/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?

>>47
Quit trying to act like you have me all figured out. Kaczynski made good criticisms of modern life, but his proposed anprim solution just doesn't hold water. I like the way he articulated his grievances with tech and modern society though. I admire Linkola more, and I even look to Stallman too, because he points out specific issues with software. Although he's a naive ivory tower egalitarian/leftist in some ways, but I do like what he's written about open source and the 4 essential user freedoms.

But people aren't as one-dimensional as you make them out to be, so it seems like you're trying to pigeonhole me as being some certain stereotype rather than understanding that people's views are a little more nuanced. Not as cut and dry as ``some dude who like Kaczynski'' or whatever you're trying to pin me as.

You're quick to be critical of my beliefs without even mentioning your own. What do you believe in? Are you too afraid to say what you support because you can't adequately defend it?