Is there a Cold War event that you consider particularly interesting/exciting? Be it towards the freezing of relations between the powers, a rapprochement between them or something else entirely. Please explain. Thanks!
I haven't read a lot about it specifically but a lot of essential technology was developed during that period, and also all the propaganda that both sides produced. And how both powers used the "capitalism vs communism" excuse to fuck up other countries. I do not like that but I find it interesting. Chomsky wrote about this
I haven't read him in a few years so I am not fresh. Do you not like him ideologically or as a person? If it is the later, an approach I take whenever I read stuff from people I do not like is to separate the individual from his/her ideas, and just enjoy their ideas per se. If you do not agree with him ideologically, well a Professor at my university told me that it is always good to read stuff that is contrary to or defies our own paradigms/beliefs. That way you can either deepen your own ideas or adopt new ones and thus, you grow as a person.
It's not like I oppose him ideologically -- I consider myself to be, in theory, fairly close to him in the ideological spectrum, but whenever I have read something of his / about him (admittedly not a lot and always short-form), I didn't get much insight. Sometimes I would agree with him but be like "well, I already knew/considered that" and some other times like "well, no, I can hardly agree, sorry".
Thanks for the chance!
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I haven't read a lot about it specifically but a lot of essential technology was developed during that period, and also all the propaganda that both sides produced. And how both powers used the "capitalism vs communism" excuse to fuck up other countries. I do not like that but I find it interesting. Chomsky wrote about this
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Hey, thanks for the input! I'm not a great fan of Chomsky but I will check out his writing on this anyway.
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I haven't read him in a few years so I am not fresh. Do you not like him ideologically or as a person? If it is the later, an approach I take whenever I read stuff from people I do not like is to separate the individual from his/her ideas, and just enjoy their ideas per se. If you do not agree with him ideologically, well a Professor at my university told me that it is always good to read stuff that is contrary to or defies our own paradigms/beliefs. That way you can either deepen your own ideas or adopt new ones and thus, you grow as a person.
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It's not like I oppose him ideologically -- I consider myself to be, in theory, fairly close to him in the ideological spectrum, but whenever I have read something of his / about him (admittedly not a lot and always short-form), I didn't get much insight. Sometimes I would agree with him but be like "well, I already knew/considered that" and some other times like "well, no, I can hardly agree, sorry".
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