Anon Book Club
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Welcome all to the anon book club! We are reading the Gulag Archipelago by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. This post covers part 1.
It's dark and heavy, but let's have fun anyways. I broke the comments up by chapter for part one in the hopes it would help us stay on the same page so to speak.
Edit-if y'all want a different format just let me know.
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Part 1
2: the history of our sewage disposal system
"how to grind people down with stupidity"
Doesn't that have a familiar feel.
Let's not kid ourselves, when the making of lists was discussed.....yeah, I'm on lists too probably.
This chapter was super black pilly. Clown world to the max. Bureaucrats and their quotas, pure madness. It was infuriating.
I will not clap. Fuck them.
Part 1
1: Arrest
"What for?"
What a break in innocence it is to realize it doesn't even matter. All that matters is that now everything is always going to be different.
What I am curious about is what y'all thought of the lack of resistance to arrests.
I can't be the only one who played out in my mind a few what if scenarios, and found none of them ended in freedom.
Scary as hell. It's not like we can immediately go to war with every knock at the door. These people were blindsided.
Seems like communists and nazis are the exact same
The confusion is only intensified by arresting folks who did nothing.
If a cop pulls into my yard, are they looking for some missing person or looking to make me a missing person? My response to the first cannot be the same as my response to the second.
By the time you realize how fucked you are..... you're already fucked.
Thanks for being here anon. Seriously, thank you.
The tactics of oppression are certainly similar.
The story about the guy getting arrested while undergoing surgery for an ulcer had me going wtf
Or people being arrested for asking about the jailed family member/spouse
But the haunting thing was what he said about how if the whole community fought back and didn't just act docile that would've gone a long ways in stopping the Soviet from mindlessly murdering everyone.
You know how people always tell you that if a person is trying to kidnap/abduct you, that you should immediately fight back no matter what bc if you allow them to take you to another location, your chance of being killed goes way up? This mass-arrest situation is exactly the same. Fighting back at initial point of contact seems like the best option
You never tagged me 😑 I'm over halfway through chapter 2 right now. Chapter 1 arrests should probably be something everyone reads/listens to
I participated in the reading of this book for GAW book club, and I am aghast at the history of the world I did not know. I listened to the audio book and the author not only has a story to tell which we should all know and learn from, but it is told with fascinating detail.
Am I to understand Dune is next? My favorite movie (the original one with Kyle Mclaughlin). The worm is the spice...
Thank you u/eyerighteye 👈🏻
I finished the audio version of this last month and can't remember each chapter as you've broken down. As people start commenting I will be sure to add my two cents as the comments spur my memories of the various portions of the book.
Thanks again for doing this!
I'll join if it's not too late. remember reading bits of this in HS, will have to get caught up.
If we're still breathing, it's never too late.
true/never too late to learn, especially if it leads us out of this mess.
Part 1
3: the interrogation
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7: in the engine room
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8: the law as a child
If you are okay with reading online, here's a good source: https://usa1lib.org/
Thanks very much!!
Part 1
9: the law becomes a man
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10: the law matures
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11: the supreme measure
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12: Tyurzak
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4: the blue caps
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5: first cell, first love
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6: that spring
I'm actually pretty out of the loop on the lindel thing. Work is going coo coo ka ka so I'm missing a lot of happenings lately.
I never got past chapter 5.
Few seemed to care and the book was such a downer. Like fuuuuck I get it, but it just wasn't how I wanted to spend my nights home with the fam.
I kinda just crapped out on executing the idea. I was hoping robust discussion would keep me interested, but my interest fizzled out quick.
Fren, I'm on a big upswing.lots of ins outs and what have you's. But I truly feel like I can glimpse over the precipice and it's going to be fine. My job's improving quickly. The business we started when my job sucked is starting to gain traction too.
I think everything is going to turn at the last second. Things are going well for me because I've already learned to deal with less than most can stand. Heck we were just talking today, with the nice raise I just got we could have running water next year maybe. It's been 8 years without. Imma be ok as I observe folks loose their minds. Food in the pantry, meat on the hoof, milk in the udder.
I'm thinking the signs are positive. At least they all are in my little corner of the world.
The other option is that I've been on a list for 12+years, pI'm already dead, and the how and why will take me totally by surprise.
Which path forward do you want to spend all day pondering? Life isn't about staying here forever anyway is it?
I'm too busy trying to build the new that I'm hardly noticing the old crumble.
Because to me it's already gone. I drove away from that world a decade ago. It's all Kabuki remember? None of it really effects us unless we allow it to.
As far as the book goes, I really with the vendor had sent the copy I ordered. I got the full in the mail. So I tried the book on tape. I'd get bored, distracted, whatever and stop listening. Get to the end of the chapter and realize I'd missed every word.
Ended up seeming silly to keep going like that.
Feel free to steal the format and pick a new book. I'm down with participating more than organizing at this point.
It was a good idea. People did seem to like the idea even if the actual activity ended up kinda sucking.
I basically have three jobs right now. Not even counting the crap I'm falling behind on at home. I rarely have time to anon like I used to. Distractions are necessary? Work is distracting me nicely right now as this shit show plays to it's inevitable conclusion.
Thanks for reaching out btw. You were the only one who even tried. Sorry if I let you down.
Our oldest just turned 18. We homeschooled him since third grade when we pulled him from school when we discovered he was functionally illiterate despite straight As
He will never be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. Everyone came to terms with that going in.
Please allow a proud papa to brag a teeny bit.
Did I mention he already owns ten acres he earned free and clear? He has a knife making business. A wood splitting buisness, a danged sawmill for Pete's sake.
Kid makes as much as me doing his 9-4 Wants to build an off grid cabin. He'll probably get his done before I finish mine too.
I'd say it will turn out well for him long run. Strong morals, stoic disposition. Calm. Kind. Strong as an ox. Animal lover. Keen judge of character.
College isn't the be all end all. It's time to put that myth to bed. Learning how to work and solve problems and read people and make decisions is all they really need.
A whole lot of our sons education came via conversations while helping me shovel and build stuff. He has all the math I've ever needed. He can live without calculus. He still hasn't ever had a smart phone.
What can your kid do with their education? No malice of tone though it probably reads rudely without vocal inflections. But seriously, what have they been taught to actually do?
We didn't really see many normie kids when he was growing up, I have no baseline grasp of what a "normal" kid would be. Most folks we knew either had grown kids or also homeschooled/unschooled.
I've hunches, but I don't actually know.
My advice would be not to waste a dime on college. Help them learn to adult, then let them find their own path. Few end up doing what they go to school for.