Does anyone know of the book Rupert Neve referred to when referencing some, possibly Philips, book that influenced his designs?
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AnalogPackrat
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"The Parasitic Mind; How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense" by Gad Saad
Sounds like an old book , might make an interesting read in the context of the modern day internet where lets face it ,some bright ideas end up having disasterous consequences , instead of getting filtered out by smaller groups before the shit hits the fan on a global level .
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
by Vivek Ramaswamy (Hardcover)and
Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence
by Vivek Ramaswamy (Hardcover)and
Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
by Pete Hegseth, David Goodwinare all on my to-do list....
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A bit old but prophetic and relevant: "The Vision of the Anointed" by Thomas Sowell, I am still going through it but, man, Dr. Sowell is amazing.
Economic Theory:
Friedrich Hayek--The Road to Serfdom (the basis of neoliberal economics, although von Mises and others were significant, this put the free market back into the cultural consciousness)
John Maynard Keynes--The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (the basis of left-wing economics)
Literature:
some of my favorites across time and cultures--hope that acknowledgement doesn't rub anyone the wrong way
John Donne's poetry and prose
Gwendolyn Brooks--Maud Martha
John Okada--No-No Boy
Dhan Gopal Mukerji--Caste and Outcast
Fanny Fern- Ruth Hall: a Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Geoffrey Chaucer--The Canterbury Tales
John Milton--Paradise Lost
Some unfortunate recommendations here imo but you all are entitled to your opinions, I guess.
I definitely agree that corporate wokeism is largely false, though.
Friedrich Hayek--The Road to Serfdom (the basis of neoliberal economics, although von Mises and others were significant, this put the free market back into the cultural consciousness)
John Maynard Keynes--The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (the basis of left-wing economics)
Literature:
some of my favorites across time and cultures--hope that acknowledgement doesn't rub anyone the wrong way
John Donne's poetry and prose
Gwendolyn Brooks--Maud Martha
John Okada--No-No Boy
Dhan Gopal Mukerji--Caste and Outcast
Fanny Fern- Ruth Hall: a Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Geoffrey Chaucer--The Canterbury Tales
John Milton--Paradise Lost
Some unfortunate recommendations here imo but you all are entitled to your opinions, I guess.
I definitely agree that corporate wokeism is largely false, though.
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Reader's Digest published a condensed version of Hayek's seminal work, for the mass market.
"No man is an island..".John Maynard Keynes--The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (the basis of left-wing economics)
Literature:
some of my favorites across time and cultures--hope that acknowledgement doesn't rub anyone the wrong way
John Donne's poetry and prose
Great literature is great or why would they call it great literature?
JR
AnalogPackrat
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I'm curious which ones are "unfortunate," in your judgement.
False as in a false narrative with little basis in reality or false as in it doesn't exist?
"A Monetary History of the United States" -Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
for anyone generally interested in what post 2008 financial crises "Keynes-style-government-stimulus-intervention" does to markets a decade later.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
"...once you go easing..you can never go back..there will be no tightening only more irresponsible spending and printing and fleecing of the tax payer"
for anyone generally interested in what post 2008 financial crises "Keynes-style-government-stimulus-intervention" does to markets a decade later.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
"...once you go easing..you can never go back..there will be no tightening only more irresponsible spending and printing and fleecing of the tax payer"
ruffrecords
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"The dawn of everything" -Graeber/Wengrow----History
"Skin in the game" -Nassim Nicholas Taleb----Economics/social/etc-
"Loonshots" -Safi Bahcall----how ideas change the world (sort of Burkes "Connections"-lite)
"Skin in the game" -Nassim Nicholas Taleb----Economics/social/etc-
"Loonshots" -Safi Bahcall----how ideas change the world (sort of Burkes "Connections"-lite)
separateness
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Non-fiction books that have helped me understand the world somewhat
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The Early History of Rome, Books I-V by Livy
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Pretty much anything by Friedrich Nietzsche
Fiction (probably pretty basic)
Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (perhaps funniest book I have ever read. It is incredible)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Any of Sophocles tragedies
Satyricon by Petronius
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Tried to leave out the 'of course every one should read this' type works like Homer, Moby Dick, Don Quixote etc etc
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The Early History of Rome, Books I-V by Livy
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Pretty much anything by Friedrich Nietzsche
Fiction (probably pretty basic)
Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (perhaps funniest book I have ever read. It is incredible)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Any of Sophocles tragedies
Satyricon by Petronius
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Tried to leave out the 'of course every one should read this' type works like Homer, Moby Dick, Don Quixote etc etc
If it's not been added - the documentary "Drugs as a war against us: The CIA war agains musicians and activists" covers everything from Opium and MKULTRA to now. Paranoid, or is everyone (the rich) just out to get us?
I know you said reference. But fiction is there. Did anyone add - the 60's science fiction writer who marched with MLK... crud what was his name - he was so cool. Beer early today sorry - Harlan Ellison. He wrote the novelette that became "A boy and his dog."
There is a story about a publisher back in the day that owed him royalty money. Back in the time in the US where you could send things POSTAGE COLLECT. Meaning the recipient has to pay for the parcel. So DAILY, he sent a brick with a note attached, "you owe me money." I LOVE IT.
Take care all.. and before you decide I am some 9 year old idiot with leftist upbringing... I was one of the US army's first Sappers (7th ID, 13th engineer battalion) we were not in active war at the time - it was all considered "light intensity conflict" in some 200 countries - what they call asymmetrical warfare now - guerrilla warfare. I served in our only all sapper battalion - one of our squads would be attached to an infantry battalion to do all gods nastiness. This was 1980's US - We were the NEWEST U.S. RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE - and one of the ground pounding guys that author Tom Clancy based a character on. We were based in Fort Ord California, near Monterey/Salinas. Typically deployed 220 days a year.
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According to Wikipedia, sappers (support combat engineers) have fought in every war in which the Army has been engaged. Even during the Battle of Yorktown, for example, sappers from the French Army proved instrumental in helping the United States win the Revolutionary War. Since then, the U.S. Army has employed sappers in all of its wars.
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Back in the 70s at Ft Riley,KS I met a LRRP, who fought in Viet Nam. Technically he went out alone on Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols, but basically they were snipers and saboteurs ambushing enemy patrols.
Sorry about the veer...
JR
Yes - Beer - to my knowledge our unit was a the first ALL Sapper unit, and the first graduates of the Newley formed Sapper leader School. Sappers have been around forever.
Shroomystic
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For all the german speaking people :
Ruschkowski, André: Elektronische Klänge und musikalische Entdeckungen
ISBN: 978-3-15-019613-7------------------------------
pasarski
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No contributions for a while so maybe I do my part. Science with a subtle pseudoscience touch at the end of the list:
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
Wholeness and the Implicate Order - David Bohm
Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes - Donald Hoffman
The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
Gaia, a new look at life on earth - James Lovelock
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
Wholeness and the Implicate Order - David Bohm
Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes - Donald Hoffman
The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
Gaia, a new look at life on earth - James Lovelock
