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>>9961471

Mr. Collin Andrew Yost

>>9961473
This. He's fantastic.

probably not because you're just making up an argument that's suuuuuper simplistic and ignores like every other factor imaginable in social movements and change. very simple reading of capital itself. just keep reading marx, really is the best lens for understanding capital's power over government and society.

>>9961661
>keep reading Marx
Eww

I'm looking for something like this too. I would - sort of - reduce capital to human behaviour and group dynamics though. While it is about politics, I think The Dictator's Handbook is relevant. You could also look into complexity science, like the popular-scientific book The Origin of Wealth.
Not my cup of tea, but I had The Rebel Sell on my reading list and that might be relevant too.

Of course it is.

>>9961456
but its not finished. it probably would have been remembered as his big novel if he had just finished it. i dont think anyone wants to go into a novel knowing it doesnt end

>>9961456
was it autism?

>>9961443
The bhagavad gita.

the hand waving guy's manual to the solar system

Ready Player One. All of George Carlin's books.

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>open Mountaigne's Essays
>he tells me i not to read them
>do it anyway

>start a novel
>introduction by some "scholar"
>skip it
>forward by the author
>skip it
>prologue starts off boring
>skip it
>first three chapters look boring
>skip them
>fourth chapter is decent but not sure what's happening

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>read pinecone
>sing along

>>9961349
Neither. French and German are both irrelevant languages that won't even be spoken in their home-countries in 50 years.

Learn Russian. All the Chinese are learning English for a reason, but Russian literature is far superior.

Duolingo is only good for the application of grammar and practise forming sentence structure. To learn vocabulary, use Memrise, which has audio as well for popular languages.

It's not always necessary to have classes or a tutor, just get yourself decent grammar and exercise books. If there's a particular language you're learning I have a ton of resources for loads.

Watch tv in your target language, read books at all difficultly levels, listen to music. It's cliche advice but it's incredibly helpful.

>>9961349
If you'd just like to learn how to read
Sandberg - French for Reading
Sandberg - German for Reading; or Wilson - German Quickly

tbqh the nigga is 26 going on 52 and a half. Dude looks like Algernon. He's Danny DeVito to Bradley Cooper's Arnold Schwarzenegger

Come on mods

a r y a n

>>9961176
Can you read Spanish?

>>9961176
https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL057/2007/volume.xml

If you read German:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/218940

Lattimore

>>9961158
I'd start destroying my mind with psychedelics too if I had to be around the insufferable faggots that are his fans/imitators all the time too.

he's never been anything more than a troll

eee eee eee is his shittiest attempt at trolling, and unironically his best work

>long
>boring
>childish
>muh capitalism
>star wars ripoff

what is there to like?

>>9961145
Ever talk in anything that isn't memes?

>>9961145
This + maub'deepo-chan potato "philosophy" presenting itself as the wisdom of an intergalactic Christ. Some of it's an alright read but I found a lot of it unbearable.

On face value it won't seem too difficult. But there's a lot lying there beneath the surface. When you start reading the later scholars and commentators you'll really begin to appreciate the difficulty and the subtlety of the work that is being done by these people. It really is awe-inspiring.

And of course you should read the whole fucking book. Do you really want to say some day "I only read books II and VI of NE" instead of "Yeah, I've read those"?

>>9961072
Hes probably in the top 10 of most difficult philosophers in the Western Tradition.

his "book" is a chaotic cluster of lecture notes

>>9961072
1. Organon and Ethics are mostly readable, Metaphysics is very difficult. Read Plato first: Aristotle's philosophy is partly criticism of Plato.
2. For the Metaphysics, if you do not care about reading whole books, read Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Lambda. Make sure you read Delta, Aristotle defines several key concepts there. Zeta is very hard, you could glance over that or read a secondary source on it.
3. Definitely worth it. You will encounter Aristotle a lot in Medieval and Arabic philosophy, but also in modern philosophers like Kant and Hegel, and postmodern authors like Heidegger. If you are interested in politics, consider reading Politics as well.
Good luck.

download anki

>>9961022
Heh heh hehe he's actually talking about himself which is what makes it funny.

Koshering is a practice of brutally slaughtering animals so no.

hell no

>>9960890
Absolutely not. I want the Mozart letters one though.

The whole collection altogether isn't really, but there are some that are interesting.
I wish I had a few more of them.

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White males are the only people who have ever written anything worth reading.

>>9960871
Umm, that's kinda anti-Semitic, sorry! You're going to have to retract.