Post away.
ez post
>>56804081
although not the abridged version to be earnest
>>56804202
Can anyone give me a short synopsis of what I'd be going for if I read this?
Seeing as no one is ever going to read any of the "look-how-smart-I-am" suggestions in this thread, how about some genuine /pol/ approved entertainment?
Especially the chapter on death penalty and violence, but the whole novel is pretty brilliant if you're into military sci-fi that feels realistic.
>>56804602
i'd say a lot of it is a dismantling of your stereotypical middle class social conservative's view of "tradition" as bullshit, and that they should accept that their cushioned, bourgeois way of life was a fleeting transitory culture doomed to fail in the long run, that the collapse was inevitable and that the best way to deal with it is to just knuckle down and rest assured in your beliefs without feeling the need to have them collectively validated by a rotting civilisation...
i dunno.
This is another masterpiece from Neil Postman.
>>56804998
Sounds good to me.
Magic mountain by Mann was good but long and he recommends you read at least 7 times to get everything. Only managed twice.
>>56805059
>Be Neil Postman
>write about how "everything is required to be fun nowadays, how entertainment always comes first"
>gets "No essayist is more fun today" on book cover
>kekked
anything by shapiro
Give me more. Give personal recomendations too.
>>56805863
>clockwork orange
dropped
>>56805754
If you like helicopters or Nam Chickenhawk by Mason is great, he changed how copters are flown.
The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig is life changing, philosophy of quality.
>>56805059
Anyone here have a general opinion on Postman? I know he wrote about Huxley with Amusing Ourselves to Death, and this book looks like maybe it has something worthwhile in it.
He's pretty low on my reading queue though. I'll get to him eventually, if not for the worthiness of hearing another potential "update" of Brave New World Revisited, which I'm assuming is the tone of his works.
>>56804081
Ten Little Niggers?
>>56804728
stop projecting philistine
>>56806664
Amusing Ourselves to Death is an interesting read, and it's pretty short. It probably has a few insights into this election.
>>56806664
Wrong assumptions. Start with The Disappearance of Childhood. Only then read Amusing, but don't expect Huxley.
Postman agrees with Huxley's idea that we would become "enslaved" through pleasure rather than pain, but that's about all he mentions of Huxley. The rest is his own superb analysis of the media (literally, as in medium) and their consequences. TV can never do what a book can, and this influences public discourse.
Consider this, when Lincoln was doing debate, in front of audiences, even before doing the official debates for presidency, people attended those debates largely for their personal political culture. Lincoln would be asked a question, and had 3 HOURS TO RESPOND in.
Then his opponent ALSO had 3 hours to make a rebutal. For one question. These guys knew their shit and knew how to argue.
Compare to today: question, you get 3 minutes to respond, and your opponent has a minute and a half to make a rebutal. Absolute joke.
Ever since Kennedy, virtually every US president has had to have good hair and not be fat.
>Kennedy
>Carter
>Reagan
>Clinton
>Bush jr.
>Obama
But yeah, read Childhood first. It's brilliant.
>>56805863
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Iris Chang - The Rape of Nanking (redpills you on the japs)
Alan Watts - Wisdom of Insecurity (or anything by Alan Watts)
Chris Hadfield - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (career advice, motivational)
Mark Manson - Models
Napoleon Hill - Think And Grow Rich
Maxwell Maltz - Psycho Cybernetics
Sea-Jin Chang - Sony vs Samsung (japanese vs korean culture)
Martin Ford - The Lights in the Tunnel (Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future)
Jeffrey Liker - The Toyota Way
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo - Poor Economics (why most development aid doesn't work)
>>56807327
>The rest is his own superb analysis of the media (literally, as in medium) and their consequences.
If this type of thing interests you, check out McLuhan.
>>56808384
>If this type of thing interests you, check out McLuhan.
I think Neil mentions him quite a bit.
>>56804314
>ayn rand
ayn rand, let that sink in for a moment
>>56808804
Nothing to let sink in unless you've read her. I haven't, so no opinion and nothing to sink in. If you have a point to make, make it, Benito.
My favorite /pol/ book was written by the Swiss guard. Pic related.
>>56808863
ayn rand was an emotionally unstable egocentric kike.
why so many polaks like her is beyond me. oh well, that's just how it is when you're a flag waving american laissez faire free market capitalist classical liberal.
noice
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/89892._pol_recommended_reading
Don't forget to laugh. .
>>56808863
No human being with half a brain would consider the shit that a drugged up whore wrote as something even slightly relevant.
I can't even describe the hate i feel towards that human scum
>>56809036
>ayn rand was an emotionally unstable egocentric kike.
Not a reason to think she shouldn't be heard. Find better if you want to convince me.
>>56804081
Darkness at Noon -- Koestler -- Redpill on gommies
Homage to Catalonia -- Orwell -- Redpill on gommies
Midnight's Children -- Rushdie --Indian Independence
>>56809258
>No human being with half a brain would consider the shit that a drugged up whore wrote as something even slightly relevant.
One needs to read it to suggest as much. You don't help anyone who hasn't read her work, such as myself.
>I can't even describe the hate i feel towards that human scum
Feelings aren't arguments, Benito, so unless you want me to call you Monica from now on, give me a rational reason to make me dump Rand for good.
>>56808384
>>56808494
Jumping in on the McLuhan bit, check out this website for pdf links to the readings listed in this thread:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
Assuming you both are discussing Marshall McLuhan, check out both "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man" and "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects" (and no, "Massage" is not a typo). Although leafposters have a bad rap on /pol/, McLuhan is definitely worth your while.
anything by Herman Hesse, but especially the Glass Bead Game
bonus: he makes nazis butthurt
>>56809346
Read the "Epistemology" part:
If you find that even reasonable, you'd better find the nearest cliff and dive. Head first.
Not gonna spoil you the fun, try and figure it out by yourself
>>56809597
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
>>56809599
10/10
also, David Irving anyone?
http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/index.html
>>56809599
>Although leafposters have a bad rap on /pol/
I honestly can't think of another Canadian intellectual worth reading.
Frank Herbert Dune is top-tier, but avoid everything written by the homosexual Brian Herbert.
>>56810249
>Frank Herbert Dune is top-tier
Is it really, though? I've often heard that it was poorly written. Is it anything more than a glorified version of the Lord of the Rings in space?
>>56810249
Does it have the blatantly homo evil dude as in the movie? Covered with AIDS.
>>56810366
>Give me a young man to kiss, rape, violate, and eat
>>56810153
Sadly, neither can I.
>>56804081
Not an entire book, but an essay in a book.
Richard Szafranski, "Neocortical Warfare? The Acme of Skill"
From major Jordan's diary
Basically its testimony that explains how we gave an a-bomb to Russia also supplies for nuclear devices
Really makes you think about Eisenhower
This is right up /pol/s alley
>>56811401
How so?
