I remember very little of what ended up being a partial reading that IIRC reminded me a little of the excessive ranting of Ayn Rand, who was also on the reading list of every dedicated working class teen intellect in those dark days.
I am not a credentialed mental health professional, but I speculate that both Hitler and Rand were somewhere on the autism spectrum. I think it comes across in their writing.
Autists sometimes muster their energies into changing the world.
How Mein Kampf was written, exactly, is an interesting topic. It appears it was dictated on the fly in Landsberg, but I have a hard time imagining that there was something lost both in the communication from dictator (ha) to writer, who filled in gaps, and the ultimate translation to English.
It's insulting to Ayn Rand to compare the two, as Ayn Rand's books were at least readable from cover to cover without thoughts of suicide, but they have certain strains of rant in common, I agree.
We all got our own literary criticisms, but, man, for me ATLAS SHRUGGED was a slog. I think THE FOUNTAINHEAD is way better. She makes the same points with like 1/3rd of the pages.
I generally agree with that. There was a South Park episode where the local cop, Barbrady, learns to read and is given a copy of Atlas Shrugged as an award. He comes back a couple weeks later and says as a result of reading that piece of crap, he's never reading again.
If you can sit through a reading of Mein Kampf, cheers. What a POS book.
I couldn't, frankly. I still think people should be allowed to read shitty books if that's what they want to do.
ThereтАЩs no accounting for taste. People watch the kardashians.
I remember very little of what ended up being a partial reading that IIRC reminded me a little of the excessive ranting of Ayn Rand, who was also on the reading list of every dedicated working class teen intellect in those dark days.
I am not a credentialed mental health professional, but I speculate that both Hitler and Rand were somewhere on the autism spectrum. I think it comes across in their writing.
Autists sometimes muster their energies into changing the world.
How Mein Kampf was written, exactly, is an interesting topic. It appears it was dictated on the fly in Landsberg, but I have a hard time imagining that there was something lost both in the communication from dictator (ha) to writer, who filled in gaps, and the ultimate translation to English.
It's insulting to Ayn Rand to compare the two, as Ayn Rand's books were at least readable from cover to cover without thoughts of suicide, but they have certain strains of rant in common, I agree.
We all got our own literary criticisms, but, man, for me ATLAS SHRUGGED was a slog. I think THE FOUNTAINHEAD is way better. She makes the same points with like 1/3rd of the pages.
I generally agree with that. There was a South Park episode where the local cop, Barbrady, learns to read and is given a copy of Atlas Shrugged as an award. He comes back a couple weeks later and says as a result of reading that piece of crap, he's never reading again.