case_whenWhat do I need to read to get where you're coming from?
Mister NeonMeditations by Marcus Aurelius and The Codex Borgia.
Iceberg Slim [aka Robert Beck] was widely read in the Black community and almost completely unknown outside of it. He inspired many Black artists, and both Ice-T and Ice Cube named themselves in his honor.
At least he wasn’t a slave owner like Washington and Jefferson.
I got a huge laugh out of the idea of you actually having the nerve to say that you Ice-T or Ice Cube, or saying anything bad about Washington to one of the people who worship him.
Actually imagining you outside, touching grass was pretty funny.
And you keep on amusing me by pretending to be an adult.
jordanlundThe Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume 1: The Earth Will Shake.
agamemnonymousAnything else by Wilson would probably be a more productive starting place.
All of Wilson is fantastic, but this is probably the most accessible of his fiction.
His non-fiction though, man, throw a dart. 😉
I compulsively buy copies of Prometheus Rising so I have them on hand to distribute to interesting people.
Yeah, that’s a good one. I like the Illuminati Papers and Right Where You Are Sitting Now as well!
The only book I’ve ever reread was The Illuminatus Trilogy, and I’ve reread it twice. I give out copies of that one too.
ComradeSharkfuckerThe State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin. It honestly isn’t a long read
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)My life is so complicated, you’d need an entire “wikipedia-styled” article of me.
If I had one, it’d probably be one of the craziest stories… well like not like any acheivements or anything, but more like depression and trauma. I’m gonna seem so broken that you’d not wanna be friends. People are gonna be like: “oh that’s that person, wow” then walk away since nobody want to hang out since nobody want to get afflicted/infected with my sadness.
I mean, I reflect on my past and I visualize the scene in “3rd person” and I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I’m not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
I’m kinda just deciding on leaving an autobiography/journal, in case I kms in the future. I wonder how my parentd would react. Maybe leaving something behind would finally get them to understand what I’ve been through from my PoV. Maybe they’d live a better life without me being around. Idk.
I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I’m not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
You should write that autobiography. I think you have a way with words.
You can write something for yourself and for other people to understand you through, without the intention of leaving it behind. Leave it alive instead. You can do it and carry on. You can know their reactions instead of wonder, if you decide to show them. And you can work through your experiences through writing. Preferably while being in contact with a support group or therapist, because writing it will for sure drag it up.
In case I kms in the future
I recommend the TV Series “Death’s game”, you might like it.
And yo, I don’t know your troubles, but I do know a lot of people who have attempted it and have my own history. And one thing I can say is that you never know how the future looks and how you’ll look back at yourself in the now from there. Of course there are terminal illnesses etc. but barring something like this, it’s just a web of probabilities and interpretations thereof: please stay a little longer.
Mira Lu Kovacs - Stay A Little Longer (official video)
dohpaz42The Stranger - Albert Camus
gigastasioAnything by Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, music history textbooks, Samurai Jack slash fiction, public restroom graffiti, HVAC technical manuals, and the comment sections on porn sites.
BananaOnionJuice- The Green Futures of Tycho
- When The Tripods Came
- The Girl From Isis
- Kindred Spirits by Mark Anthony
Books I read in school that spoke to me.
muxikaAnna Karenina and Promise at Dawn
As a kid one of my favourite passages to read was about a girl who saw her twin get ran over by a car and killed. I don’t remember anything else about that book… but I would devour anything sad and traumatic and upsetting. I would absorb those emotions and live those lives, and it would be like a daily catharsis to read something horrifying and cry it out.
- The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
- Getting to Where You Are, by Steven Harrison
- Journey Without Goal, by Chögyam Trungpa
listen to all jethro tull till you can recognize every song and figure out the two bad albums.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle might not explain it, but could add valuable context.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn’t say I’m into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
Maybe these don’t explain me, but they hit hard at forming my views of my fellow apes:
American politics
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Which is also explained, among a shitload of other behavior, in
So MUCH of what we see around us is explained in those two articles. I’ve had responses that neither is a complete view, not all behavior, bla, bla, bla. Yeah, I know. But if you want to understand humans, especially why so many seem bugfuck evil, there’s a lot of bang for the buck in there. (Be patient with the Monkeysphere article, old and the formatting is hosed, but I trust you’ll get it.)
Adorno’s Negative Dialectics
Sasha [They/Them]The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.
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BrusqueThe Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camut. Absurdism/it philosophically examines whether one should commit suicide.
I started reading The Myth of Sisyphus because I’m interested in absurdism but haven’t read much other philosophy apart from some of the classic Stoic books. I found it very dense and hard to get through the first parts with references to philosophers I hadn’t read, does it get easier to read?
Not OP but yes, if you can get through the dialogue with Kierkegaard the rest is pretty digestible. That said, you might get more out of it if you’ve got a basic foundation in existentialism and nihilism first. A lot of what makes absurdism interesting and important is its contrasts with other philosophies.
No.
Also that book is extremely easy to read for philosophy. It is not very dense at all. You are in for a world of hurt if you try any legit philosophy. Camus is like the YA version of philosophy.
OBJECTION!Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti will go a long way towards understanding my politics.
Voidian
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)
Brothers Karamazov is way better.
Codex Seraphinianus.
Some pages may take two-three reads before understanding fully.
lemmy_acct_id_8647Not as much a book, but the documentary Dominion. If someone can watch that and not understand reasons for going vegan if not choosing to do so themselves, I seriously question their moral compass.
Same. I went vegan before watching it. Tried doing so and only made it about 15 min in. So hard to watch.