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Ha ha this rules. I like Madame Pamita's whole deal even more after watching a couple of her YouTube videos.

I need to get a hold of this one.

I hit 99 pages like a week or more ago, and I turned the book back into the library yesterday because it has a hold on it. My reach exceeded my grasp! I'm marking my progress so I can get The Origins of Totalitarianism back at some point and finish reading it. But for now...we're on pause.

FINALLY made it through the prefaces. Ten pages in and I'm keenly aware that: A) I've rarely if ever read political science and B) I definitely lack a sophisticated understanding of "responsibility" as Arendt is using it.

Slow going but obviously thought-provoking.

So many prefaces! Two down, one to go.

Have I mentioned that I want to make everyone I've ever met read this book? Really solid, short, practical, focused advice. I guess I should say I don't have kids so I don't have personal experience to draw from to say how the "here's how to talk to children/teens/young adults about difficult topics" stuff might resonate with someone who does, but it certainly feels plausible to me.

Chapter four is especially good. Much to contemplate.

Very straightforward and compassionate. I really want to make everyone I know read this book.

Good stuff. Very readable. I want to get copies for everyone I know.

Only read the first chapter so far but I'm already deeply glad I got this. So far, it's outlined a practical, pragmatic, and principled approach to preventing or mitigating the radicalization of young men. Looking forward to getting further into it.

I cried a lot.

And dang, what a book to finish reading the same day I see Sinners? I guess Smoke and Stack would've sat out the Bonus March in favor of doing lucrative gang things in Chicago, but it still felt like an intriguing synchronicity.

Oof. That fourth chapter, man, that ought to be a movie.