Nothing in my daily life much changed besides my false perceptions of the average intelligence of those around me. I'm greatly disappointed in a couple family members who have refused to attend any family gatherings bc of Covid, yet they shop at the store and still go to the doctors (grandparents). It's like they've already died but no one has mourned them. It doesn't help that my grandmother has Alzheimer's and she's worsened greatly over the prior year, not too long and she really will be gone.
I've stressed a great deal over watching the left continuously tread upon American values and the constitution. It has inspired me to become even more prepper minded towards long term goods storage than I already was. I've refocused on learning to do things without electricity, like milling my own flour, making yogurt, noodles, bread, learned to make soap, knit, and try to find remedies for allergies that aren't pharma with some success. I have also refocused our home school curriculum towards the constitution, historical people involved in its creation, the influence of certain groups upon our laws, the impacts of communism, etc. Basically everything is revolving around how important it is to know and understand history, to support American always over foreign, then we tack on math and science.
I've not witnessed any business closures here. Everything remained open but with rigorous cleaning measures. We are in a very small town with less than 800, and the closest city is less than ten times that. I would imagine it helped to keep the mania at bay.
Yeah I listened to a lot of audiobooks for a while. I picked books that I thought would be dull but most turned out to be great. Brushed up on 20th century history.
It's really tough to find non fiction books that aren't questionable. Do you have a favorite of what you read?
My list from this year was kinda like this: Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Citizens of the Galaxy (All great books) The Prince Mein Kampf (read it twice, excellent book) The Turner Diaries (also twice also excellent The Idiot - Dostoevsky ( one of the best books I have ever read) 1984 - Orwell Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury Also a lot of short horror MR James, HP Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce & others like them.
The concept of moral philosophy Heinlein spoke of is profound, and I think that is the world we are coming to, if we survive. Age of Reason - Thomas Paine Autobiography of Ben Franklin and about half of Gulag Archipelago before I had to put it down before I lost my sanity.
i realize you said non fiction, but a lot of this Sci fi I read because it is no longer fiction.
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