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20% of this book is actually the philosophy Watts set out to write about, the other 80% is rambling tangents which dampen the impact and grandiosity of the topic at hand. I wouldn’t call it a bad book, just not what I was looking for.
A lot of Watt’s statements I disagreed with, but this was such a headache to read I can’t actually remember what they were. I think it’s about time American white men stopped writing poor expressions of eastern faiths if I’m being quite honest. Watts presents himself as an interpreter of Hinduism and Taoism but how can a man as wealthy as him be a purveyor of this knowledge when his very existence as a wealth hoarder contradicts the core elements of these faiths.... annoying. Whatever. Just read the Bhagavad Gita.
A lot of Watt’s statements I disagreed with, but this was such a headache to read I can’t actually remember what they were. I think it’s about time American white men stopped writing poor expressions of eastern faiths if I’m being quite honest. Watts presents himself as an interpreter of Hinduism and Taoism but how can a man as wealthy as him be a purveyor of this knowledge when his very existence as a wealth hoarder contradicts the core elements of these faiths.... annoying. Whatever. Just read the Bhagavad Gita.