Reading is a recent development for me in the grand scheme of things, dyslexia meant I was hindered till I was about 18, picking up my first actual book 1984 at the age of 24.
10 years later I read roughly 3 books a year.
Currently reading Manufacturing Consent and whilst I knew news media is often misleading, to what extent was not clear sadly I now know the extent.
I’d like to have a conversation about Manufacturing Consent and what people have come away with. Other books too like Bullshit Jobs and Ordinary Men were big shift for my world view, so talking about and recommendations of similar books as well please.
Naomi Klein has written a good chunk of books that essentially just put sources and anecdotes to the things I already suspected of the world. It has changed my life both directly and indirectly. Indirectly in that I’ve come to realize how many of my ‘friends’ are actually total drones. I love them regardless but I really didn’t think I’d be the radical one in my circles- all because I started reading books again at 25.
I will check her books out thank you. And I can relate to the drone remark, working class right wing family repeating wedge issues.