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    LOL Not sure what to make of replies above....


    I want to add three books to my list of must reads for the thinker and the explorer.

    'Fates Worse Than Death' by Kurt Vonnegut
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...rse_Than_Death

    'The Last Novel' by David Markson
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...The_Last_Novel

    'That's Not What They Meant!' by Michael Austin
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...hat-they-meant

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    You know Caesar never wrote or said that, right?
    ​Sissy Caesar


    He did say, "Veni. Vidi. Vici," which at the time was pronounced, "Wenny, Widdy, Wicky." No wonder they assassinated him.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Frankly, I think academia is rotten -- in religious terms, hell bound.
    Academentia


    Professors are intellectual pedophiles, nerd weaklings who get a sadistic compensating pleasure from mind-raping their students. The students deserve it, too, because college is work without pay and attracts only teenagers who are afraid to grow up. They desperately look up to professors as father-figures; that's what makes them such easy prey.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

    We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.

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


    Ok here goes, this is blow your mind stuff, so beware. Deep deep dive. Enter with care, history and thought and ideas. Pick one.

    'On Human Nature' by Edward O. Wilson
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...n_Human_Nature

    'Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud' by Peter Watson
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408204.Ideas

    'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ic_of_Reaction

    'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain' by David Eagleman
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827912-incognito

    "The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20Th Century' Peter Watson [title differs]
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...errible_Beauty

    Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321263.Humanity

    ''The Rise and Fall of *Communism' by Archie Brown'
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...l-of-communism

    Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786560.Gut_Feelings


    'Voltaire's $#@!s: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West' by John Ralston Saul
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ire_s_Bastards



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    Have you read Atlas Shrugged? The Fountainhead?, Any of Ayn Rand's epic novels?

    Somehow I doubt it. Too low brow for someone of your obviously vastly superior intellect.

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    Re: Ayn Rand, I tried to read her a few times as so many like and admire her. Ironic she ended up on welfare at the end of her life. But I couldn't do it, her writing and her ideas are boring and simplistic nonsense. Comic book level with a touch of evil. See quote at bottom.

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    If you want a real challenge I have an author - I should have listed above not sure how I had missed him - for you all. William T. Vollmann. I have been re-reading 'Rising up, Rising Down'. The abridged edition. Vollmann will challenge you in a way you have never been challenged before. I've read several of his other books, but I'll leave it there for now.


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


    "Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible." William T. Vollmann


    Rand:

    "Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal. In addition, the mind which finds this tone natural to it shares other characteristics of its type. 1) It consistently mistakes raw force for strength, and the rawer the force, the more reverent the posture of the mind before it. 2) It supposes itself to be the bringer of a final revelation. Therefore, resistance to the Message cannot be tolerated because disagreement can never be merely honest, prudent, or just humanly fallible." Whittaker Chambers

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/re.../2705853/posts
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    An interesting read. History in a way we rarely see.

    ""To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing," the Canadian poet Anne Carson once said. With Trump, America finds itself at the end of its myth.

    To talk about the frontier is also to talk about capitalism, about its power and possibility and its promise of boundlessness. Donald Trump figured out that to talk about the border -and to promise a wall- was a way to acknowledge capitalism's limits, its pain, without having to challenge capitalism's terms. Trump ran promising to end the wars and to reverse the extreme anti-regulatory and free-market program of his party. Once in office, though, he accelerated deregulation, increased military spending, and expanded the wars. But he kept talking about his wall.

    That wall might or might not be built. But even if it remains only in its phantasmagorical, budgetary stage, a perpetual negotiating chip between Congress and the White House, the promise of a two-thousand-mile-long, thirty-foot-high ribbon of concrete and steel running along the United States' southern border serves its purpose. It's America's new myth, a monument to the final closing of the frontier. It is a symbol of a nation that used to believe that it had escaped history, or at least strode atop history, bur now finds itself trapped by history, and of a people who used to think they were captains of the future, but now are prisoners of the past." Introduction p8-9

    'The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America' by Greg Grandin

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nd-of-the-myth


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    Quote Originally Posted by OGIS View Post
    The last thing Mexico is, is a free market economy. There are, I think, seven families that control virtually all of the land and infrastructure in Mexico. And, of course, the government, which is a typical 3rd world kleptocracy. It's essentially a feudal nation.
    They ruined the country by trying to be socialists and are backing away trying to salvage what they have. Of course, I realize that people on the left and the right who condemn Mexico know nothing about it.

    Of course, the U.S. isn't a representative democracy. There are, I think, seven families that control the Democrat Party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    An interesting read. History in a way we rarely see.

    ""To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing," the Canadian poet Anne Carson once said. With Trump, America finds itself at the end of its myth.

    To talk about the frontier is also to talk about capitalism, about its power and possibility and its promise of boundlessness. Donald Trump figured out that to talk about the border -and to promise a wall- was a way to acknowledge capitalism's limits, its pain, without having to challenge capitalism's terms. Trump ran promising to end the wars and to reverse the extreme anti-regulatory and free-market program of his party. Once in office, though, he accelerated deregulation, increased military spending, and expanded the wars. But he kept talking about his wall.

    That wall might or might not be built. But even if it remains only in its phantasmagorical, budgetary stage, a perpetual negotiating chip between Congress and the White House, the promise of a two-thousand-mile-long, thirty-foot-high ribbon of concrete and steel running along the United States' southern border serves its purpose. It's America's new myth, a monument to the final closing of the frontier. It is a symbol of a nation that used to believe that it had escaped history, or at least strode atop history, bur now finds itself trapped by history, and of a people who used to think they were captains of the future, but now are prisoners of the past." Introduction p8-9

    'The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America' by Greg Grandin

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nd-of-the-myth


    "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Mr. Grandin sounds like a man desperate to say something profound but failing miserably". Mister D
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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey


    Ok here goes, this is blow your mind stuff, so beware. Deep deep dive. Enter with care, history and thought and ideas. Pick one.

    'On Human Nature' by Edward O. Wilson
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...n_Human_Nature

    'Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud' by Peter Watson
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408204.Ideas

    'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ic_of_Reaction

    'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain' by David Eagleman
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827912-incognito

    "The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20Th Century' Peter Watson [title differs]
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...errible_Beauty

    Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321263.Humanity

    ''The Rise and Fall of *Communism' by Archie Brown'
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...l-of-communism

    Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786560.Gut_Feelings


    'Voltaire's $#@!s: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West' by John Ralston Saul
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ire_s_Bastards



    "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
    An interesting list I have never read. I'm just curious -- to you, how does any of it relate to politics?

    Kafka does, I think, but what little I know about Kafka is about all I want to know. Very creepy, IMHO. How much of our existence do you think can be framed in context of Kafka's interpretations?

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