| Such revolution will inevitably take place, particularly in industrial societies, as a response to the instinct of survival, even without any instigator of revolution such as THE GREEN BOOK | |
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| His take on sports is also terrible as he argues how there should be any stadium seats because that keeps the masses away from engaging in sports despite that in fact its the exact opposite | Two memorable points: - A nation is composed of a hierarchy of decreasingly connected families, and putting the aims of nationalism above those component communities is actually damaging to national unity - people need their core and the layers of community that extend from that |
Its not great political treatise.
1| But in his final essay critiquing sports and theatre he goes all quasi-Debord? Gaddafi wrote: "The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear | A woman has full right to live without being forced to change into a man and to give up her femininity |
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| Poor people are unable to compete in the election campaigns, and the result is that only the rich get elected | Green Book has so many layers - family, culture, honesty, dignity, genius, respect, acceptance, stereotypes, racism, music, class, friendship, and fried chicken |
As for the book itself, well.
25| The natural embellishment in butterflies and birds and animal females exists to that natural vital purpose | His traditionalist and c 1 |
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| It goes against both Marxism and Juche | He also goes as far as to argue that most evil in the world is caused due to the confused roles of men and women and the attempt to turn women into men "destroying their fragility and beauty" |
I want to point out a specific quote in this chapter - which, hilariously, is one of the longest in the entire book - in this paragraph: "Driving woman to do man's work is a flagrant aggression against the femininity with which she is naturally provided and which defines a natural purpose essential to life.