• naught101@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was pretty inspiring to me

    (I’ll also add that Anna Funder’s Wifedom make Orwell seem a bit fucked in his personal life. I haven’t read it yet, just had convos with people who did. Seems maybe Homage to Catalonia could have been a better book if he was less of a mysogynist)

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        2 hours ago

        I think there’s something about the type of people who are attracted to fame and power being more likely to be sociopathic, or at least more narcissistic. Not all of them, just a higher-than-background rate.

        I don’t find it hard to find great people IRL.