pickNot a bad pairing with Claire Dederer's Monsters, rather similar in the end despite approaching the topic in two different ways. Lewis is basically saying that there was a point when people “had a genius for X“, and that was much truer than “X is a genius“, and the worship of people as geniuses produces monsters (among other things).
It was OK, but... having finished it, I feel like it could've been shorter.
#chatterday @AllDebooks
It‘s dangerously hot in WI so I took a walk early then we‘ve mostly been inside, napping, reading, playing cards and up next - a movie. I sometimes enjoy a down low day.
pickSci-fi enough to still be relevant today, this book questions the ethics of academia and science, particularly in genetics and psychology. I would have never come across this book had a student not encouraged me to read it. I‘m glad I did. Charlie will stick with me for a while - as will his delightful teacher, Alice Kinnian, who may be the true hero of the story.
2025 Reading Bracket
So far my reread of Flowers for Algernon is leading the way
"progris riport 1 martch 3
Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on."
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@ShyBookOwl
Do you think when our little friend, Algernon, refused to run in the maze and solving puzzles, he was having an internal struggle? Maybe he was questioning why does he actually needs to do these things, maybe he was questioning his freedom...
The new issues have to do with how intelligence uses information, or, more accurately, how intelligence and other fact-based analysis will fare in a world in which even a sophisticated society like our own is trending toward decision making anchored on a priori, near-instinctive narratives—decision making based on that which can be made popular or widely held rather than on that which is objectively true.
