Are you reading, Anon?

>>133061552
got a pdf of that?

>>133061552
why is robert greene qualified to give any kind of advice, why should I care what he has to say?

>>133061552
Speed reading books isn't red-pilled. You have to take your time and think on what you are reading maybe even writing your thoughts so you really retain the ideas.

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This book series is pretty red pilled.

>>133062204
Here comes the naziboo to post his memefographs of books he will never read.

>>133062295
That book series is totally bluepilled. What is redpilled about it? Every thing is dysfunctional and pathetic.

>>133061552
The historical examples in that book are pretty bad which given his education is either embarrassing or deceitful. In one case he literally made history up to make his point work despite the fact that the people irl followed his rule and it caused their ruin.

Stick to Baltasar Gracián which is what this book wants to be

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>>133062295

>>133062425
t. td

I've been reading back through Meditations lately. It's not a book to just read and be done with it, it needs to be read in bits and pieces and reflected upon. It boils down to reading a Roman emperor's personal journal, but the advice and thoughts he gives to himself seem as if they were meant to be read by others.

>>133061552
Benjamin Graham's "Security Analysis" is basically a guide to Finance for goys. Currently reading right now. It's made countless goyim rich.

Also (((Seth Klarman's))) Marin of Safety is another good one if you can find a pirated copy or a library that has it. Most libraries that had it have had it stolen though because it goes for a few thousand on Ebay

>>133064053
Margin of Safety is going for $795.00 on eBay and that's the lowest price on the search results. Damn.

>>133061552
Just finished Livy's books on the Second Punic War. Looking forward to starting books 31-45.

>>133064727
Just print out a pdf

>>133064727
Yeah. That shit is expensive. I found a PDF of it. Definitely worth a read. Seth may be a jew, but he's a fucking genius

>>133061552
that's a meme book.

> hurr learn to be a machiavellian cunt to get ahead in your dead end cubicle job!

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>>133062295
Definitely not, but still pretty good

>>133064909
Well yeah, but I can't see how they can continue to charge that much for a print version when its easily available for free.

>>133065677
I plan on checking it out, with a price like that it's got to be worth a read.

>>133063951
sounds good

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Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

>>133062295
>Reading anything fan fiction instead of self help

Good one Anon

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They never stopped..,

Currently reading the Tao Te Ching. I'd recommend it if you want a religious book and philosophy

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Do you want to actually understand power and not read some self-help bullshit cash grab with no substance that was made for assholes to feel good about themselves and continue to be fucking assholes?

Real book: "The Penguin History of the World" by John Roberts. It's big, so it'll be a while.

Audiobook: finishing "The Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray. After that is "A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell.

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>>133061552
>Robert (((Green)))
No thanks.
Try these instead.

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>L-let them in goy
Pocket constitutions sans forwards.

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I found a pdf of Margin of Safety on TPB if anyone else was interested.

I've been thinking about how to make my small bits of extra money do more work for me, perhaps this will help put me on a decent path.

I'm reading Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche was extremely red-pilled, his work will definitely change the way you look at the world. Especially if you haven't read much philosophy

>>133068672
>Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Did you read all three?

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Currently reading this. Pretty interesting so far.

>>133061552
isn't this book a meme?

>>133061552
Reading is for people who don't have enough going on in their own lives

>>133071516
Bait is weak, leaf.

>>133062179
this. people who dont do this are wasting their time reading words they cant even comprehend or retain

>>133071918
Your cognitive capacity is weak if you think reading books is useful

>>133068672
>Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Get the fuck out.

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Das Kapital by Marx
Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky
The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin
Debt: The First 5000 Years by Graeber
Anything by Proudhon, Bakunin, or Goldman

Basically anything by real anarchists and not people like Lolthbard or anyone endorsed by the Mises Institute.

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"Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes

>>133061552
I went eight years without reading anything, and I bought the bell curve last week, the prince this week, and brave New World yesterday. I started and finished brave new world today, and I was simultaneously shocked and appalled at the world that it presented.

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Anyone else read this?

>>133072100
And that is even weaker. Sad.

could someone recommend me a book thats like an intro to philosophy?

>>133072326
>Brave New World
is late-stage capitalism
>The Prince
important for understanding the kind of scum people like you idolize
>The Bell Curve
discredited, disregarded crap by serious scientists

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>>133072326
Also no book thread is complete without these

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>>133072631
>go to a college bookstore
>buy one of any number of books entitled "Intro to Philosophy"

Also
>talking politics before knowing anything about philosophy
srsly don't
I've never gardened a thing in my life and never read about how to farm for longer than 15 seconds and therefore I keep my mouth shut on the subject of growing plants and food. People who know nothing about the basics of politics should fucking do the same.

>>133062295
fuck off jew

>>133061552
thats one of the Jew-iest books ever

The Holy Bible KJV
Programmed to Kill by David McGowan
The Franklin Scandal by John W. DeCamp
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper

>>133062204
nice

>>133072646
Brave new world is in no way a purely capitalist utopia, although it definitely shares the hallmarks of such a world. The social engineering that takes place in order for that reality to unfold is a decidedly Marxian system, bereft of all streams of humanity, just like communism is.

>NatBol flag
RWDS cannot come soon enough

>>133072454
Lmao you got BTFO and you're too much of a sadcunt to even come up with a proper reply. Just end yourself buddy.

>>133061552
>Telling people how to live their own lives
Why do right-wingers do this?

>>133061552

read this a few months back.

pro-tip; play a sucker for a sucker. Don't reveal your power level. some asshole I know is also reading it and won't shut up about it. He's telling multiple people we mutually know about it because while he read it he clearly didn't comprehend it.

don't be autistic. keep it under your hat.

>>133069252
Myths create the reality we live in.
Books based on myth like LOTR definitely made a huge impact on me and gave me certain moral values very early on in my life.
I would strongly recommend it even to the adults.

>>133072802
>tfw skipped all the proper channels and immediately went down the "Batshit Crazy" path by reading Gold in the Furnace, The Impeachment of Man, and Defiance by Savitri Devi

>>133072987
>social engineering
Assuming you mean this in the way the book actually talks about (top down, totalitarian propaganda social engineering), when the hell did Marx ever endorse any such thing? Anything even close to it?

protip: Marx isn't Lenin

>NatBol

You need to clean your glasses

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Redpilling myself on the Russian Revolution.

>>133062204
> tacitus' Germania
> no Tacitus' Annales
> no thucydides
> no Herodotus
Topkek.
Most bluepilled list I've seen.

>>133073164
Godspeed you crazy bastard

>>133073315
Why would you put Thucydides and Herodotus on that list?

>>133072631
If you want something more digestible, try Sophie's World. It's a short history of Western philosophy in the form of a story.

Admittedly, I never finished it. The philosophy bits were interesting, but the story wasn't particularly compelling. Maybe you'll have better luck.

>>133073505
Thucydides' melian dialogue is 100% redpilled
+ Herodotus' Ethnography (egyptians, ethiopians, and scythians).

>>133069857
where to get? out of print and no PDF

seen you post this several times over the past months and want it

>>133073267
Well as I have yet to read every line of socialist and communist doctrine, I can't really say where either of them may have said that. Are you going to try and defend the claim that Marx never called for a violent and sweeping overthrow of the social order? And however it was achieved, the result is largely the same; a monolithic, satiated for a violent and sweeping overthrow of the social order? And however it was achieved, the result is largely the same; a monolithic, satiated society that values collective good over individual freedom

>NatBol
I do in fact need to clean my glasses

>The Prince & Bell Curve
Both are regarded as seminal works in their field, and as to the bell curve, I would argue that you can't name a single 'credible' (whatever that means to someone like you) scientist who disagrees with it, even WITH google at your fingertips

>>133070151
hook me up senpai

>>133073297
It's not bad but the constant focus on personalities over the political forces represented by the mass movements at the time gets a little annoying. He is correct in portraying Lenin as basically a crook and a charlatan from the beginning, though. Learning about Lenin was what led me to conclude I could never be a tankie..

>>133074152
t. dirty phone poster

I smashed my computer recently a la office space in order to free myself from its grasp

>>133073904
And what do these have to do with German National Socialism?

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>>133061552
Currently reading pic related. I'm having a hard time believing it's completely true. It feels like a novel.

Good read nonetheless.

>>133074234
I'm only about 10% in, but you're right, he really does focus on the people rather than on the events.

Definitely enjoying it though.

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>>133061552
first book you should probably read.

>>133062178
why do you think you're qualified to give any kind of measurement on Robert Greene's qualifications? Why should I care what you have to say?

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>>133061552

>>133074493
NRSV is the best easy to read Bible.

KJV is the best poetic version.

>>133074806
*tips*

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>>133074806

Also, still need to read these.

>>133061552
I'm on a WWI kick right now. Just finished All Quiet on the Western Front, working through Storm of Steel now.

>>133074806
edgy/10

>>133074152
> Are you going to try and defend the claim that Marx never called for a violent and sweeping overthrow of the social order?

This bears no relation to your claim that

>The social engineering that takes place in order for that reality to unfold is a decidedly Marxian system

so your point is moot. You don't need to read all of socialist/Communist doctrine. You said "Marxian". Capital (even an abridged version, there's perfectly acceptable ones out there) and TCM should suffice in showing that Marx advocated no such thing, nor would he have.

>Bell Curve
It isn't that his numbers are off - they aren't. It's the conclusions he (not so) subtly encourages the reader to draw from them. Stats show racists tend to have lower IQs than non-racists; does that tell us anything about whether they are inferior, belong in our society, are incompatible with Western values, etc.?

Bell Curve is an example of true premises preceding a conclusion that does not follow. Its insistence that the conclusion which does not follow is somehow just as "empirical" as the raw data makes it even more odious.

TL;DR Biological determinism and racial realism are not accepted by any biologist today; not because of conspiracy, but because they are old, old hypotheses long debunked, on a par with spontaneous generation as a long and deservedly dead idea. Then again a large part of the Internet thinks flat earth makes sense so who can be surprised.

>>133074898
Storm of Steel is intense.

Thought it was quite poorly written though. Maybe it was just the translation.

>>133074898
I want to read Storm of Steel, but I've heard there were so many revisions to the original work to remove the nationalistic tones that I don't know which to read.

>>133072646
>discredited, disregarded crap by serious scientists
it's not discredited objectively tho, it's disregarded because it's "racist"
also, what's with this board and the appeal to authority fallacy? "serious scientist", really? what are their counter arguments?

>>133061552
If you want a book about power, get Will to Power.

>>133075023
The author is nationalistic, but is also aware that his enemies are men just like him with no personal grudges against them. Just men stuck in a shitty situation.

>>133074835
KJV is the most accurate to the original texts by the word count alone

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>2k17
>not listening too audio books
Nigga what the hell you doin?

>>133075296
>videogame book
>listening to said videogame book
>a fucking leaf

I'm not surprised honestly

I finally got to unpack my books after 4 months of travel.

I highly recommend reading Antifragile by NN Taleb. The man is in the top ten smartest people alive today. (He's also the author of The Black Swan).

>>133072802

>Dugin
>Right Wing

HOW I KNOW THAT PEOPLE WHO THROW TOGETHER THESE MEME LISTS DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING READ ANYTHING

>>133074987

You don't need conclusive biological/genetic evidence to know that niggers are an awful race.

>>133074987
Thank you for the well articulated responses, I'll move Capitol up to the top of my list

>>133075369
I finished mien kampf and the communist manifesto before this. Fight me faggot

>>133074067
www.thefoundationpress.com

>>133070151
>eard

Share it with me, senpai.

>reading self-help books for self-help
>red-pilled

>>133075542
Give me one quote from the Communist Manifesto from memory ( and no "from each according to his need" doesn't count).

>>133075026
No, it is discredited objectively. The fact that
>Bell Curve is an example of true premises preceding a conclusion that does not follow.
is objective, not "wah racism".

>appeal to authority

You do not understand what that logical fallacy actually means.

>Authority says something about a field they know have no training in, or says something without giving any good arguments for it

is a fallacy.

>Citing what the entirety of a field agrees is true about that field, giving sound reasons for doing so

not a fallacy

>>133074987
Also, I have to say that I've never heard any dissenting opinions as far as the bell curve is concerned. Where do you come up with the claim that biological determinism and racial realism are not excepted by biology?

>>133062178
it's based on his observations of the most powerful people in history's tactics and mindsets.

>>133075525
No problem, glad to hear you'll take the plunge on Marx.
>>133075524
I know there's no hope for some of you. I know you don't give a flying fuck about whether anything you say is true or not as long as you can get people on your side. But some of these people are actually falling for you people's "muhrace realism" BS, and those are the people I'm interested in talking to.

>>133075783
nigger i can't quote it
>no owning stuff
>no inheritance
>muh Bourgeoisie
Seriously though, the word Bourgeoisie was said like fifty times. it was beyond boring and annoying

>>133076085
You why you don't remember any quotes?

Because you listened to it. You have not experienced a book until you have actually read it leaf.

>>133075371
He's also, bar none, the most conceited author I have ever read. I find him insufferable.

The core ideas that all his books are about are somewhat interesting -- congrats, he has discovered kurtosis -- but man, can he ever stop banging his drum? He takes every opportunity of pretension, and undeservedly so.

So: somewhat interesting book, but far, far, FAR from the smartest person alive today. Not even close. Don't take his word for it, which he will at every opportunity.

>>133074987
>"racists have lower IQs than non-racists"
>what is the eugenics movement

William Shockley. James Watson. Anyone selected for the SS. Winston Churchill. Henry Ford. Martin Luther. Orson Scott Card. T. S. Eliot. Roald Dahl. V. S. Naipaul. Neil "The Grass" Tyson. Edith Wharton. Scott Adams. Et al.

If you really give any credence at all to "the stats" concerning IQ (largely a Jew hoax to be fair, but still), what about the "stats" of IQ among the different races?

>>133075943
Let me make clear - again - that nobody disputes his statistics. They dispute the conclusions made from the statistics.

>Where do you come up with the claim that biological determinism and racial realism are not excepted by biology?

Because most biologists don't even talk about it, just as most biologists don't talk about spontaneous generation, *and* the ones who do dismiss it out of hand and assert that both genes and environment play a role in behavior.

How about this: name a biologist - not an American Heritage columnist - who accepts or promotes biological determinism.

You won't find one. It is a dead hypothesis.

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>>133076150
I remember the ones i liked pretty damn well. I get what you mean, but this way works for me eh

>>133074170
>>133075722
thepiratebay.org/torrent/9360892/Margin_of_Safety_-_Seth_Klarman.pdf

>>133076080
And I mean this sincerely; how can you divorce observations, data, personal interactions, and thousands of years of history that make up the concept of 'race realism' from the so-called truth?

>>133076302

I didn't say that *I* do give them much credence. The point is that if you believe racial IQ disparities tells us anything about how we should construct a society, then you must be intellectually consistent and believe that racist/non-racist IQ disparities tell us the same thing.

>>133075943
You won't get a straight answer from him. He can barely keep up with his own argument w/out leaning on "muh consensus not based in science" and "muh respected institutions".

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Threadly reminder that you can post pretty much anything in these threads because they are filled with LARPers that don't actually read anything. Two retards posted what they actually read though - GoT and Metro audiobooks.

FUGGIN REDPILLED MY SHADILAY BROTHERS

Has Le Prince been posted already?

>>133075815
>Citing what the entirety of a field agrees is true about that field, giving sound reasons for doing so
but that is not what you did you dimwit
you didn't cite anyone, you just said "serious scientists"

appeal to authority is structured like this:

X is an expert on subject Y,
X claims A. (A is within subject Y.)
Therefore, A is probably true.

replace x by "serious scientist" and A by "discredited" and that was your exact argument

>>133076377
No, the britbong is right. I've been using audio books for years, and I have to say that moving back to traditional format is unparalleled in information retention

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All Nassim Taleb books

>>133076080
These extra flags were a mistake.

>>133076459
it's very simple. A scientific hypothesis- even if it is thousands of years old - is only as good as the latest science. And after all this time, the only thing the "race realists" can point to are IQ disparities. They never explain how these disparities tell us anything meaningful about how a society should be run. They never tell us what the IQ gene is. They never tell us what proof there is that environment doesn't play an equal or even greater role in shaping IQ scores. They never tell us why grown adults can improve their IQ scores if they are representative of one's intrinsic, unchangeable intelligence. All they can do is give us true raw data, followed by far-ranging conclusions that the data doesn't prove. That is illogical. That is junk science.

>>133062295
>reading fiction
Lol nice meme. Go back to /lit/ you manchild

>>133076509
I posted earlier that I bought it recently, but haven't started it yet. Haven't seen it anywhere else. Starting to believe that it's not all cracked up to be. If not oh well, what's $5?

>>133076462
You can only test for IQ among racists if you can find people who openly identify as racists. That's like trying to find the IQ of people who got away with murder. In many countries, racism is a crime or reputation suicide.

Also, correct, you got my point. Please provide your stats on racism/IQ and we'll compare that to the volumes of stats on race/IQ. If you want to build a society on IQ period, then it doesn't matter if "racists" have lower IQs--if they're white, they're still likely to be much higher functioning than browns (and with recent findings from Europe, than yellows as well).

>>133076533
Go ahead and name me some scientists who endorse biological determinism that aren't old as hell and I'll happily retract my statement. But as someone who has read quite a lot of modern biology, mostly due my atheism and hatred of creationism, I'm not holding my breath.

>>133076757
>IQ stats on race are junk science
>IQ stats on racists are completely valid

Tits or gtfo please.

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>>133062178
Because. He also wrote that Art of Seduction book, "a recommended book in the seduction community".

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>>133076150
mmmm well maybe i'll go back too printed books when it comes too educational stuff. I don't see any issue not getting the absolute most out of Roadside Picnic or Misery

>>133062178
I'd say that book is a good primer for the uninitiated.
It sort of like a more accessible The Prince.
Good for people in their early twenties.
I have nothing against it.

>>133076837
>You can only test for IQ among racists if you can find people who openly identify as racists.

Lol. Of course, no university, let alone Oxford, would publish a paper that did that, because it would be absurd. But since they used a better methodology to determine attitudes on race than asking "Hey do you hate black folk?", it had no problem passing peer review and getting published by one of the most prestigious institutions in the world.

http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/pdf/rr13-803.pdf

>Protip: take time to actually read the thing and think about it instead of immediately allow your confirmation bias to dismiss it out of hand based on whatever reason you can glean after a skim-through

>>133076917
No no, he's right. He's not the one making the 'serious scientists' claim, the onus is on you. Besides, who the hell has access to an index of biologists? The whole premise of this conversation is retarded

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> Finance
Lords of Finance is superb. It is essential pol reading, and describes how all war is banking.
> Business
Read Thomas Sowell's books on economy.
> Psychology
Not my field yet
> Philosophy
Plato's Republic
> History:
- The Pacific Crucible (WWII Japan/US)
- Bloodlands, between Hitler and Stalin
- The Last Lion (Churchill)
- The Coldest Winter (Korean War)
- The British in Egypt (excellent look into British influence in the Mid East)

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>>133076917
Define "old as hell", or are you just moving goalposts?

Anyway, The Redneck Manifesto by pic related is a well-sourced and very fast paced read.

>>133071079
I did

>>133072160
Stay mad, Kant

>>133076963
>cannot read
Nope. My only point, again, is
> if you believe racial IQ disparities tells us anything about how we should construct a society, then you must be intellectually consistent and believe that racist/non-racist IQ disparities tell us the same thing.
>>133076462

Just a reminder that this was a thread about books before it got derailed by a communist

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I'm currently reading Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt.

Does anyone have a dropbox link or something where I can download a bunch of red-pilled book pdf's? I've seen them on pol before but they're scarce.

Would be much appreciated my niggers.

>>133076254
No, he absolutely is in the top ten in the world. He didn't discover kurtosis as you sarcastically put it, he LITERALLY discovered/created the concept of antifragility, which had not been made explicit in the entirety of human history thus far. It's a massive push forward in our understanding of the world, ESPECIALLY in any field touched by randomness.

Yes he's insufferable. But you would be too if you were literally the smartest person within 50 km for your entire life, barring a handful of occasions.

>>133077196
>Jim Goad=biologist
Ok
>"old as hell"
Gimme a biologist from the last 3 decades, when evolutionary biology entered its golden age (gene-mapping etc.), and we'll talk.

>>133075943
Biology embraces chaos as the solution to problems. See: immune system genetic hot spots

Aka there is no one best answer.

>>133073087
>"Myths create the reality we live in."
No.
Myths are the templates through which we interact with "reality."
On one level myths are a video game walk-through.
On another level they're descriptions of meaning / significance.
Reality doesn't come from myths.
Myths come from reality.

>>133074493
Jew propaganda. Unintelligible.

99% of authors are framecel lib fags the kind of people that would likely work for cnn if they couldn't sell their commie book. Reading is not redpilled.

>>133076836

>Starting to believe that it's not all cracked up to be.

It's literally a meme book - Machiavelli threw it together afther the Medici broke his fucking legs for supporting the Florentian Republic. He was trolling them by lampshading their way of doing business as some sort of relevant advice. It's so obviously satirical at times i firmly all the people who take it at face value are fucking retards who don't understand ACTUAL subtlety.

It's the same as Sun Tzu's "Art of War" - a historical meme taken out of context by modern pseuds.

What the fuck do you expect to gain from it? An insight into the wheeling and dealing of an Italian XV century mafioso? How the fuck would it help you with your 9 to 5, or some pedestrian business?

Jesus Christ

>>133077218
> if you believe racial IQ disparities tells us anything about how we should construct a society, then you must be intellectually consistent and believe that racist/non-racist IQ disparities tell us the same thing

Actually yes you're correct, though the magnitude of difference between the correlation of IQ/Crime and IQ/Race is more significant than that of IQ/Understands demographic tendencies. I actually agree with you but I don't think that your arguement helps your cause. We SHOULD structure society around known metrics, but .... having just read Brave New World literally TODAY I worry what that world might look like

>>133077666
>It's the same as Sun Tzu's "Art of War" - a historical meme taken out of context by modern pseuds.
Art of War is actually good though, you subhuman trash. How dare you insult Sun Tzu.

>>133077666
You might need to read about how to deal with 9 to 5 mafiosos though, Russia

>>133077666
Like I said, what's $5?

>>133077140
Learn to greentext. Also, of course working class white people are more likely to have a negative attitude towards the work ethic of blacks. This is how racism starts. Working class blacks (basically all of them) do not have a positive attitude towards, for instance, illegal immigration of Mexicans for the same reason.

Also, was the "intelligence test" seriously a simple vocab quiz, or did I read that wrong?

>>133077216
Is it worth reading them all?

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This

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>>133077140
Reality is racist. People are racist if they are realists.

>>133077378
Only his latest is about antifragility; the previous two were not. The Black Swan was a self-indulgent restatement of an obvious implication of some kinds of distribution -- e.g. gaussian and lognormal. Rare events sometimes happen, news at 11.

Back to Antifragile: I remember reading a book in 1999 that contained most of the stuff Nassim Taleb credits himself for in his book (of course!). It was a introductory book on chaos theory, which physicists and mathematicians have been toying with since the 1960s.

Nassim Taleb is a narcissist restating things that real STEM dudes take as a given. Smartest? I'd pit him against any mathematician, statistician or physicist in a reputable university and expect him to be intellectually raped.

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Beware /pol/

What books will have the greatest tangible benefit for my life? I'm assuming one to do with business or economics?

>>133061552
>implying ANY of that applies today
This isnt 18th century Europe

awesome thread.

currently building my own book shelf and plan to stack it with red-pilled readings.

i want to gain enough knowledge to the point where i can literally debate anyone with ease.

Have you guys reached that point yet?

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>>133061552
Just read Animal Farm today. Going to read The Once and Future King by T.H White and Demons by Dostoyevsky soon.

>>133078827
No, but I'm on the same track. Start with BNW, it's fiction and only 259 pages, but I'm glad to say that I started my literary path with it.

>>133079259
And if you read it in high school, read it again

>>133078827
It will never happen. No matter how hard you try.

I'm guessing you're young. Same journey happened to me:

10 SEE HILL OF KNOWLEDGE
20 SAY, "IF I KNOW THAT, I SHALL BE ENLIGHTENED!"
30 CLIMB TO TOP OF HILL
40 SEE BIGGER HILL OF KNOWLEDGE
50 GOTO 10

It never ends, dude. The more you learn, the more you realise you know nothing. At best you can say you know less nothing than most other people.

>>133078827
>>133079394
This. The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know, and will never know, it's humbling. Also it's a mistake to think you can just win people over with a rational argument, a lot of people are stuck in their ways and even if they nod along and agree with you, they'll still maintain their old views.

Want some advice? Try and get a nice all round knowledge that gives you good sense and wisdom to spot bullshit, and then leave it at that, unless you plan on using the knowledge for something.

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You don't get enlightened by reading a bunch of meme books or talking about it a whole lot.

Start practicing.

>>133079728
meditation is for fags

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>>133080060

>i don't want to raise my IQ, spatial and situational awareness and raise my defenses against mind control and social engeneering agendas

ok friendo

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Sort yourself out.

>>133074700
n o t a n a r g u m e n t

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>>133063951
Butt philosophy for bbs and the petty.

The Ordeal of Change and The True Beliver by Eric Hoffer.

>>133063951
Meditations and the Tao Te Chang are both great. Also the Analects by Confucius.

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>>133073039

Not reading books is exclusively for niggers and faggots. Which one are you?

PS - POST PDFS OR FUCK OFF

Antelman, Marvin S. (Rabbi) - To Eliminate the Opiate, Vol. 1

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>>133073039
Because the social fabric is made up of what people do within that society in which we all live.

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>>133080187

>Tragedy & Hope

This nigga knows wassup.

PDF download for pic related:

https://portalconservador.com/livros/Joseph-Douglass-Red-Cocaine-The-Drugging-of-America-and-the-West.pdf

>>133078718
Read a book about nutrition (e.g. The China Study?), fitness (e.g. Bigger, Leaner, Stronger), philosophy of life and meditation (e.g. The Good Life), how to find a good partner (e.g. The Science of Happily Ever After), and how to maintain a healthy relationship (e.g. For Better: the Science of a Good Marriage).

Physical and social health is the foundation of happiness -- there's strong scientific evidence for that assertion too. You want tangible benefit? Focus on these two areas.

After that, read some books about empiricism and the philosophy of logic too -- there's WAY too much bullshit floating around nowadays.

>>133081316
Correction: not "A Good Life", but "A Guide to the Good Life"

>>133080584
Sure thing man. It's only stood the test of time for being utter shit hasn't it? It is good for maintaining perspective and I can appreciate his sentiments. I imagine you take yourself too seriously and have no real friends.

>>133080400
When I first saw this guy debating the protesters, he didn't come across too well.

Recently, I've been watching more of his debates about post-modernism, and he seems a lot more interesting. I'm planning to read that book.

Thoughts on it?

>>133080712
I've got a copy on the tao te ching, but haven't gotten through it yet. I'll put it out on the table so I keep it in mind.

Currently

Written Out of History
Imperium
Ride the Tiger
The Decline of Rome (the real title is 10 times longer)

And Ive been nursing Basic Economics off and onfor the last 2 months in between other books.

>>133061552
that book is so fucking cheesy

>>133075783
It's "TO each according to his needs", dumbass

>>133078827
In a decade or two you can just call up passages from these books with your "enhanced reality" glasses and never have to recall specifics with your own memory. Also, nobody who doesn't have a common belief system will trust each others' sources so debates will be a waste of time

>>133081316
oh look its the
>"i think ive been around and read enough books that i know the answers to life but in fact im a pathetic faggot who browses an anime board and pretend im someone that im not"
guy

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Exhaustive review for the time it was published, before Kim Jong Il died and Fatson ascended

>>133062178
Well, every chapter is based on historical examples. However, Robert Greene himself is a degenerate piece of shit.

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>>133061552
A good place yo DL books is
libgeb.io

Also you should be reading books on self improvement that aren't retarded self affirmations like:

>Make it stick
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=027D847F0FE8434349076D210627025D

>Mini Habits
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=7F29B11E77B08D3414B51E93A9B05C8C

>>133061552
Of course, I’m reading visual novels daily, OP.

>>133082264
Misspelled i meant to write

Libgen.io

>>133082109
Seriously: You'd be surprised how much you can read with audiobooks. We have a LOT of dead time while doing chores or going places. And everything I wrote is true, but fine, be angry over whatever.

Not seriously: kys, retard faggot

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This book should be mandatory reading in school s

>>133064053
just got security analysis, haven't started yet.

Is the myth of Sisyphus worth a read? I read The stranger in high school and liked it. But Camus was such a commie, is it worth delving into his existentialism?

>>133082717
Reading books is utterly useless mental masturbation. You want real wisdom, go out and experience things. The biggest brainlets are the ones who spend the most time reading

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>>133061552
Read the Harvard Classics, aka the Five Foot Bookshelf. It's a complication of what the President of Harvard at the turn of the 20thC thought any person who wanted a true liberal education should read. Basically the best of literature, philosophy, history, etc from Greece to the early 19thC. Also comes with a volume of lectures on a variety of topics. Most red pilled compilation in existence. Might take a few years to finish but you'll definitely be the most well read person you know. It's also the list of texts any gentleman would be expected to have knowledge of before college was corrupted.

>>133083018

>not Marhsall McLuhan
>not Bernays
>not Anthony C. Sutton
>not Carrol Quigley

Yes, instead the mandatory reading in school should be the proto self-help gobbledygook that turns people in self-obsessed Narcissists.

you fucking retard

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>>133061552
Has anyone legitimately read Mein Kampf? I'm thinking about finally picking it up and giving it a read.

>>133081316
That sounds like a single mom's reading list and it's making me sad that you think Wikipedia articles are more informative when published and sold at a bookstore

I wanted to start reading some Evola, anyone give me a quick rundown on his works and beliefs?

>>133083170
"Real wisdom" is experience backed by knowledge, but I wouldn't expect a retard muslim leaf to understand that.

Go to bed, or don't you have a job?

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>>133069252
>self help books
Yes goy... read (((Tim Farris))) & (((Dale Carnegie)))

>>133083293

Download a copy online and if you can make it past the first couple chapters without just turning on a speech instead (Hitler was not a good author, just a good orator) then read the rest, I suppose. It's literally just a Hitler speech in book form.

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>tfw a thread I found at 12 at night on /pol/ has made me want to start reading some more

>>133083338
The vast majority of my library is much more Manly, but that's not going to help to original questioner, is it?

As for wikipedia: whatever floats your boat.

>>133072672
(((Marx))) (((Keynes)))

>>133076917
try to think for yourself...

>>133083445
Oh look he's abandoned the argument altogether and is just using ad hominems at this point. No, wisdom isn't experience backed by knowledge, because knowledge is only gained from experience you fucking brainlet

>>133076815
>fiction can't provide meaning or lessons
Look at this brainlet.

>>133083759
kay

>>133083837
Take a good look, this is what an intellectually crushed and defeated beta male looks like

>>133083759

actually, the definition of wisdom is the ability to make good decisions in the ABSENCE of experience.

>>133083922
kay

>>133084011
That's fucking retarded. You can't make a good decision with an absence of experience. You can only be lucky or draw from other experiences

http://www.mg-lj.si/en/visit/1142/book-nsk-from-kapital-to-capital/

God=tier book that you plebs have never heard of (not that it matters because it's long, academic and you'll realize how ignorant and simplistic your political beliefs are when you read it)

zero to one by peter thiel
deep work by cal newport

>>133062178
he's a jew

>>133084113
>You can't make a good decision with an absence of experience.
oh i am laffin

>>133062889
In which case did he make up history, as someone who has skimmed through the book I am curious

>>133084113
Other experiences... like vicarious learning, including through books?

Don't become an engineer. We don't need you re-"experiencing" the past two millennia of construction by ineptly killing people with mud huts.

You don't see the irony of us arguing this over a computer?

This is why I don't honestly reply to your bullshit: because it's so clearly retarded that it didn't deserve an answer.

Please, kys. And get a job.

Antifragility is a meme concept, just like the 'constructual law', and numerous other attempts to shill books based on a watered down deterministic principle known already to anyone paying attention to fundamental science for nearly half a century now.

Camus is for children, "Being and Time" is truth. "Being and Nothingness" much less so but still mind bending. Not bothering to read the crowning achievements of our civilization's quest for the ultimate red pill thru reason just because you osmotically absorbed propaganda from 'skeptical' techno-science shills and 'freethinking' redditors about science being equivalent to reason now is pleb-tier garbage.

>>133084427
Wtf does engineering or computers have to do with reading books? You don't even give a shit anymore, you're just spouting nonsense at this point. Is this the product of your liberal arts degree?

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The only thing to be gleaned from Evola is the way everyone reasonably thought before WW1.

You'd be better off reading Storm of Steel to really get into the mindset of a traditional European nationalist.

Overall, I found researching philosophy and theology to be a better gateway into the mindset of what we strive to achieve than researching politics or economics. We can say "Jew Jew Jew" all day but until you have purged materialism and modernity (disconnect from the eternal the sacred and the past) from yourself, until you have discovered yourself and why you believe what you believe, you can read a hundred books to learn "how", but you'll still ultimately miss your mark, because you never learned "why".

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Lectures by Manly P Hall
Researching Christian history, mysticism and western philosophy prior to the French Revolution,
These are all easily accessible and anyone who's literate and has an internet connection can dive right in, even just from YouTube.

Educate yourself; cleanse yourself. From lead to gold.

>>133083170
t. brainlet

>>133084347
With respect to the communist revolution in China.

He criticised the leader of the nationalists in China for fighting the Japanese instead of the communist and used the failure of nationalist China as an example of what happens when you don't follow his rules.

In reality the leader of Nationalist China did focus solely on the communists effectively giving the Japanese a free hand in the North East. As a result of this it made him deeply unpopular with the population and it got so bad that some of his own generals physically kidnapped him and forced him to declare war on Japan.

>>133061552
I does.

But it's all programming, math and such.

Working man, not a student btw.

If you haven't read The Republic by Plato then get off this board until you have. No wonder there are so many retarded posts on here if the majority don't even know "Politics 101" as I call it

>>133083018
Not everyone is a type-A extroverted car salesman experiencing temporary confidence issues.

>>133083416
I tried reading evolas Revolt against the modern world, stoped cause I didnt like it for a number of reasons

>>133084658
I don't know. How do STEM people transmit knowledge to the next generation? Lectures, projects, and...?

I'm only "spouting nonsense" because you're too dense to understand obvious implications. ಠ_ಠ

What's the Solzhenitsyn book that recently got translated (I think by anons on cripplechan) which deals with Jews in the Soviet Union? Anyone know it?

>>133085296
Gulag archipelago?

I always liked him as chemo for tankies.

>>133085296

200 Years Together

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Almost done with this.
Amazing book, if not sobering and depressing.
Gives you a clear understanding of the crisis in Europe.
Highly recommended, READ IT

>>133061552
>48 Laws of Power... by Robert (((Green)))

That is the ULTIMATE Pseudo-intellectual poser's handbook.

It's quite literally a fucking MAGAZINE "writer" (Keith Olberman's butt-buddy to be exact) at GQ's OPINION on the biographies of successful people throughout history.

Any ACTUALLY EDUCATED and well-read White man will have read the histories and biographies of said historical personae and FORMULATED THEIR OWN OPINION THEREUPON!

A buddy of mine who is a prison warden says that is the most ordered book by niggers... I was shocked because I didn't even know niggers could read... but I trust this guy so... I suppose they do.

tl;dr... OP is a faggot-ass nigger

Bible Myths And Their Parallels In Other Religions

>>133085214
STEM fags are the most bland and predictable cubicle monkeys. Literal cogs in a giant machine they can never really hope to really grasp the meaning of but sure are smug in their ability to plot some minute fraction they are familiar with on their PC's. This is why they can only ever compare themselves marginally favorably to liberal arts drones, the lowest of all fruit, meanwhile they all basically mindlessly engineer their own replacement on autopilot. They consider this "being useful".

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So I don't only contribute negativity by callin OP the brainlet faggot that he is...

I shall add that the only book any Western Man needs to read is the massive tome By Sir Robert Burton, titled:
>The Anatomy of Melancholy

It is the penultimate tome of all ancient Western Knowledge of Greco-Roman and other white civilizations, their arts and how they are born from the human conditions caused by the very act of LIVING.
DO NOT try to tackle this book via a PDF... (unless you are a super NEET poorfag of the most extreme type)
This is a huge tome and NEEDS to be read physically for maximum appreciation!

>pic related

Democritus Jr. is my hero.

>>133061892
google it

>>133086177
Reading comprehension isn't your strong point, Bruce.

>>133061552
Read it a few weeks back, really insightful.

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>>133072285
>implying ancaps would try to befriend gay druggie communists

>>133086769
You were replying to b8, implying the STEM sector read, let alone comprehend anything beyond the official cosmology and some other alphanumeric strings they memorized. It doesn't count.

>>133085337
No, it was
>>133085367
Though Gulag Archipelago is great

>>133076637
I read them all. I thought his first book - Fooled by randomness" was poorly written and quite hard to follow.

>>133061552
This is a good redplill

http://theforbiddenreligion.com

>>133075501
because they don't know about Lev Gumilov and slavophilism.

>>133061892
48 laws of power is a book I think requires a good moral foundation to responsibly use

also many of the blurbs/stories in the book are 100% made up, not every 'law of power' should be believed, a number are total bullshit, and the author is a jew.

don't take what the book says as gospel

>>133082235
>Well, every chapter is based on historical examples

Yeah, "historical" as in "made up on the spot"

Yes, a good many are real things that happened, but the guy embellishes the shit out of them to prove his points. I'm not saying he's wrong about everything, but you need a critical eye for that book because it's not 100% accurate.

His little blurbs are more akin to aesop's fables - fabrications meant to illustrate the points he's trying to make.

>>133083018
No, I read this and I could barely even stomach it.

It is "How to: disingenuous sleazy used car salesman" in book 'self help' form. The guy is incredibly desperate to try and get across to the reader that he's 1. Not a scammer (he is), and 2. The book isn't about manipulating people (it is)

>>133077782
Art of War is like babby's first war manual

It's not bad, but it's very vague. You'd do better to read some of the stuff written by WW2 vets, or even clausewitz' on war (Although it's a really dry read, shame he never finished it)

>>133070062
>ever since then discouraged and oppressed people from every part of the world have made a beaten path to our shores

Who the fuck is this uneducated dickwad? Immigration to the US was almost wholly European until the mid 1960's.