The Game: A must read
Aside from the heavy work schedule I have been under the last week, I took the time to *not* play my DS, and instead, brace yourself, read books. The first book I read from cover to cover on my trip, loving every minute of it, was "The Game". At first it comes across as a bible for how to pick up chicks, with tips on approach strategies, how to ditch the cock-block, and number close the deal. And damnit, that did lure me in, but what followed was a hilarious recount (keep in mind this book is non-fiction) of the author and his exploits over 2 years as he learned from and hung out with the pro PUAs and their various misadventures.
The next book (of which, admittedly, I still have 30 more pages to go) was "North Korea Another Country". We have all been exposed to the propaganda that North Korea is a crazy rogue state with Stalin-1984 trappings. Well this book is the result of extensive research by "America's leading historian and political analyst of contemporary Korea" and it sets the story straight. I don't remember learning any details of the Korean War in school, and the media doesn't do us any favours either. The truth, detailed over several hundred pages filled with hundreds of footnotes (over 30 pages are dedicated to references), illustrates why North Korea is in the position it is now, and just how belligerent the United States has been on the Korean peninsula.I'm getting hooked on reading books, it's so satisfying, and it's so portable. Amazing invention, the printed word is.
Oh and yes, I am back.
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posted by Blight @ 11:06 PM
7 Comments:
The Game? Are you employing those tactics?
Are they working?
Actually I learned that I was employing some of those tactics without knowingly doing so. And, in fact, those tactics worked.
That book on North Korea sounds interesting. I was reading a National Geographic on the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, and they talked a little bit about how tightly closed North Korea is to the rest of the world.
I think it's interesting how North Korea is seemingly becoming more closely knit with the US and South Korea. I betcha anything, though, they'll end up allying with China and India.
A couple interesting things that the books point out: China did not do North Korea any favours. Neither did Russia. This is what has forced NK to be so hermit like, the people in power there have direct life-experiences of being backstabbed by those surrounding countries. That's why they are trying so fiercly to isolate themselves and not depend on the outside. This started to fall apart after the famine that struck NK in the 1990s.
Oh hell, just read the book :)
And I'm not sure how India is really an ally of China. Don't they compete?
Yeah, they compete, of course, but I bet they'll work together against the States. Everyone hates the States. Two up and coming powers are going to ally together against the Americans instead of with the Americans. If they ally with the Americans then they'll just be the American's bitch. Just my guess.
India seems to be kissing as much ass as possible, to keep it's economy growing.
I saw N. Korea. It was weird, they had all these amusement park rides, barren and empty. I guess they planned on making some peasants ride the rides at gunpoint...
I wanted to walk over the bridge, but the guards were eyeing me suspiciously...
You saw North Korea as in you went there, or as in you went to the border and looked at it from the Chinese side?
Even after reading the book I'm too scared to go to North Korea. Besides I think that might cause some trouble if I want to go to any number of other countries later.
"What were you doing in North Korea, a member of the 'Axis of Evil(TM)'?"
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