I finished Dragon Republic and started Burning God a fantasy trilogy by R. F Kuang.
I am listening to 1919 a book of Poems by Eve L. Ewing a sociologist and poet from Chicago.
I started All About Love by bell hooks (rest in power ✊)
I need to catch up on Dawn of Everything. I was doing the audiobook and it got returned >_>.
Reading blackshirts and reds. Currently have a stack of books I pretend to read but never do
Taking a break from theory and trying to read all of the discworld books. I am on number 4 right now.
Took a break from US labor history to start David Glantz’s Stalingrad tetraology because I’ve been in a WWII mood lately
Finally starting to read the Three Body Problem. It’s a very good story, but
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It feels pretty reactionary in its outlook. The protrayal of the Trisolarans in particular could have come straight out of a China Bad Evil Authoritarian CCP reddit thread. I don’t know Liu’s personal politics, his level of wealth or his family history, but the way the book is written reminds me a lot of the works of Warsaw Pact liberal intellegencias who bemoaned the lack of “liberty” in the Soviet sphere after World War 2.
Reading it years a go I got the impression that it was curious yet apolitcal in the sense that ideas were applied in a non partisan manner.
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You could also argue that the Trisolarans are the Americans whose inevitable invasion causes earth (china) to try weird political solutions. But then again the Sophons could also be a stand in for a ‘great chinese firewall’ (even if on our side we can equally interpret it as fintech)
I think part of it is embellished for the main motivation of one of the bad guys. Have you finished it? There’s also this interpretation that it represents Sino-American relations.
