Black Reconstruction is excellent. I do still need to read the Jakarta method tho so thank you for the reminder.

Thanks, comrade. Dubois to me is vastly underrated and I appreciate being recommended a favorite!

Damn that Pamphlets guy follows him?

I grew up on grunge/90s alt and with Pearl Jam but after all that was already over. To me it was always part of one big sweet ass era of music. I get not being into the yarling, but to me its great. I don't have to know what Veder is saying cause I can feel what he's going for. They have so many good songs to me but one underrated one imo is Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.

I agree. Some people take the message to be "People suck. Man sucks and is evil. The judge is just man incarnate so he sucks and is evil and thinks he owns the world." I think it cuts deeper than that in a way I might have to read the book again to say eloquently.

I just finished it the other night and it somehow manage to exceed my already high expectations. It might have been the most violent piece of media I've consumed thus far, but I'm not sure. I grew up on black and white westerns where everything plays out nicely and the good guys never die. There are very few characters in BM I would even call good...