Matthew Jankowski > Recent Status Updates

Skipped review of Tropic of Cancer. Haven't read it yet. Great dictator review. Not sure when I got the idea that people did not see what was happening. George Orwell saw clearly.

Orwell surveys boys weeklies. Pretty much what comic books, cartoons, television shows, etc would be today. He considers them right leaning propaganda. People who read these book made to identify with those who are much richer. Centered on a very naive view of someone I. 1910. Nothing ever changes. The foreigners are comic. No attempt to place characters in modern ideologies. Analysis holds up today.

Orwell pegs Dickens as: 1) Moralist (as opposed to revolutionary) shame on the powerful for abusing their power. 2) narrowly focused on the home life of the bourgeoise class. No one really works. No one is really rich or poor. Really never thought about dickens this way

Engaging stories. One can almost hear Conan whispering in Howard's ear.

A nice supplant to 'wrath of the khans'

Lomazy: actually worse than jozefow. If you can't stand your own actions,,,just find a trawiki to do your dirty work.

At jozefow 12 of 500 men excuse themselves from impending mass murder,

Bruno Proust remembers 101s role in the atrocities. Few others seem to.

End description of how police battalions guarded trains to concentration camps and perpetrated atrocities in ukraine and Poland.

1941 battalion battalion 309 in Russia, Bialystok, starts momentum towards full holocaust. Whatever impact the later allied bombing had, the nazis were already gaining momentum ...

Wilhelm trapp, commander of the 101, cites allied bombing campaign as grounds jozefow massacre. Some 70% holocaust victims were killed in a one year period starting march 1942. Roughly coinciding with allied Bombing of Germany. I wonder if there is a link between the one and the other.

Well. I guess I'm going to read the next 18 books in this series. I hope.

Aeneas arrives to find dido in junos temple Carthage.

Excellent.

Lucretius sure did work out a great deal of why and how things are...

Concise. I learned more about the French Revolution in 75 pages then I ever thought I might know.

Scientists freeze 'Pigs' at Dauchau then move to the US. Undersecretary of War policy thT politicians committed war crimes industrialists, physicians, scientists, etc. we're part of healthy economy.

Lucretius sure did work out a great deal of why and how things are...

On friendship. First virtue, then friendship. Remarkable work.

Fun walk through the wire, refencing many philosophers I haven't yet read.

Nichomachean Ethics. Frying my noodle. Aristotelian ethics make sense.

Excellent. Covers many areas of a soldiers experience that I had not thought about..

Classic tale of bureaucracy.

Fine introduction. May start in on the New Testament before I read this one...

Starts with a portrait of Hermann Goering. Charming, intelligent. Amusing stories about the guy.

Well written. More fun than one would expect, considering the subject matter. Nice subplots with lots of potential...