@aaroncoleman0 @letterboxd Fun fact: while Nausicaä is commonly considered a Studio Ghibli film, it actually predates the studio by a full year, which is why it gets left off of lists like these whenever a particularly pedantic person makes them
Having made Hello World for several years now and been a journo for longer, I continue to think that risk-taking is just not baked into many cultures. There are few places where you can fail and not have that be a real mark of shame.
@souljagoytellem Not every nonfiction book has to be Discipline and Punish or Seeing Like A State. Many of them just contain information about what happened at a particular time or place
@souljagoytellem There are huge classes of nonfiction books that aren't "ideas, arguments, prose" and yet are still great/valuable. Something like Peter Wilson's Thirty Years War *contains* ideas and arguments, but primarily it's a highly accurate telling of what happened during the 30 years war
@souljagoytellem What's the point of reading a nonfiction book that isn't giving you the information you wanted? They aren't (and shouldn't be) gripping literary masterpieces, unless you're reading like Barbara Tuchman (but her books aren't true so...)