„We use the unrevised edition because we believe the revised edition (the revisions were done by Carnegie’s relatives after his death) forcefully makes the language of the book gender neutral and politically correct and takes away from the originality of the work.
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.“
I have the same problem with woke slop as I have with AI slop: it is data without a coherent context. You think you are receiving an intentional message from a specific person, but lo, you are merely being manipulated.
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.
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[ 181 ms ] story [ 954 ms ] threadThey 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.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
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.