Starting a book club

I can't keep count of how many people are blocking me on here. This time it was a guy who blocked me because I told him that I read PTSD in Vonnegut's first novel (1952) already. He told me to "Womansplain this to someone else". Does anyone else have a similar neat experience or a good insight to tell about a novel? :-)

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ElRengo · 70-79, M

Though I don´t share some of her philosophic assumptions I admire the lucid and deep exposition of her worldview in most of the novels of Ursula K. Le Guin.

val70 · 51-55

@ElRengo Haven't read anything of hers yet. I know that Lady Fraser but especially Jung were an influence on her. Been reading Simone Weil myself because she's much nearer to the person that I'm now. Always did like Jung's ability to explain both the differences and communality of human kind

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@val70
From what I read in your posts (this and some others) I suggest you to read the novel "The Dispossessed" by Le Guin.

val70 · 51-55

@ElRengo Thank you. I'll look for it. I don't normally like any utopian read. Thomas More's book for one I could never finish

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@val70
Well......suggested that book precisely cos it´s far from being classical utopian literature.
It´s instead a reflection on the contradictions two societies / cultures, inner ones and between them.
And the simultaneous contradictions between individuals and their social frame.
As you (in other words) said, unity and conflict. What is also known as Dialectics.
Le Guin (and some of her characters) were / are (like Simone Weil) anarchists. And she, Ursula, stongly influenced by a variety of Taoism.
But she also seems to have (by the insights of one of her main characters, a physicist) a good familiarity with at least one historical formulations of the Quantum: the Bohm - De Broglie.
Interesting that Bohm, a realist, had a strong interest in both Taoism and Jung!