I was watching some video and there was mention of someone getting 1984. Upon which, a guy said that this one (one who got 1984) will end up being radicalized. I was already born into a very radical environment so no needs of books to radicalize me (although I am trying to be moderate and chill now)
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Check out Evasion and Days of War, Nights of Love by Crimethinc. That’s how I got my start
Pick a judeo-christian bible. Can’t miss apparently.
A People’s History of the United States blew my mind wide open in high school.
Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. It took the blinders off and I became a convert to functional programming.
I like to joke about recursion and how it gets overused as a “good” programming practice, but I genuinely have a solid understanding of it and find it pretty intuitive… In OOP. I cannot wrap my head around tail recursion
Tail recursion is just recursion? I mean who cares if it’s the last thing done or not 😋 ?
Check out template meta programming if you want some recursion to blow your mind (like the variadic template).
The Grapes of Wrath
The Dispossessed
This was the one I came to mention lol.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Also from the introduction/short story The Day Before The Revolution:
My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn’t get into the action — except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with; not the social-Darwinist economic “libertarianism” of the far right; but anarchism. as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.
punk as f*uck
if you speak(/read) german and consider yourself vaguely punk i recommend it. if you know any (cis male) german speaking punks, please slap their face with this book (they either understand and accept it or don’t, in which case they desperately need to read this book).
it showcases the german punk scene from a flinta* perspective, highlighting how sexism and abuse didn’t stop people who actually stood for something better and why it took a long long time for the scene to improve.
isbn 978-3-95575-187-6 , i’m sure your local book dealer is able to order it for you.
Benjamin Blümchen audio story series. Mayor and most business men are corrupt, main character regularly engages in political action like organizing protests for animal rights and another major character is a female journalist.
It’s insidious because they’re popular children’s stories featuring a talking elephant as main character. Back before everyone lived on TikTok, even conservative parents bought it for their children. And I think even if you don’t quite remember most of it when you get older, stories like these really do influence how you see the world.
Other than that, reading newspapers did most of the work (of course that only works if it’s not all full-on fascist propaganda).
Is it in english?
It’s originally in German, IDK if there’s a translation. Maybe the TV Shows/Movies got translations or at least subtitles? Though they don’t seem to be that well-received.
The Hundredth Monkey
That’s a pretty stupid book.
Explain more
It’s based on junk science and encourages cult behavior. There is no tipping point where ideas spread without being communicated. Western Buddhists are the worst at this that I’ve seen.
I’ve never been radicalized by a book, or anything really.
Probably because I’ve never believed it to be The Truth.
Most books I’ve read that people are taking about here, my reaction was like ‘well duh’. Like, I knew my teachers were lying to me since kindergarten and their thought their over simplified view of the world was very weird.
Coming up with a worldview on your own from all the little bits of data you have is hard. Most people take their given world model without question and ignore the inconsistencies.
The Jungle
Came here to make sure this was listed.
These books opened my eyes.
From Freedom to Slavery: Rebirth of Tyranny in America by Gerry Spence
https://archive.org/details/fromfreedomtosl000spen/mode/1up
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62558.Quantum_Psychology
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542853-trust-me-i-m-lying
The terms of service for the warranty on my first car after the first time I tried to use it.
Stranger In A Strange Land
That was the first Heinlein I ever read, and it blew my mind. I wished I could go back in time to meet him and shake his hand.
Then I read more Heinlein and got to the Lazarus Long stuff, and wished I could go back in time to meet him and ask him if he was okay.
Hahahaha this is hilarious
