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Just finished A History of the Island - Eugene Vodalazkin

It's the third book I've read from him. IMHO, I didn't enjoy it as much as "The Aviator" which deals with the topic of alienation. That book's premise is what would happen if you froze someone from a miserable time (under early Soviet persecutions), and moved them a few generations in the future.

This novel is something similar but from a different angle. It deals more with a people's alienation from God through history, from the medieval to the modern, he does a good job of bringing the reality of time to the forefront by putting a royal couple with an lifespan a few centuries long who lives through all of this.
 
I remember reading Roosh’s American Pilgrim years ago and feeling an overwhelming urge to quit my job, give notice on my apartment, and embark on a road trip across the country. But it was 2020, and I was stuck in the most locked-down city in the world, tethered to my apartment. Still, I vividly remember that longing for adventure and the open road.

Now, I’m reading Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I know I’m late to the party, as it’s been around for ages, but it’s reigniting that same call for adventure. This time, I have no excuses. It’s really pushing me to consider making some radical changes in my life.
 
Bizet said:
I remember reading Roosh’s American Pilgrim years ago and feeling an overwhelming urge to quit my job, give notice on my apartment, and embark on a road trip across the country. But it was 2020, and I was stuck in the most locked-down city in the world, tethered to my apartment. Still, I vividly remember that longing for adventure and the open road.

Now, I’m reading Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I know I’m late to the party, as it’s been around for ages, but it’s reigniting that same call for adventure. This time, I have no excuses. It’s really pushing me to consider making some radical changes in my life.
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I consider it daily. The more i think about it though the more I’m convinced that I shouldn’t do anything TOO radical. I’ve very nearly invested a lot of money into buying a campervan a couple of times, but something just didn’t feel right. I think I need to cool my heals a bit and maybe have a couple of trial runs with a rental van first.
 
Gazza said:
I consider it daily. The more i think about it though the more I’m convinced that I shouldn’t do anything TOO radical. I’ve very nearly invested a lot of money into buying a campervan a couple of times, but something just didn’t feel right. I think I need to cool my heals a bit and maybe have a couple of trial runs with a rental van first.
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Absolutely. Today's world is so fake and gay, so viscerally disgusting, that it's easy to get these types of reckless ideas into your head at times. "I want to throw it all away and go live in a van/cabin/cave/boat" is a common one. Roosh did this once it was a pretty terrible idea, he ended up inadvertently living in a demon-infested crackhouse for a bit. It's important to be sober about such things.
 
I've been reading Mindset by Carol Dweck. Wish I had read it back when I read Gorilla Mindset a decade ago, which is a far inferior product. It's because Mindset directly attacks what's been my problem since childhood. I was/am the fixed-mindset type, a kid who was gifted, endowed with enough intelligence to feel smarter than others, but I used my intelligence for evil, to find ways to slack off, to barely give effort, to avoid work and doing hard things. It catches up to you and you feel guilty you haven't done anything. Mindset by Dweck could have been a potential escape rope, but maybe not, I think only at age 40 I am finally beginning to mature into the kind of adult one should have matured into in one's 20s, someone who can take care of themselves and gets work done, whatever that may be, not someone who looks to avoid work and maximize pleasure. It's hard to tell if you could have benefited from certain knowledge earlier in life, sometimes knowledge seems useless if there aren't some prerequisite life experiences beforehand.
 
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I've been reading Mindset by Carol Dweck. Wish I had read it back when I read Gorilla Mindset a decade ago, which is a far inferior product. It's because Mindset directly attacks what's been my problem since childhood. I was/am the fixed-mindset type, a kid who was gifted, endowed with enough intelligence to feel smarter than others, but I used my intelligence for evil, to find ways to slack off, to barely give effort, to avoid work and doing hard things. It catches up to you and you feel guilty you haven't done anything. Mindset by Dweck could have been a potential escape rope, but maybe not, I think only at age 40 I am finally beginning to mature into the kind of adult one should have matured into in one's 20s, someone who can take care of themselves and gets work done, whatever that may be, not someone who looks to avoid work and maximize pleasure. It's hard to tell if you could have benefited from certain knowledge earlier in life, sometimes knowledge seems useless if there aren't some prerequisite life experiences beforehand.
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You just described me :oops:
 
Currently reading Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (2023) by Ed Conway.

The six raw materials being:

1. Sand - Concrete, fibre-optics, computer chips/microprocessors
2. Salt(s) - Chlorine/water purification, explosives, fertilizers, etc.
3. Iron - Steel-making
4. Copper - the electrical revolution
5. Oil - internal combustion power, plastics, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, etc, etc,
6. Lithium - advanced battery/power storage technology, etc

The book covers the history of human use of these materials and the modern processes involved in their harnessing and utilization. Worth reading for anybody interested in the modern global economy.
 
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