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    For the Readers and Thinkers

    Conservative and libertarian snowflakes beware, you may be forced think and that is unknown territory.

    "If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." Franz Kafka

    Understand America today:

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...33-white-trash
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...f-donald-trump
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...hants-of-doubt
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...o-hack-america
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...ic_of_Reaction

    Psychology

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ouse_of_cards_
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ncertain_World


    Racism

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26073085-white-rage
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-the-beginning
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ing-up-our-own
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...istle-politics


    "Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it." Don King


    Interesting and Deep

    'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle' by Daniel L. Everett
    'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers' by Robert M. Sapolsky
    'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by J. D. Vance
    'One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway - and Its Aftermath' by Seierstad, Åsne and Sarah Death
    'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder

    "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

    Note: I didn't see a book thread although I recall one? Anyway if you have read any of the above comments welcome.
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    you've misapplied the term snowflake, again...
    it can only be applied to liberal progressives that have been throwing juvenile temper tantrums since the elections. You're the ones crying over your loss...
    BTW, just what did you lose since Trump's been president?
    What have we to cry about?
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    "If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka, "The Vulture"

    A vulture was hacking at my feet. It had already torn my boots and stockings to shreds, now it was hacking at the feet themselves. Again and again it struck at them, then circled several times restlessly round me, then returned to continue its work. A gentleman passed by, looked on for a while, then asked me why I suffered the vulture.

    "I'm helpless," I said. "When it came and began to attack me, I of course tried to drive it away, even to strangle it, but these animals are very strong, it was about to spring at my face, but I preferred to sacrifice my feet. Now they are almost torn to bits."

    "Fancy letting yourself be tortured like this!" said the gentleman. "One shot and that's the end of the vulture."

    "Really ?" I said. "And would you do that?"

    "With pleasure," said the gentleman, "I've only got to go home and get my gun. Could you wait another half hour?"

    "I'm not sure about that," said I, and stood for a moment rigid with pain. Then I said: "Do try it in any case, please."

    "Very well," said the gentleman, "I'll be as quick as I can."

    During this conversation the vulture had been calmly listening, letting its eye rove between me and the gentleman. Now I realized that it had understood everything; it took wing, leaned far back to gain impetus, and then, like a javelin thrower, thrust its beak through my mouth, deep into me. Falling back, I was relieved to feel him drowning irretrievably in my blood, which was filling every depth, flooding every shore.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    I am currently reading three books which is often my wont. I do the same with movies on Amazon Prime. Wanna see a fascinating movie, watch 'Don't worry he won't get far on foot'. Joaquin Phoenix is amazing in his role as John Callahan. But back to books, I read Szasz long ago, as well as Arendt and both create a hard question mark on human behavior and acts of evil. Check out this OP and see books below, you won't be able to put down 'One Of Us'.

    "It taught me, at an early age, the lesson that it can be dangerous to be wrong, but, to be right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal. This principle is especially true with respect to false truths that form an important part of an entire society’s belief system. In the past, such basic false truths were religious in nature. In the modern world, they are medical and political in nature." Thomas Szasz

    https://aeon.co/essays/the-psychiatr...mental-illness

    "You know the left think that I am conservative, and the conservatives sometimes think I am left or I am a maverick or god knows what. And I must say I couldn’t care less." Hannah Arendt

    'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway'
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22237163-one-of-us

    'Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...n_in_Jerusalem
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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. Franz Kafka

    Creepiest writer.



    Or you can just go to goodreads.


    "Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it." Don King

    What's his problem? America is an immensely beautiful place, and generally speaking, the people in it suck.


    Anyway if you have read any of the above comments welcome.
    Yes, thank you. Just this: *Anyway, if you have read any of the above, your comments are welcome.*
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    A few notes:

    If you want to understand a killer like the recent New Zealand coward, read 'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway', I mentioned it above.


    Another tough read is '
    Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover, not for the squeamish.

    On a lighter note but definitely worth a read is, 'Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious' by Gerd Gigerenzer Excellent read it.


    "One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Cassandra Clare
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    Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes​

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    Geoff Nunberg's analysis of right wing talk is an excellent read. It touches on the word games that political think tanks and others such as 'dark money' use to manage opinion. Well done, read it.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....Talking_Right


    While dated a bit 'The Hidden Persuaders' by Vance Packard is excellent too. Understand why you and others think this way or that way.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...den_Persuaders

    Video: http://fora.tv/2008/11/16/Geoffrey_N..._Talking_Right
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    I am currently reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Third-.../dp/0684829495

    994539.jpg

    Speer is frequently dishonest in this book and writes it to attempt to justify some of his responsibility. I read it in college as an assignment. I bought it on eBay and am reading it again.
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    I realize many have had enough of Trump. He was a failure in so many ways except for the growth of divisiveness and hate. His cult members remain and his big lie still motivates the easily led. First link is a video I watched on Prime, worth your time as it is a lesson in psychology and mental health. The books cover both media and Trump's background history. If you want to learn read.

    #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    https://unfitfilm.com/

    Readings:


    'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America'

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...in-plain-sight

    'Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth'

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53345186-hoax


    'The Making of Donald Trump' by David Cay Johnston

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...f-donald-trump
    Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.

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