What This Place Is

A place to wind through my weird knowledge and connections based on my hyperfixations

My Current Hyperfixations

The rise of pre-war fascism and how to relate it to the modern rise and countering it
The British homefront in WWII
Traditional planetary correspondences
Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
Community building
Social psychology, particularly belonging and its relationship to developing extremist views
Philosphy, particularly the philosophy of the soul and the sense of self, and how it ties in and through someone's sense of belonging
Gardening
Canadian Mennonite history

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nigel Goodrick-Clarke
Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley
Micro Activism: How You Can Make A Difference in the World (without a Bullhorn) by Omkari L. Williams
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945 by Julie V. Gottlieb

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Talk: The Science of Conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe
New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
The Book of Possibilities: Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming by Bee Quammie
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Joy of Wintering by Erin Niimi Longhurst
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation to Fail by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt