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Martin Buber: I and Thou
Itβs a masterpiece of philosophy, and honestly accounts for maybe 3/4ths of my worldview.
Anything by Douglas Adams, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, music history textbooks, Samurai Jack slash fiction, public restroom graffiti, HVAC technical manuals, and the comment sections on porn sites.
Every single comment shown in my profile.
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle might not explain it, but could add valuable context.
"They're not rocks Marie!!"
...ok, maybe some of them are, but they're really cool!
The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camut. Absurdism/it philosophically examines whether one should commit suicide.
I started reading The Myth of Sisyphus because I'm interested in absurdism but haven't read much other philosophy apart from some of the classic Stoic books. I found it very dense and hard to get through the first parts with references to philosophers I hadn't read, does it get easier to read?
Not OP but yes, if you can get through the dialogue with Kierkegaard the rest is pretty digestible. That said, you might get more out of it if youβve got a basic foundation in existentialism and nihilism first. A lot of what makes absurdism interesting and important is its contrasts with other philosophies.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn't say I'm into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
I've lost count of the number of times and number of formats in which i've consumed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and i've loved it every time.
- The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
- Getting to Where You Are, by Steven Harrison
- Journey Without Goal, by ChΓΆgyam Trungpa
Iceberg Slim [aka Robert Beck] was widely read in the Black community and almost completely unknown outside of it. He inspired many Black artists, and both Ice-T and Ice Cube named themselves in his honor.
Such a wonderful inspiration to his community - gotta keep them hoes in line!
At least he wasn't a slave owner like Washington and Jefferson.
All volumes of the Uncle Johnβs Bathroom Readers. My brain is mostly just useless trivia.
listen to all jethro tull till you can recognize every song and figure out the two bad albums.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, and The Codex Borgia.
Maybe these don't explain me, but they hit hard at forming my views of my fellow apes:
American politics
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
Which is also explained, among a shitload of other behavior, in
So MUCH of what we see around us is explained in those two articles. I've had responses that neither is a complete view, not all behavior, bla, bla, bla. Yeah, I know. But if you want to understand humans, especially why so many seem bugfuck evil, there's a lot of bang for the buck in there. (Be patient with the Monkeysphere article, old and the formatting is hosed, but I trust you'll get it.)
The Stranger - Albert Camus
My life is so complicated, you'd need an entire "wikipedia-styled" article of me.
If I had one, it'd probably be one of the craziest stories... well like not like any acheivements or anything, but more like depression and trauma. I'm gonna seem so broken that you'd not wanna be friends. People are gonna be like: "oh that's that person, wow" then walk away since nobody want to hang out since nobody want to get afflicted/infected with my sadness.
I mean, I reflect on my past and I visualize the scene in "3rd person" and I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I'm not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
I'm kinda just deciding on leaving an autobiography/journal, in case I kms in the future. I wonder how my parentd would react. Maybe leaving something behind would finally get them to understand what I've been through from my PoV. Maybe they'd live a better life without me being around. Idk.
I look like a scared kitten hiding in the corner, except I'm not a cute kitten, but rather looks like a mini-tiger. That was what I was like in school.
You should write that autobiography. I think you have a way with words.
You can write something for yourself and for other people to understand you through, without the intention of leaving it behind. Leave it alive instead. You can do it and carry on. You can know their reactions instead of wonder, if you decide to show them. And you can work through your experiences through writing. Preferably while being in contact with a support group or therapist, because writing it will for sure drag it up.
To scrap the surface: Babel.
The description of what it means to be an expat, away from your culture, cut much deeper than it had reasons to. And itβs a great action/fantasy book
- The Green Futures of Tycho
- When The Tripods Came
- The Girl From Isis
- Kindred Spirits by Mark Anthony
Books I read in school that spoke to me.
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume 1: The Earth Will Shake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historical_Illuminatus_Chronicles
Anything else by Wilson would probably be a more productive starting place.
All of Wilson is fantastic, but this is probably the most accessible of his fiction.
His non-fiction though, man, throw a dart. π
I compulsively buy copies of Prometheus Rising so I have them on hand to distribute to interesting people.
Yeah, that's a good one. I like the Illuminati Papers and Right Where You Are Sitting Now as well!
The only book I've ever reread was The Illuminatus Trilogy, and I've reread it twice. I give out copies of that one too.
As a kid one of my favourite passages to read was about a girl who saw her twin get ran over by a car and killed. I don't remember anything else about that book... but I would devour anything sad and traumatic and upsetting. I would absorb those emotions and live those lives, and it would be like a daily catharsis to read something horrifying and cry it out.
Anna Karenina and Promise at Dawn
- The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
I have PTSD and a dark sense of humor about it.
Adornoβs Negative Dialectics