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A dissertation on the nature of philosiphy as it applies to long winded forum posts.
My first post in these forums so my apologies for the length. Just finished book 5 and I have to say I'm fairly well impressed with the storyline overall across these books. I especially appreciate how these books grab the different points of view from looters to survivors to victims (harsh word but this is what they make themselves) and bring out the moral and philosophical pieces of those characters to help define in plain terms anyone can understand why they do what they do.
It's hard for a lot of people to really grab on to how utterly dependent they and others make themselves on the government or those around them because they are unwittingly part of that group themselves and lack the perspective to realize it. It is also hard for those in a self-reliance mindset to see things from the perspective of someone who never got the wake up call that the world around them will only truly reward them for what they put in. This is (IMHO) in large part because we are living in a society so bent on their personal sense of entitlement that they can't separate themselves from the crowd long enough to see they are refusing to take ownership of and responsibility for their own lives.
A lot of people want to believe that they can get all of the benefits for none of the work and as thermodynamics proves every day if the energy going into the system is less than the energy coming out, the system will eventually stop. These books seem to me to be written so that these ideas are clearly expressed in terms anyone can understand to allow them to see the perspective of someone who wants to own their future, not just ride along where the hand feeding them wants them to go.
These books seem written both for people already in the survival mindset and for those who would never have thought this way on their own. I have heard comparisons of these books to those written by Rawles, Forstchen, Heinlein and Rand and it seems that AA is much closer to Forstchen and Heinlein with a bit of Rand as he is trying to put out both a wake up call and the idea that in all things you need to think for yourself and own your actions, or lack of, and their consequences.
Rawles characters seem rigid and inflexible in their approaches to situations while AA's characters bring the idea that many solutions could/will work (and some wont) but that you don't stop with suggestions you are handed from a manual, you have to keep going until you find a solution that works and own the results good or bad.
My first post in these forums so my apologies for the length. Just finished book 5 and I have to say I'm fairly well impressed with the storyline overall across these books. I especially appreciate how these books grab the different points of view from looters to survivors to victims (harsh word but this is what they make themselves) and bring out the moral and philosophical pieces of those characters to help define in plain terms anyone can understand why they do what they do.
It's hard for a lot of people to really grab on to how utterly dependent they and others make themselves on the government or those around them because they are unwittingly part of that group themselves and lack the perspective to realize it. It is also hard for those in a self-reliance mindset to see things from the perspective of someone who never got the wake up call that the world around them will only truly reward them for what they put in. This is (IMHO) in large part because we are living in a society so bent on their personal sense of entitlement that they can't separate themselves from the crowd long enough to see they are refusing to take ownership of and responsibility for their own lives.
A lot of people want to believe that they can get all of the benefits for none of the work and as thermodynamics proves every day if the energy going into the system is less than the energy coming out, the system will eventually stop. These books seem to me to be written so that these ideas are clearly expressed in terms anyone can understand to allow them to see the perspective of someone who wants to own their future, not just ride along where the hand feeding them wants them to go.
These books seem written both for people already in the survival mindset and for those who would never have thought this way on their own. I have heard comparisons of these books to those written by Rawles, Forstchen, Heinlein and Rand and it seems that AA is much closer to Forstchen and Heinlein with a bit of Rand as he is trying to put out both a wake up call and the idea that in all things you need to think for yourself and own your actions, or lack of, and their consequences.
Rawles characters seem rigid and inflexible in their approaches to situations while AA's characters bring the idea that many solutions could/will work (and some wont) but that you don't stop with suggestions you are handed from a manual, you have to keep going until you find a solution that works and own the results good or bad.
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