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Tucker Carlson gives advice to young men.
"Read books. Actual, physical books. Set aside an hour every day. Any book written before WW2 has a kind of ease about it. There’s less self-censorship. This was a much freer country before WW2. It’s very obvious in the literature."
This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.
Sheridan's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer),
I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.
That makes me feel better. Lots of Irish specific references I figured I'm missing the meaning of, but if even an Irishman can't fathom them, I'm not doing as bad as I thought.
Just finished Going Solo by Roald Dahl, the children's writer. It's about his time before WWII in East Africa, and during WWII as a British fighter pilot.
In eras of mass censorship and overzealous ideology, books are often the first thing to go. Books are perfect mass mediums for the transmission of knowledge, which is why they're so often targets of censors and busybodies and dictators.
Keep your large book collections. Make them larger. Don't give them up. They're necessary.
British government warns that reading Tolkien, Lewis, Orwell, and John Locke radicalizes people into far-right extremism ...
Britain has a government program called "Prevent" that was founded in 2019 to research what causes a Muslim to become a terrorist.
[Hint: It's reading the Quran]
... Since it would be very bigoted for this program to look into the actual ideologies that are causing the vast, overwhelming majority of violence, terror, and crime on the planet, they had to make sure they gave those evil conservatives and Christians a shake down. ...
There is also a reading list of historical texts which produce red flags to RICU. These include 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government' and Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes '1984' by George Orwell.
Let me try a crack at the new Mother Goose:
There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She lived in a Red State
So abortion was moot
She still having kids
So she moved to a Boot
-HeadSet
Sounds like a slut with a lot of baby daddies, and is on welfare, and is using her kids for income.
Or by having many baby daddies, get a separate child support from each. Anyway, the joke is the moving to a boot, not any jab at Red states as I agree with outlawing abortion.
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- my dad's old college English book (always felt I needed to improve my grammar)
- Candide by Voltaire
- Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
- The Politics by Aristotle
Now I'm reading The Prince by Machiavelli, and really enjoying it. One tip: before invading, look for minorities who will help you because they resent the traditional rulers in their own country. They may in fact invite you in to help them overthrow their own country. This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.