/lit/ - Literature

>>21525541
They can?

>>21525550
Fuck off

>>21525541
Any black autobiographies desu

>>21525553
>>21525541
the alphabet but ooba booga works too to communicate ideas

Un-ironically

>>21525553
Chimping nog spotted

>>21525550
fpbp

>>21525541
the bell curve

>>21525813
Kek

>>21525541
The Bell Curve by Charles M.

>>21525541
Hitler's Revolution
Germany's War by John Wear
Hitler's Peace Offers
Black Nazis: Ethnic Minorities and Foreigners in Hitler's Reich

>>21525541
Hello senpai. Read these - do not read white-trash meme works like Mein Kampf, save for historicity. Sure, read anyone, but don't waste your time with trash, and take any religious text which is not the Bible as of mere cultural interest. Honestly, there's nothing I would have you read that everyone shouldn't be reading - especially since most whites aren't reading anymore, are casting aside Christian tradition (Europe worst of all), and have left the greatest of literature - Poetry - almost entirely to their women, it is up to us now, to pick up that which made civilization great in the same way the Anglos took up the banner of Christ and the literary tradition of the Greco-Romans. Hopefully, we shall all men retain our senses, but if not, let us at least do our part. Take, for instance, Victorian-era England, a period in British history which seems quintessentially British to an American like me, but to the Britons of the day, it was a time of great change when they were becoming almost hyper-English out of a preservative reaching back to the old-ways for fear of losing them (not in the sense of paganism mind, Christmas was on the boom after all). That retro-conservativism became the hyper-English image of the Victorians by way of the eternal recurrence of the old clashing with the new which is always iconoclastic.

>The Bible - to be taken more seriously than anything; both for its Divine origins and for its influence
>Plato; Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Republic, Meno - Parmenides is a personal favorite, but not as necessary
>Aristotle; Nichomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Magna Moralia, Rhetoric, Politics, Poetics, Physics, and Metaphysics
>any good history of philosophy - for instance; Copleston or Russell
>Irrational Man; William Barret
>The Problems of Philosophy; Bertrand Russell
>The Owl of Minerva; Philosophers on Philosophy; Every essay within was written by a prominent philosopher of the time - a few of them are famous.
>If it's still on YouTube, watch the 1980s series The Great Philosophers with Brian McGee (I think it was called) - it was a series of interviews with varying philosophers and scholars on areas of their expertise
I'm not recommending any further particular philosophers. Pick and choose them according to your interests, and how each philosopher relates to any particular time-period or field you're looking at closely. If you want to tackle it systematically, it shouldn't be difficult to find a guide.
>I recommend in general BBC Radio 4's podcast series In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg as host. I enjoyed so many of them - I highly recommend looking for the Shakespeare episode which had Bloom on. I found it funny.
>Read all the greats of English literature, obviously - Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Pope, etc.,.
>Read at least the core Greco-Romans - Hesiod & Homer, the major tragedians, Ovid, Virgil, and so on.

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>>21527880
>read as you please of major novels. Try and pick a few which catch your interest from within the canon of every major time period, literary, or artistic movement, paying special attention to which nations and cultures were on the rise, were dominant, and were on the decline.
>Be skeptical of everything praised widely and especially by modern academics. They laud vice and are Godless.

As for black works in particular. Read as many as you like, but I personally try and read very little of anything written out of bitterness or hate. If that is all a major black author has written, I will read something by them, only to see them for who they are and what ability they have. I do not recommend reading much of these because hate, bitterness, envy, unforgiveness, and so on are all vices. We wish to move forward unto magnanimity, not shrinking back into spiritual destitution.

>MLK's Letter from a Birmingham City Jail is a must, as is the letter from five pastors and two rabbis two whom he was responding at the time.
>The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
>Celia, A Slave
>The poetry of Tracy K. Smith - one of the most kind, sane voices of modern poets
If you're an American, read the works of the Founding Fathers, and of those who had a keen influence on them - for instance, Francis Bacon (I really enjoyed New Atlantis) or Thomas Hobbes. I'm not sure whether or not to recommend looking into Masonry. I have done it out of curiosity, but it is a very deep and wide series of tunnels - most of them lain as intentional distractions, I believe. It has, and has had, an influence here and abroad, but use your own discretion - just be careful not to go too far down that road, wasting time and becoming tainted by their wickedness.
>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
>The Federalist Papers
>The Declaration of Independence
>etc.,.

Read personal finance, finance, and econ. Do not be overwhelmed by it. The language is often intentionally obfuscating or opaque. You may or may not be aware many important papers and talks done by elite bankers and policy makers are publicly available for free. This is because they have erected jargon and dryness as a barrier to the public psyche. Even given the chance, the average person does not read, nor want to read what they publish - no matter the cost. If you increase your financial literacy gradually and continually you will simultaneously increase your opportunities for wealth, decrease your chances of poverty, and decrease your chances of being caught unawares by the schemes of politicians, bankers, and their friends. Some examples:
>Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Robert T. Kiyosaki - often bashed by economists, yet one most frequently recommended by self-made millionaires
>The Richest Man in Babylon
>Basic Economics; Thomas Sowell

Well, I'm actually running out of space to get more specific, but take the time to wrap your head around stocks - including options - especially Naked Puts and Covered Calls.

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>>21527913
Oh, I forgot to say something very important which I meant to say. Pick at least one of the sciences and read works within that area. If you're more inclined towards STEM, master one. Read books on the history of mathematics, and do not neglect math. If you're not mathematically inclined, at least make sure you're comfortable with arithmetic, conversions, mental math, and basic geometry and algebraic concepts. A shocking number of people do not have these abilities. Some recommendations:
>A History of Pi
>3.1416 and All That
>The Foundations of Analysis - a bit of a slog for me, but still useful. Types who gravitate to algebra over calculus or geometry probably enjoyed it more than I.
>Adventures in Numberland
>Basic Mathematics; Serge Lang - kind of a meme book, but it helped me a great deal
>Six Easy Pieces & Six Not So Easy Pieces; Feynman
>Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy; Russell
>A History of Greek Mathematics I & II; Sir Thomas Heath
You get the idea. Last I checked, the American Mathematical Society had a list of favorite books.

Some Random recs:
>Metaphors We Live By; George Lakoff
>English Meaning and Culture; Anna Wierzbicka
>English Words from Latin and Greek Elements; Donald M. Ayers
>Essays of E.B. White - just comfy
>C.S. Lewis and Tolkien - comfy and wholesome
>Anatomy of Criticism; Northrop Frye
I could keep going forever probably, lol, so I'll stop now.

You'll notice most of these are not by black men or women. I don't think it matters much. Take from what strengthens, leave what weakens. Care not where it comes from, but only where it will take you. That's my perspective.

Happy reading, senpai.

>>21527933
Incredibly based series of posts. Thank you blackbro.

>>21525541
anything on basic grammar

>>21527969
You're welcome. Anytime, friend.

Ye ruined his entire career just to say incoherent gibberish on various podcasts, linked up with the hottest dissident right voices, torpedo'd their careers as well and now won't return calls while probably hiding out in a mental ward.

B-b-b-ased????

>>21527913
>>21527933
Good posts

>>21525541