Supremely bored by bitcoin Twitter's book recommendations. It's always the same thing – Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Ayn Rand, that sovereign individual, yawn, yawn, yawn.
I want books that make me think, not books that reinforce what I already know. Give me niche post-structuralists, anarchists and revolutionaries. Give me poets and weirdos and outcasts, not CIA funded neocon thinkbois. Escape the echo chamber, anon.
Diamond age?
Interesting take, which I largely agree with. The contributers in your second paragraph, though, don't tend to be largely published. The poets, maybe.
Robert Sepehr
These babies are my favorites. 
I enjoyed Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance on audiobook but I think I ought to re listen on account of not fully grasping his commentary quality, do you agree or think I should read “on quality”
If you feel like you don't fully grasp something, that's normal.
This stuff is to never be fully grasped haha, you just grasp it a bit better every time.
You should check out Lila for sure, that's his magnum opus as far as I'm concerned.
Not saying I don't read those but agreed. I've started digging into philosophy and starting from the bottom. Right now I'm just following a college course outline. Apology, Crito, Physics - Aristotle, Proslogion is where I am now.
oh yeah, some of the old greek and roman philosophers would be a good place to look for some stuff for sure, as regards to economics and political economy
Greeks and Romans were statist cocksuckers, sorry not sorry
Doesn't mean their work doesn't have massive amounts of value you may be ignoring. I believe you can read with an open mind but also critically protect your convictions.
i'm sure she's mainly referring to Aurelius and Plato tho
of course some of the more popular ones are promoted by bootlickers
i would recommend Nassim Taleb too, for his stuff on systems theory and probability but he's such a git these days with his covid and bitcoin obsession
> i'm sure she's mainly referring to Aurelius and Plato tho
Good to know!
>i would recommend Nassim Taleb too,
Got it!
You might check out our books
if you already read em, fine, but post-anything and something something revolutionaries seem kinda... red?
but maybe what you really mean is you want to read stuff like Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) and writers like Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem and Situationism
and there's a whole rainbow of ideas in the realms of religious writers connecting various political economy and economics ideas to their faith, islamic, christian, jewish, buddhist, taoist
indeed, taoism is a bit of a gold-mine of thinking about economics and power altogether, one of the reasons why it was one of my first major themes in book reading in my 20s
i'm not really sure what other pointers to give because i'm guessing that you want to read stuff about politics, money, and economics, and health, faith, religious practices in general are kinda outside of that
Snow Crash
Been meaning to read
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/spinal-catastrophism/
Also Strange Attractor Press:
https://strangeattractor.co.uk/
Especially Erik Davis
https://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/high-weirdness/
Also by Erik Davis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206998.TechGnosis
Hes got a new book too, not read it tho
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048507/blotter/
Bomb Culture
https://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/bomb-culture-50th-anniversary-edition/
Related, but different worldview: Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Seraphim Rose https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87669.Orthodoxy_and_the_Religion_of_the_Future
Yes, I have nihilism on my reading list.
And
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38252175-homo-abyssus
(I'm might be too thick to read this)
And
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242319.I_See_Satan_Fall_Like_Lightning
But I have a feeling op isn't looking for this sort of recommendation lol
I have this on deck too 🤝
And Nihilism is outstanding, I hope you enjoy it.
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
- Thomas Szasz
Interesting, do you know how this compares to Foucault? Will check this out!
Definitely along the same vein, but I'd say Szasz focuses more on the complete denial of Mental Illness and calls for greater individual autonomy and personal responsibility in such cases, whereas Foucault focuses more on the various constructs of mental illness, not outright denying their validity.
Szasz also points out how pseudo-scientific the concept of mental illness is. It misattributes the cause of feelings and behavior to mere brain chemical balances and hand-wavy genetics without being able to objectively demonstrate any of this.
Instead, the true cause of what are often called mental illnesses is the trauma individuals experience (generally at young age). And the lessons that get internalized from these traumas.
The Case Against Reality - Donald Hoffman
🙏 
Please give me another Tesla, Einstein and Hawking.
Read Russians. Dustoyevski is my favorite and The Brothers Karamotzov is my favorite.
Seeing Like A State
Hijacking Bitcoin
I recently re-read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and for all its flaws its insights into human nature remain among the best; and it’s a great story!
A few suggestions
The New Science of Heaven.
We live in a 99.9% plasma universe. Maybe life gets explained a lot easier... even to what a soul really is. TLDR, it supports religion, not breaks it down.
Audio book is good too, the author reads and is a real character.
Spiral dynamics. Videos from actualized are good to begin with though.
Read the Bible lately? Both testaments?
Abolish The Family - Sophie Lewis
"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot
"Mastery" by Robert Greene
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"The Awakening of Intelligence" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Maybe give Edmund Morris' Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy a go? Fascinating man, Fascinating read
The minimalist entrepreneur by sahil Lavingia
One Straw Revolution
Debt by David Graeber. I don’t agree with it on some stuff, but great anthropological overview on the history of money (not just coinage)
Oswald Spengler
The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch
How to have impossible conversations.
The counte of monte cristo
Treasure island
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Enjoy 😁
Read this. Buddha was still the biggest revolutionary ever existed 
Agreed. For anyone here who likes literary fiction, best I’ve read this year:
- Hurricane Season; Fernanda Melchor
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Olga Tokarczuk
- Same Bed, Different Dreams; Ed Park
- Mason & Dixon; Thomas Pynchon
- There, There; Tommy Orange
- The Skating Rink; Roberto Bolaño
- Rediscovery of America; Ned Blackhawk (non-fiction US history from Native lens)
Diaspora - Greg Egan
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Machines like me - Ian McEwan
