I want to be up close and personal and see which character aligns with my personal values most.
I found myself also unable to identify with any single character, yet all of them at once.
This is what I’ve been asking myself throughout the book:
What characteristics of each person do I feel I have now?
What characteristics of each person do I want to emulate moving forward?
Who would I most want to align with in my life and business dealings?
To clarify my point from earlier @Primeperiwinkle I too think politics is despicable and find hundreds of things tied for the top of my “most shitty thing going on in the world” list. I just singled one out as it pertained to the discussion of similarities between the book and current environment.
Moral, economic, political etc are all intertwined regardless of how they are weighted. My current focus is on the future politic/economic direction our country is in and headed. @csalvato posted a great article the other day about it:
OFF-TOPIC - The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/europe-not-america-home-free-market/600859/ This article caught my eye today. Some interesting quotes here: None of this has happened by chance. In 1999, the United States had free and competitive markets in many industries that, in Europe...
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There are so many similarities to this book and where things appear to be headed and where we are now in the US as well as where the appetite of this countries citizens appears to be headed. So many so that I’ve accelerated plans and had discussions with fellow forum members on when and where myself and my family might move to in the next 2-5 years.
I believe you read and interpret at a much deeper level than me which is why you are still dissecting characters that I felt I knew after 4 chapters. You of all people know that I’m an emotional moron
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