/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14677881]

what are some essential modern nonfiction books (after 1950) on any topic that are required reading?

[Anonymous No.14677891]

i tried watching the documentary of that book on youtube and couldn't understand what the point was. is the book actually good?

[Anonymous No.14678030]

>>14677891
the point is that the media is there to pretend its reporting from a neutral point and being critical of the status quo, while its really trying to manipulate you into accepting what the establishment does and wants from you, thus the title

[Anonymous No.14678031]

Changed my world view.

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[Anonymous No.14678148]

>>14678030
Not him, but I thought this was common sense.

[Anonymous No.14678167]

I think Euros should read this book.

>Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.

[Anonymous No.14678168]

>>14677881

[Anonymous No.14678180]

>>14678031
in what ways?

[Anonymous No.14678189]

Just read it.

[Anonymous No.14678198]

>>14678031
I found this quite superficial and self-confirming desu.

I liked 'Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War'. So bored of "this is how we won the war", "this is why the Nazis lost", or "TY papa Turing", etc. kind of documentaries and books. Engineers of Victory takes a common-sense multi-causal approach and goes deep with splashes of military, political, social, and technological history throughout. Modern history classic imo.

[Anonymous No.14678220]

>>14678148
>I thought this was common sense

I wouldn't be surprised if you were saying this deliberately to preserve the status quo. Tons of people believe in a "golden age of journalism" where the press served its duty with integrity. The book goes into way more detail about how atrocities are semi-systematically erased from media coverage, while technically being reported in some form.

[Anonymous No.14678241]

>>14678220
this must have been ground breaking when released. I think a lot of zoomers don't believe the news, though ain't as woke as Noam. he's a really based man

[Anonymous No.14678314]

>>14678031
garbage after part 2, 3 has some good chapters but the guy just self indulges his own points of view by 4

[Anonymous No.14678399]

>>14677881
Converted me from a rightoid to a commie by disproving my assumptions of Communism and showing a credible proposal of how to implement it.

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>>14678031
>>14677881
>>14678189
>>14678399
cringe
>>14678168
based

[Anonymous No.14678453]

>>14677881
>Debt: The First 5000 Years
>The Art of Not Being Governed
>Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
>The Masks of God (I-IV)
>Next Level Magic: A Guide to Mastering the Magic the Gathering Card Game [No, I am not joking]
>The True Believer

[Anonymous No.14679756]

>>14677881
it is highly unlikely that you will be able to form an accurate picture of the world we live in and how it became that way if you have not been exposed to the information documented in The Culture Of Critique by Kevin MacDonald

[Anonymous No.14679782]

>>14679756
What are some non-obvious insights from the book?

[Anonymous No.14679950]

>>14677881
A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
The Sources of Social Power by Michael Mann
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis
Late Capitalism by Ernest Mandel
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt