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I can't recall the quote, but "A book worth burning is a book worth reading." No one has to support or agree with ideas to delve into them, find their flaws an
by sacnoradhq 4y ago
I can't recall the quote, but "A book worth burning is a book worth reading."
No one has to support or agree with ideas to delve into them, find their flaws and strengths (reality and people are mixtures of gray), and consider other perspectives. To avoid topics is one path to ignorance and decline.
- Das Kapital
- Understanding Socialism
- The God Delusion
- Bible
- Quran
- Mein Kampf
- Atlas Shrugged
- (numerous critiques of objectivism and its political-economic brand: libertarianism)
- Critique of Pure Reason
- The Social Contract
- Industrial Society and Its Future
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
== And some fiction ===
- Howl
- Tropic of Cancer
- Four Past Midnight (yes, Stephen King)
- Maus