EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
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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
1yr ago
I never got around to actually reading Lacan, but the IEP's entry on him was stellar reading.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
I'm afraid not. I've wanted to learn Arabic for some time now but have never managed to persist in the required effort to learn the script and pronunciation.
I'm using M. A. S. Abdel Haleem's translation, as it seems suited to Western tastes and has useful introductions/footnotes for every Surah.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
That was a mistake. Hobbit 2 was close to greatness, and 3 was tolerable. Both were considerably better than 1. It isn't the book, but it was worth it.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
I think front-page submissions need to be manually approved by mods, or perhaps it needed manual approval because you're a new account. It's showing up now.
Submission statements are for link posts. You don't need one for something you wrote yourself. You would just put something which explains what the link is in the text field.
Welcome!
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
Still trying Historical Construction of National Consciousness, but it's putting me to sleep. Content is good but the style is dense.
Looking at Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia. It starts with a Socratic dialogue where the grasshopper in the grasshopper-and-ant story is a leader of a philosophical school who leaves behind a puzzling dream for his followers when he dies. It is said to be both an influential and a sometimes overlooked book on game studies (not game theory, more like Homo Ludens).
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
This is beautiful. I was only just wondering whether there was anything resembling a religious take on programming, and "holistic" is close enough. Thanks!
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
Again, my bad for cutting in. I'll freely admit that I posted without thinking. But you know, in a way this response sums up my initial intuitions about this whole thing.
If your anger stems from me being an idiot without grace or common sense, you would be right, but it also seems like you're prioritizing the fluff of conversation and not the meat. You might as well click a random page in the Library of Babel and learn how to use the I Ching on it. Sometimes you just have to say no, and you'll never find what you're looking for until you grasp what this feels like in practice.
I'm afraid I cannot put this into a more thoughtful form than this at present, so perhaps you would be right to declare victory and move on. But I doubt it.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
IMO Far Beyond The Stars is the pinnacle of all Star Trek.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
The front page feels disorderly because the stickies aren't bolded (at least for me?). I don't know about others but this frustrates me.
Also, please consider keeping all the regular threads of the week stickied. It has always been a little sad that threads tend to drop off in posters when they get unstickied by the next thread a few days after.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2yr ago
What twitter people are you all following? Any side welcome, I haven't been paying serious attention.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo ago
Adding Political Ponerology to my list.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still going through my backlog.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
4mo 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
5mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The Wisdom of Insecurity and other things.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
7mo ago
Zimmern, although it looks like the standard one is Kaufmann.
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.
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
8mo ago
I’ve been reading it at a snail’s pace, so I can’t say too much at the moment, but honestly, Future Shock is already one of the most interesting books I’ve read. I’m not very impressed with many takes on progress, but by focusing specifically on change and its psychological counterparts (as opposed to end results), it brings out a lot of insights which seem worth studying. There’s a vision here, something that’s just a little cerebral without being untethered. I’ll try to do a proper review for the next thread.
As for Bernays, I wasn’t very impressed with him the first time I read him, but he’s one of those writers who stick in your head for some reason. The books which click years later are the best, and his fit that category for me.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
10mo ago
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.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm almost done Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar. It was alright, have a feeling I will remember it in a few years. Picking up Frank Meyer's In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays. I've heard Meyer's name as the father of fusionism, but I always had the impression that he was just a politically active figure and not the impressive writer and thinker which he appears to be.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm still working through McGilchrist.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
What translation are you reading?
Harry Kurz. It's a remarkable and short work, one of the best I've read.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1yr ago
EdenicFaithful laughs without comment.
Nope, this one's Charles. It's an old book (1969) on the inquiry method.
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