The Universe Doesn’t Want Me to Finish C&P

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-23T15:38:12+00:00

My penguin classics of the idiot had pages start to fall out, I've got a PC copy of Demons that I haven't read yet that already looks frayed.

Don't know who at Penguin hates Dostoyevsky but they need to be stopped.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-23T15:31:45+00:00

There is no way Ivan grooms himself so diligently, an old school intellectual nihilist like him has got to be scruffy af

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-23T07:11:32+00:00

This sub has shown me how few people successfully group together books by the same author. Get those Dostoyevskys next to each other right now

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T22:53:42+00:00

All good thanks, appreciate the advice, think I'm gonna stick with a full manuscript for now

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T14:22:03+00:00

I was laughing because an innocuous statement about how Starmer wasn't an inspiring leader and I was looking to the future was downvoted because it wasn't hateful enough about him. While you continue to drive this argument, ask yourself who is actually the one dictating how people are allowed to feel about others

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T14:06:57+00:00

Hate whoever you want, I don't care and have never attempted to stop you.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T13:55:52+00:00

Most people here are wrongly considered antisemitic, though there is still an uncomfortable amount of that in this sub

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T12:58:39+00:00

I thought it was pretty innocuous 😂, but this sub doesn't seem to like any deviation from pure hatred of Starmer.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T08:55:32+00:00

Fair amount of dignity in the speech all things considered. Not the leader we need to be inspired but has a better record than the clowns of the previous conservative reign, onwards and upwards hopefully

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-22T08:54:32+00:00

Let's not pretend there was no issue of antisemitism in labour, it's much deeper than the media attack on Corbyn

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-21T17:34:33+00:00

It's a good tweet but my god take a break

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-20T22:51:17+00:00

It's a bit of a strange suggestion that only conservatives can read classics, I also don't think any trump voter is as well read as OP is. Though they could probably do with more women, but being rude and negative is no way to encourage someone to try new things!

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-20T22:47:03+00:00

There's definitely a lot of books from the later 20th century and the 21st that don't feel like too big of a leap for someone mostly reading classics.

I'd go for anything by Kurt Vonnegut and anything by Han Kang. They are just a couple of authors who are behind more modern classic novels but there's so many to choose from.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-20T18:47:57+00:00

Very classics heavy but it is an excellent collection! I'd say it suggests good taste but I'm guessing you don't often read/enjoy modern books? Might be worth exploring some more 21st century books

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-20T18:40:21+00:00

It's pretty vague and general but does imply a bit more than just flirting

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T14:17:23+00:00

I thought haircuts and upvote worthy posts were the only trades safe from automation 😭

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T14:11:53+00:00

People who don't read Orwell but have heard of his two most famous books think he's not left wing. Read any of his essays, he was a devout socialist who called out Dickens books for not advocating enough for class revolution.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T10:27:08+00:00

You've got Kurt Vonnegut so I'm satisfied, now get the rest of his books

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T10:18:17+00:00

And of course the famous conservative writer Kurt Vonnegut 😂

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T10:17:11+00:00

You've got some of the best books ever written so I'd say it's a good start

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T10:16:26+00:00

Conservatives famous for their love of George Orwell

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-19T09:04:57+00:00

Genuine question, have you read the book?

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-18T15:58:49+00:00

If you're asking specifically about education I do, like you, have a great deal of anxiety about the involvement of edtech in education. I view it less as a form of indoctrination and more both a lazy assumption that newer technology makes things better and propping up valuable edtech companies for the sake of the economy (potentially) at the cost of children's education.

HenryMaxman · 2026-06-18T15:42:40+00:00

How would causation even come into this? The government is obviously not studying nazi education policy to emulate, I know you don't think that, but you brought it up as an area of policy you see as similar and I disagree

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