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Any books that explain why are the people from the US so stupid? Is Das Kapital a good start?

>> No.17235703

>>17235696
E-Procurement: From Strategy to Implementation by Dale Neef

>> No.17235708

>>17235696
What? The uneducated ones aren't exactly the brightest people out there. But this isn't an US only thing.

>> No.17235711

>>17235696
Try the Bible

>> No.17235718

>>17235696
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A guide to growing more profitably
by Thomas T. Nagle and Georg Müller

>> No.17235770

>>17235703
>>17235718
how are these economical manuals relevant to explaining a national level psychological long lasting condition?

>> No.17235775

>>17235696
>Is Das Kapital a good start?
No, Das Kapital focuses mostly on Europe. It does have some references to the backwardness of the American South, however.

>> No.17235863

>>17235696
It all could be summarized in a quote from a certain man with a mustache:
>I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

Of if you wish to have more scientific rigor, you may consult the great psychologist C.G. Jung:
>Another thing that struck me [in the American] was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro.[3] American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. The expression of religious feeling, the revival meetings, the Holy Rollers and other abnormalities are strongly influenced by the Negro. The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking – the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this – is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. The almost total lack of privacy and the all-devouring mass sociability remind one of primitive life in open huts, where there is complete identity with all members of the tribe.

>> No.17235875

>>17235863
>lol you have sociable habits so you're niggers
Oh, to be so removed from niggers that such comparisons actually seemed even remotely accurate. If only.

>> No.17235939

>>17235863
trump lost

>> No.17235946

>>17235939
I don't concern myself with petty American politics of spectacle. You need to go back.

>> No.17235947

>>17235708
And educating people is hard af.

>> No.17235951

like literally, unironically, like basically, sounds like you are a third world coper, although I mean no disrespect, because that would literally, unironically be racist

>> No.17235953

>>17235775
Kinda funny considering how Rousseauian they were

>> No.17235956

>>17235951
cope

>> No.17235961

>>17235947
it is when your education system is compromised by commies seeking to dumb you down

>> No.17235981

>>17235951
so I sound like an american?

>> No.17235991

>>17235696
The Constitution
Not enough emphasis is placed on virtue, community, and ethos. Too much emphasis is place freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which can lead to egoism and hedonism without a strong tradition.

>> No.17235993

>>17235961
It is hard af, anon. I used to study Physics in college, a course aimed to form teachers. That shit is insane, Physics is easy, teaching is hard.

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>>17235696
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
you should definitely read this one and his article "Escaping the Vampire's Castle"
Societies of control - Gilles Deleuze

>> No.17236013

>>17235696
Yeah, Marx is a good place to start. We don't have a labor party and proper regulations so we let big business manipulate us in ways that other developed nations find unethical. Our work culture renders most of us too exhausted and numb to use our leisure time in an edifying manner, and university has long been transitioning from a broad liberal arts education to mere technical training. And, university being as expensive as it is, most people find the transition sensible. So even most of our university graduates remain stupid.

>> No.17236016

Yeah, read Marx & Engels.

Then read Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed and Pluckrose & Lindsay's Cynical Theories.