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A review by alittlebird
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by kim samuel
Did not finish book.
Any leftist who finished this book has my admiration and condolences.
I tapped out around 20% when Samuel's started quoting the World Bank on poverty inequality as though they don't literally cause this by looting, pillaging, and heavy-handedly forcing market systems that don't work on whole ass countries and followed up by quoting citizens of those countries on how isolated they feel in their colonization (finessed to not indict neoliberal capitalism, of course).
This is apologia for neoliberal ideology designed to make you look the other way while actual research is damning it.
I tapped out around 20% when Samuel's started quoting the World Bank on poverty inequality as though they don't literally cause this by looting, pillaging, and heavy-handedly forcing market systems that don't work on whole ass countries and followed up by quoting citizens of those countries on how isolated they feel in their colonization (finessed to not indict neoliberal capitalism, of course).
This is apologia for neoliberal ideology designed to make you look the other way while actual research is damning it.