jpowerj's reviews
368 reviews

Slightly better than the other boundaries book, bc less about being a good christian, but... Suffers from the same flaw, of just assuming that boundaries are good and then reading like an instruction manual, rather than like taking a critical stance on whether boundaries are the right way to address/approach certain life issues

Tricks you into thinking it's about boundaries, and it starts off pretty ok ngl, but then out of nowhere kind of becomes about living as a good christian lol

Super interesting in some parts... In other parts, I got pretty lost, in terms of, how he was drawing the conclusion he was drawing (as in, it got kind of metaphysical, which I guess is part of the point, but, there are different degrees of metaphysical-ness)

Kind of... interesting? Not great, but not terrible?

Honestly maybe my favorite Chomsky, and I've read like... 20 of his books :O

Honestly helped me so much, at a time when I felt like there was very little.... Analytical? Positivist-ish? stuff about black lives matter

It's REALLY ambitious, and like, valuable to read to combat internalized islamophobia I think? But, in being so ambitious and like sweeping it kinda starts to just say shit that is pretty difficult to back up, like about how Islam is the solution to the problems of the enlightenment and claims that that, which ARE genuinely interesting and engaging and plausible it's just, you'd need to spend a much longer time arguing for it. He just kinda says/asserts it imo