## Metadata - Author: [[J.M.R. Higgs ]] - Full Title: Stranger Than We Can Imagine - Category: #books ## Highlights - Very few of the adventurers who tackle the twentieth century make it through postmodernism and out the other side. More typically, they admit defeat and retreat to base camp. This is the world as it was understood at the end of the nineteenth century, just over the border, safe in friendly territory. We are comfortable with the great discoveries that emerged up until then. Innovations such as electricity or democracy are comprehensible, and we take them in our stride. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B016HBZ1EU&location=140)) - As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse. ([Location 1177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B016HBZ1EU&location=1177))