Raithe

It's always hard to do a "they were men of their time" and have that aspect of it's really awkward to judge people by the morality and ethics of a time several hundred years different. As I posted in the weird but interesting thread, Columbus was judged horrible by the people of his own time. However, with the founding fathers (and speaking as a Brit), they had equal amounts of genius, flair, pettiness, hypocritical attitudes, and innovative beliefs. But the Americans have really pushed the mythologising sainthood aspects of them over time. So it's kind of interesting to see some of this peeling back of who they actually were. But still, it's all trying to examine people in the context of their time and the cultures around them, not the standards we have now.

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Caught up on the last few episodes of Foundation. Still undecided on what exactly to make of it.They ended episode two on what looked like an important cliffhanger.. then the next two episodes have time jumps and nothing related to it, only to then pick it up again in episode five. Which makes it a little disconcerting as a viewer, but I guess it also adds to the whole "time is a character" concept the screenwriters and producers were throwing around.

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I saw one of those amusing articles about "groups that seem like cults that aren't meant to be cults".. "Public Education in the United States." "Teachers are encouraged to work well beyond their contract hours for extremely limited pay, come in when they are sick even during a pandemic and then fed toxic positivity about how much better they are making kids lives."

The trouble I have is that I can finish a 300 page novel in 3 and a bit hours. That's my natural reading speed, not trying to push it or actually read fast. Having a thick series like the Wheel of Time can be broken down into a few weekends worth of solid reading. It's always amazed me when my friends talk about spending the better part of a month to read a book I finish in an evening. I find it really hard to grok that it takes time for a lot of people to read.