/lit/ - Literature

>>12586024

hey man you're welcome, but straight up--and i really don't mean to fear monger or conspiracy dredge--but be careful with that one. LOTS of money, LOTS of power, the sorta confluence of high-end ivy league-level academics and hedge fund managers who mingle with philanthropists and senators. people like eliot cohen and meoldy hobson and roger altman and john elkann and nancy pelosi and larry fink and shit like that. seriously heavy hitters.

i've become obsessed with trying to figure out who it is behind it. i've been talking to all sorts of people around DC and post pictures of his library on shelf threads just to find some leads. nothing yet.

>>9046603

i very much respect your tone and desire to read more. i'll try to help as much as i can--i'm sorry if my questions seem repetitive or nit-picky, just trying to get at who you are. SO:

are you interested in utopian literature, then?
or in epistemology (philosophy of knowledge)?
or in more applied scientific/cognitive studies?

i also think all things are connected--i was raised in a western catholic--specifically, jesuit--tradition that took "god in all things"--and the associated interconnectivity--as it's starting point, so i feel you there, if only from a different angle.

i think philosophy is a wonderful thing to study, but you need to ask yourself two things first: 1. what end does you study hope to meet? what objective do you want to accomplish? that is, building a reading list around understanding how science works is a lot different than reading list in applied ethics, or a reading list on 20th century analytic philosophy, etc.
even more generally, though, this first question is a matter of what kind of instruction you want: do you want knowledge about how to practically act in the world, e.g. to cover a certain problem or achieve a specific end--or are you looking for self-improvement of a less-practical, more "life of the mind" manner? or: do want to study philosophy as a means to an end, or an end in itself? this is a matter of who you are and who you want to be.