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A review by phsn
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
4.0
“You’ve got to find language and concepts to tell yourself that what you’re doing is okay”
✔️Dreams that deviate & led astray ✔️Obsessions & messiness of intentions ✔️An everlasting reminder from a story set in war ✔️How technologies slips away from its intended path
To make sense of this book I had to remind myself that it took place somewhere after WW1 and during WW2 where countries were trying their best to win/shorten the war. They define morale differently and their actions were driven by efforts to win in the middle of mad times. Brutal things happenned during war though they didn’t quite reason with it, each side did something nasty in the quest of power & victory.
So I shift my focus on storyline and the values as long as I’m able to set apart and recognise limitations.
▪️Unwavering faith leads to goals
▪️Obsessions may led us astray but it also brings progress, innovation, joy, beauty, etc
▪️Work on our spirituality apart from mental, physical, and emotional —“God reveals truth through people who are willing to work hard and to use their minds to discover God’s truths.”
▪️Surround ourselves with constructive people —revolutionaries birthed through converstions and interactions with groups that shared the same goals
▪️true believers/man of their principles double down and restrategise when their convictions are confronted by reality
▪️It’s not merely bout the goal, the methods/process/how we get there matters —“You can have everything if you’re willing to walked away from your faith” but a promise too good to be true are often just that & it will backfire
The bomber mafia ideology (precision bombing and only destroy machine of war instead of people of war) didn’t really won the air fight. Back then the weather wasn’t permitting nor does friction which the ideology was led astray. Hansell was a man of his principle which he insist on the ideology but it was futile. Then he lose his job to LeMay who was more flexible and ruthless.
Plus point: for some insights regarding Pearl Harbour and Hiroshima/Nagasaki raids but it still not making any sense. I guess the war made people irrational. They say back then Japan production took place at houses as much as factories which is why they target civilians. I have a lot to say about what happened but not enough info to based on. It’s simply people carrying out the deed for their nation —overworked, tired, and desperate.
#HanieReads #TimesReads @TimesReads
✔️Dreams that deviate & led astray ✔️Obsessions & messiness of intentions ✔️An everlasting reminder from a story set in war ✔️How technologies slips away from its intended path
To make sense of this book I had to remind myself that it took place somewhere after WW1 and during WW2 where countries were trying their best to win/shorten the war. They define morale differently and their actions were driven by efforts to win in the middle of mad times. Brutal things happenned during war though they didn’t quite reason with it, each side did something nasty in the quest of power & victory.
So I shift my focus on storyline and the values as long as I’m able to set apart and recognise limitations.
▪️Unwavering faith leads to goals
▪️Obsessions may led us astray but it also brings progress, innovation, joy, beauty, etc
▪️Work on our spirituality apart from mental, physical, and emotional —“God reveals truth through people who are willing to work hard and to use their minds to discover God’s truths.”
▪️Surround ourselves with constructive people —revolutionaries birthed through converstions and interactions with groups that shared the same goals
▪️true believers/man of their principles double down and restrategise when their convictions are confronted by reality
▪️It’s not merely bout the goal, the methods/process/how we get there matters —“You can have everything if you’re willing to walked away from your faith” but a promise too good to be true are often just that & it will backfire
The bomber mafia ideology (precision bombing and only destroy machine of war instead of people of war) didn’t really won the air fight. Back then the weather wasn’t permitting nor does friction which the ideology was led astray. Hansell was a man of his principle which he insist on the ideology but it was futile. Then he lose his job to LeMay who was more flexible and ruthless.
Plus point: for some insights regarding Pearl Harbour and Hiroshima/Nagasaki raids but it still not making any sense. I guess the war made people irrational. They say back then Japan production took place at houses as much as factories which is why they target civilians. I have a lot to say about what happened but not enough info to based on. It’s simply people carrying out the deed for their nation —overworked, tired, and desperate.
#HanieReads #TimesReads @TimesReads