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you'll find most "best of" lists of this sort include a lot of heavily ideological stuff. this is because these are the works that have the most memorable impa
by nazgulnarsil 18y ago
you'll find most "best of" lists of this sort include a lot of heavily ideological stuff. this is because these are the works that have the most memorable impact and actually change people's opinions. Whether you find such works valuable depends largely on where you're coming from when you read it.
for example dianetics: the kind of person who will read and recommend it is the kind of person who was already against psychology to begin with. people use popular non-fiction for confirmation bias and appeal to majority bias.
- electromagnetic 18y agoI studied psychology, I guess thats why I see dianetics as a laughable farce.
- unalone 18y agoYou should never assume that mass opinion knows anything. Even when it does, it tends to be shallow and misguided.
- cchooper 18y agoI suspect it's more because these books have a fanatical following, the kind of people who want to deliberately manipulate 'Best Of...' lists to give their beliefs more publicity.