Spirit Level
Monday, April 26th, 2010
2 many fried twinkies
I finished my essay, went home, took a two hour nap, and got up for work.
HAPPY MONDAY
It’s actually not that bad, sometimes I have this crazy thing where I’m more awake the less I sleep.
So I’m reading this book: Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: for Professor Bennett’s COM/POLI SCI 411 class. It’s about social and economic inequality, and it has a pretty good hook: evidence-based politics. Yeah. Sounds sexy, doesn’t it?
After the constant spins of climate change, reliable explanations are welcome. In fact, most of the time I’m asking questions without answers (WHY do narwhals have horns?), so when I do get a great answer to anything (i.e. the Great Recession, why CEO’s make 45 times the amount of its average worker) it’s pretty exciting. And I’m only on page five.
“…For the vast majority of people in affluent countries the difficulties of life are no longer about filling out stomachs, having clean water and keeping warm. Most of us now wish we could eat less rather than more. And, for the first time in history, the poor are– on average– fatter than the rich.” (5)
Ah, the times we live in. Goodness.
Graceee
PS: What is with weird dreams plaguing me with sensitive impossibilities???
