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What else belongs on this pile?
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>>24769414
I'd add:
Robert Saplosky - Behave
Daniel Dennet - Consciousness Explained
Anything by Mark Manson
Eat, Pray, Love
Don Dellilo - White Noise
White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo
How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
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>>24769415
why DeLilo
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Anything by Nassim Taleb and Malcolm Gladwell
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>>24769414
kafka on the shore
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Empire of pain is redpill
about (((sacklers))) and oxycontin
minimum cucking

5/5 bretty gud
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Infinite jest
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>>24769456
Malcom Gladwell okay, but Taleb? Really? He's certainly not the best, but he's lightyears ahead of someone like Harari.

To be fair though I've heard his Twitter takes are p. cringe.
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>>24769414
xkcd's What If isn't slop
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>>24769414
I like Jon Ronson. But I am a midwit so ok.
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>>24769448
Just trying to be contrarian so I get under someone's skin.
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>>24769414
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Nietzsche
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>>24769414
Mackbros... not like this...
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every philosophy book ever
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>>24769414
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>>24769414
Why did you edit Corndog Zen in
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>>24769414
Everything that has a screaming woman on the cover.
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>>24770400
they are just having a laugh they dont mean it
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>>24770401
>Ooga booga
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>>24770401
Lmao I just noticed it
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>>24769414
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>>24770502
But Mackbros like me are sensitive and you should be nice to us. When you call our favorite book "slop" many of us tend towards a Mikey-esque downward spiral that can only end with the disgorgement of too many Hungry Man meals and ruined sleep schedules.
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>>24770408
>be a public intellectual
>put your own book in your own humanity must read essential books most influential of all time list
real hustlers university shit
no shame in his game
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>>24770148
No, you're right. He's the Boomer DFW or Jonathan Franzen, desperate to write the defining American novel and always failing.
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>>24769456
hehe yid thinks we can’t see its posts
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>>24769488
>lightyears
He attempted to insult the economist Stephanie Kelton by calling her a "rent-seeker", both misusing the term to begin with but further confounding it by the fact that she works at a private institution and on the basis of her most recent book, something she cannot force anyone to buy, and all simply because he, like every other 4chan user, cannot understand monetary theory.

He's the perfect Boomchanner, always malapropating buzzwords to sound smart (see the constant 4chan misuse of neoliberal or neoconservative) but in fact not knowing anything. He's like the Sam Hyde of the retirement home set.

>dude just get a mentor and an indispensable skill it's called anti-fragile that way you can be ready for the black swan event which i can predict but never once actually have
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>>24770408
Half of those are worth reading.
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>>24769414
xkcd: What If? Is actually good.
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>>24770422
>>24770400
Someone hates Wallace
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>>24770408
The Devils is a midwit filter. How many midwits read Crime and Punishment and Notes From Underground only to hit a wall with Dosto's best novel.
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Guenon, evola, carl schmitt
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>>24769414
from what i've read and off the top of my head

Dostoevsky is obvious
Ivan Bunin
Dino Buzzati, particularly The Tartar Steppe
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union - Vladislav Zubok
that charles manson book that had a resurgence a couple years ago
Christopher Lasch, just absolutely awful
Alfred Jarry
That Oxford US History series
Albion's Seed
Jacques Barzun
Soseki in general but especially I Am a Cat
Donald Barthelme
The Search For Modern China - Jonathan Spence
Euclid's Elements, but it's still beautiful

that's all i got now
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>>24770520
ai
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>>24769414
I don't own any of these and would probably not buy them, how do you explain this?
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>>24770934
You don't even have cdog zen?
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Those court of ice and fire or whatever books
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>>24769414
why we sleep? is not a midwit slop
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Any book with F*ck in the title.
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>>24769488
small hats are just mad he calls them out every day on x dot com
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Any political theory written by blacks or hispaniks
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Anything on bestseller lists.
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>>24769415
>Robert Saplosky - Behave
That has some good information in it mixed with coping about how the leftist worldview still makes sense with blank slate-ism being proved a lie.
>>24770408
Seething leftist spotted. You couldn’t even explain to me the contents of any of these books without a google search. Do you even understand what Peterson’s ideas are or do you only know the false construction emergent from the online mob which you confuse for reality which exists purely as a means to rationalize parasitism? You mearly hate him and want to tear him down out of envy because he is a great man. I doubt most normies even know about many of these books. Much less have read them. Do you actually think normies are regularly reading Eliade and Pankseep?
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>>24770601
>desperate to write the defining American novel
for ragebait to work it has to be somewhat believable
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>>24770867
Leftist spotted
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>>24770632
>MMT grifter
yeah shes a rent seeker
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>>24769414
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
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George Orwell - 1984
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>>24770408
All of those are worth reading except for Maps of Meaning.
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>>24773390
Yeah, that's massively overrated.
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>>24773419
His message is made in 20 pages, the rest is either cartoonishly misguided worldbuilding or torture porn at the expense of the reader, that is to say he loves hammering the point into the skull of the reader for half the book.



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