Not the 'best' or even my favorites, exactly: Just the bare minimum of what everybody needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century.
1. THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM, Wilhelm Reich.
2. ULYSSES, James Joyce.
3. FINNEGAN'S WAKE, James Joyce.
4. THE CANTOS, Ezra Pound.
5. MACHINE ART, Ezra Pound.
6. SELECTED PROSE, Ezra Pound.
7. HARLOT'S GHOST, Norman Mailer.
8. GO DOWN, MOSES, William Faulkner.
9. THE ALPHABET VS. THE GODDESS, Leonard Shlain.
10. THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES, Karl Popper (two volumes).
11. CONFUCIUS: THE GREAT DIGEST, THE UNWOBBLING PIVOT, THE ANALECTS, translated by Ezra Pound.
12. THE ANTI-CHRIST, Friedrich Nietzsche.
13. CHAOS AND CYBERCULTURE, Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
14. CRITICAL PATH, R. Buckminster Fuller.
15. INSTEAD OF A BOOK, Benjamin Tucker.
16. DIGITAL McLUHAN, Paul Levinson.
17. SAHARASIA, James DeMeo, Ph.D.
18. SCIENCE AND SANITY, Alfred Korzybski.
19. PROGRESS AND POVERTY, Henry George.
20. THE NATURAL ECONOMIC ORDER, Silvio Gesell.
>>9051661
they're all shit
it's shit, right?
mods
>Buckminster Fuller
More like Fulla Dickminster, am I right?
>>9051661
>Reading all of Science and Sanity
>Reading Korzybski, but not reading more mainstream philosophers like Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Putnam, Chomsky, etc.
>Reading most of the other stuff on this list
>Reading secondary literature on McLuhan but none of his actual works
topbaet
I bet you talk to yourself
>>9051661
Fuck fascism read about religion because the 21st century is looking religious as fuck
>>9051687
>implying there's a difference
>>9051661
>ULYSSES, James Joyce.
I'd rather die
How about an economics textbook instead
>>9051696
Legitimately go die please
>no gödel
lol
>>9051702
i'd rather you die so there's one fewer shill for archaic dogma around
More like Karl Pooper
>>9051661
>13. CHAOS AND CYBERCULTURE, Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
Bullshit that fucking stoner has a Ph.D. Probably from Cheech & Chong's University.
>>9051661
>Mass Psychology of Fascism
>Not third place...
>>9051661
Pound is bad.
Fascists don't understand art.
>>9051661
Wow. That's a fuckton of old white guys.
Nothing from the civil rights movement? Nothing from feminists?
But yeah, three servings of Ezra Pound.