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I am listening to a remarkable concise well written book: TEN BOOKS THAT SCREWED UP THE WORLD. Recommended!
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| Chickensoup
Posted on 01/11/2024 6:40:37 AM PST by Chickensoup
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I am listening to a remarkable concise well written book: TEN BOOKS THAT SCREWED UP THE WORLD. Recommended!
You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative expos???, you'll learn: * Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand) * How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego * How Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want * Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written * How Darwin's The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society * How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power" * How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism * How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations * Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history--and how we can avoid them in the future. Read
To: Chickensoup
He missed one: The Science of Power by Benjamin Kidd.
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posted on
01/11/2024 6:47:18 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: Chickensoup
An excellent book that all people should read.
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posted on
01/11/2024 6:47:39 AM PST
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: Chickensoup
A People’s History Of The United States, by Howard Zinn
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posted on
01/11/2024 6:48:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Chickensoup
Lists and paragraphs are our friends.
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posted on
01/11/2024 6:49:58 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Carry_Okie
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posted on
01/11/2024 6:54:56 AM PST
by
texas booster
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To: Chickensoup
"Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinksy.
Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer. The Democrat Party followed the rules to transform America to what it is today.
To: Chickensoup
The Koran, The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, The Sayings of Chairman Mao, The Origin of Species........................
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:02:16 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Chickensoup
.....and Catcher in the Rye....................
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:03:41 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: dfwgator
A People’s History Of The United States, by Howard Zinn This has the distinction of being the only book I've thrown away.
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:06:16 AM PST
by
null and void
(I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
To: Dan in Wichita
Totally agree! I have not read it, but I have read enough ABOUT it to deem it dangerous. I have read the dedication to Lucifer at the very beginning, in the bookstore.
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:10:59 AM PST
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Dan in Wichita
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:19:51 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
To: Chickensoup
You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it.
Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative expos???, you'll learn:
* Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)
* How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego
* How Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want
* Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written
* How Darwin's The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society
* How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"
* How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism
* How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations
* Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science.
Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history--and how we can avoid them in the future.
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:25:35 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Chickensoup
To: Carry_Okie
Not one I am familiar with
I have read most of the authors mentioned. Great review
To: dfwgator
Yes true.
Glad I homeschooled
To: Gaffer
True and I am friendless.
To: Dan in Wichita
I have read and reread the Rules
Helps to understand manipulation in everyday life.
To: Chickensoup
Alinsky didn’t invent the rules, it’s about time we started using the rules on them.
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:52:42 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Chickensoup
True and I am friendless.I'm your friend.
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posted on
01/11/2024 7:53:23 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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