Iāve now listened to On Tyranny and watched a 1-hour lecture from Snyder called āThe Road to Unfreedomā (so presumably similar content to the book).
It seemed to me that most of what Snyder said was either stuff I already knew, stuff that seemed kind-of obvious or platitude-like, or stuff I was skeptical of
This might be partly due to the book On Tyranny being under 2 hours and the talk being just 1 hour, such that Snyder opted to just give a quick overview of the ābasicsā of certain things
So I do think this might be fairly useful per minute for someone who knew quite little about things like Hitler and the Soviet Union
But I wouldnāt strongly recommend these books, and would probably recommend against them for people who already know a decent amount about these topics
Though I should again note that I havenāt actually read The Road to Unfreedom; maybe the book version is better than both the talk and the other book
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Iāve now listened to On Tyranny and watched a 1-hour lecture from Snyder called āThe Road to Unfreedomā (so presumably similar content to the book).
It seemed to me that most of what Snyder said was either stuff I already knew, stuff that seemed kind-of obvious or platitude-like, or stuff I was skeptical of
This might be partly due to the book On Tyranny being under 2 hours and the talk being just 1 hour, such that Snyder opted to just give a quick overview of the ābasicsā of certain things
So I do think this might be fairly useful per minute for someone who knew quite little about things like Hitler and the Soviet Union
But I wouldnāt strongly recommend these books, and would probably recommend against them for people who already know a decent amount about these topics
Though I should again note that I havenāt actually read The Road to Unfreedom; maybe the book version is better than both the talk and the other book