Dear Rob,
I think it will be difficult for me to read your memoir because I am awkward at reading English! I hope your publication is a success!๐
As for valued-customer, your teacher of American history, 'take his words with a grain of salt'.
Yeah, All living things need salt to survive, but if you eat too much, you will die!๐
He sees conspiracies lurking in every corner, and he gets so busy telling everyone to "question everything" that he forgets to question the ones who pose the questions (for they too have an agenda). He views the world as a philosophical exercise to be debated over Starbucks frappuccinos from comfortable chairs in coffee shops across the world, and builds his view of the world not on what is right or wrong but on what makes him seem the edgiest, and this makes him virtually indistinguishable from the Leninist and Stalinist collegiates who were so prolific in America in the '30's and '40's. I've personally seen him try to answer me with a meme that quoted demonstrably false statements made by a Polish eugenicist who supported Hitler, and then after having said statements debunked (by me, with fourteen citations of historically verified examples), he attempted to rehash the same meme a year later as if it was fact.
Do you think he is a leftist?๐ณ
Personally, I consider him a quack who has no independent views of his own except "if majority say sky am blue, me say it am green."
Do you think he's a sophist into conspiracy theories?
I think he's a frontier man! I thought he was a genius because he used English sentences that even East Asians like me could understand!๐
No, he has as little tolerance for leftists as I do. I think he's basically what I described above: a man so accustomed to being lied to by the majority, that he presupposes everything he hears is a lie, even if the evidence says it's true. As I said, if the mainstream (be it Left or Right) told him "water is wet," he'd insist "no, it's dry." I'm aware that the establishment is fully capable of spinning lies but when the establishment narrative and my own five senses agree, I go with my senses while he insists "no, your senses lie to you."
As to his sentence structure, I'll admit there is something to be said for the ability to make oneself understood. ๐
Dear Rob!
I have a hard time understanding the nuances of your English!๐
I felt more familiar with @valued-customer's political and diplomatic English than yours!๐