I finished the audiobook. Is this book club still happening? I’ll keep an eye here…
Here are a few things that stuck with me, would be interested to know your ones too:
- Is pain really the only driver of change? Are we as a collective still that basic? Glad it works out in the book, but I wonder if we’ll have to see (or worse) the same level of violence in our lifetime.
- Airships and those sailboats, where do I sign to travel that way tomorrow!?
- Mondragon Corporation/Coop, reminded me somehow of the Catalan Integral Cooperative, but I’ll need to do some more reading to figure them out (differences and similarities, etc). It does feel like something I’d like to try, to taste if anything, at some point… maybe they both represent ways that could work more broadly within this economic machinery, that’d create feasible alternative models for working while taking care of people. Interesting.
- The science/engineering that goes on in Antarctica and in the Arctic is so, so fascinating! I loved those parts so much.
And finally, …it’s not really an interesting novel, but I think the novel was a pleasant way to showcase a lot of different interesting ideas that are already floating around, maybe trying to showing their collective potential? And anyway, we didn’t read this book because of the story, right? I guess The Years of Rice and Salt was satisfying that hunger for stories 