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You people don't make sense to me. Like watching two scenes from a movie then switching to another unrelated movie. It don't make sense.

I'm not autistic to the point that I have to live inaide a book to enjoy it. I can keep a casual distance from what I read.

I don't mean enjoyment, I mean absorption. That's where we probably differ. I basically only read non fiction.

I'm like 75% non-fiction. Actually a good pairing of fiction and non-fiction has helped me with absorption. For example, I thoroughly recommend people read Snow Crash alongside The Sovereign Individual. Snow crash is a literal imagining of mid-stage socioeconomic consequences of Mogg's futurist ideas. The ideas of hyper-balkanized ideogical/economic enclaves are front and center in the first chapters of Snow Crash's narrative.

And my latest pairing is gonna be funny. Frankenstein is all about the involuntary existence as a socially isolated monstrosity, and it will be playful to see how he could apply Carnegie's ultra-positive, people-pleasing philosophy to his raging, resentful existence.

That actually sounds like a solid strategy. I was talking to someone about this yesterday, a story helps outline a rationale. It's why if you ask me about a podcast I just listened to, I can't remember it all, but if someone is telling a story a week later, I start rattling off the whole premise and details because it's pertinent. That association is clearly strong. Btc Standard and Atlas Shrugged back to back kind of did that. I bet if layered them, it would've done exactly that and gave me more fodder when I'm recalling the details. Right now it's A People's History by Howard Zinn. Maybe I should work in a period piece.

I'm willing to bet there will be more confirmation than contraciction but I will be very curious to find out how that pans out when you're done.