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Harrassment architecture by Mike ma is an essential read for anyone who can read, or hear in this case. This book has ruined my taste and overall patience for other books because I only want to read books like this and it's sequel.

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Author is a whining little b#&$h

This is doomer progaganda. The author needs to step out of his house and into the gym.
Yeah the world isnt in the best shape, but this was just obnoxious. I would probably rather listen to any other cookie cutter self-help than listen to this again.

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ObnoxiouslyAntagonizing, PhilosophicallyProvoking

The protagonist is disturbed. That is to put it mildly. Whether he shares the author's values or not is unknown to me seeing as I jumped into this with no perspective or prior knowledge about Mike Ma besides the Wikipedia page on 'Accelerationism'. He makes various disclaimers and assurances that some of this book is him making fun of himself and that some things the book recommends or condones are not really recommendations at all. It's confusing as the narrator doesn't really distinguish between the author's notes and the story, I guess it would be different in print.
Chapters are short, typically anywhere from 30s to 4mins. The first 10 or so chapters had me wondering if I could get through the whole book. I wondered if I really wanted to. The protagonist's sociopathy disturbed me and the author's style was discomforting.
I persisted though and soon found myself addicted. The wild and Schizophrenic ideas conveyed made me want to see what was next.
After the first few chapters I started to recognise that the message being conveyed through the book was basically to shed my nihilism and apathy that is the socially accepted norm of this age and stand up for what I believe in, whatever that may be, in a meaningful and, if required, extreme way.
I realised that this is a dangerous book. It may prompt people to be less lazy and less conforming, it rejects token generosity and token idealism, all these are good things... but ...it almost directly endorses real idealism, extremism and physical acts that take advantage of people's expectation that everyone around them respects and upholds the safety provided by general societal etiquette.
This would be a great book to analyse as some people do with Shakespeare and other literature. But only by those with the moral assurity to withstand the bombardment of PTSD inciting social extremist concepts. It reminded me of Fight Club.
The second half of this book changes its tune subtly; slowly the author starts to tell you what it is that you should be standing up for and what you should be rebelling against: multiculturalism, government, technology, gluten, processed dairy, being overweight, ugliness, modern art... women.
Don't read this if you can't tolerate racism, homophobia or sexism.
The book reads like nothing I've read before and the closest parallel I can draw is that it conveys ideas and teachings like the letters to Christian groups included in the New Testament. It tries to teach and convert through a shocking main tale with frequent interruptions in the form of ramblings of the apparent fractured mind of the protagonist. One minute describing an interaction in a coffee shop, next ranting about the benefits of raw dairy or having a fit body, then moving on to insulting all women.
Crazy, crazy book. I have trouble imagining the mind that wrote it. He's either enlightened and this is dark satire, or he's insane and this is an insight into his mind.
I guess we'll see, or we won't.

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Terrible nihilistic nonsense. This book tries way too hard to be edgy. Bring a nothing to the table besides the frustrated musings of its author. Essentially advocating right accelerationism without really giving much reason for it besides that the world as it is annoys the author and he wants it gone. A rather shallow excuse to peddle extreme rhetoric under the guise of irony. You are better off reading Ted Kazynski’s work. At least he can write while essentially saying the same thing.

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