EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
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EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
Nope, this one's Charles. It's an old book (1969) on the inquiry method.
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
11mo ago
I never got around to actually reading Lacan, but the IEP's entry on him was stellar reading.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
19d 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
6mo 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
9mo 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
7mo ago
Star Trek: Lower Decks is actually quite good. There’s some wokeness, but for the most part it’s a solid work with good characters, hilarity and normal Trek things. It is also definitely not for children.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
5d ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm adding Shapiro's Contested Will to my list.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm still on the Iliad and Dialectic of Enlightenment, which has turned out to be much more interesting than I expected.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
the liberties it took with the original
I know what you mean. I've read most of this book before, but never managed to get past the last few chapters. Didn't quite seem like the Bean we knew. Still, it has some punch in its writing, and maybe the series is interesting.
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
5mo ago
Too early to tell. So far it looks like a law-book, which is not the most interesting genre. It's also very Arabic.
I'm honestly reading it because I saw the phrase "excellence in all things" in the video game War Wind's manual, which is apparently also the name of a book of Baháʼí excerpts (no actual relation seems likely).
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
6mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments and Closing of the American Mind.
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
9mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, The Cheese and the Worms and Scaramouche.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
10mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The Conquest of Bread. Picking up Toffler’s Future Shock.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
11mo ago
This Star of England is a biography Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in light of the theory that he wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare.
Some of its scholarship seems, for lack of a better word, incestuous, as Ward's biography (he was an Oxfordian) is cited often, and Looney’s (also an Oxfordian) attributions of certain poems to Edward de Vere are also taken as a given.
The narrative itself is much more engaging than I expected. Still the truth is that the Lord Oxford does not always come off as being the sensitive, honest and forthright man who they attempt to portray him as. He seems an awful lot like a man who avoided his wife despite her faithfulness and then accused her of infidelity because he had a personality disorder. But then again the record is not complete, so much is, as the authors say, optional to assume.
Yet I’m enjoying myself immensely; the book reads like a mythology which is pregnant with potential meaning, and such books I deem essential to a complete picture of wisdom. These are the kinds of things which make me upset with our society’s tendency to hide certain books from view: one doesn’t even know where to begin to find a canon of such books. One must rediscover in agonizingly slow steps, in utter confusion, and at his own peril. Ogburn Jr.’s preface (pdf) is well worth reading, if nothing else.
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.
Ultimately it’s about proximity to Pandora’s box.
Some people will gravitate towards it on the assumption that hope, too, lives within it–hope for a better understanding than what is available.
It’s natural that the chaotic nature of that source of knowledge will splinter into many different confusions, and to notice only the strangeness is to risk missing the point.
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