Spoilers for From Time to Time and An American Haunting:
>!Movies like From Time to Time, where the ghost is actually a time traveler or An American Haunting, where the ghost is the physic projection of an abuse victim, etc !<
Hardly surprising, he's long been an advocate for Mines Advisory Group and Clear Path International, which aims to help civilian victims of the military industrial complex in over 70 countries, including Palestine, Sudan, and Syria.
I know there's a few subs about leftist books, but they don't seem to have any real traffic, so I thought I'd ask here. I like to think I'm pretty well read but Hemingway is kind of blind spot for me. I've only read The Old Man and The Sea (because it's his shortest book), and found it to be okay, but I feel that I likely missed the deeper point of the story.
In popular culture Hemingway often comes across like kind of chud, constantly talking about authenticity while being the personification of performative masculinity. I occasionally see good quotes from him, but I've generally found most things I've heard about him fairly off-putting.
For reference I'm quite fond of the social criticisms from Vonnegut, Emerson, Robert M. Pirsig, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Wendell Berry, Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem, and Rebecca Solnit. I also enjoyed Theodore Roosevelt's essays from "A Strenuous Life," which I point out because he feels like a comparable figure to Hemingway in many respects.
I'm really just curious what "like-minded" people think.
Also, if you have a recommendation, especially for any of his lesser known work, I'd love to hear it.
Quote is at 34:50 when summarizing Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life.
While no one is above critique, and Schweitzer has occasionally been accused of having a white savior complex, that is a insanely reductive way to describe a dedicated humanitarian who wrote things like, "Who can describe the injustice and cruelties that in the course of centuries they [the coloured peoples] have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible."
I guess, "12 dollars and minor academic acclaim," doesn't quite roll off the tongue.