What books are you reading?

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>>35352736
I'm a godless asshole but there is something in christian legends that make it very comfy.

>>35352736

There needs to be an updated and revised version of the "social contract" written. Society has progressed beyond the point of simple bloodshed to now killing a man's character or social stigmatisation being sufficient or equivalent to what murder what force would accomplish in Rousseau's day. As such society's interactions and methods have become more psychological and insidious.

I'll admit I don't have the intelligence to write out a full thesis on the subject but I'd read one if it was well written.

A social contract for the modern era.

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I'm 2 smart for reading, but some people recommended me to read this so i'm reading that

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Not a joke, I'm trying to be more /lit/-tier.

>>35352804
I'd totally read it, it definitely is needed. I'm only about a quarter way done with this now but it's a pretty short book, If I have time I'll probably finish it today.

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>1984
I enjoyed Animal farm.

It's a little strange that he assumes every single thing that the party does is automatically evil and wrong. Too contrarian. Perhaps that's just his sheltered perspective having lived almost entirely in their reign.

>>35353297
Wait, I forgot. This is /r9k/.
Better delete the thread to make room for more homo hookup threads.

>>35353417
wewwe ladde

origttghgfewetre

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Ride the Tiger

Evola writes in an unnecessarily verbose manner, like an autist.

>>35352736
i had to read that for uni
if you like rousseau you should check out emile

>>35353297

>Orwell
>Sheltered

Pick one.
He was shot in the throat fighting in the Spanish civil war for the pro-socialist forces. Whilst recovering he wrote "Homage to Catalonia."

Although he was a socialist he was an anti-authoritarian and hated all authoritarian regimes regardless of whether they marched with jackboots or under a red banner.

Animal farm was written as a warning to those who sought to whitewash or glorify the soviet union simply because they were now "allies" after the defeat of nazism. A warning to leftists who wanted to emulate them and to right-wingers who were now pacifying them and avoiding debate.

A comparable book today could be written about Saudi Arabia or Israel.

I'm going to read Catch 22

>>35353456

Example?
Pick out an autist paragraph for the lols.

>>35353523
I mean the main character is sheltered. The life or circumstances of the author shouldn't matter at all. The book should stand on its own merit.

But I'll assume you're saying he's poured a lot of his close personal beliefs into the main character.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

not sure if original

I just finished Trainspotting and I'm gonna start Ulysses soon but currently feeling too shit to sit and read.

>>35353600

Nah my mistake, I assumed you were commenting on the author and not the main character, but yeah I would say Animal Farm is the most "transparent" of Orwells works. There's no ambiguousness to the motivation or morality of the characters. And perhaps there shouldn't be. Apart from being a historical analogy, it's also presented in the style of a classic children's fable. Neither style of writing is favor to delving into their characters emotions or inner dialogue. It's left to the reader to extrapolate.

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>>35353658

Read "filth" if you can. One of the best books I've ever read. Even watch the film if you can't.

>>35353729
Yes, that's on my to-read list for sure.

I hope you're not reading Rousseau because you agree with him.

Good Morning, Midnight - Lily Brooks-Dalton

Without spoiling anything significant, it seems to be about loneliness. A man dedicated to his work refuses to leave an arctic research facility when someone unknown event requires its evacuation, and he's left utterly alone. With the world seemingly ended by some unknown catastrophe, he needs to come to terms with the sort of life he's lived, his achievements, his sacrifices, etc. The appearance of a little girl - apparently missed by the evacuation teams - radically changes his perspective.

Similarly, a group of astronauts returning from Jupiter undergo the same reflection, aware that they'll be returning to an empty planet.

It's a nice book.

>>35352736
>Rousseau
I don't like him but he wasn't that wrong on education. His Emile proposal sounds like it would probably work but it's not practical. Ivan Illych is the answer. And of course education is the only relevant question.

>>35352736
A Confederacy of Dunces

Protag is pretty much a proto-robot.

>>35354102
Ignatius is too based to be a robot. He doesn't give a fuck about anything. Brett Easton Ellis is the only American who truly understands the robot mindset. When I first started reading about Elliot Roger I immediately thought 'this is like a fucking BEE character escaped into reality.'

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Being able to trace the machines that ruin my life back through time really helps contextualize my life for me.

>>35353729
I read the book and really enjoyed it. Then I saw the film and it triggered the fuck out of me because personality disorder comparable to his. Reading about it was great, but somehow seeing it was very distressing and it fucked with my head.

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maybe ill learn something about myself

>>35354172

Same. I wish they had have cut back on the hallucinations. It's never revealed in the film what illness he has but it's strongly implied it's borderline personality disorder, although theyou added the hallucinations for creative effect.

I have BPD. The scene with him watching old home movies and on the stairs killed me. Got a flashback to near exact the same scenarios.

>>35354322
Yeah, same. It is definitely BPD, but bear in mind also that DID is often co-morbid with BPD. DID is less its own thing than it is a specialisation path for BPD, and I could relate to it a lot. His female persona was really what fucked with me most I think. Too relatable. Re: hallucinations, some BPD people get those. I think if I was going to try and explain my condition (?) to someone that film would be a good place to start. Better than Misery which is unfair, and Girl, Interrupted doesn't really give the full picture though it is in part relatable.

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>>35353796
>I hope you don't have an opinion I don't like

>>35352736
>Rousseau

God, you fucking commie, read some Locke or Mill instead.

>>35354102
This book was recommended too highly.
My hopes were high and the book was just "pretty good"

I just don't think comedy translates well into literature.

>>35354239
>reading and not actually living your life
you can only learn much.

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>>35352736
Currently making my way through The Fountainhead for the first time.

>>35354514
Acting as if all opinions are equal is a stupid thing to do.

>>35353523
>Socialist
>Anti-authoritarian
Pick one

>>35354733

Okay, I pick Norway.

>>35354733
He was a rare breed.

>>35354776
I don't think it's really that rare of an idea. People think that socialism is about setting the people free (spoiler: it won't), but they don't realize that you can't create a socialist society without authoritarianism.

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first book I read for fun in 4 years, was bretty good.

>>35354825

Yes you can. This is a meme idea that /pol/ tries to push because it doesn't align with their views.

I said it before but let's have a look at Norway or any of the countries that got it right.

Ranked Number 1 globally in:

OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity, and the Democracy Index. Reporters Without Borders have also ranked Norway as the country in the world with the highest amount of press freedom.

Universal Healthcare, a comprehensive social security system, and has the 4th highest GDP of any country on earth.

>>35354721
All opinions are equally stupid.

Nobody is capable of seeing objective reality.

We're all just viewing it through our own filter of perception.

Some people have a black and white filter, some people have an old timey sepia filter, some people have fucking dog noses and ears, some people are just viewing normally thru a screen but NOBODY sees the real thing.

Seeing the real is impossible.

The crazy guy's crazy opinions are just as valid as the perfectly sane guy's because they are both equally wrong.

It's hard to explain this concept to plebs.

>>35354899

>Facts aren't real man.

Literally book 1 page 1 philosophy for begginers.

>>35353456
>like an autist.
More like schizotypy desu senpai

>>35353532
>I'm going to read Catch 22
If you like absurd humor you should like it. I know I did

>>35354853

That looks like a portrait of Eamon DeValera.

>>35354921
Yes, I know, you are obviously a beginner.

I don't expect you to understand advanced content.

PLEBIAN SCUMS.

>>35354899
Good seeing a mindbrother. I came to the same conclusion but by reading psychology. Though I don't agree here:
>The crazy guy's crazy opinions are just as valid as the perfectly sane guy's because they are both equally wrong.

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>>35354955

No I can understand it. It's just not advanced. In fact it's not even worthy of debate that's how broad it is.

It would be like holding a debate on "giving medicine" in a medical forum.
It's too broad, it's been done to death and it shows how little you know that you'd bring it up and consider it "advanced knowledge."

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>>35355036
Oh yeah post Bukowski, very convincing. Did you find that wonderful imagine on Facebook perhaps? Or reddit?

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>>35354899

You're the type of person that would say "All parties are the same so it doesn't matter who you vote for."

I.e. a pseudo-intellectual.
I'll give you time to Google what that means.

>>35355060

No. I just googled stupid people memes kek. Im not so insecure I need to qualify my intelligence. I didn't even care who the quote was by.

And if I had found it on Facebook or reddit... what? What then?

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>>35355074
Calling people smarter than you "pseudo-intellectual," revealing yourself as anti-intellectual. Thinking is too hard for you so you don't do it, in fact you don't want anyone to think,

"Dumb thinkers," you say to yourself, "you think so much you think you're better than me! No way! Stop thinking! Come down to my level of non-intellect!"

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I'm so excited to share my books :-)

pic related right now, also Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Jung
about to finish the Vygotsky so next up is a book on psychoanalysis

any other psychology bros? :-D

>>35353796
I havent read any of his other works and am only about a quarter way through The Social Contract, the only reason I'm reading it is because my friend heavily implored me to. Why does he say something totally stupid later?

>>35355104

I'm not anti-intellectual. I'm anti-you for a start kek. Im anti-obnoxiousness. I'm anti using complicated vernacular that's obviously not comfortable to me to appear smarter.

Your argument is a very simple one that's usually discussed on the first day of philosophy 101 courses or pop women's magazines. Thats an objective fact.

The problem is you trying to spin it as advanced knowledge and artistically screeching when you're called out.

>>35355152
He's a proto communist. That's it really.

>>35352736
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

>>35355198

Just because his writings influenced the socialist movement doesn't mean he was a proto-communist.

Steve Bannon is a self described Leninist yet is chief strategist for the Republican white house.

>>35355241
He was making a joke you idiot. He just said that he wanted to destroy everything.

>>35355172
I think I'm in love with you, anti-pseud anon

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>make thread
>take nap
>wake up
>check thread
>PSEUDO INTELLECTUALL FAGGOT COMMIE RETARD

inb4 Zizek, I just like the pic...

>>35352736
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>>35352808
>>35353297
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>>35353646
>>35353658
>>35354102
Why does /r9k/ have such shit taste in books? Very entry-level and pseudo-intellectual

>>35355392
>Very entry-level and pseudo-intellectual

Gotta start somewhere.

>>35355145
>Jung
>psychoanalysis
> = psychology
Don't do this to me

That is not psychology

>>35355392
>reading books
>even claiming something about intellectuality
Brainlet stuck in the previous teramillisecond detected

>>35355453
>assuming I think I'm intellectual despite me never insinuation that
>assuming I still read books
brainlet bye

>>35355172
>Your argument is a very simple one that's usually discussed on the first day of philosophy 101 courses or pop women's magazines. Thats an objective fact.

No, that's a logical fallacy.

>>35355438
There are different schools of psychology, you know.

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>>35352736
napoleon is love

napoleon is life

>>35355614
Psychology tries to be a science it cannot have different schools and be a pseudoscience

>>35355652
What do you mean with science?

>>35355651
don't read anything into the page numbers, i'm rereading most of them

>>35352808
I personally prefer The Brothers Karamazov.

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These are the books I've read since Christmas.

I'm a slow reader so I can't stand fiction, because reading is such a huge time investment I don't want to spend 20 hours reading a book and not learn anything from it.

>>35355907
>Frontlin Ukraine
Is that about the Ukranian revolution going on right now?

>>35352736
Descartes Meditations on the first Philosophy

I just finished Discourse on Method and it's a double book.

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>>35356147
It is about the Ukrainian Euromaiden Revolution and the subsequent conflicts in the Donbas and Crimea, and the history of Ukraine which lead up to these events.

It's probably the best book out there if you know very little about the 2013 revolution and just want to inform yourself.

It is mostly impartial, but is somewhat Russian sympathetic (the author states that there is a kind of unanimous agreement by the west about their position on Ukraine and he tries to balance that out with a view of the conflict from a Russian perspective as well as a western one).

Would really recommend it. It is by no way a completely comprehensive history of the situation in Ukraine, but it is a fantastic start.