What's the last thing you read in a Non-fiction book that made you put it down in horror

[Anonymous No.15825939]

[Anonymous No.15825954]

>"I give this book 5/5 stars!" - John Green

[Anonymous No.15825966]

>>15825939
In the 17th century burning cats alive by putting them in a cage over a fire during festivals was a thing, and their dying screams were considered funny. Louis 14 (The sun King) himself lit a bonfire once.

I've never read about the 17th century since if I could avoid it

[Anonymous No.15825976]

>>15825966
Also I read it when I was like 14 and loved history, so it was a really nasty shock for me and made me realize the world was and is a brutal and cruel place

[Anonymous No.15825993]

>>15825976
That shit still happens. Circus animals have only recently been gotten phased out in the west (same with Seaworld), and theyre pretty much getting tortured for our amusement (pic related).
Chinks even believe that the more agony an animal is in when it dies, the better it tastes. It's absurd and horrifying.

[Anonymous No.15826022]

>>15825993
Why am I so pathetic? This video made me sad and I didn't even know the animal.

[Anonymous No.15826034]

>>15826022
Watch it again but with the Underworld soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTFrCbQGyvM

[Anonymous No.15826046]

>>15825993
>Chinks even believe that the more agony an animal is in when it dies
They do it for the adrenochrome high

[Anonymous No.15826079]

>>15826034
Fuck me, that's perfect.
>vocals start right as it escapes the stadium to the outside

[Anonymous No.15826136]

>>15825993
The fact that chinks act like XVII century Europeans says a lot about the chinamen

[Anonymous No.15826150]

>>15826136
Remember though anon, they make all our shit so it's okay

[Anonymous No.15826161]

>>15826150
Cant wait till robots make them obsolete

[Anonymous No.15826167]

>>15826161
Hopefully us aswell. With how things have been going I'm looking forward to T-800s

[Anonymous No.15826187]

>>15826022
>Why am I so pathetic?

Not at all anon, you're a normal person with empathy, and elephants really inspires sympathy in people it seems.
Back in ancient rome seven elephants were put in the arena to be slaughtered as entertainment by Pompey. The crowds expected a epic bloody animal fight as usual, but instead the elephants tried to flee and roared mournfully. So the crowd instead felt really bad for them and actually started to cry and curse Pompey.
Years later when he was killed in Egypt, people still hadn't forgotten and said it was poetic justice that he was killed in the continent the elephants came from

[Anonymous No.15826308]

>Translated by Abe Foxman

[Anonymous No.15826539]

>>15825939
>This won a pullitzer prize for nonfiction
>In the late 20th century casual philosophy and handwaving non-experimental guessing was considered medical science because the people practicing it were sufficiently rich.
>In the late 20th century people were being deprived of their rights as a human being because a "doctor" "interpreted" them to be mentally ill.
>Not only did the population at large not object, but this book LITERALLY WON A PULLITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
>People still exist today who still consider the basic works of psychoanalysis to be sound as anything but casual pontification.

[Anonymous No.15826948]

>>15826034
I had this playing in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngdaa4aZLgA
The nastier growls kicked around the time they started shooting her.

[Anonymous No.15826973]

>>15826539
>people
Jews, Jews, Jews. Kevin MacDonald was right about everything.

[Anonymous No.15828529]

>>15826973
>was right about everything.
Well...
anyway it's a theory. Worth investigating, just not treating as established fact, taking as dogma, and imprisoning/lobotomizing people over.

[Anonymous No.15829540]

>>15826539
>the backlash to this was made by some frenchies who insisted that schizophrenia wasnt actually real
Thats actually worse

[Anonymous No.15829867]

>>15825939
When the guy who put his elbow through the Picasso he was selling managed to sell it anyway

[Anonymous No.15830660]

>>15829867
what book?

[Anonymous No.15830929]

>>15825939
manufacturing consent, i kind of believed it's points before but it's horrifying what gets censored for US interests

[Anonymous No.15830963]

>>15825993
>Chinks even believe that the more agony an animal is in when it dies, the better it tastes.
I've heard that adrenaline ruins meat so this is strange.

[Anonymous No.15831185]

>>15826167
from Xi to Ti

[Anonymous No.15831692]

>>15825993
>that one guy trying to close the gate on the elephant

[Anonymous No.15831813]

>>15825993
>even on its rampage it just tries to injure people instead of actually killing them
;-;

[Anonymous No.15831857]

>>15825939
This book was so disgustingly, vitriolically racist that I couldn't stomach the thought of finishing it. Not sure if it qualifies for nonfiction though. The author is clearly delusional and bigoted.

[Anonymous No.15831879]

>>15831857
Nice bait. Should've made it a little more subtle, though.

[Anonymous No.15831899]

>>15831857
I tried listening to the audiobook of the follow up he did that was only about white people so it couldn't be called racist, and it was not very good. Basically he thinks the decline of the American white working class could be reversed if more people joined The Elks. It was so stupid David Brooks could have written it.

[Anonymous No.15831906]

>>15831899
Replying to your own post with more bait isn't going to help you. Anyone who knows enough about the book to respond to you knows that it's almost exclusively about whites.

[Anonymous No.15831913]

something about adam and eve & who the serpent rly is

[Anonymous No.15831980]

>>15825966

Cruely to animals and children is always pretty bad. I've read and seen a lot of nasty stuff, but usually you know when it's going to be nasty and you can prepare yourself. Some of the worst moments for me have been when there's a little detail or something out of nowhere that catches me with my defences down.

I remember reading about Albert Fish, and he talked about cutting this one girl up and cooking her, and he's talking about the different bits you can slice off and stuff and how they taste, and then suddenly he says

"by this point, she was dead"

and you realise suddenly she was alive all the time he was doing this. I hadn't been imagining that scenario, I assumed it was a dead body, and the sudden shift in mental picture hit very hard.

In the immortal words of Norm MacDonald: "That Albert Fish, he was a real jerk!"

[Anonymous No.15832057]

A short history of nearly everything.
He said quite early that universe is closed, he said this as if it was a fact of scientific consensus.
I now use the book as a door stopper.

[Anonymous No.15832136]

>>15826539
So everything it says it's bullshit then? Cause the part about life being a cope to death sounds solid.
But sometimes everything sounds solid if you think about it hard enough.

[Anonymous No.15832180]

>>15825954
underrated.
we watched his youtube videos for an entire semester of world history in hs
t. zoomer

[Anonymous No.15832255]

>>15831980
Gotta love targeted advertising.