EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
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EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
8d ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The End of Faith, Menace of the Herd and Non-Computable You. Picking up Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, which seems overdue.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
15d ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The End of Faith, Menace of the Herd and Non-Computable You.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
22d 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 It might already be outdated, but I find it interesting.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
29d ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm still on The End of Faith. Going through Kuehnelt-Leddihn's The Menace of the Herd, which I can only describe as an oddity, both judgemental and insightful. Backlog is moving slowly.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm going through Sam Harris' The End of Faith, among other things.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on The Wisdom of Insecurity and other things.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm trying to finish Alan Watt's The Wisdom of Insecurity. I wasn't impressed the first time I tried it, but his work on Zen changed my image of him in a positive way. Still slowly going through my backlog.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
1mo 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
1mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm picking up the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the central text of the Baháʼí. Still a bunch of other stuff to go through.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm adding Legend of the Galatic Heroes to my pile. Perhaps I'll get past book 3 this time.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments, Closing of the American Mind, Beyond Good and Evil and The Book of Knowledge. Picking up The Neoconservative Persuasion, a collection of Irving Kristol essays. Will probably read some C. S. Lewis for Christmas.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
Zimmern, although it looks like the standard one is Kaufmann.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments and Closing of the American Mind. Picking up Al-Ghazali’s The Book of Knowledge, which so far is a lot of quotes, and Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, which is more interesting and lucid than I expected.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
2mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments and Closing of the American Mind.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo 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
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, 12 Commandments, Crystallizing Public Opinion and Galactic Patrol.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, Galactic Patrol, Crystallizing Public Opinion and 12 Commandments.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock, Galactic Patrol and Crystallizing Public Opinion. Taking another stab at Freinacht’s 12 Commandments.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3mo 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
4mo ago
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.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
4mo 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
4mo ago
So, what are you reading?
I’m still on Future Shock, Galactic Patrol and Crystallizing Public Opinion.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
4mo 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
4mo ago
So, what are you reading?
Still on Future Shock and Committing Journalism. Starting Galactic Patrol, in the Lensman series.
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.
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