Comment on Anon discovers books
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 week agoI really struggled with reading (well, listening to the audio book) Dawn of Everything. The narrator just seemed to take this tone of “I’m smarter than you and you’re a fool for having ever thought to the contrary of what I’m saying”. Seems like narrator was British, so maybe that’s just my sensitive American ears.
Nonetheless, I really felt talked down to and couldn’t muscle my way through it on account of that. Don’t suppose there’s other books that convey similar message / lessons with different tone that you’d recommend?
User:
reads a book, encounters a perspective they hadn’t previously considered
feels insulted
accuses the narrator of talking down to them.
The narrator is just a voice inside your head. Why are you looking down on yourself for learning something new?
Is that you, narrator of Dawn of Everything?
I’ve actually never read it, not even sure what it’s about, but from the other user’s comment it sounds like it’s not so bad.
And I’ve certainly encountered some people who will accuse someone of being arrogant just for saying something that they didn’t know. It’s kind of annoying.
Like I love it when someone says something I don’t already know. It means I get to learn something new. Why does that bother some people?
It’s usually the type of people who can’t admit that they don’t know everything.
TingoTenga@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I didn’t get that tone, so I generally found the book to be entertaining. I am still chewing through it, though.
I have not read anything more from an anteopological perspective, but I have to say that I have found other works of ethical philosophy and, curiosly enough, neuroscience, to reach similar high-level conclusions from a different perspective. Heck, even bell hooks, All About Love, comes to mind. However, I imagine that this is not what you had in mind and I might be biased in how I want to see the picture painted.