The Cheating Culture

The Cheating Culture by David Callahan (hardcover 295pages)

...is one of those books that I picked up to get an idea of what's going on in the society right now. It's got a lot of interesting (but mostly depressing, as you might've guessed from the title) information and was a surprisingly good read, considering its genre and prose style. The opinion part, of course, has to be taken with a grain of salt. It made me think. It also made me feel somewhat paranoid but for all that most of it is about things that would make me more cynical, it ended on a surprisingly positive note -- mainly consisting of the author saying: okay, we have all these problems, but this is what we can do about them and it can be done.

That being said, Lucy, if you're still reading this, I'd like it if you read this book some time, so we can talk about it. A lot of its premises are based on socioeconomic paradigms and I'm curious to see what someone who actually knows something about economics can say about it. (Like I've said, I've mostly read it for the facts and I don't know enough to evaluate the opinions.)

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In other news, started Master and Commander but don't like it much right now.