Rain

how’d my mum read this and recommend it to me as a child and not realise i needed a diagnosis. cmon

the movie sold this book so short, if you enjoyed the film the book is better.

posits a ton of really interesting ideas and brings to attention a lot of studies i hadn’t heard of which were really eye opening! his concept of energy as the real marker for human progress is definitely one to be considered. the book’s cardinal sin and the real weakness of his ‘theory of everyone’ is that the author is painfully constrained by his loyalty to capital. any radical ideas or policies he suggests are undercut by a refusal to evolve past capitalism as a dominant ideology, suggestions about fixes for system level problems cut short by a weirdly placed trust for the system they’re applied to. absolutely worth reading but mostly as a case study in my opinion, it’s too tinged by a weird middle class libertarian perspective to really say anything

insanely prescient, an absolute labour of love for the subject by mills and the perfect introduction to analysing the world that’s developed around us and how to change it