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Never been into reading. However, I'm starting to think that maybe Kaczynski was right and that I should try to seek less entertainment from electronics and more from paper? Should I really start with the Greeks?

>> No.9254167

No, start with roman adapatations of greek plays by Plautus and Terence, then read the greeks.

>> No.9254629

>>9254145

If you really think Kaczynski was right, you should move to a cabin in the woods and survive on what you can gather or catch. Not even memeing you btw, I have seriously considered doing the same.

>> No.9254639

>>9254145
kaczynski's read and re-read conrad, especially the secret agent

>> No.9255296
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9255296

>>9254145
Read
"The Perfect Crime" by Jean Baudrillard
"The Culture Industry" by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
"A Thousand Plateaus" and "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze
"Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" by Ernesto Laclau
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire,

Then you'll be ready.

>> No.9255301

>I am not into reading
>Thinks Kaczynski wasa right

oh it shows brainlet, it absolutely shjows

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9255304

>calling people brainlet
>can't spell

>> No.9255325

>>9254145

Nah don't even bother. Hegel, Nietzsche and Marx, Pascal as well maybe. Then Kierkegaard, then go onto French existentialists Sarte, Beauvoir, Camus. That's all you need for ultimate truth.

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9255334

>>9254167
>>9255296

are you guys fucking crazy?
OP has read 4 books.
you're going to put him off reading forever - that shit is great but be serious.

How about something short and sweet AND great, like:

Meditations
Animal Farm
Common Sense
Notes from the Underground
The Overcoat
In Praise of Folly
Chess Story
The Law (Bastiat)

or Three Men in a Boat if you want a laugh

>> No.9255347

>>9255334
>Common Sense
>The Law (Bastiat)
That is off to a bad start.

>> No.9255380

>>9255334

>Animal farm

Might as well just tell the poor little fucker to read The Communist Manifesto.

And besides, Orwell's best book is 1984. Animal farm was not anything special.

>> No.9255398

>>9255380
Das Kapital and TCM are necessary reading for anyone into Western philosophy, politics, sociology. tho.

>> No.9255406

>>9255398
This.

>> No.9255517

why have people started memeing ted

have young people just become aware he existed or something

>> No.9255716

>>9255517
He's edgy and you can seem deep by comfortably sitting in the midst of civilisation while posting "OMG LIT MAYBE HE WAS RIGHT!". What's not to love?

>> No.9255739

>>9255517
first as tragedy, then as farce
see: facism, communism

>> No.9255777

>>9255296
i like and second this

>> No.9256071

>>9254145
>and that I should try to seek less entertainment from electronics and more from paper?

except that's not what Kaczysnki said. He thought having any hobbies at all is bad. The best lifestyle is hunting rabbits and making porridge. According to Kaczynski, people who read a lot of books are just like leftists.

He was a retard.

>> No.9256077

>>9255296
not bad, op start with these