Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- In Praise of Leisure (“The irony, however, is that now that we have at last achieved abundance, the habits bred into us by capitalism have left us incapable of enjoying it properly.”) (via)
Bookish Linkage
- Books that shaped America
- Ten life lessons we learned from children’s books
- Books to annoy your conservative friends
- The problem with 500-page books
- Rapper sued for plagiarizing his own memoir (via)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Study indicates significantly lower crime rates in societies where many people believed in Hell compared to those where more people believed in Heaven.
- The devil — and Dan Brown — made them do it. (via
Realize that life, not stuff, is what matters. Objects are just objects — if you lose them, if they get stolen or destroyed … it’s not a big deal. They’re just objects — not your life.
Leo Babauta, “Love Life, Not Stuff
I liked the children’s book lessons, the annoy-your-local-conservative list, and the last one about the effectiveness of hell in controlling behaviors. The comments there were good too. Sad that the only thing keeping some people from lives of unchecked criminality is a fear that they will go to hell. And very scary.