It reinforces my inner belief about humans being a meta-animal at this point. Humans don't really exist in isolation, and recently we've become so interdependent that if we become less connected it might kill us, or at the very least would result in a massive decrease in quality of life.

Still a bit too 'Capitalism! Fuck Yeah!' though on the whole, for all of its good points. Maybe that's just my interpretation though.