I'm an NPC retard who's trying to break free from social programming. Recommend me 1 (ONE) book that will help me become smarter.It could be anything, but preferably non-fiction, with no flowery bullshit prose I won't understand on the first read, and something that deals with modern problems.
You can't read yourself out of your condition, you have to think yourself out of it.
Myth of Sisyphus>no flowery bullshit proseTough shit, just take your time with it. It's short.
>t could be anything, but preferably non-fiction, with no flowery bullshit prose I won't understand on the first read, and something that deals with modern problems.How are you going to break free of being an NPC retard by sticking to the preferences of NPC retards? You wanna read Thinking Fast and Slow like all the other NPCs?Read a novel, an old and relatively difficult one. Even an NPC can handle Dostoevsky, so start with Crime and Punishment.
Go to your nearest used book store and by one or two titles which catch your eye.Don't fucking ask what you should be doing.
>>24944759Start with the Greeks.
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>>24944759read this. or first check out a PDF online (easily googleable) and see if it seems like your thing. parts might seem very dense and pseudish if you haven't read similar works, but it's not that hard to understand if you read it slowly and you're on board with the general message. >>24944883this is also a good suggestion.
>>24944759The greeks.
>>24944759Reverend Insanity.
>>24944759To break free from the social programming you have to become materially unreliant on society. No, I'm not telling you to become a millionaire, nor a caveman, nor a homeless piece of shit, just a man capable of providing himself with the things he needs without running into the arms of sellers.
Mein Kampf
>>24944759>I'm an NPC retard who's trying to break free from social programming>Recommend me 1 (ONE) bookOver before it even began.
Hp lovecraft and understand every single monster and evil in his stories represents a part of society and you are trying to figure which part. He puts hidden clues. I’m surprised he got away with it for so long.
>>24944759The God Delusion
>>24944759The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larkan Rose
>>24944759To understand which opinions have been installed into your OS you need to know who benefits.To know who benefits, you need to have deep understanding of a field.This cannot be done with a single book or even a single lifetime.Inevitably, the majority of your ideas and opinions will come from without. We do live in a society.
>>24944759https://www.readthesequences.comi also third this suggestion: >>24944883
>>24944759here you go OP
I said NON-FICTION. I thought you retards on this board could read. I'm trying to become smarter, not waist my time on some author's dollhouses-in-print
>>24945627No, you said preferably non-fiction. Sounds like you can't even read your own post.I recommend A Confederacy of Dunces.
>>24944774His first mistake was assuming all nonfiction has standard issue prose when that's clearly far from the case.
>>24945627yes, we can read. you said, and I quote:>It could be anything, but preferably non-fictionthe implicit meaning of this statement is that while you would prefer nonfiction, it does not explicitly need to be non fiction, and fiction is still welcome.the fact that you are still so arrogant around people you already knew ahead of time are your superiors does indeed show you have a long road ahead of you still. you've had but a taste of humility, which is what brought you here to make this thread, but you have not yet swallowed it and digested it yet, so still cant help but lash out in your pride and get slapped back down into your place.this lesson alone should help get you started on the right path.
>>24944759Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are timeless wisdom.
People are just posting the books they like and no one is seriously reflecting on what might be most useful for you.You should probably just go to a bookstore and browse around reading blurbs and tables of contents until something seems right.
depends on what kind of NPC retard you areIll suggest "demons" by dostoevsky since that's one that really broke my conditioning in a way that actually stuck and completely changed who I was
>>24944759You are not a npc, the npc is the most extreme case of the normie where they don`t have agency or consciousness, ontologically speaking they are more close to the soul of an animal that of an human.You can have stupid beliefs, think stuff that dont make sense, support stupid politicians but you are not a npc, period.
Beyond Good and Evil
>>24944759No single book will help you. Start reading and you may be helped. If you’re this gone at the moment you’ll gain nothing from starting with the greeks, you need to just form the habit of reading.
>>24944763You can't think yourself out of your condition. You have to act your way out of it.
>>24945783>completely changed who I wasCare to elaborate how? It's just that I also read it recently (out of NFU, C&P and Idiot I enjoyed this one the most), and felt that something had changed in my previously more utilitarian judgement to a more, (how can I say it?) morally concerned outlook on life? Would love to hear your thoughts.
>>24944759Here ya go. You'll be nice and individuated after this. (if you survive)
>>24945627Start with the Greeks.
