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So, what are you reading?
I'm still on Korzybski's Science and Sanity. I haven't managed to wrap my head around all the implications of his system, but Korzybski had an interesting project. In his view, the reason why people have not caught up to science is related to our conception of language. I've started adopting the term "semantic reaction" to describe people's understanding or lack of understanding of what underlying structure they are referring to when they speak. God knows I could do better in that regard.
I found a freshly-opened used bookstore this weekend! Picked up
The Big Short - since my dad raves about the movie
The Future of Conflict in the 1980s - I expect some fascinating and/or hilarious essays, seeing as this was written in 1981
Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games and Rainbow Six - because Red October was so much fun
Audubon guide to the night sky - I’m slowly collecting more and more of the set ever since I got my grandmother’s copy of the mushroom guide
the first Witcher book - out of general curiosity (despite not having any experience with the franchise)
Very cheap. But their organization was terrible. Perhaps that’s just incentive to come back once things are sorted.
Regardless, I’m idly reading the Witcher first. Might be fun.
At the risk of straying into culture-war territory, I will also recommend the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (free; includes separate Democrat, Republican, and libertarian viewpoints) and Hidden in Plain Sight (on Amazon, $10 electronic or $6 paper; an expanded version of the same libertarian viewpoint).
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