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/lounge/ Book Club

Name: Anonymous 2018-07-01 17:45

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?

Name: Anonymous 2018-10-11 10:41

>>135
This book is greenpilled on astral parasites, even if its garbage-level scifi.
Many think of astral parasites as dumb predatory leeches, but they're in fact organized and smart in quantity - they're telepathic and have a hive mind of sort(the idea of egregores is close). Mental illness and demonic possession are one and the same thing, astral parasite infestation.

Name: Anonymous 2018-10-11 11:05

>>161
Ironically the only thing preventing total mind parasite takeover is certain mantra-like language constructs that repel their energies or cause them damage, and that book fixation on telepathy and psychokinesis is completely ineffective as defense, in fact telepathy is opening mental circuits that are normally closed and defended by the mind("closed mind"), while psychokinesis is wasting energy for external objects.

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-11 16:59

>>58
Someone described it perfectly here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18883783

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-11 22:33

Read books to improve your life. Not garbage grocery store romance novels or best-selling pleb shit, but important books.
a lot of the ones you mentioned are best selling books though

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-12 5:05

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Fooled By Randomness, Black Swan, Skin in the Game. & Antifragile

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-12 6:38

The Runaways by R Thomas

Name: !Ps1ivhrO6w 2020-05-02 15:56

I am reading or planning to read:

Le Grimoire des Plantes,
Prometheus Rising, (to treat my mental disease)

The Art of Unix Programming,
Learning Perl Writing Exploits,
Elements of Cryptography, (to repay my intellectual debt)

Thinking Systems,
Foundations of Geopolitics, (to understand the world)

The Prophet,
Illiad. (to become bluepilled by heroics and mysticism)

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-03 3:21

Elephant in the Brain

Or look at this guy's book reviews :

https://www.nateliason.com/notes

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-04 5:34

>>167
Very cool book stack. Hope you've read at least half of them by next month.

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-05 22:44

>>167
Are you sure foundation of geopolitics isn't just some boomers rambling? Seems to me like fan fiction. It isn't even translated.

Name: !Ps1ivhrO6w 2020-05-06 1:58

>>170
My brother rec'd it to me along with Thinking in Systems, but he confessed that he only read the wikipedia article (and already become impressed by it).

It does seem untranslated after I searched for it though.

I might get it in russian and machine translate it if I must.

Name: !Ps1ivhrO6w 2020-05-06 2:06

It appears to be composed of eight parts, the two first parts being the most valuable

https://michaelmillerman.ca/2018/06/11/alexander-dugins-foundations-of-geopolitics-a-table-of-contents/

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-06 17:42

>>172
Alexander Dugin is a crazy neo-nazi scumbag. Reading his garbage is like watching Alex Jones. In fact, Dugin was a founding member of a Russian national socialist organization NBP - national-bolshevik party. Its goals were the same as of NSDAP.

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-06 17:43

Name: !Ps1ivhrO6w 2020-05-06 22:25

>>173,174
Its goals were the same as of NSDAP.
I am not interested in goals, but in useful information. Black-and-white discarding an author because his goals don't align with mine would be such a waste of grey matter.

I also don't know where to stand on the political spectrum yet (mostly because I severely lack knowledge of history, as I fully admit). My state would be transparent, full accountability for any public position, non-public persons should have their privacy and reputation guaranteed, even if they commit crime. And a restorative judicial system, where after damage is recognized it attempts to reverse it to the burden of the offender and his family ties in a breadth-first search fashion. No one ever goes to jail, because it is such a waste of public resources. Irreversible damage might be tricky to deal with, but nothing justifies the amount of waste I see being done in current epoch.

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-25 0:24

I am saving up a lot by printing books, especially english books not available in portuguese, since dollar is so expensive currently.

I printed 1169 pages, 585 sheets, only about 230R$, or 46$, which on amazon would have cost me 75$ without shipping, at least.

Name: Burger King 2020-05-25 0:37

>>176
I'm saving a lot more by using an E-reader

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-25 19:20

>>177
My e-reader (kindle) stopped working properly, the e-ink got really weak, and impossible to read.

Name: Anonymous 2020-05-26 20:04

>>178
Do you plan to buy another one? I have a kindle too but I'd like a little bigger screen and the ability to read the .mobi format. (I buy most of my books from the russian libgen store)

Name: Anonymous 2020-09-26 20:32

I'm back

To the "security concern" over pdf's, that prevented me from sharing them with you all last time,

Is there a way to vet pdf's somehow, or vet a downgraded version of them, or vet a different file format?

I've been curating my book library ( https://github.com/Capaverde/super-hell2/tree/master/files/ebook ), and I'm interested in sharing it...

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-03 21:56

>>162
I think I'm infected. What mantra will repel them?

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-08 23:29

>>179
I don't plan on buying another... Maybe it is just weak battery, but, like I said in >>176, I've really adapted to the mode of printing my books.

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-14 21:17

western civilization isn't degenerating,
but simply running out of other areas to exploit

propaganda works both ways,
they are less free, so we should oppose them, make war with them, exploit them
they have barbaric customs, so we should oppose them, make war with them, exploit them

they are somehow contagious,
they are an obstacle to the progress of our civilization,
their women are being oppressed
so we denigrate for the course, make war if we must, exploit if we win
there simply is no other program
you will not find anything else on this earth

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-14 22:49

>>1 the only book you need to read is Mein Kampf.

>>2-183
Full of shit.

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-14 23:23

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-15 4:48

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-15 14:15

>>186
Yes, thank you!

But it only works if I pronounce it correctly, right?

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-15 14:44

Try reading mantra sites they give hints on how to pronounce it.
It mostly follows direct phonetic reading. Edited on 15/10/2020 14:48.

Name: Anonymous 2020-10-15 18:25

suck my penis

Name: !Ps1ivhrO6w 2020-11-01 16:47

>>170-172

I found the original in russian and machine translated it.

https://i.imgur.com/1sIuKCu.jpg

Name: Anonymous 2021-01-28 18:46

bump

Name: Anonymous 2021-01-29 8:11

I like amusing ourselves to death too.

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