Today I will start "New Achilles" by Christian Cameron. I have high hopes as he never let me down so far. He is I think my favourite historical fiction novelist after the greats such as Waltarinand Graves.

Earlier I finished a non-fiction book called Producing Desire by Dror Zevi; it was about the evolution of gender relations and sexual life in the Ottoman Empire. Sounds niche but I recommend it.

Lafargue's "the right to be lazy" enlarges on this. I read it long time ago so don't remember his suggestion but the whole book is about your questions. Lafargue was Marx's son in law btw.

Hi comrade, is something wrong with bad empanada? I watched a few of his and thought it was pretty neat. I am asking because you mention him together with vaush.

Let me tell you a story about Western idea of race (my first post on lemmy btw):

Me and a friend from Azerbaijan started our studies in Britain. The school asked us to fill a survey and one of the questions was our ethnicity. My friend is untypically Asian looking and dark skinned for Azerbaijan. But he went and picked "Caucasian" because, well he is literally Caucasian, he is from Caucasia. I on the other hand picked other white as a Turk.

Western ideas of "background", race etc are not applicable to us.