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any information is welcome, wether its a book, video, podcast, whatever. It helps if you include a descrition/review of any book you post.
we may also build a recommended reading list, so feel free to contribute suggestions.
Basically a retelling of old norse myths
Propaganda by Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud, and father of modern advertising)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
For podcasts:
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
History on Fire
Freakonomics
Jocko Podcast
The History of Rome
(I know he's a liberal shill, but he has on interesting guests) Waking Up with Sam Harris
War on the Rocks
The Art of Manliness podcast
Revolutions
The Boiling Frogs(with former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds, who blew the whistle on a very interesting Covert program)
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
speaking of joko
im currently listening through this ^, the author is a bit blue pilled on race, but it's a very fascinating account of all the catastrophic problems convering on America and modern civilization as a whole.
Took some caps of rec'd reading and infodumps from SIG, want me to post them here?
yeah reading lists are welcome, however dont dump inforgraphics, theyre usually little use to anyone that way, rather post one when its relevant to some discussion
Currently reading 2 books, one on the finnish winterwar and the other on Sparta. Next is Yukio Mishima's Sun and Steel! ๐
Good taste
oh man, is there a pastebin for these
Jared Diamond? Isn't that the man who wrote Guns, Germs and Steel?
^^ this is from the guy who wrote guns germs and steel so take his stuff with a grain of salt, how ever he is very good at observing societies and cultures and his writing is good
yep
Ah. Gotcha. I'll give it a look over
im only half way through world until yesterday, so far it basically talks about how small tribal cultures resolve conflicts and deal justice,
How societies collapse is a historical retelling of past cultures that got wiped out such as easter island and some isolated viking tribes, and tries to find connections between all of them
You would like: "On Heroes, Hero Worship and The Heroic in History" by Thomas Carlyle. It's what I'm reading right now
interesting, i would like that
It's from the late 1800s if I'm not mistaken, so the writing is a bit hard to mount if you're not used to reading it, but it's intelligible enough once you start going.
Here's the ebook
I would like to generally put forth three classic Sci-Fi books, if you haven't read them already:
George Orwell's _1984_, Aldous Huxley's _Brave New World_, and Ray Bradbury's _Fahrenheit 451_. In that order, given their relevance. If you must pick only one, do choose _1984_. I'll be working to find a PDF for everyone, in case you don't have the means to purchase it or it's banned/restricted.
And yes, I know it's likely most people here have read this, but given the impact these books have and the parallels there are, I find it important to make sure.
Great list, I was going to suggest Orwell as well as Brave New World too.
1984 is definitely the most important.
Jack Donovan. Start with 'the way of men' and 'becoming a barbarian'
^ i just bought way of men, gonna read soon
Cool, you won't be disappointed. It's a quick book but packed with good info. I'm working my way through 'a sky without eagles' currently, it's a collection of his speeches and essays on a good variety of topics.
I was very disappointed with Becoming a Barbarian.
The Way of Men was amazing and the second was rage tear of a cringy Neo-Pagan.
ew
Along with a 'dindu nuffin' ethics system.
Just a reminder we are non ideological, our only goal is a white state.
that is ideological
but we will have to figure out a governmental system at some point
But I get what you're saying
Ayy, my order (Sun and Steel) has arrived ๐ Now that's /fitlit/ for you
have fun reading it
I will!
Got 2 books first though :3
One about Sparta and one about the finnish winterwar
Do you have pdfs of them?
Of my books? I bought them at the book store ๐
Something I listened to a while back - its an interesting summary of various major inventions throughout human history and how they work
I haven't listened to this one yet, but I heard good things about it and it might be really useful for those of you who are still in school
a classic
its a few decades old, but still very relevant today
also a classic
also a good way to red-pill liberals: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/534/a-not-so-simple-majority
great
^long ass blogpost, a very interesting read about africa
Iโm currently reading โA Race Against Timeโ, which is a collection of different articles. Itโs not a fun read, but there are a lot of interesting facts in there. I skipped a few articles that did not sound that interesting. Most of the ones I skipped regarded SJW tactics.
I would recommend you read it and skip articles that donโt sound that important.
whats it about? do you have a link to it?
started listening to this podcast recently, about the social decay in the west: http://www.socialmatter.net/category/weimerica-weekly/
@Orchid Well the article's topics vary, but mostly about race, politics and organisations regarding race, a little bit of history, social matter and philosophy.
All focused on race
I dont have a pdf of it, but it shouldn't be that hard to find.
I finished reading Euthyphro and the Apology. What should I read next?
Crito?
I recommend A Practical Heathens Guide to Asatru to anyone interested in Nordic Paganism or Proto-Indo-European history in general
There is one about about Socrates' death. Comes right after Crito but I forget its name @P14 ... Phaedo?
Yes, Phaedo
I think I'll read Crito first though.
Yes, you have to
just started watching this guys videos, has some interesting stuff: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoH8_2jjMYjZ9Lsiv0wIiZg
someone on pol mentioned cd3wd, a giagantic collection of information
theres a ton of stuff in this thing, but the info in that site is incomplete
im downloading a 26gb torrent that should have all of it
https://alexandria-library.space/files/
^ I highly recommend "The Vikings" and "Hitlers Empire"
Taller people have lower longevity, a higher chance of getting cancer and CHD.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/
Already posted this in Maine, but here it is again, the book is worth reading
Here are my notes form reading Carnegie:
1. Dont criticise
2.Pay honest tribute
3.Remember people's names and use them
4.Listen closely and encourage your conversational partner to talk
5.Talk about things that your conversational partner is interested it
6.Avoid any argument
Now, this is also part of my notes, but I don't know if it was part of Carnegie's book, or something else, anyways, here it is:
Four types of personalities. If you figure out which one your conversational partner is, it will be easy for you to manipulate them. The categories are:
1.Dominance
2.Harmony
3.Balance
4.Stimulant
I don't remember how they were defined, but I guess its not hard to figure out.
Effective phrases to use when trying to convince someone:
1.You don't have to do this
2.I don't know if you want this
3.Now that we're done
General tips:
-get attention
-keep it simple
-repeat
Plato (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
Aristotle (a selection)
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Hegel - The Philosophy of Right
Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
George Orwell - Animal Farm & 1984
John Rawls - A theory of justice
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, a great philosopher.
It's about the need for the masses to have some form of governance over them. It's a good way to understand why anarchies fail again and again, and why the state is a nessecary evil.
The mega link is a collection of academic studies (that you generally have to pay for) in PDF format that you can download. They are all about the effects of ethnic diversity on societies
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/84600/1/diversity_irpp.pdf
Another study on the effects of ethnic diversity on social cohesion. I'm not sure if it's in the mega link.
https://selfdefinition.org/christian/Gospel-of-Thomas-Scholars-Version-15-pages-1961.pdf
The gospel of thomas, a religious text that was not included in the Bible. It's a great read and not very long, and has some pretty good quotes in it.
https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20(2004).pdf
The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert E. Paxton. A good book on fascism, written by a historian/political theorist that has studied fascism all his life. It's pretty objective and certainly doesn't support fascism.
http://aryanism.net/downloads/books/corneliu-codreanu/for-my-legionaries.pdf
For my Legionaries, by Corneliu Codreanu, a fascist in Romania during WW2. It's an interseting read for those who are interested in history, and it covers a lot about Romania's role in the war and how people responded to the violence there. It's also interesting for people who, like I, study political theory and want some primary sources on fascist ideology instead of secondary sources.
And that's everything I have to recomend for now, and everything I can give in pdf form. I'll post some other stuff tomorrow, hopefully, getting a lot of books coming in, stuff on anarchism and some works by Noam Chomsky, which should interesting.
Good finds Lorenzo
Have any of you read Republic by Plato? I'm thinking about getting a copy from the library.
@Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips#6115 I have it, but I've never read it. If you're going for the classics, I would advise Aristotle.
thanks
@Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips#6115 If you want aristotle, I recommend The Great Books of The Western World, Volume's 8 and 9
you can find copies for like 8-10 bucks
I second reading aristotle, alot of his works can be found for free on the internet too.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79a/contents.html
Finished reading Animal Farm. It's not a long book and kind of amusing. I would suggest you read it, shouldn't take long.
Thanks for the link @P14#2043
my book on the finnish winter war is so fucking lit and really motivates me
made me (continuing in /sig/ general)
what's sig general?
Self Improvement General
it's a popular general on pol
I meant our own channel, selfimprovement general ๐
Just started listening to Fash the Nation, it's pretty good. We'll informed on current politics but from a right wind perspective https://therightstuff.biz/category/fash-the-nation/
Yeah, itโs pretty good
Fash the Nation and The Daily Shoah are both fantastic
Yeah, listening to FTN right now xD
The Latter Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle
Finished Spengler's Decline of the West a few weeks ago. I discussed the book with some old students too. I'm not too experienced in Philosophy of History at the moment, so I'm working on it right now.
@P14 Animal farm is one of the greatest satirical books I've read. I suppose you're familiar with 1984 as well?
Id be surprised if anyone here hasnt read 1984
I've recently been studying Philosophy of History, and I've found that supplements to such works are invaluable. On a similar note, there are few works that summate philosophy and its history to the degree that is possible to sufficiently understand both. For this I recommend Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy. It was thoroughly useful. It is a good introduction to general philosophy and is relatively new, and I've got a digital (PDF) file if anyone is interested -- it is in four volumes.
I want to compile a list of essential reading on various topics, including Philosophy (metaphysics, logic, etc.), Politics (specifically right wing), homesteading, survival, etc. If you have an idea of a book that is a good read to get into a topic, @ me in this channel and I will throw it into a list. Eventually, we will have a list with essential readings and then books to delve deeper into the topics.
@Polak before you read anything to do with history i would reccomend first going over the book "The Decline of The West" by oswald spengler. very good philosophical book on history.
@Belisarius noted. Will add under History/Philospophy. Thank you for the suggestion.
@Polak A plan to add books one-by-one over time? Is there a base of books you have collected already in this list?
I've got a great many books to share.
you can post them all here anytime
@User Not really, Iโve only read the first chapter. I hope Iโm going to have time to read all of it soon.
1984 is definitely also necessary to read. I also read Animal Farm first. mostly because of its slim size, though I've had to reread it many times because of that same reason.
I was discussing it earlier, and am hoping to find those who have already read it here.
Don't have a list made up at the moment. This channel has a lot of reccomendations, but I want to organize them under topics.
Ok. I'll make sure to add to the list.
There is this list @Polak
Plato (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
Aristotle (a selection)
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Hegel - The Philosophy of Right
Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
George Orwell - Animal Farm & 1984
John Rawls - A theory of justice
Only philosophy though.
i like the /lit/ document
https://wrathoftheawakenedsaxon.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/revolt-against-the-modern-world-julius-evola.pdf
A great right wing Italian philosopher, here he writes about traditionalism and the importance of it. He coined the phrase "Revolt against the modern world" with this book of the same title.
https://youtu.be/Z7Gc1bv-Mj4
An interesting video, that isn't very long, and mentions a book I think we would appreciate. I haven't found it online yet (also haven't bothered to look yet,) but I'll post it here if I find it.
@P14 Thanks for the recommendations. Those are a lot of good books on philosophy to start with.
@Lorenzo empires last for much longer than 250 years
the reason Rome fell was for a complex amount of reasons. It's amazing it lasted for so long, there was constant fighting in a change of power. Generals after winning battles would use their army to overthrow the emperor
plus they had a plague that was weakening their borders
but the economic inequality is incredibly true
@Roman Dreams I don't defend the opinion of the video/author I posted. I only posted it to share stuff. I think the 250 year thing isn't a limit, but an average for most empires.
could be a peek golden year
History moves alot faster today than it did 2000 years ago, so I'm not sure it even makes sense to measure the life-span of empires in years, or even try to find some consistent life-span.
but the paralells between America and the Roman Empire are significant
I don't think so, America is much more complex and stable
but wealth inequality and social degeneracy are concerning
@wizzy The guy who made that document calls himself a marxist. However, I've read through the document before, and it doesn't look bad. Very good material and chronology for introductory philosophy.
As someone that already has somewhat of an undergraduate-level understanding of philosophy, there was still a lot of useful knowledge (there is other good information too, such as which publishers to avoid when purchasing books and why).
Has anyone else read through the /lit/ philosophy document?
I haven't
Is it good?
: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1 For a broad introduction yes.
A very useful book I've found myself using is "How to Read a Book" (by Mortimer Adley).
Here's it is for anyone interested (if you want another format, ask)
Socrates views on borders and citizenship (he was the first CUCK of the West) :
https://agora.stanford.edu/agora/libArticles2/brown/brown.pdf
We've had some discussion in <#362535345146953728> on making a list for reading. We need a service that allows members of this service to add and sort books by subject.
This should allow room for some chronology of books (like understanding different types of political ideas) and notes to guide people unfamiliar with those topics. The google document above is what may serve as a source of ideas for how to do this sort of organizing, I suppose.
The wanting seed is about an over populated world and the fall out because of it.
Homosexuality is publicly practiced by everyone since the state enforces it to limit the population
privately people are still heterosexual
eventually there's anarchy and everyone begins to eat each other
and finally a new government again comes back and begins a pointless war
You've read it yourself already?
@User yeah, I enjoyed it
it has a subtext that feels fitting for this group
Sounds like it is worth giving a read.
>Overpopulation
>It's all the white man's fault!
>White people should have less children haha!
>European countries facing population decline
>We need immigrants!
We should declare war for environmental reasons
Cull gooks and indians
declare war on lesser races
because are apes truly worthy of mankind's achievements
@Ammianus Marcellinus the arguement is always made through a point of pollution, that white people's wealth means they consume much more and pollute much more
and that having less white children will make a more "green" world
it probably be better though if we changed our lifestyles to be more independent and take a step back from hyper consumerism
Still, the same liberals cheer when 3rd world countries become wealthier and consume more
The west is producing less children, why not replace them with Nigger savages? They will eventually become hyper consumerists, Is that not the end goal?
This is what they are pushing for
Also, the most polluted countries in the world are third world shitholes
And since the 1800's Whites have been minorities
Hey guys, I don't have much free time to read novels and thus I'm not very well-read, but I'm interested in powering through one. If you could recommend me 1 book, what would it be?
The myth of the 20th century - rosenberg, or the myth (on YouTube)
depends on what you are interested in, if its the far north and animals i would reccomend "White Fang" or The Call of The Wild" both by Jack London. If you like India and british colonialism i would say "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling, he has really good short stories as well as being /ourguy/ (see: The White Mans Burden). If you like the high seas and adventure i would say "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville or "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules Verne. If you like Man VS Nature i would highly reccomend "The Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann Wyss or "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. There are a lot more but it all depends on where your interests lie, i spent most of my free time when i was 7-12 reading a lot of classic novels.
White Fang and The Call of the Wild were probably two of my favorite novels as a kid. So much nostalgia there. Moby Dick isn't all high seas and adventure, so I would watch out there, but 20,000 Leagues definitely is. Treasure Island is also a decent one, make sure you get an older version or you might get censored stuff. Also, first edition, unedited Lovecraft is good if you're looking for horror-of-the-unknown, but those are generally a good bit longer and harder to wander through. Dante's Inferno is worth a read, even if you don't believe, and the fact it's in poetic forms helps get through it quickly. Usually you can get it along with Purgatorio and Paradisio. I also personally liked The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is sci-fi and darwinist ~~racist cough~~ ideas.
Fight Club is a good short novel, even if you've already seen the movie.
Johnny Got His Gun by Trumbo is another good novel, I found it rather long but I read it when I was like 13. I've heard people have read it in less than a day at times. It's a classic that everyone should read at least once.
Another good book is Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, which tries to look at the causes of civilization and the psychology required to make a civilization.
But it's a novel, which makes it more interesting, imo
lots of dialogue, not too long.
And if you're into things that follow your personal ideology, I would read some Lovecraft, specifically his early short stories
He constantly goes on about evil "nigger blood", I'm not even kidding.
you can probably find his early works lying around on the internet
@Belisarius While Moby Dick is one of the greatest American works written, I don't think it fits for @StaysafeTV - 191 lb Muscle Man since he says that he is not very well read (and wants to quickly go through a book).
I recommend Animal Farm or 1984 if you haven't read them already.
Animal Farm is short in volume, so I think it fits your description.
โTwo ice creams, a can of soup, four cheese sticks, an orange juice, a grape juice, and two packs of graham crackers.โ
Lol, that is a really good article
Its not often you come by such candid experiences involving race
There's something i've noticed is very consistent among less intelligent people (particularily those of certain races) - their inability to think ahead into the non-immediate future. That seems to be a common theme in that article
Yes. Winter climates for those further from the equator (i.e. Europeans) forced the development of skills in planning ahead evolutionarily.
At a risk of talking about something I don't have complete knowledge of- I read somewhere that those types of functions take place mostly in the frontal lobe, which is also the most recent part of the human brain to develop through evolution, and the last part of the brain to fully develop in a human life-span. Perhaps that's the part of the brain some races are lacking in.
The frontal lobe does have much to do with everything related to thinking -- problem solving, memory, language.
I pinned a text on <#359496856113381387> for anyone interested (the file of the book is there too).
Thanks for the recommendations, I think I will read Animal Farm as I've read some of the others in my childhood. Big fan of sci-for novels as well if anyone has anyone good / thought provoking ones. Big fan of the dune series and heinlein's books
Island of Dr. Moreau, if you've not read that already, and Brave New World. I'll have to wander through the collection again, but those pop to mind.
@StaysafeTV - 191 lb Muscle Man For science fiction, you must read Brave New World (if you haven't already, of course).
A lot of Evola's works touch on the dangers of modernity as well.
@P14 structure is always more important
brain size matters
" โWhen you make love youโre using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and donโt give a damn for anything. They canโt bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour.โ "
This is from 1984
What do you think?
@P14 1984 is only relevant to big tech companies
although i'd advocate for voluntary sterilization
not sure what response you wanted :v
I personally find Huxley got it more right. Take the heart out of sex, make it all solely for the pleasure, and you control people by the basest part of their animal heritage without them ever knowing something was wrong. After all, most people just want to be happy, right?
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