ok it's fine. it's not revolutionary, but I think it's good for high schoolers, people who are feeling disillusioned by the world and capitalism, college freshmen in a sociology 101 class. the book asks us to question society and what we've accepted to be the rules of life and i enjoyed that. it is interesting to ask yourself how things came to be the way it is and this book answers that, albeit in a verrrry simplified way but it gets you thinking about it. that's good enough. I will read braiding sweetgrass for all the parts this book didn't get to. I don't think Quinn hit this point hard enough but the truth is if we want a new society we have to imagine and invent it ourselves completely outside of the rules we have now, we have to imagine a whole new world.

I didn't really like the way it's written, it took me forever to get through it because it felt repetitive and a bit tedious. i also don't understand why ishmael is a gorilla but ok. it didn't change my life. but it's ok :)