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Ernest Hemingway never wrote anything above a 7th grade level, yet his works were at one time considered masterpieces of minimization. By now his writings are quite dated, but you might see if you can enjoy the style. Some of his more famous novels were:




The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea

In terms of books you might actually enjoy reading, I'd suggest Dove, the true tail of a 16 yr old boy who set out to solo sail around the globe. Some others I read at about that time would include:

• Treasure Island
  
  
• Sea Wolf
  
  
• Robinson Crusoe
  
  
• White Fang
  
  
• The Hobbit (which may not help with English at all)
  
  
• Watership Down
  
  
• The Call of the Wild
  
  
• The Grapes of Wrath
  
  Some of those are old enough that they should be available for free and most nearly any US library should have most of them.
  

I really suggest everyone read this book on the subject.

We are capable of doing such a thing, and I think we'd be happy doing so. It's just a matter of getting people accustomed to the idea and accepting it as a social good and not a societal attack against everyone.

Grapes of Wrath

In Dubious Battle

I would recommend checking a local book store though I bet they have at least "Grapes of Wrath" and buying a Steinbeck novel on amazon just seems wrong

also fair warning reading Grapes of Wrath is kinda an ordeal it is an amazing book but it is long and pretty deep. it took me three months to fully read and comprehend it I started and spotted and restarted a lot.

as for unions they are kinda complicated but the way I always think of it is, it doesn't matter how hard of a worker you are or how "hungry" you are a company will fire you the moment it is convenient so you owe your company nothing. all you owe a company is solidarity with your fellow workers to protect each other from the what ever the future holds.

Yea, it's one of my favorites. I just compiled a list for my friend of my favorites. Let me see if I can find that to copy/paste to you...

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I have no idea what the heck you're talking about.

It's not to say there aren't some who have strong opinions about style, form and function. I myself, being a software developer who has done a lot of mobile software development, have some very strong opinions about how to make a good user interface. (But that's because I've been doing this sort of stuff for 30 years or so. And most of my strong opinions can be boiled down to buy this book, consider user interface interaction a formal language with nouns and verbs, and don't make the buttons on the phone too small because they'll be hard to press.)

But the vast majority of Americans I've met don't have strong opinions or are "aggressive" (whatever the hell that means) about design.

Hockey is big in many of New England Prep private college preparatory schools (Prep Schools)

This book gives a good snapshot of what it was like in the 90s. I have no idea if it is still the same now.

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Check out Days of Rage, which is a pretty recent book about the many left-wing bombings of the 1970s.

Chapter 14: “The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America,” if you really want to know.

This is the one I remember using

As for the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony, see:

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Early 1980s urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/lightsout.asp

It was actually referenced in this print book about urban legends, back in the dark ages before Snopes.

Thanks for this, a lot of people forget what a disaster the 1970s were. I'm a historian and one of my favorite books on the topic is Decade of Nightmares.

Some of the POW camps in Germany were liberated by the Red Army, which sent many of the US POWs on rail cars to work in the Gulag.

This was a subtopic in an excellent book by Tim Tzouliadis about Americans who went to the USSR and never came back. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia

My condolences. All my rural Ohio relatives are Trump supporters. I sometimes wonder how I would have turned out if I hadn't moved to Australia.

Have you read Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance? He describes what growing up in that culture was like.

We have that problem in Australia too. I'll never forget the time I wandered around the poorer areas of my city and was shocked to find expensive muscle cars parked outside semi-detached homes that were getting more and more detached as time went by.

> I think as a culture we are moving away from firearms making up so much of the American identity that we can pretty much wait it out

Hang on, how is violence in movies, tv and games going to help that out?

> On a more realistic note, I think crime prediction technology

inb4 this except the personal privacy part.

but seriously, is predpol already implemented?

> solved by our robot overlords, praise be to them.

It will be a joint DARPA/Skynet program. /s

> I studied Ancient Rome, not Ancient Greece, so my knowledge of their history is a bit spotty. I haven’t actually seen the movie 300; the editing hurt my eyes and the hyper masculinity was nauseating.

Good. Fuck that movie and fuck Zack Snyder. That guy deserves a sucker punch. Ahem. If you want to learn about our history, you should only read books. This book is the best: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199732159/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Most of the commonly cited problems caused by "immigration" in our country are, in actuality, caused by the drug trade.

Reduce the country's reliance on drug importation, you reduce the influence of the cartels and the gangs.

As sociologists have pointed out, gangs exist, not to form some sort of mythical "hispanic/black menace", but because the gang system mirrors the McDonald's franchise model for supply and distribution (with the cartels standing at the top of the c-suite).

If Mexico is failing to "send their best", it's because of drugs. Take care of the drug problem, and you take care of most of the problems with "bad immigration" (i.e., drug mules and drug runners).

I was young, and got partially duped into it by a group know as the “liberal hawks.”

Thomas L. Friedman, Paul Berman, the late Christopher Hitchens.

But what really did it for me was Kenneth Pollack’s book, the Threatening Storm, which was pretty much the textbook for the invasion.

One of his points seemed very solid - Osama bin Laden wanted US troops out of the holy land of Saudi Arabia. Invading Iraq would take the threat out of Saddam there forever and we could move those troops into Iraq.

The war empowered Iran so much that they’re now the threat to Saudi Arabia. And so many lives lost.

I don’t see how Pollack still has a job TBH

Well you have some reading to do.

Here's a decent book.

Then maybe Conscience of a Conservative by none other than Mr. Barry Goldwater.

Then the complete Federalist Papers.

God and Man at Yale by good old Bill Buckley.

Read the National Review.

Conservatism (at least in my own ignorant opinion) is the idea that social structures develop and contain an enormous amount of value which should not be thrown away lightly.

Combine that with personal autonomy, allowing markets to exist with as minimal amount of regulation as possible to prevent fraud and abuse.

Then a certain moral conservatism which is very hard to define. Be good, don't resort to violence, respect long standing institutions especially the family.

But overall I think it is simply opposing radical change of all types. Tinker around the edges to improve society but don't overturn the apple cart. This is the difference between Nazi Germany and American conservatives. Hitler demanded radical changes that would fundamentally change everything about German government while Conservatives would absolutely abhor his rise to power. American conservatives basically say "oh, we should probably not change everything all at once for no reason."

Just watch Buckley on Firing Line.

I could go on about this forever. There is no real simple answer and even conservatives radically disagree amongst themselves.