Naja der Hinweis im Artikel darauf dass die Ermittlung quasi unmöglich durchzuführen ist, ist doch total valide.
Ja man könnte den CPI vielleicht genauer ermitteln, aber irgendwo wirds dann nichtmehr machbar vom Aufwand und der Vergleichbarkeit.
In der Messtechnik kann man auch nur Werte oberhalb des Grundrauschens messen, kleinere Werte unterhalb dieser Schwelle sind halt einfach nicht darstellbar ohne Fehler zu machen.
Wobei ich immer gern behaupte dass das mit der sinkenden Lebensqualität nicht stimmt. Der Mensch vergisst einfach leider zu viel.
Wenn du mal heute im Discounter schaust was für mega geile super tolle Lebensmittel du kaufen kannst und wie es 1995 beim Discounter aussah, dann zeigt sich dass die Lebensqualität immens gestiegen ist. Es ist eher einem psychologischen Fehler anzulasten dass wir Menschen soetwas aber nicht wahrnehmen können.
Jeder versteht, wenn man sagt dass ein Hartz4 Empfänger heute mehr Lebensqualität hatte als ein reicher Fürst vor 1000 Jahren. Aber in einem Zeitraum von 30 Jahren sind die Menschen irgendwie blind dafür.
Ich möchte jedem Schwarzmaler folgendes Buch wärmstens ans Herz legen, es hat mir persönlich wahnsinnig viel gebracht und meine Lebensanschauung verändert:
Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves https://www.amazon.de/dp/0007267126/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_N2N0CGX64TFMQRP1KHZ9
Aldous Huxley was inspired to write Brave New World by a book called "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Perhaps if you liked BNW you will also like that.
Here is an Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/We-Yevgeny-Zamyatin/dp/0380633132
crime and punishment will always be that one book that i love a little to much-- a dear friend of mine suggested it to be during a rough time 💗 i felt very touched by this book, fyodor dostoevsky has such a way with his writing! 🌸 i will always keep this book close to my heart, it is truly a masterpiece 💗
How about We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Wikipedia entry, Amazon link Hey, now that I look at it, that's the same copy I have!)? Dystopian future book, written by a Russian in Russia, right around the time Stalin was consolidating his power (It got him exiled. Twice! Well, it was a factor at least). Also around that time was when we were first really trying to study the brain and how it worked, so there's some cool influences from that as well.
I'd really recommend it.
There's a bilingual book on amazon with classical russian short stories!
It's got stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, etc... All of them between 10-20 pages long.
Beware, obviously, of archaic language. The russian text is written in reformed russian, but nevertheless, some words or expressions can be a bit archaic.
Either way, its a very good book that i especially recommend.
Likely as well. For 14 bucks its right here. Best 14 bucks youll ever spend:
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I thought every kid had this read to him/her when they were young.
Crime and Punishment. It's not as long as stuff like War & Peace, and it was a real page-turner for me. It heavily shines a spotlight on the human condition which is what I personally love about classic Russian Lit.
Here is the translation I read which I found to be very accessible.
I'm not for certain, but I believe they only have one version of that particular translation available. The one I linked is the exact same copy I own, you can get it for very cheap if you buy it used. https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Volokhonsky-Translation-Classics/dp/0679734503/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2MEEVNALMH50Z&keywords=crime+and+punishment+pevear+and+volokhonsky+translation&qid=1564789575&s=gateway&sprefix=crime+and+%...
https://www.amazon.ca/Gulag-Archipelago-Vol-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0061253715/
We have way better technology now than they did in the Soviet Union. Read that book and then imagine what they could do when every single phone has a far field microphone, satellites can see every hair on everyones head everywhere, and every transaction you make is recorded and analyzed with AI.
The argument I used to hear growing up about why our loss of privacy wasn't such a big deal was that "what do you have to hide?" Well, when your data is all out in the open you can program behaviour. That's what was such a big deal.
One day people will see.
I don't need an echo-chamber to be anti-government, just a basic understanding of history. Have you ever read about the 20th century? 100 million people were murdered by their own leftist-totalitarian governments - you know that right?
There are a lot of stupid people hellbent on making the same mistakes in current year.
I agree with your assessments, but just want to confirm that Catherine Merridale, who wrote Ivan's War, is a legitimate historian.
The book is absolutely worth the read.
I also highly recommend A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945.
The book is edited by Anthony Beevor, and is compiled from the notebooks of Red Star correspondent Vasily Grossman.
Thanks. Damn it. I read somewhere that the Russian language has not changed that much in the last few hundred years, so I figured Dostoevsky would be fine...does that mean that Chekhov, Tolstoy, Bunin, Gogol are all no-gos too? i.e. the authors in this highly rated book
Thing is, I really prefer to learn from online parallel texts, and so far at least, I can only find a few instances which don't use what you guys are telling me is archaic Russian. Mostly short stories. I'll switch to them now, but once I run out of those I'll be going back to Crime & Punishment. I'm only learning as a hobbie anyway, as an offshoot from my interest in opera singing (I like Russian romance/sang poetry & operas, which I believe are mostly archaic language anyway) so fuck it!
Would you say learning from a parallel text version of the bible is bad too?
It seems mad to me though that knowing the vocabulary of, and being exposed to the grammar of a few chapters of Crime & Punishment will do NOTHING for my Russian language skills...oh well...
I read a pretty decent book by Vasily Grossman called "a writer at war: a Soviet journalist with the red army, 1941-1945." Fairly short read and gives some solid insight to life in the eastern front.
https://www.amazon.com/Writer-War-Soviet-Journalist-1941-1945/dp/0307275337
Also, Antony Beevor's books, "Stalingrad" and "Berlin: the downfall, 1945" are both solid reads about the eastern front.
Here you go, have a read and then try to justify authoritarian rule.
I bought Volume I, this edition.
Read The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley for an alternative viewpoint. You don't have to agree with everything but it's good to know that there is an different take.
I'm sorry, but I think this is a ridiculous way to imagine trying learn a language by reading. If you want to see English translations alongside Russian text, you should be looking for a dual language book, such as this one: http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Stories-Dual-Language-English-Edition/dp/0486262448.
No particular order:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell;
This translation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy;
Otherworld quadrilogy by Tad Williams, also Memory Sorrow & Thorn trilogy;
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon;
Dark Tower series by Stephen King (Books 1 - 4.5, anyway);
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen;
The Master: A Novel by Colm Tobin;
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin;
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson - also Anathem and the Diamond Age;
Just about anything by Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake, Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin)
You very well could have, I've heard only good things about the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.
By chance, your name wouldn't be Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell, my very young friend who is learning to spell?
I loved this Dr. Seuss Book: On Beyond Zebra.
Lots more bonus letters there for the taking!
I like the letters "Glikk" and "Thnadd," but the choice is really up to you....
Master and Margarita by M. Bulgakov, considered as one of the best pieces of Russian litterature. I have read it 6 times already and every readthrough I discover something new.
The story is awesome, the devil comes to Moscow to organise a ball. In the meantime he wreaks havok on the city all the while reminiscing about Jesus trial and execution and turning a woman into a witch...
You have to read it in order to understand how awesome it is.
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We and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? (became Blade Runner)
Don't just read the entire book, read the one translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It's considered far and away the best translated version of War and Peace ever. It's about 1300 pages, so man up and read it.