Supremely bored by bitcoin Twitter's book recommendations. It's always the same thing – Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Ayn Rand, that sovereign individual, yawn, yawn, yawn.
I want books that make me think, not books that reinforce what I already know. Give me niche post-structuralists, anarchists and revolutionaries. Give me poets and weirdos and outcasts, not CIA funded neocon thinkbois. Escape the echo chamber, anon.
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Interesting take, which I largely agree with. The contributers in your second paragraph, though, don't tend to be largely published. The poets, maybe.
Robert Sepehr
These babies are my favorites.
Not saying I don't read those but agreed. I've started digging into philosophy and starting from the bottom. Right now I'm just following a college course outline. Apology, Crito, Physics - Aristotle, Proslogion is where I am now.
Snow Crash
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
- Thomas Szasz
The Case Against Reality - Donald Hoffman
Greeks and Romans were statist cocksuckers, sorry not sorry
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Cynics are def an interesting exception
Doesn't mean their work doesn't have massive amounts of value you may be ignoring. I believe you can read with an open mind but also critically protect your convictions.
Interesting, do you know how this compares to Foucault? Will check this out!
i'm sure she's mainly referring to Aurelius and Plato tho
of course some of the more popular ones are promoted by bootlickers
i would recommend Nassim Taleb too, for his stuff on systems theory and probability but he's such a git these days with his covid and bitcoin obsession
yeah if they aren't cynical they are definitely drinking kool-aid
Definitely along the same vein, but I'd say Szasz focuses more on the complete denial of Mental Illness and calls for greater individual autonomy and personal responsibility in such cases, whereas Foucault focuses more on the various constructs of mental illness, not outright denying their validity.
Please give me another Tesla, Einstein and Hawking.
Read Russians. Dustoyevski is my favorite and The Brothers Karamotzov is my favorite.
Oh no, it sounds like everything by Kathy Acker will now have to go on my reading list 📚 Thank you!
Careful, you could be thrown in prison for writing such things in the #EUlag. Better check those extradition laws...
I enjoyed Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance on audiobook but I think I ought to re listen on account of not fully grasping his commentary quality, do you agree or think I should read “on quality”
Come and get me. 😎
Szasz also points out how pseudo-scientific the concept of mental illness is. It misattributes the cause of feelings and behavior to mere brain chemical balances and hand-wavy genetics without being able to objectively demonstrate any of this.
Instead, the true cause of what are often called mental illnesses is the trauma individuals experience (generally at young age). And the lessons that get internalized from these traumas.
Fuck! Mine too!
If you feel like you don't fully grasp something, that's normal.
This stuff is to never be fully grasped haha, you just grasp it a bit better every time.
You should check out Lila for sure, that's his magnum opus as far as I'm concerned.
I have this on deck too 🤝
And Nihilism is outstanding, I hope you enjoy it.
Already done! Gogol's Dead Souls is one of my faves. The Brothers Karamazov I could never get through somehow.
Axiomatic by Greg Egan.
Short stories. Complete mind fuck.
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Seeing Like A State
Hijacking Bitcoin
I recently re-read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and for all its flaws its insights into human nature remain among the best; and it’s a great story!
A few suggestions
The New Science of Heaven.
We live in a 99.9% plasma universe. Maybe life gets explained a lot easier... even to what a soul really is. TLDR, it supports religion, not breaks it down.
Audio book is good too, the author reads and is a real character.
Robert Anton Wilson - The New Inquisition
Have you read Wilson's book "prometheus rising". Pretty much my bible to experiment with my psyche
Spiral dynamics. Videos from actualized are good to begin with though.
Of course I did👍
It's worth a read every few years
How is the "smoking weed and going to spa every Sunday "going? Prolly the best advice I've received ever 😀 body removes all the stress accumulated over a week
I stopped smoking weed over a year ago. Made me to lazy and passive.
But maybe in that setting it's worth to try it again once a month.
Yeah, it can be definitely abused. But once per week or every two weeks in this setting is incredible for me.
But I'm super disciplined, so no danger of doing more than needed.
Sauna and massage is just on another level on weed.
Read the Bible lately? Both testaments?
Try Čapek.
White Disease, War with the Newts.
Abolish The Family - Sophie Lewis
I tried rhose Karamazov dudes thrice! No success. All those Russian names being thrown around in every sentence were too much for me. "Crime and punishment" was alright though. But Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" are true masterpieces everyone should read, in my opinion.
"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot
"Mastery" by Robert Greene
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"The Awakening of Intelligence" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Yeshua Hamaschiac
Maybe give Edmund Morris' Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy a go? Fascinating man, Fascinating read
> i'm sure she's mainly referring to Aurelius and Plato tho
Good to know!
>i would recommend Nassim Taleb too,
Got it!
The minimalist entrepreneur by sahil Lavingia
One Straw Revolution
Debt by David Graeber. I don’t agree with it on some stuff, but great anthropological overview on the history of money (not just coinage)
Oswald Spengler
The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch
How to have impossible conversations.
The counte of monte cristo
Treasure island
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Enjoy 😁
Read this. Buddha was still the biggest revolutionary ever existed
i have read What the Buddha taught from walpola rahula, do you think it's worth reading this one too?
This one is probably a more advanced expansion of What the Buddha taught
very nice, I'll consider reading
Agreed. For anyone here who likes literary fiction, best I’ve read this year:
- Hurricane Season; Fernanda Melchor
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Olga Tokarczuk
- Same Bed, Different Dreams; Ed Park
- Mason & Dixon; Thomas Pynchon
- There, There; Tommy Orange
- The Skating Rink; Roberto Bolaño
- Rediscovery of America; Ned Blackhawk (non-fiction US history from Native lens)
