LengAwaits
Here's a source for you. If you're interested in learning more I'd be happy to look around for some more for you.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
And don't mind finitebanjo. They tend to be extremely rude and unpleasant.
They must not be too big to dissuade people from investing in real estate even as prices reach record levels.
"To understand revolutionary suicide it is first necessary to have an idea of reactionary suicide, for the two are very different. Reactionary suicide: the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness.”
“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.”
“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”
– Dr. Huey P. Newton
What do you want, a cookie? What are you getting out of this? Just bored?
I'm not sure "favorite" is something I can quantify for you with such ease, as I'm not ranking my favorite movies/spectacles, here. We're discussing engaging with things that don't just pet and soothe your inbuilt biases. It'd be like asking my favorite college coursework textbook.
I most recently digested George Soros' "Alchemy Of Finance" via audiobook, (though I'm not sure he really qualifies as a hedge fund manager, exactly). I'm no fan of his hyper-neo-liberal leanings, but why should I be scared to read what he has to say about finance? I have time. His musings on reflexivity were compelling enough, I guess.
I've also recently plowed through Anne Case and Angus Deaton's "Deaths Of Despair". I've historically chafed against Deaton's particular brand of neo-lib economics. It seems he's had something of a mea culpa moment in the past few years, since his Nobel prize in Econ, because he's been running around pissing off a bunch of economists with articles like these.
If you have any recommendations I'm open to them!
Yes, in fact, I do. I specifically seek out and read literature from people with whom I have knee-jerk disagreements.
How else will I be sure I'm not trapped in a thought bubble? It's important to read critically from a variety of sources, while reserving judgement. That's literally how you learn. It's too easy to fall for propaganda, otherwise.
Scared it might not confirm your biases?
Most people hate being wrong, or corrected. They seem to see it as an affront to their very existence, and will often fight back tooth and nail when confronted with any evidence that the things they believe about the world might not be 100% correct.
Source: Any substantial comment thread on any social media platform, ever.
Yeah, the citations of factual events are in the links below the quote. Check out Willam Blum's "Killing Hope" (pdf link) for more citations than you can shake a stick at.
Absolutely this but instead of "Self Esteem" it's "Nitro (Youth Energy)" (from the same album).