Best /pol/ tier books on ethics, politics, religion anti-pc, or general red pilling?
>>56666394
Don't read before bedtime. Too spooky.
>>56666394
Most stuff from arktos.com
>>56666394
Ok besides the title, what is this book about?
What are its main points/ theses?
>>56666394
The City and Man
>>56667065
>you think he read it
>>56666763
Actually looks pretty interesting. Definitely going to take a deeper look into content.
>>56667065
I didn't read the book, I just picked a generic picture of a book with a captivating title.
The Creature from Jekyll Island
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66499.The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island
>>56667212
disappointed in you
Is Brave New World /pol/ tier?
>>56667345
I've actually been wanting to read this one for awhile.
>>56667386
Don't be disappoint.. I'll add it to my reading list if it actually is worth reading.
>>56667065
I've actually read the book. It's about a thousand pages, but I read it in about three weeks because it reads poetically and its very interesting.
The thesis is that a civilization is like an organism: it is born, it goes through various stages of development, and then dies. A people initially has a culture (Kultur), and when they settle onto a territory, the transition to civilization (Zivilisation) begins. Each Kultur has an underlying essence. The Examples he gives are "the point" in the case of antiquity, "the unknown" in the case of the Islamic world, and "the infinite" in the case of the modern West (whose beginning he places with the barbarian settlements after the fall of Rome).
Spengler argues that this underlying culture-essence manifests in all aspects of the civilization that follows. Greek geometry was focused on the point. The prime Greek art was the statue: a solid thing in space, a point. Greek astronomy saw the earth as a point in the center of a surrounding and rigid universe. Greece was organized around the city-state, a uniform point. Even the Roman Empire still had a city as its central focus. The gods of antiquity were many and anthropomorphic beings who existed at points in space and time.
Islam's mathematics was algebra, the math of the unknown variable. Islamic monotheism contains the notion of the unknowable god. Spengler sees Arab/Middle Eastern civilization as preceding Islam and containing philosophers like Plotinus who likewise wrote of "The One," an unknown universal Being and first substance, something which precedes the "demiurge," or the god of matter.
The West contributed infinitesimal calculus and the infinite series to mathematics--notions of the infinite. We replaced the geocentric and static universe with the expanding cosmos, in which we are insignificant. The West's prime art form is music (the West is the only civilization that gave birth to polyphony) where the art is not constrained by physical space.
The Republic by Plato
>Evola
>René Guénon
>Alain de Benoist
Classical European literature is pretty interesting to read as well.
>>56666394
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbodjwAqTM
>>56666394
>>56669595
Yeah I saw many if these on the Arktos site posted earlier. Think I'm going to start reading Revolt Against The Modern World..
>>56669382
Nice job
>>56669382
Interesting, thanks for the reply
Those are some unique ideas that I've never came across, how the West's prime art form is music etc.
I have to wonder about when you mentioned Plotinus. Does this basically mean that this book is basically written by a gnostic?
>>56669382
>it reads poetically
Almost an understatement.
>>56666763
My faves in (soft) ranking order
Counter-currents.com
radixjournal.com
Amren.com
npiamerica.org
theoccidentalobserver.net
YT channels
Gaelic Neoreactionary
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--Ru-Cve1fxhZ8m8xXxeUg
TheArmenianNation
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheArmenianNation
Jonathan Bowden(He's dead it's a fan run channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmzxYd11nRMXvlN4TtFIlA
London Forum
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwrMR1v4vK-LAp4805x6Bg
ramzpaul
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIibK0GTXCaQCAamJAepm1g
The National Policy Institute
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NPMpK-gZVIKqvDRljgbBA
Angelo John Gage
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqf9vZfB5vOeJBnR3J6w1Q
Traditional Britain Group
https://www.youtube.com/user/TradBritGroup
Augustus Invictus for United States Senate
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdPzJBJYQlsKigw_3XTqJw
>>56669382
Eventually, when the culture-essence exhausts itself, the civilization becomes degenerative and repetitive.
Art and thought become nothing more than trends, increasingly rebellious and with quickening changes in fashion. Novelty becomes the new value. Breaking the old rules can only go long for so long. Originality is lost.
Spengler put the completion of the West's transition of culture to civilization at the Battle of Waterloo. The 19th century typified the era of breaking old trends and old ideas for the sake of modernity itself, for progress as an intrinsic value, and for the sake of novelty. Art went down the path of increasing abstraction until, by the 20th century, representative art had nearly fully passed.
Spengler essentially saw the West in the early twentieth century as culturally dead. It was in need of a Caesar, who would carry the civilization into the next era of Imperium, which was not a cultural revitalization but a new epoch equivalent to the Roman Empire in which the emphasis would be on building and conquest.
Spengler was not an optimist but neither was he a pessimist. He merely saw civilizations as organisms with a life span like that of a man. He did, however, see a positive in this: civilization, if it could last forever, would eventually degenerate into meaninglessness and absolute lack of creativity--death brings renewal.
Spengler also thought that the same racial/ethnic group could be a part of multiple civilizations: the Italians were both a part of antiquity and the modern West.
That's the book in a nutshell. It's a good read.
>>56666394
On War - Clausewitz
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
Propaganda - Edward L. Bernay
Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
Mein Kampf - Hitler
The Second Book - Hitler
Star Ship Troopers
The Leviathan
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
Further Reflections on The Revolution in France - Edmund Burke
33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
White Gold - Giles Milton
The Law - Bastiat
God's Philosphers
Suicide of The West
The Machiavellians - James Burnham
Willhelm Meisters Apprenticeship - Goethe
Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
Might is Right - Ragnar Redbeard
The Last Lion - Winston Spencer Churchill
Profiles In Courage - JFK
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Great Republic - Winston Churchill
Truman - David McCullough
Hero: Lawrence of Arabia - Michael Korda
Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell
Infantry Attacks - Erwin Rommll
The Words We Live By
The Art of The Deal - Trump
Seven Pillars of Wisdon A Triumph The Complete 1922 Text
Red October - Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy
The Bhagavad Gita
The Poetic Edda
Here's my reading list from a /pol/ book thread months ago. A lot of these can be found on Kindle for free
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/M/Mo/Morgan_William_-_Illustrations_of_Masonry.pdf
>>56669654
I like this video
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/M/Ma/Marrs_Jim_-_Rule_by_secrecy.pdf
>>56670164
Thanks I'll check all of these out
>>56670355
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6WbmWU0QI
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/G/Gr/Griffin_G_Edward_-_The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island.pdf
>>56669595
Evola is fedora-tier but he has some good points.
>>56670537
Start with the Bowden videos you'll wish there were more. I think there are probably a few more out there that haven't surfaced.
>>56670190
Damn family that is quite the list. I've read a few on there but I'll have to go through the rest and add them to my shelf.
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>>56667065
To put it incredibly simply
-Cultures/civilizations have a lifespan of about 1000 years
-They undergo distinct stages and are cyclical in nature
-There have only been a limited number of "high cultures" (Chinese, Egyptian, Classical (Greek and Roman), Meso-American, Mesopotamian, India, some others maybe, and our own culture "the West")
-Each culture has a sort of root idea at its heart, that defines it as unique. For our culture it's a striving towards the infinite, for example.
-To put it very simply, each culture moves away from being spiritual and original, to becoming rationalistic and exhausting it's capabilities to create truly original or great works of art.
bumping because this is one of the only decent threads I've seen in ages
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdf
>>56669382
>>56670187
>>56670130
Well, he mentions Plotinus by tying him to Middle Eastern civilization (which he calls "Magian" and defines as beginning in the Near East roughly around the 400s AD and completing its transition to civilization about a 1000 years later--this is the span that Spengler assigns the average civilization--with the rise of the Ottomans). I don't think this means that Spengler himself subscribed to gnostic ideas.
Spengler was above all else a disciple of Heraclitus. He, unlike most philosophers, didn't freeze existence to study it (by subscribing to a solid and unchanging ethics, politics, metaphysics, etc.). Spengler saw movement as necessary to understanding Being, hence all values, political organizations, ideologies and so on derive from the unstoppable movement of history; they do not exist in some other reality outside of time.
In terms of other good books to read in response to the thread, I'd recommend:
Plato's Republic
Machiavelli's The Prince
Hobbes's Leviathan
Hegel's Philosophy of History and Philosophy of Right
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Heidegger's Being and Time
Try reading between the lines; there's a lot more in those texts than the simple messages they stress in college classes.
Paradise Lost
City of God (St. Augustine of Hippo not the newer one)
The Patton Papers
Brave New World
Fight Club
On Pain (Ernst Junger)
The Turner Diaries
The Camp of the Saints
A Republic, Not an Empire
The Brothers Karamazov
The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
Farmer Boy
The Federalist Papers
anything Shakespeare
Someone should make an image similar to /pol/ approved movies but with books.
>>56671187
>>56671273
>>56671187
Do you have the movie image?
>>56671311
>>56671355
>>56671395
>>56671433
>>56671470
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:How_to_identify_CIA_limited_hangout_operation
>>56666394
>Spengler
>A Nihilist who inadvertently opened the flood gates for Cultural Marxism and anti Western Civilization thought into the world
Why are German philosophers so Nihilistic and pessimistic?
>>56671018
I've been reading Being and Time for the longest time and I gotta say I hate it tbqh
Not because it's hard to read, but because I just plainly don't agree with Heidegger's misanthropic ideas that Dasein is this lazy and inattentive and inauthentic being that just takes the whole world for granted.
But that's besides the point
I guess I've got myself another book to read over the holidays, thanks for explaining bits and pieces of it to me.
>>56671589
But that's completely and utterly wrong.
>>56671273
>>56671492
Wow, thanks for all those. Especially the religious one.
>>56670943
GOOD LUCK SPENGLER!
>>56671589
This is a German scapegoat. They banned one of his books and said that because he wrote it the Germans lost the war.
>>56666394
Benedict Option:
>Around the year 500, a man called Benedict fled from Rome to a forest to escape the revelry of city life. He spent three years in a cave as a hermit, preserving his own virtue and praying for society's moral restoration. But does a medieval monastic story have modern-day significance? Rod Dreher, write for The American Conservative, coined "The Benedict Option" to convey the challenge of sustaining tradition amidst a "Dark Age." For such a time as this, could St. Benedict's example be more relevant than we think?
>Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbItNogEOx4
Dropping some links
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/exiles-from-the-academy/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/harvard-law-reichstag-fire-benedict-option/
>>56671933
And then he was viewed as a proto-Nazi in the post war period because of the "blonde beast" stuff. Maybe people just have a hard time reading him, because at first review there are wildly different interpretations let alone substantive disagreements about his ideas.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Category:Documents
>>56671721
>>56672215
np
>>56672143
hmm this looks pretty interesting
>>56672115
I'm glad you posted this. I have actually been asking myself similar questions lately and have been in search of higher ethical ground. I'll definitely delve into this one
>>56671339
There's another but I don't have it atm.
This guy was educated by jesuits and married one of his students. One the presidential medal of freedom. Died in the early eighties I think.
>>56672690
pretty good list but sum of all fears sucks, it's about nazis, which, even if you hate nazis, has been done to death
>>56672215
yea thanks
gonna have a comfy new years reading these titles
>>56666394
>/pol/ tier books
Kek.
>>56672690
holy fuck that movie list is amazing
thank you for posting. i got some new ones to watch
>>56666394
bump
>>56672690
Lol Falling Down.. I remember watching that with my dad when I was younger. Such a badass movie.
>>56669382
Excellent post. I definitely need to read this.
>>56673762
DON'T GET THE WINDHAM PRESS PRINTING
For My Legionaries
Cordreanu was pretty based
>>56670676
>Evola is fedora tier
How?
>>56670164
Check out righton.net it's run by Daniel Friberg the guy who owns Arktos.
>>56670187
>tfw hitler was our times ceasar and no third reich
>>56673894
Which version is best? It'll probably be ebook
>no samuel p. huntington
Pretty disappoint, senpaitachi. Reach "The Clash of Civilizations", which predicted with startling accuracy what tensions and costs would arise with multiculturalism, particularly in accomodating Islam within Western societies.
Then there's "Who Are We?", which is essentially the same topic, but with narrower focus, specifically the impact of permitting Hispanic immigration into the United States.
For a very popular and mainstream scholar Huntington was remarkably dissident.
Good thread is good.
You people would enjoy the Strugatsky brothers, I'm sure there is at least some translation available.
They were strongly anti-soviet, had to edit a lot of books due to censorship, but they later released original versions too.
I especially recommend "Гpaд Oбpeчeнный" / "The doomed city" (not sure whether it's how they translated it though, using literal translation)
>>56674108
Oh then it doesn't matter
>>56674397
What's wrong with Windham?
What should I read to learn about Rothstein control of the world ?
Beep beep, best philosopher coming through bitches
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/M/Ma/Marrs_Jim_-_The_rise_of_the_Fourth_Reich.pdf
>>56674750
I think Rothschild is the name you're looking for.
Only place I've learned about it is on YouTube tonight.
>>56674790
B A S E D
>>56674561
It's a printer paper photocopy of an og text. Someone put pictures of it on Amazon
>>56674790
What to start with
>>56667523
I enjoyed reading it, but it feels more "Reddit teir'' if thats a thing
It's whatever 1984 is
more spenglerian redpill literature
>>56675181
Anything with the word "dialectic" in its title will be burned on the Day of the Rope.
>>56675701
hegel was literally reddit tier historical philosophy
>>56666394
Frank herbert's DUNE
Best is 4th in the series "God emperor of dune"
>>56669466
This along with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius was my first foray into classical higher thinking literature when I was a kid. Good reads
>>56669654
>only the religious can truly appreciate art
Fuck you faggot
>>56671018
>hegel
https://youtu.be/jZWcQkfuoxo
Comfy song for a comfy bread
>>56674790
Excuse me lad but I believe you have misspoke
Basically about how students are being coddled and turned into useful idiots.
Bloom's essay on the republic is also a great read.
>>56677531
Just ordered paperback online from Amazon, will be here next week. Hope it's good
Thanks Korea
The Bible
>>56678092
This.
If you want to know the greater jewish plan read the Bible.
If you want an easy and entertaining read
>inb4 jew
Michael Savage is /pol/'s approved media jew
