/lounge/ Book Club

Social media, Netflix, TV, movies... that's for human garbage.

Read books to improve your life. Not garbage grocery store romance novels or best-selling pleb shit, but important books. No scifi or fantasy escapist trash either. Read books that make you think.

What kind of books have you read lately? What kinds of books do you like?

Here are some books I like:
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Society of the Spectacle
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Can Life Prevail?
Propaganda
Walden
Th Ego and Its Own
Authority and the Individual
The Machine Stops
Technological Slavery
Crime and Punishment
The Collapse of Western Civilization

Books I plan on reading:
Animal Farm
The Will to Power
The Degenerate Society: Postmodernism And How You Can Oppose It
The Panopticon Writings
Beyond Good and Evil
The Decline of the West
Why Nations Fail
Revolt Against the Modern World
Democracy: The God That Failed
Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

I read a lot of programming books too, though you'll notice that I didn't list any here. Even though it's the industry I'm in, I can't help but feel like tech is soulless bugman shit that is accelerating the rise of degeneracy in the west.

Ideologically-driven books are the most captivating. They're the kinds of books that make you want to read them cover to cover.

But enough about my taste in books. So what do you like? And what would you recommend reading?

>>146
In those terms, sexual psychology literature is just about dudes putting dicks in vaginas, or something.

>>156
The major mistake traditionalists make is believing that the ideas of the past can be brought into the present with the same authenticity they had, as a carbon copy. They fail to see that the experience of truth of each event is necessarily connected to its location in space and time, even if the truth may be true everywhere and all the time. As Marcuse elegantly wrote,

>The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Their intellect is able to recognise a fundamental shift, a qualitative shift, but the inability to think abstractly (which as Hegel reminds us is a learned ability) means that for them, mass culture can only be critiqued from the standpoint of a fixed point in the past, a nostalgic point. Lack of abstract thinking means the traditionalist must take a concrete catalyst rather than a systemic one. Little do they realise, this exact thinking feeds perfectly into modern liberal-subjectivist ideology, in which all change is the result of conscious and real human collusion, usually among "the Jews", "the capitalists", etc. Note how in order to critique capitalism (or even Judaism) they'd have to think abstractly.