Did get quite a lot of reading done and read loads of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It was certainly scary and very exciting too (bizarre for a book that's essentially about economics!) but it really opened my eyes to all the things that had been happening in the world over the last twenty to thirty years. I'd always had this view as a kid that history pretty much ended at the end of the second world war - that after that, there wasn't anything else interesting that happened. Then it turns out that war in itself never really stopped, it's just that the front line shifted. As NK says in the book - this is a new war - one with no specific enemy, no specific place of engagement, and no end in sight. The enemy could be anyone, even me! Anyone that stands in the way of profit. There was actually one point last week where I'd (perhaps foolishly) read before going to bed and I was so wired from the experience that I couldn't sleep until after 1am! It's a long time since that happened
