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What books actually changed the way you think?

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>> No.12816029

I think every single book which I took the time to absorb and understand has influenced my thinking.

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Unironically changed the way I thought about interracial relationships.

>> No.12816308

>>12816021
bleh.

got to page 70 and had to hang it up.

>> No.12816341

>>12816308
Yeah. It's all true though.

>> No.12816561

>>12816308
So halfway through? The main takeaway I got from it is everything that is communicated is propaganda.

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Spengler's views on the actualization and exhaustion of forms can be applied to almost all creative endeavors people pursue.

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Gravity's Rainbow

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>>12817925
I can see it reflected in Legacy of Totalitarianism in the Tundra.

>> No.12818121

>>12815928
Decline of the West.
changed how i thought about art, literature, philosophy, religion, history.

>> No.12818216

>>12817744
check'd
this looks like the epitome of what Guenon is talking about regarding western intellectuals inability to understand eastern wisdom

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id like to say it would be one of the first philosophy books i ever read or something that would impress yall but this is definitely the series that has effected my way of life in totality

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>> No.12818425

Sex and Character by Otto Weininger. I started viewing women and relationships through a Weiningerian lense

>> No.12818431

>>12816012
What is this? I see it spammed everywhere lately

>> No.12818433

>>12818425
was he an incel?

>> No.12818504

>>12818433
Idk I think he was gay personally.

>> No.12819174

>>12818431
revolutionary philosophy that explains everything

>> No.12819243

straw dogs / black mass - john gray
high rise - j g ballard

>> No.12819291

>>12815928
>The Old Man and the Sea and The Good Earth at 10
>Dorian Gray and Siddhartha at 16
>The Master and Margarita and The Republic at 18
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the Gay Science at 21
>Fanged Noumena at 23
I'm thinking it's time for some Gravity's Rainbow in my life.

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>> No.12819329

Genealogy of Morals
Golden Bough
Tractatus
Emma