/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?

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I don't "hate" books as a medium. I just explain why books are outdated, their main flaw and how relying on a "central narrative" without criticism is building dogmatic thinking - book-smart ideologues without independent thought.

You can use books as source, but forget once that its a one-sided narrative and you'll find critique unacceptable.
Without diversity of views and opinions, doctrines forced by the book break the neutral environment into "supporters" and "enemies". A book is inherently divisive.

A book can gloss over and omit critical facts, it can lie and manipulate. It can be misrepresent and mislead. Believing a book and absorbing it without thought just because it aligns with your worldview will pull you away from critical examination and analysis. Books are adept at crystallizing your beliefs and becoming reactively dismissive towards any criticism, treating a book as ultimate authority. The society we live in was molded by such people and more books won't fix it.












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