1. I cannot think of one off the top of my head, but if I had to choose a book it would have to have some sort of utilitarian value and some sort of helpful skill set.
2. Yes, knowledge is power. Knowledge can destroy relationships; help you gain the upper hand in a war, etc… However, I don’t believe it is an “independent” power because knowledge still needs to be followed by action to take any effect.
3. Yes and No, if a potentially dangerous idea is formulated in some guys basement and no action is taken, it is not dangerous. As a matter of fact, no ideas are dangerous, it is the action that follows that is dangerous.
4. I don’t know, ideas aren’t really worth losing your life for. If you should love an idea so much that you would go to such extremes that someone decided they need to kill you, there is a BIG problem.
5. Yes! It is important to preserve history.
I am unsure if i will like this book. Judging from the first chapter,
George and Lennie's relationship is a bit odd. To Lennie, George is like an older brother or a father of sorts, however, i think that George pities Lennie more than he actually wants to take care of him. It doesn't seem like a half bad book, but there is no way of telling from just reading one chapter.
Nothing is wrong with communism... in theory. In a real world application, however, things start to get ugly. Just take the USSR for example, everything SOUNDED great but then it turns out that someone has to have all the riches. Stalin turned out to be that someone. As of now, there is no way as of now to perfectly support the ideas of Marx and the others, but if someone got it right, there probably wouldn't be anything wrong with it.
I totally agree, there is a big difference between being someones keeper and watching their back. I think keeper is way to strong of a term because it implies (at least to me) that you are the one and only caretaker of this "Brother figure" It implies that you are in a strong, beneficial, and mutual relationship; where if one person is to fall the other would fall with him or her. However, each human being is themselves and themselves alone, so, instead of leaning on each other, every one should be self dependable so if the other person falls they will not fall to. I am not saying that people should not depend on one another, all i am saying is that everyone should have a "backup plan". There is evil in the world and even more than that there is HUMAN NATURE, someone may return your help with hurt.
