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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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capitalism is abuse by design

But capitalism is abuse by design, and there can be no lasting truce between lenders and borrowers until the lenders are no longer motivated by profit. This is because capitalism doesn’t just permit exploitation of the working class by the owning class; it requires it. Abuse will manifest itself …

—p.45 Power, Corruption, and Lies The Shark and the Hound (40) by Meagan Day
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the emergence of a market society

For his part, Franklin D. Roosevelt blamed usurers, among other financial malefactors, for the crash and relentless depression; he quoted the Bible to condemn the high-interest practices that flourished in and out of sanctioned institutions throughout the nation. But a decidedly moral view of Ameri…

—p.44 The Shark and the Hound (40) by Meagan Day
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next year’s midterm elections project/high-castle

Well before Trump came along to validate the conceit, The Walking Dead had added a mordant dimension of political parody to its original survival-of-the-fraughtest premise by introducing David Morrissey as “The Governor,” essentially a psychopath in messiah’s clothing. By now, the series dwells m…

—p.11 Fear Factor (6) by Tom Carson
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no refuge

It’s hard to imagine what the 1960s would have been like if TV viewers, flooded with nightly news reports of atrocities, emergencies, and horrors, had simultaneously been getting their entertainment jollies out of fantasy versions of the same atrocities, emergencies, and horrors. But that’s more or…

—p.10 Fear Factor (6) by Tom Carson
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devoid of anything resembling optimism

Today’s TV landscape is also eerily devoid of anything resembling optimism. This is a telling and significant omission, since feel-good programming used to be the medium’s sometimes namby-pamby, sometimes energetic stock in trade. If our reigning doomsday genres qualify as escapist at all, it’s a v…

—p.9 Fear Factor (6) by Tom Carson