Stats for nerds
3recommend
4mentions
3people
2024–2025years
75% recommend25% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- "Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest." ~ Garry Wills
Never heard of Wills? Whet your appetite with his masterpiece and best work (in my humble opinion): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29435.Nixon_Agonistes
- See the excellent
https://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Agonistes-Crisis-Self-Made-Man/...
which makes the case that individualism was running out of steam in the U.S. in 1970, but history shows we've stuck in in Nixon's world ever since. The real problem w/ trying to do anything about climate change in 2024 is that consumers are driven nuts that a Big Mac meal costs $12 and any increasing costs on the way to a sustainable economy and politicians don't have the courage or conviction to sell that to voters who feel like they are already at the breaking point.
- I'm about to reread Nixon Agonistes. It's always relevant, but in a year that has come eerily to resemble 1968, it's especially so.
More about the book here: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/11/gary_willss_nix.html
- That's a good point. I should probably print a QR code that is equivalent to a type 4 UUID or a snowflake id and stick it on each individual book. Now that I think of it, I have two copies of Nixon Agonistes which I mentioned in a comment here yesterday.
