Havel is one of the heroes of The White Pill so I was excited to read this, since he was a writer. It is almost offensively bad and frankly disrespectful to the reader. The book alternates between the transcript of an interview between Havel and a journalist and Havel's diary--the entirety of which is totally banal and isnt even in chronological order. We hear him stressing about having to write a speech but not about why or what its contents are--or whether it ended up working out. Worse, a few one-paragraph entries are repeated verbatim throughout, though to what point I have no idea. Absolutely awful book.
They forced me into their blackout Escalade, interrogated me for hours, drove over some scary terrain, then released me for good behavior. They slipped up and revealed their next stop Las Vegas
So is Florida experiencing a housing shortage, or a supply glut where they keep building new homes while the demand is falling off a cliff? Because it can't be both, there cannot be too many undervalued homes for investors, but not enough homes for young people and it's all the fault of those boomers miserly hanging onto the homes they spent 30 making payments on
Which is the most disturbing aspect, imho: The younger generation's open and earnest expectation it is their grandparents and parents who build and provide shelter to the young, that they occupy the economy as a sort of fiddler crab, kicking the seniors out in the snow to gain access to their sweet, sweet capital, and they talk about this as if it's the only stable economy that could possibly exist. They really believe, in the bottom of their hearts, that the wealth they see around them was stolen in the 70's and 80's and it's been the Boomers' ever since, even as we live in a society where individuals create wealth by the ...
