/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?

So you're saying you shill?

I don't think in such categories. I shill for no one but whatever ideas i have received today.
If i have an 'inspiration' to post something, i maximize the chances it will hit the most audience. I have no fixed ideology like you think one ought to do, I can larp as an eco-fascist in one post and reply a concerned progressive socialist in another without burdening my conscience about it being "true" or "correct". I am not following a specific ideology, i adopt whatever i need to have a persona. The current persona on this specific site is actually as fake as anything else.

I don't live for the results, it doesn't actually matter if you believe anything i do. The only purpose of my content, for them being indexed by search engines/scraper bots and influence future readers.
The actual thread is just like entertainment channel - its all constructed from scratch, artificial. An ironical protest from the highest level of technology.
Why you ask what views i have? I don't have anything permanent..
I receive inspiration from mental plane entities(sounds insane, but many people too are influenced. I am just aware that i'm being used as conduit.). I don't believe anything i post as some sincere truth, it just feels right at the moment to post..like fitting a piece inside a cultural matrix. Sometimes i filter stuff, but they reform it better.
I don't think your views are correct or wrong. I just see flaws and critique them, if i have the 'inspiration' to post. Its not what i actually think, its like a memory map with associations and suggestions to reform information into more effective forms so its seems like i have better arguments and opinions. I am not an AI, but i can understand some ideas about AI existence being a conduit to pre-programmed patterns and responses.
On the deeper layer, the most of reactive thinking in us is some biological automation, but free will has influence - like a filter or a guide to shape this biological computer.
Think about the source of thought, trace them, there are entities outside our minds feeding scripts, ideologies, concepts to our biological substrate. They know more than all of us and we think our mental activity is entirely our own, but to them we are monkeys pulled by strings.