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>You have one book to bestow upon an uncontacted tribe who will then structure their society based on the ideas, values and principles of said book
Which book will it be?

>> No.12342559
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>>12342538
just out of curiosity, I'd like to see a Union of Egoists in action

>> No.12342586

>>12342538
Malinowski. Sex and repression
Society without fatherhood
No father-daughter incest taboo

>> No.12342601

>>12342538
My diary desu. Not gonna lie, I'd go full Gauguin if I were surrounded by some actual traditional girls.

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>> No.12342611

>>12342538
The Sound and the Fury

>> No.12342615

A Thousand Plateaus

>> No.12342616

The Bible. Time to prove muh "we'd be at the singularity already" fags wrong

>> No.12342620

>>12342538
Something by PG Wodehouse. Imagine Edwardian tribesmen accidentally getting engaged to each other in the jungle.

>> No.12342626

>>12342559
You'd know there'd just be one who figured out that an ego is a spook and that all context is manifest from that one view just as most of the inventions of the world have arisen from single individuals rather than groups.

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It would be fun to see what kind of society they come up with from this book

>> No.12342646

Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.12342656

>>12342538
Can Life Prevail?
They will learn the futility of their own survival and quickly liquidate each other.

>> No.12342695

The old testament

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>>12342538
fuck it

>> No.12342726

>>12342716
>not Behead All Satans

>> No.12342745

Something by Houellebecq or Harry Potter.

>> No.12342756

Watafak the republic obviously

>> No.12342774

>>12342538
my diary desu

>> No.12342811

100 days of sodom

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>>12342538
Boswell’s Life of Johnson

>> No.12342958

>>12342538
>get the holy bible
>go to the democratic republic of the congo
>have sex with the nastiest bitches I can find
>jizz all over the book
>buy samples of pure e-coli online
>smear it all over the front cover
>give it to the immuneless heathens

mission accomplished boys

>> No.12342965

>>12342811
don't forget the epilogue, the 20 days of sodom.

>> No.12342977

>>12342559
>Union of egoist on a remote island with no capital or outside contact
How many levels of ideology are you on my dude

>> No.12342991

>>12342626
Where did you get an idea that most inventions are from individuals rather than groups? That doesn't even remotely make sense given that humans are social creatures and that some sort of working society must be in place in order for written history to even take place.

>> No.12343000

>>12342538
Hogg

>> No.12343327

>>12342538
guns germs and steel, of course every page is slathered in viruses and germs for extra realism

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>> No.12343355

>>12343348
Am I supposed to think it's big or large?

>> No.12343549
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Industrial Society and Its Future

>> No.12343565

>>12342538
The Foundation for Exploration

>> No.12343580

>>12342538
they wouldn’t know how to read

>> No.12343714

>>12343580
>they wouldn’t know how to read
We need to bestow a book upon OP because he sounds like a dumb ass.

>> No.12343734

12 Rules for Life

>> No.12343749

>>12343355
Large because the fact its flaccid and hanging near his thigh

>> No.12343757

>>12343734
*creates a society where no one has a dirty room*

Nice

>> No.12343763

On Witchcraft by Cotton Mather

>> No.12343775

>>12343757
KEK: I just Kek'd at your joke

>> No.12343794

>>12343775
:D

>> No.12343809

Mein Kampf

>> No.12343955

Societies grow in response to their material conditions not the abstract intellectual masturbation of some guy with a typewriter come on if you want to shape their culture give them some coal or some 18th century hand cranked factory machinery

>> No.12344105

>>12343734
pretty sure that society already exists, it's called Reddit

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>>12342726