Posted on 01/11/2024 6:40:37 AM PST by Chickensoup
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 Less
I threw away a trilogy which was sort of an anti narnia. about a young girl. came out in the 90s.
Given to my daughter by a relative who I discovered later had sexual plans for her.
Grateful thanks
How was his funeral?
it’s about time we started using the rules on them.
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every chance we get!
Any list that doesn’t have the koran at the top of the list is not credible.
Lawyers doctors horrorshow
I was defanged.
Damn.
That’s nine...
Lists and paragraphs are our friends.
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Note that lists and paragraphs produce more white space on the page.
Can’t have majority whiteness.
You do know how to form paragraphs?
Yes, that they do.
I'm working on my fourth book now.
Really! And you were so sloppy that the post blurb and your 1st comment are unreadable - if that’s the level of your work ... the poor readers. Are your books a continuous mass of text?
Try harder
* How Hitler’s Mein Kampf was a kind of “spiritualized Darwinism” that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism ... and was more or less ripped from the muslim koran, haddiths, and sunnahs.
And you are illiterate.
Harrumph!
I’m your friend.
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I knew I could count on you Laz!
that is funny!
your 1st comment **are** unreadable And you are illiterate.
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oh my, a grammar error does not make one illiterate - do you understand what that word means? apparently not.
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