Brilliant guidebook...
5 stars
Yeah, it could be better, there were things that turned me off... But it has well, I don't know, 21 topics, each with multiple different authors. So there's bound to be some bits that just don't seem to hit things quite right.
The authors who I was skeptical of, managed to speak to their expertise, and not step into the territory they have made significant flubs in. Just some of it was, "you must learn all this stuff, before speaking on this topic." Which is genuinely valid, but can very much come across as very gatekeeping, and turn people away. Not much, but some was like that.
I say, take what works, and leave the rest. And probably if this is a book you'd read either as a youth, or a radical, or as a supporter of the youth, or a supporter of radical people. Most of this is stuff …
Yeah, it could be better, there were things that turned me off... But it has well, I don't know, 21 topics, each with multiple different authors. So there's bound to be some bits that just don't seem to hit things quite right.
The authors who I was skeptical of, managed to speak to their expertise, and not step into the territory they have made significant flubs in. Just some of it was, "you must learn all this stuff, before speaking on this topic." Which is genuinely valid, but can very much come across as very gatekeeping, and turn people away. Not much, but some was like that.
I say, take what works, and leave the rest. And probably if this is a book you'd read either as a youth, or a radical, or as a supporter of the youth, or a supporter of radical people. Most of this is stuff you can take. And honestly... I wouldn't mind going through this again and doing a more thorough review piece by piece. It would be a huge amount of work, which I'd never get to. But it's work that I'd like to think I'd be willing to do.