Book and Film Review
This book has a great quality of being personable and down to earth, in other words it takes fairly complex philosophies and puts it all in easy to understand and fairly common language. Having said that, I must observe that this book does include quite a bit of German to be used for what I interpret as an equivocation of German and Germanic people as being more intellectually inclined than his native English. Fortunately, being a great student of German myself, I had no problem understanding his meanings. The narrative goes through a myriad of thoughts and concepts including the politics of chimpanzees, prominence of cities on a highway sign, the finiteness of the days of one’s life and so on. The largest and perhaps most poignant diatribe of all, is Pickett’s explanation of the peacock’s tail, in which he explains the circuitousness of the attractiveness of excess. What I mean is, according to the book, peahens are attracted to peacocks with larger and more ornate tails. The reason for this is because peahens hope to breed with males who will produce offspring that will in turn attract future peahens and so on, making the fashion of long tails absurdly excessive and counterproductive to survival itself. This book delves into several concepts such as this at what I deem appropriate length and makes one think of and consider such things in a very refreshing way.
One major part of this work is the footnotes listed numbering 136 in total in 142 pages. The footnotes are nice for explanation and I’ve personally heard the author himself mention several times that most of the book is really in the footnotes. These can be very interesting throughout, and they sometimes go into the next page, but I find the explanation useful for the most part. The largest criticism I have of the book on a whole is that the story itself occasionally seems a little mundane, like a device rather than a good point, in comparison with the tangents the book goes on. This stated, I understand fully, that not only is the story itself necessary to drive the tangents themselves, but is perfectly well written and interesting in its own right. Ultimately, this book is a true inspiration to me, in the same way that going to class in university was the same whenever interesting topics would come up (which for me was very often). It made me want to go write a book of my own, though I do not yet know the style, because of something mentioned in the Tack where it says “I’ll be waiting for … Jason’s Die Weltanschauung des Jason Pickett. I would love to see more books like this and I emphatically recommend to anyone who has the slightest bit of interest in most things intellectual, relating to artificial intelligence, a new world perspective, or Germanic Europe for that matter to read this book. You can find it for free here to download, or order it too. Also if you're interested see Marc Pickett's (the author) bio, or his pictures.