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I refuse to read any book not published at least 100 years ago.

>> No.17911480

Sensible.

>> No.17911491

(with the exception of Evola because I'm a crypto fascist)

>> No.17911610

You're a crypto-mongoloid

>> No.17911697

>>17911475
But your pic related read and appreciated a lot of books that were published after 1921. Hayek is one example

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>>17911475

>> No.17914020

>>17911697
Does he like Hayek? I got the impression that he is embarrassed for having read his works and citing them. It's been a while since I read Taleb, so I could be misremembering.

>> No.17914044

>>17911475
>ignores that the fifties, sixties and seventies had good books
>not an actual boomer
>actual boomers grew up with good books but never read them

>> No.17914095

>>17911475
Agreed, unless you are talking about history. It would mean you are missing out on for example Eamon Duffy or Alec Ryrie whenever you would like to study the reformation. Or you would miss out on Graeber’s On Debt and On Kings. You would miss out on Seaford’s Money and greek society, Spufford’s book on money and merchants in the medieval time, Huizinga’s Homo Ludens and his study on the Burgundians, Oakley’s book about kingship,...

>> No.17914113

>>17911475
Eventually all books will be that old

>> No.17914114

>>17911475
He is obviously exaggerating. He read a fucking shit ton of newer books. He wants to make the point that if a book survived the test of time, it's very probable that it survived because it posesses timeless advice.

>> No.17914117

>>17914044
Every generation grows up with good contemporary literature that the vast majority of them only read much later if at all

>> No.17914230

>>17914095
Or Kantorowicz, Christopher Clark,...

20th century was wonderful for historical research, aside from stuff like black athena, muh nubian legionaries, stronk womyn etc, but thats not more wrong than british israelism, christian reclamation of Virgil, donations of constantine etc. Though the latter are far superior in aesthetics, cultural value,...

>> No.17914602

>>17914095
Especially history.

>> No.17914851

>>17914020
According to Taleb, Russian>Austrian>Chicago

>> No.17915271

lindy

>> No.17915274

>>17914851
What's the russian school?

>> No.17915286

>>17915274
Lenin and Bukharin