With woke slop, the authors aren’t telling you the truth of their experience as they see it, but rather as they think they are allowed to believe.
I read the original version of this book decades ago. I found it helpful, and it was a useful exercise to translate it into modern terms for myself, in real-time.
MrBuddyCasino•1mo ago
They even went so far ahead as to make quotes from other people gender neutral and politically correct.
Most of the revised editions available today do not include Parts 5 and 6. Even the included parts see many paragraphs and examples omitted.
In many places, characters in examples who were male have been edited to be female.
It appears that Carnegie’s relatives decided to heavily excise content and highhandedly edit the work to match their own sensibilities and what appears to the webmasters as a feminist agenda.
The unrevised edition as on this website is complete without exclusions and edits.
We believe this text written by Dale Carnegie himself while he was alive without the alterations made by his relatives after his death is more readable, complete, and enjoyable.“
GaryBluto•1mo ago
mgrat•1mo ago
> Men should express their appreciation of a woman’s effort to look well and dress becomingly. All men forget, if they have ever realized it, how profoundly women are interested in clothes.
> Mrs Lincoln’s jealousy was so foolish, so fierce, so incredible, that merely to read about some of the pathetic and disgraceful scenes she created in public – merely reading about them seventy-five years later makes one gasp with astonishment. She finally went insane; and perhaps the most charitable thing one can say about her is that her disposition was probably always affected by incipient insanity.
JSR_FDED•1mo ago
Maybe Carnegie’s relatives decided the book could appeal to a 2x audience?
ramblerman•1mo ago
So if a book uses male examples it only appeals to males, but if it uses female examples it appeals to both males and females?
apothegm•1mo ago
palmotea•1mo ago
Books really shouldn't be turned into brands. If you're going to have someone who's not the author revise a book, they should put the revisor's name on the cover as one of the authors.
hwj•3w ago