Message from @Norik
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I’m reading Fahrenheit 451 at the moment
Ah yes
That's a pretty based book
The actual story is like 100 pages but my copy includes like 140 pages of extra information
That's such a tedious book. I can't recommend even though it's in the dystopian canon. Short, but tedious.
I personally like his short stories more than Fahrenheit tbh
Anyone read “the problem of pain” by cs Lewis?
The red book by Carl jung is a great read
like Harassment architecture but 2019 and looking towards Zoomers instead of wingnats and looking back
reads like the best takes of your twitter feed two years from now
Audiobook for the Machiavellians: defenders of freedom by james burnham. it really gels with Nrx theory. he sums up the wiritngs of Machiavelli and the Italian elite theorists.
Nice. I just finished The Prince and The Discourses a few weeks ago and it's difficult to come to any one conclusion of what he actually advocated, so it'll be cool hearing a redpilled take. Thanks for sharing.
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@Norik yes he goes over that and gives context to the political situation of Italy at the time . Machiavelli wanted a republic but saw at that point in time Italy needed a sort of dictator or prince
yeah that's what my professor said when I asked him what he actually thought
i just got to the part where he talks about the iron law of oligarchy and how you cannot remove hierarchy
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yeah I think what makes machiavelli deeply resonate with me is that he's not full of ideological bullshit and realizes that even his desired form of government isn't always appropriate
his central orienting principle is O R D E R
which is exactly right
james burnham also has another repill book where he talks about how liberalism is causing the suicide of the west in his book "the suicide of the west"
edgy
sounds dank
AA released some clips from the audio book
also ive heard alot of shilling for burnham from AA and from other people
so seeing these clips finally pushed me over the edge to start reading them
@everyone Any books to recommend concerning the subjects of the Quadrivium?
Euclid's Elements
So I read this book called Babylonian life and history written by EA Budge. It is about surprisingly ancient Babylonia and it’s history. The book starts by covering the geography and city states of the region then moves on to an overview of its history, the city of Babylonian itself and then talks about the laws, customs, society and writing system of Babylon. The it must be stressed that this is an overview of Babylonian and not an intense history of it. It is quite interesting learning about Babylonia because not much is talked about it. Babylon the city was founded almost 4000 years ago and was still occupied as a city until about a thousand years ago. It is a very old city and a very ancient region with parts that have been occupied on and off since the Stone Age and even when xenopon march an army through one of the cities he called it ancient it was old for him and was viewed by him probably the same way we view the Greeks and Romans today. It is weird thinking about it because the city seen thousands of people born, live, fall in love, make friends and enemies, traded, worshipped learn and die there but we don’t know a lot about them and they are often forgotten and we don’t know a lot about them we know a lot about the Greeks and Romans but don’t know as much about the Babylonians.
But in short the book is an 8/10
Pros: good for people that aren’t familiar with Babylon or are taking a class on it, it is good as an overview
Cons: I would not recommend this book to people that are familiar to Babylon or need a more in depth book on the subject
I heavily recommend it for people that want to learn more about it but don’t know much about.
If you have questions about it you can ask me below