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The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization
- twiddling 5y agoI remember a scene from Larry Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer" about a diabetic scientist burying books like this after the asteroid hit...
- failwhaleshark 5y agoNothing needs to be destroyed or reinvented, only returned to common-sense and integrity. There are essentially no new ideas. - Everyman's Library Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is worth having. - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias is another title important to understand what happened in the Americas as well as slaves taken from Africa. - Other titles by: Aristotle, Sartre, Kant, Plato, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Marx, Chalmers Johnson, Kaczynski (accurate and precise in analysis, dead wrong in prescription), Chomsky, Thomas Paine, Zinn, Stiglitz, Richard Wolff. Like a scientist if they were to invent compact fusion power in their garage but were so bad at marketing and communicating it that they couldn't sell even one, books alone are static print on dead trees that cannot accomplish actions. This is especially true if their messages fall on deaf, ignorant, or greedy/selfish ears.
- max-ibel 5y agoA copy of libgen? Just to be on the safe side :) ?