EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
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EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1d ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm adding Shapiro's Contested Will to my list.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Korzybski and Lovecraft. Trying to finally get through the Iliad.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
7mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments, Crystallizing Public Opinion and Galactic Patrol.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8d ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm adding Hall and Stead's A People's History of Classics to my list. Definitely the most interesting open access find I've made.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
6mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments, Closing of the American Mind, Beyond Good and Evil and The Book of Knowledge. Picking up The Neoconservative Persuasion, a collection of Irving Kristol essays. Will probably read some C. S. Lewis for Christmas.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
10mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm still on This Star of England and The Conquest of Bread.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on a bunch of stuff. Picking up Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Scott Alexander's claim that the book converted a lot of academic Marxists to left-liberalism has intrigued me.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock and Committing Journalism. Starting Galactic Patrol, in the Lensman series.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
5mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm going through Sam Harris' The End of Faith, among other things.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
5mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The Wisdom of Insecurity and other things.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
10mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on This Star of England, and picking up Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
5mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm picking up the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the central text of the Baháʼí. Still a bunch of other stuff to go through.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, Committing Journalism and Scaramouche. Sabatini never fails. Also going through Mises’ The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, which hits like a blunt instrument but offers an interesting model for understanding people.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, The Cheese and the Worms and Scaramouche. Also going through Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
4mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The End of Faith and The Menace of the Herd. I'm picking up Non-Computable You, a book about AI compared to human minds which takes the non-materialist perspective. It might already be outdated, but I find it interesting. Backlog is not moving at all.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
7mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, Galactic Patrol, Crystallizing Public Opinion and 12 Commandments.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
7mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on Future Shock, Galactic Patrol and Crystallizing Public Opinion.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
9mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on Future Shock and The Cheese and the Worms. Also going through Sabatini’s Scaramouche, which seems considerably more interesting than the film.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on my backlog. Retrying Korzybski's Science and Sanity. Getting interested in General Semantics again. Lovecraft moving slowly.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still going through my backlog.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock and Galactic Patrol. Rereading Bernays’ Crystallizing Public Opinion. Bernays has been on my mind often while watching the US election unfold. I think he would have disapproved of the Harris campaign's choices.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
11mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on This Star of England and The Mysterious William Shakespeare. My appreciation of Shakespeare is certainly increasing as a side effect.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
7mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock and 12 Commandments. Picking up Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.
So, what are you reading?
I’m going through This Star of England by the Ogburns, an Oxfordian biography of the man presumed to be the real Shakespeare by the authors. Thoughts below.
Still going through Abundance, Generosity and the State and The Mysterious William Shakespeare.
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on The Conquest of Bread and Future Shock.
Picking up Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms, a book about the inner universe of a 16th century miller who was executed by the Inquisition. The title is a reference to his belief that the world was created from a chaos “just as cheese is made out of milk” and “worms appeared in it, and these were the angels.” The man himself sounds like a decent man, not particularly crazy, concerned with the money-making aspects of the Church and the apparent absurdity of its teachings, preferring a simplified, natural religion of doing good deeds.
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