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(DIR) Post #AAtLZNxBgxpSVavnH6 by josh@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T17:53:39.997754Z
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I'm going to be spending a significant amount of time in transit for the next week. What are some books I can read? I like non-fiction, particularly history and stories which explain contemporary problems.
(DIR) Post #AAtM3DuJbmlk2Pocds by blackeyes@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T17:59:59.502976Z
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@josh Mittel Europa -- Freidich Naumann (sp?), Deep Politics and the death of JFK -- Peter Dale Scott
(DIR) Post #AAtMGhXWkNHFhpaEBk by ChilliestOfDillys@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T18:02:24.989139Z
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@josh While it's not about history I think you'd like The Invisible Gorilla. It talks about the limits of our own mind and how it can effect us. It's also written by the actual psychologists that did the study.https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0036S4EYQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1630432810&sr=8-4
(DIR) Post #AAtMNFsTzZHHwOVhDc by WreckageBrother@uuuu.bigguys.club
2021-08-31T17:56:30.281969Z
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@josh why would you read a book about today's problems when you can just get them blasted across your tl on fedi
(DIR) Post #AAtNPEtMjC6dPuQuqu by Salastil@pleroma.salastil.com
2021-08-31T18:15:10.066509Z
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@josh A Distant Mirror is a good one, its about society immediately post Black Death and how the various governments and peasants found themselves in the shuffle. Its not a dry history book just listing dates and events breathlessly, Barbara Tuchman tends to use historical people and fill in a portrait of their life and how they reacted to events, in this case Enguerrand VII de Coucy who was effectively “Middle Class” if you would dare to use such a term for Medieval times. Poor enough he had to work but rich enough he that he was a player in court intrigues. Her other book The Guns of August is regarded as one of the best books of the 20th century.
(DIR) Post #AAtNcldQImsAjQQWzA by Tropical_Paradise@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T17:57:07.095651Z
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@josh On War - Carl von Clausewitz
(DIR) Post #AAtNf6lahoYwqkMbLc by kazcynski_stan@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T18:18:02.864054Z
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@josh Predictably, I'm sure, "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How" by KazcynskiI've only read the first edition from 2017, haven't found a pdf of the updated 2nd edition from 2020 so I don't know what he has added or changed. Don't buy it because the proceeds go to his victims, which is not based.
(DIR) Post #AAtO1Yrkugb0MxxBDM by RowdyRamzan@poa.st
2021-08-31T18:16:00.500291Z
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@josh I found these rather illuminating.....Ages of Discord more relevant but a lot less interesting imo
(DIR) Post #AAtO1ZKTBvZ3o1O6yG by LouisConde@poa.st
2021-08-31T18:22:05.523345Z
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@RowdyRamzan @josh Ages of Discord had too much math autism that just skimmed over because I am willing to just take what he says at face value.
(DIR) Post #AAtOOAp4TJUaSdTpg0 by PunishedD@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T18:26:11.424394Z
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@josh "Longitude" - Dava Sobel"The Creature from Jekyll Island" - G. Edward Griffin"Anabasis" - Xenophon
(DIR) Post #AAtRinrrJSnJD8JS8O by m0lr4k@noagendasocial.com
2021-08-31T19:03:31Z
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@josh The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon It's free on Gutenberg in a variety of formats and editions, partially what inspired Isaac Asimov when writing the Foundation books.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717
(DIR) Post #AAu5RxO4f88zyku30K by wikifarms@kiwifarms.cc
2021-09-01T02:28:38.860490Z
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@josh Peter Calvocoressi - "World Politics since 1945" - standard, in many countries, for the current international affairs exam for admission to the diplomatic service. Has everything about the whole world.
(DIR) Post #AAu7TGr5xwYuYXEQLY by kreischer@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T17:56:34.955417Z
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@josh John Michael Greer - Decline and Fall was good if you haven't read it
(DIR) Post #AAu7ThxlBGw6d1Ycz2 by Sprayfoam_Sal@poa.st
2021-08-31T17:58:18.364974Z
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@josh antelopehillpublishing.com/Given the online shit you deal with you might be interested in The Transgender Industrial Complex.
(DIR) Post #AAu7V9e1kKd0lt18im by MischiefCommittee@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T18:08:04.818249Z
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@josh are you following any book channels on telegram?
(DIR) Post #AAuCZo1y275exKFiQS by CumskinFoidPuncher69420@beefyboys.club
2021-09-01T03:48:32.242194Z
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@josh The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger. Read it on public transit. Physical copy not a tablet. Make sure everybody sees the cover.
(DIR) Post #AAutu4z50SHXMAocDo by Spzlqn@kiwifarms.cc
2021-09-01T11:53:53.141609Z
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@josh "Au Bonheur des Dames" by Emile Zola. The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales. Zola models his store after Le Bon Marché, which consolidated under one roof many of the goods hitherto sold in separate shops. The narrative details many of Le Bon Marché's innovations, including its mail-order business, its system of commissions, its in-house staff commissary, and its methods of receiving and retailing goods.
(DIR) Post #AAuuqceLzoaMZ52Jt2 by Natanahel@kiwifarms.cc
2021-09-01T12:04:35.734680Z
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@josh Technopoly by Neil Postman
(DIR) Post #AAvSVGDFcPU5KzLQye by RoyalJohnny242@poa.st
2021-09-01T18:21:42.887802Z
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@josh Going Postal by Mark Ames, the best book on why workplace/school shootings became so common in America. Ames is a dirtbag leftist/nazbol adjacent sexpest but his book is probably the best look at the subject since it’s not antiwhite neoliberal bullshit
(DIR) Post #AAvbECAMJGrbS3vgi8 by billiam@shitposter.club
2021-09-01T19:59:28.759468Z
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@josh "Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible" is a great book and an incredible story
(DIR) Post #AB4orHHXC3wsUpkOXY by Pagliano@kiwifarms.cc
2021-08-31T18:22:55.469914Z
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@josh Guns, Germs, & Steel by Jared Diamond is a very good work that discusses civilizations, how they form, how they advance, how they fuck up, and how pivotal a role animal domestication plays.
(DIR) Post #AB4orHnRHRTA5mfsGm by josephahitler@poa.st
2021-09-06T06:24:35.623284Z
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@Pagliano @josh Provided you understand its written by a guy with the last name of DIAMOND that is. Lots of anti-white blood libels in that book.Alternative Hypothesis tore apart Diamond's book but sadly the video has been taken down. If you come across that video I highly recommend it.Essentially Diamond argues that whites only succeeded because they lucked out by having lots of resources and easily tamable animals. However, this is false, because horses were originally not much different than zebras, for instance, and cows were fearsome aurochs. The reality, then, is the opposite of what Diamond claims. Whites succeeded because their harsh environment forced them to find creative solutions or die. Nonwhites had the luxury to be stupid.So you get things like blacks never once trying to tame Zebras, and then Germans show up in WWI and have Zebra cavalry in a matter of months.
(DIR) Post #AB6JFkC6XbQutpkYq0 by Pagliano@kiwifarms.cc
2021-09-06T23:05:49.147610Z
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@josephahitler @josh Interesting perspective on things. His explanation on the zebra thing was that zebras had specific behavioral differences (social hierarchy couldn't be usurped by humans, better at evading capture, mean as hell) that made them impossible to domesticate. One thing that does also undermine his hypothesis, I'll note, is that horses were once in the Americas, but instead of domesticating horses, the people of the Americas simply hunted their horses to extinction. Once Europeans showed up and brought horses with them, the native Americans learned to ride horses and many tribes changed dramatically.I didn't know that Germans had Zebra cavalry, that's... interesting.Jared Diamond's hypothesis was, in large part, that the "white" people's close proximity to domesticated animals turned their settlements into crucibles of zoonotic disease, while the animals also allowed those people to have reliable food production that let them bounce back from one horrific epidemic after another -- to which they walked away with immunity to all kinds of nasty diseases, which wrought havoc on every people that the whites came into contact with.It wasn't the most thought-provoking point raised in the book, though, in any event. For me, that was the story about how the Maori invaded and completely obliterated (enslavement, rape, cannibalism, etc) a pacifist island tribe just because they could. I wound up wondering how often that happens in history, where the people who aren't willing to fight get spontaneously eradicated by the people who are.
(DIR) Post #AB6JFkiMbfEmVsqK7U by TomAltihill@kiwifarms.cc
2021-09-06T23:18:59.481412Z
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@Pagliano @josephahitler @josh violence will always happen on a long enough time frame between groups, and is it's own determining win condition. Its inescapable.