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What no one wants to accept is too many people on too little land. The earth is barely holding on.
The soil is on it's deathbed and we got a feeding tube keeping it going. Sure it will keep going. But at what cost.
Does "grapes of wrath" mean anything to you?
Not really, no. I have heard people mention it.
I think some children have read it in school as guided learning. But it doesn't seem to have much value because people never seem to have gained any knowledge from the book that they mention so I see no reason to read it. No argument or fact is ever generated from people reading the book and bring it up.
Largely I come across is when people mentioned they have read it and have some knowledge how to be critical of it as parroted by some education curriculum. But is seems more of a English project like when I read Shakespeare and was asked what the author meant, rather than something based on science or economics with ideas and knowledge to be learnt.
You don't think a book is worth reading because educators use it as a critical thinking tool?
You always appear to be have taken offense to having asking to be asked to think critically of Shakespeare and cannot see the value of those plays because of this offense.
Fascinating.
The analysis of the piece is the educational purpose not the piece itself. Just like as mentioned Shakespeare. Are you suggesting I should use Shakespeare as to understand modern politics?
Grapes of wrath means nothing to be because I haven't read it. If there is any important facts within it then they will stand alone.
Otherwise the argument for reading it is the same as the argument of "do your own research".
Provide something of note or don't bother. Reading a fiction book isn't my way of learning about the world and I don't think it should be yours.