I bought another book like an idiot

I ordered a book. It was just another book on zero budget movie production. It was stupid because by now it's pretty obvious how to make a movie with no money. I think the only purpose they serve now is to reassure the would-be zero-budget filmmaker that they can get away with all sorts of things. The one that made the most sense to me was Mike Carroll's Naked Filmmaking which assured readers that they don't need a crew, that you can use automatic settings on a video camera, that you may have to move your actors closer to a window or a lamp but you can film in existing light if that's what you want to do and that some camcorders have perfectly good built-in mics although he was partial to wireless mics.

But I bought this other book. I regretted it when I read more about the author and learned he was an alt right jackass. But when I tried to arrange to return it to Amazon they gave me something I was supposed scan on a smart phone. I don't know why they assume every person owns a smart phone. Then I had to take it to a grocery store owned by Amazon, so I put off returning it until it was too late and now I'm stuck with it.

Read a little of it. It wasn't terrible. I watched one of his very low budget westerns on Tubi and it was better than most of the others I've seen. It was coherent anyway. The alt-right stuff, if you didn't recognize what he was getting at, was sort of interesting, too. Those people try to defend slavery by saying that free Blacks owned slaves, too. In general, Blacks who bought slaves bought members of their own families in order to free them. In the case of whites, it was the opposite. White slave owners fathered children who remained slaves. They enslaved and sold their own children.

But it was an interesting twist in the movie that a violent, psychopathic Black guy was a former slave owner. Interesting that anyone would consider this a defense of the Confederacy.