Let's have statistics

[Anonymous No.13774618]

1) how much books have you read?
2) your political views

please be honest

[Anonymous No.13774630]

>>13774618
I've only just started actually reading worthwhile stuff this year. My views differ per subject politically and I don't know if my reading will ever find me an ideology to rest with. Whenever I do political quizzes I always skew left because I couldn't care less for religion or tradition.

[Anonymous No.13774711]

>>13774618
How the fuck would someone know how many books they've read in life? What a stupid question. If you wanna bait Nazis or leftists you could ask for their top 3 books instead, it'd have been even more meaningful than that garbage of thread you made. You should be ashamed of yourself, Op.

[Anonymous No.13774716]

About 50 or so... Basically all of it philosophy stuff. Would describe myself as a postmodern conservative

[Anonymous No.13774717]

>>13774711
he's right, you know

>>13774618
1) books read this year: 71
2) political views: marxist

[Anonymous No.13774728]

Not enough
I remain vaguely left-wing but I don't particularly care about politics anymore.

[Anonymous No.13774759]

>>13774618
1) Probably 15
2) I don't really care about politics. I hate the SJWs, the climate science deniers, religious cucks but other than that I don't have a lot of opinions.

[Anonymous No.13774765]

>>13774717
U SJW?

[Anonymous No.13774834]

I don't know how many I've read in my entire life but I'm up to 97 this year. I'm probably more fascist than anything, very conservative and authoritarian socially but economically liberal until it interferes with the social order.

[Anonymous No.13774850]

>>13774834
I've always wondered who the ideal realistic leader would be of an authoritarian government for you. Exclude yourself because then everyone would say that and it can't be the ideal fantasy of a perfect leader who is free from his nature. Would it instead be a government with checks on its own power?

[Anonymous No.13774866]

>>13774850
I lean more towards clericalism or Church rule than anything so I don't really have an ideal ruler or at least one that could realistically become actual.

[Anonymous No.13774873]

>>13774618
not today, CIA.

[Anonymous No.13774883]

>>13774618
Somewhere between 30 and 50
I have no idea.

[Anonymous No.13774885]

>>13774866
Ah ok

[Anonymous No.13774894]

>>13774618
800 000
milkeytoast liberal

[Anonymous No.13774935]

>>13774618
1. No idea. Many thousands.
2. Moderate liberal in most regards, SJW type.

[Anonymous No.13774936]

>>13774618
1. Goodreads tells me about 300+ books, although that would include short stories, and small poems and not include things I've read for university studies or stuff I've just forgotten to review
2. I don't like the term but neo-reaction/dark enlightenment is probably the closest to my current views.

[Anonymous No.13774966]

>>13774618
What is a book?

If I read one volume containing the complete works of Shakespeare, does that count as just one book?

I read plays very often, but only rarely do I finish a whole book of plays from cover to cover. For instance, I own a collection containing six of Ibsen's plays, but I will probably just read the most important ones (having already read one), and leave the two or three little-known ones for much, much later.

[Anonymous No.13775988]

Most people on this site lean left so it isn't going to tell you much.

[Anonymous No.13775998]

>>13774618
5
Communitarian

[Anonymous No.13776029]

>>13774618
I started reading philosophy and stuff earlier this year, but i would describe myself as apolitical, or a political realist. I believe our current biggest issue is climate change and preparing ourselves for the coming ecological collapse.

[Anonymous No.13776042]

>>13774618
>10 books so far this year
>Accelerationist

[Anonymous No.13776046]

>>13776029
What is this impending collapse you're talking about?

[Anonymous No.13776050]

Around ~750 according to my goodreads, which I’ve had from 2009 til now. that includes poetry and plays though

im pretty left-wing although possibly borderline centrist? it’s hard to pinpoint an exact label

[Anonymous No.13776062]

>>13774618
286 by the goodreads counter
I'm an unironic SJW scold, a unspooked stirnerite and a decolonial queer anarchist

[Anonymous No.13776074]

>>13776062
>decolonial queer anarchist
Just say discord tranny

[Anonymous No.13776178]

>>13776046
Running out of non renewable resources, the global food supply drying up, and catastrophic damage to major population centers as a result of climate change. The human population of the Earth must and will return to the population level of the pre Industrial age, at best, unless large sections of the Earth become uninhabitable due to ecological disasters, in which case humanity as a whole may go back to hunting and gathering, the tragic final act of human civilization coming to a close with the end of Western civilization.

[Anonymous No.13776206]

>books
0
>political views
kekistan

[Anonymous No.13776209]

>>13776178
Why do you believe we're running out of resources and food or that there's going to be major damage to population centers? I think you're jumping the gun with all these assumptions because if the government would act on them and they end up being mistaken, they can cause some serious damage for no good reason.

[Anonymous No.13776242]

0
alt-right

[Anonymous No.13776244]

>>13774618
i've read like 30 books in total. i'm not political at all, i just want a catholic theocracy or monarchy.

[Anonymous No.13776253]

>>13774618
1200 books
I would describe mmyself as the very model of an All-Out, No Holds Barred, Take no Prisoners Capital-F Fascist

[Anonymous No.13776271]

>>13776209
The facts are there. Several scientists (I've been following Jem Bendell and Rupert Read, among others) are now saying the time for trying to prevent climate change is past, and we should now be preparing for the worst case scenario. Bendell calls it Deep Adaptation. Aside from the facts, I also believe that capitalism, and industrial technology as its product, is a fundamentally irrational force that can't be stopped until the physical world itself puts an end to it. Oswald Spengler and Ted Kaczynski influenced my thought on this matter.

I don't think governments can do anything to stop it. The time for governments and human civilization in general is drawing to a close, brought about by humans themselves.

[Anonymous No.13776274]

>>13776206
>>13776242
Very funny bro, believe me I'm laughing.

[Anonymous No.13776276]

These are the books I have read this year. I am currently reading Anna Karenina and have about 250 pages left.
I am a right wing libertarian of sorts with certain /pol/ tendencies

[Anonymous No.13776278]

>books
i only watch youtube philosophers
>political affiliation
neofascism

[Anonymous No.13776294]

>>13776278
>>13776242
>>13776206
funny, it's leftists who tend to read nothing but YA and comic books, while dismissing all classical literature and philosophy as evil and 'white supremacist'.

[Anonymous No.13776295]

>>13776274
>24 posters
>35 replies
Most of those are probably done by one sad individual, lel

[Read Aquinas No.13776297]

this year? ~150
Catholic Neoplatonic National Socialism with Guenonian Traditionalist aspects , also some EcoFascism

[Anonymous No.13776300]

>>13776294
very funny

[Anonymous No.13776301]

>>13776297
are you 'on the spectrum'?

[Anonymous No.13776303]

>>13776271
What are the facts and why do Jem Bendell and Rupert Read believe we're running out of resources and food, and that major damage to population centers is going to take place? It's not enough to merely assert it to make me believe but this is all I get from people like you. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of reason involved with your beliefs.

[Read Aquinas No.13776307]

>>13776301
never been tested, why?

[Anonymous No.13776355]

>>13774935
>>13776062
>>13774894
*confused screaming

[Anonymous No.13776368]

>>13774618
>how much books
back to grade school OP
>data mining thread
kys

[Anonymous No.13776373]

>>13774618
>lost track of how many books ive read this year
>my political views: none of your damn business

[Anonymous No.13776401]

>>13776303
Okay then here's a few facts
>The ice caps are now melting at an unpredictable rate every year, surpassing scientists projections
>They are thought to contain methane, 25 times worse than carbon dioxide if released into the atmosphere when the ice caps melt, and if that does occur, climate change will become a runaway loop as the climate gets exponentially hotter and melts more ice releasing more methane
>17 of the 18 hottest summers since record keeping began have occurred since 2001, and they keep getting hotter
>In the UK there was a month long drought in the heat wave last year, almost unheard of in a country where it rains every fucking day
>Climate change aside, renewable energy is not as renewable as people think: in order to construct something that produces green energy, it has to be built with non renewable energy, so while it might be a small scale long term solution, renewables can never replace non renewables

[Anonymous No.13776417]

>>13776401
how the fuck is ice supposed to contain methane gas exactly?

[Anonymous No.13776423]

>>13776401
Let's assume the ice caps are melting at unpredictable rates. What does that tell us other than they're melting at unpredictable rates? You say they're thought to contain methane, so does that mean you're not sure? If they do contain massive amounts of methane and it gets released, how do you know it will have the impact you think it will?

You're not explaining to me why you believe we're running out of resources and food, and that there's going to be massive damage to population centers. There's been a lot of hot summers, so what? Random droughts have always been a feature of our life on this planet. The fact that one occurs doesn't tell us anything.

I don't know why you're talking about renewable energy not being renewable.

[Anonymous No.13776425]

Roughly a couple dozen books this year

Traditional absolute monarchy all the way, remove the cancer of liberalism and give us social order

[Anonymous No.13776446]

>>13776401
ok, cool story. do you still eat animal products?

[Anonymous No.13776457]

about 500 i guess
i'm on the left leaning side in england so i'm basically a communist by american standards
although i'm not very political and often i don't vote because there's no fucking point, it's not like my vote will actually make any difference to anything

[Anonymous No.13776464]

>>13776457
>reading 2 books a day
based

[Anonymous No.13776478]

>between 205 and 225
>pragmatic socialist

[Anonymous No.13776491]

>>13776464
>>13776478
I am interested what you guys are reading?

[Anonymous No.13776502]

>>13774618
I've read about 40/50 classics or so (along the lines of Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Dickens, Tolstoy, Proust, Goethe, Dante, Homer etc.), plus a few books on platonism/neoplatonism and history of religions.
Politics are irrelevant. Humans will act as bad as the laws permit them. I find ethics to be more important.

[Anonymous No.13776507]

>>13776491
ancient greece: a political, social, and cultural history.

[Anonymous No.13776516]

Between 55 and 65 full length, adult books. (Just a guess though)

Functionalist leaning towards neoreaction

[Anonymous No.13776522]

>>13774935
>Many thousands

[Anonymous No.13776527]

>>13774618
0
trump supporter

[Anonymous No.13776544]

>>13776527
Very funnt anon

[Anonymous No.13776554]

>>13776527
My fellow Trump supporter, I read Saint Augustine’s Confessions this year and I started A Canticle for Leibowitz. The president has made this a good year for free time.

[Anonymous No.13776560]

>>13776209
>if the government would act on them and they end up being mistaken, they can cause some serious damage for no good reason
>no sources or argument given for this claim
kys

[Anonymous No.13776562]

>>13776527
lmao
>>13776544
>>13776554
seething magatards

[Anonymous No.13776570]

>>13776544
it's not THAT funnt desu

[Anonymous No.13776576]

>>13776527
ok this is epic

[Anonymous No.13776586]

>>13774618
i'd say 50-100, i haven't kept count.

i'm pretty apolitical really. viewing the world through the lens of ideology to solve problems is never a good idea.

[Anonymous No.13776590]

>>13776527
>>13776554
>>13776544
>he hasn't read art of deal yet

[Anonymous No.13776614]

>>13776491
My (>>13776478) favorite books are War and Peace and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. I usually immerse myself into the literature of a certain "epoch" that appeals to me until I feel fed up with it. Currently I'm into early 20th century American literature and I'm really enjoying Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! being my favorite so far. I should add, though, that I'm mostly indifferent towards politics.

[Anonymous No.13776628]

>>13776562
Still beter then Clintonfags

[Anonymous No.13776643]

>>13776590
No I haven’t. I’ve read Getting to Yes, The Power of a Positive No, and the Goal. These motivational books were for undergraduate study and I have no interest in any more of their ilk.

[Anonymous No.13776690]

>>13776586
I agree, the solution to a problem will always have to align with the ruling ideology of the political system that's trying to solve it. Therefore, certain details and nuances are omitted, and the end result will almost always resemble something like trying to shove a square peg into a round hole (cliche i know).
Humanity has always failed to deal with the complexity of it's societies, still I feel we should keep making an effort towards a system that encompasses as much as this complexity as possible. We might have to look to artificial intelligence and quantum computers.

[Anonymous No.13776739]

>>13776522
I'm old, and have been reading a lot quickly for a long time. I accumulate books at an absurd rate and have 5000 or so. I'm not claiming they were all classics of literature, but I have really have read many thousands of books. I have no idea how many exactly, of course.
>>13776355
Why confused screaming? The tendency to lean left politically increases as education and knowledge increase, generally. That wasn't always the case, but since the right allied itself with anti-intellectual evangelist morons for political gain and essentially declared war on education, the fine tradition of highly-educated conservatives has really taken a beating.

[Anonymous No.13776747]

>>13776464
i'm in my 30s

[Anonymous No.13776762]

>>13776739
SJW and evangelist are the same
Both are strong moralists
both supports censorship

[Anonymous No.13776768]

>>13776747
i thought the thread was about how many books you read this year for some reason

[Anonymous No.13776774]

>>13776739
anon... comic books and chinese cartoons are not books...

[Anonymous No.13776784]

>>13774618
This is just a poor attempt to post pol on lit.

[Anonymous No.13776787]

>>13776762
woke

[Anonymous No.13776799]

>>13776762
you don't know a very diverse set of people do you? You got to understand that many marginalised folks, for example those who are visibly identified as people of colour or who are identified as queer, you have to live with the knowledge that your life will always be under threat as long as white supremacist terrorism exists. `You have no choice but to be militantly political because your very survival depends on it.

[Anonymous No.13776807]

>>13776799
woke

[Anonymous No.13776823]

>>13776799
That's not an answer

[Anonymous No.13776841]

>Harry Potter Series, Divergent Series, Hunger Games Series, The Handmaid’s Tale
>Progressive Democrat

[Anonymous No.13776843]

[One= About two hundred or three hundred individual titles. Maybe four hundred novel-sized books actually read? Two= Leftist-democratic-republican with a leaning towards pragmatism, defensive martial, defensive foreign relations, cultural victory.]

[Anonymous No.13776847]

>>13776762
In extreme points there's a little overlap, but no, that's a gross conflation. Most left-wing folks are much less about censorship than the media might lead you to think.

[Anonymous No.13776854]

>>13776774
There's a lot there besides comics, anon.

[Anonymous No.13776864]

>>13774966
Same here. Ibsen is pretty good in my opinion so I definitely recommend him even though I've only read about 6 of his plays or so. I find that just about that time period do plays really get interesting again (after Shakespeare) with Strindberg, Chekhov...

[Anonymous No.13776899]

>>13776628
What a high bar

[Anonymous No.13776908]

>>13776799
Woah woah woah buddy I think you've got the wrong site.

You would be much happier over here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/racism/

[Anonymous No.13776920]

>>13776847
the real difference is that while real conservatives desire discipline, order, and social stability, leftists are in a race to be who can be more outrageous and transgress the traditional christian and republican values that actually hold society together

[Anonymous No.13776927]

>>13776899
>Implying what crazy crone is far better than hot headed imbicile

[Anonymous No.13776930]

>>13776799
You're delusional

[Anonymous No.13776970]

>>13774618
according to goodreads I have read a grand total of 179 novels, 48 poetry books (but this includes shit like Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein), 20 plays, and 27 non-fiction books in my entire lifetime since I've added everything I can remember reading to my "read" shelf

[Anonymous No.13776979]

>>13776920
No, we just think the idea that "traditional christian and republican values" are the only way to hold society together is steaming horseshit, and are dismantling it to try other models.

[Anonymous No.13776989]

>>13776979
>Which are worse than old ones

[Anonymous No.13777012]

>>13776989
According to right-wingers, sure. I'm not pretending we're not at war, here.

[Anonymous No.13777024]

>>13776989
Nothing ever changes in America, American progressives are the splitting image of 19th century liberal protestants, quakers, abolitionists, free love and/or temperance advocates, feminists etc., just transpose them in our current world, a post christian highly mediated, atomised and uncertain technological society.

[Anonymous No.13777033]

>>13777024
woke

[Anonymous No.13777078]

>>13775988
>Most people on this site lean left

want kill libtard
want kill j*ws
want kill n*gga
"hitler did nothing wrong"
"it's 0k to be w*hite"

rly?

[Anonymous No.13777100]

>>13775988
????????
Where did you get this idea

[Anonymous No.13777116]

>>13775988
Are you sure about that? Because if that's true, they're doing an impressive job of trolling.

[Anonymous No.13777117]

>>13777100
he's probably the sort of llibtard who will insist forcefully in spite of all rational evidence that trannies and other such genetic failures actually count as ''people'', and we should be obliged to take them seriously and treat them as normal human beings.

[Anonymous No.13777652]

>>13777117
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/stoning-our-neighbors-to-death-makes-the-corn-grow-high-and-elitist-liberals-should-stop-attacking-this-traditional-value