/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20516891]

What valuable book is no one reading?
What valuable book is no one writing?
Well, anon?

Bad answers to the question would be the following:
Any book on religion.
Any book on race, gender, and eugenics.
Any book on ancient and modern philosophy.

Those are bad answers. Such books might be true, even fascinating, but billions of people are exposed to such thoughts and beliefs daily, be it through the family, friends, news, or fringe communities. Such books already carry familiar debates for either sides of either beliefs.

So that only leaves us with what in particular?

[Anonymous No.20516930]

>>20516891
give book on regression of man

[Anonymous No.20516933]

>>20516891
>answer my question
>but you cant give me an answer I dont like
>btw heres an anime girl to grab your attention
Kuso thread

[Anonymous No.20516990]

>>20516933
It is a filtering question, adapted from Peter Thiel's contrarian question. So yes, it is working as intended. There are thus three outcomes: no answer or an already-familiar answer or a contrarian answer. The first two answers are useless.

[Anonymous No.20517004]

>>20516891
How to make infinite amounts of money without doing any work. This would probably be the most valuable book anyone could write and yet no one has written it.

[Anonymous No.20517011]

>>20516891
pseudest theard i've seen on this board

[Anonymous No.20517026]

>>20516891
>what valuable book is no one reading
almost all of them. most people dont read and Id say at least half of those that do dont read anything of value.

[Anonymous No.20517030]

>>20516891
I like John Taylor Gatto, his books would be good reads from what I’ve heard

[Anonymous No.20517059]

/x/ here. Here’s the motherload. I’m convinced these books are some sort of psy op because of the content in them. Most of this board is too retarded and fixates on the very obvious intentional grammatical issues which filters out the retards who can’t notice what they’re about.

These books cover the following

Dmt and the entities involving them
Mass shootings
Flat earth and nasa lies
Satanic cabal that controls everything

that’s just the tip of the iceberg and the reason why /pol/ has been having regular threads about this series

[Anonymous No.20517062]

Books on why it's probably good for you to commit crimes.

[Anonymous No.20517067]

>>20517059
Based

[Anonymous No.20517072]

>>20517062
feeling edgy today?

[Anonymous No.20517081]

>>20517072
Yes.
*teleports behind u and commits tax fraud*

[Anonymous No.20517090]

>>20517004
make a time machine go back in time and found the federal reserve

[Anonymous No.20517113]

>>20517059
Based

[Anonymous No.20517388]

>>20517030
Interesting. He sounds surprisingly sharp in his interviews despite his age. Could such a trait be a lagging indicator of intelligence?—that the best minds grow sharper through the ages as oppose to decaying?—that the mind constantly improves despite a dying body?

[Anonymous No.20517435]

>>20517004
I just get money from the government for being disabled.

[Anonymous No.20517438]

>>20517072
*pisses on your shirt*

[Anonymous No.20518185]

>>20516891
I don't know because I haven't read it
I don't know but if I did I would write it

[Anonymous No.20518869]

>>20517072
Yea
*flies to America, crosses the street without General Motors' permission*

[Anonymous No.20519083]

>>20516891
They're not reading Ellul.

[Anonymous No.20519100]

>>20516891

[Anonymous No.20519126]

>>20516891
Return to Monke by Ape-sensei.

[Anonymous No.20519142]

David F Noble - The religion of technology
Eyeopening work

[Anonymous No.20519739]

No one reading: books by former interrogators on how to get information you want from people and manage people's self image. Literally how you can be an incel if you have such books avalaible for free

No one writing: books about exploiting the law of big numbers in everyday life

[Anonymous No.20519970]

>>20516891
Books on Anger, Lust, Gluttony, Pride, Sloth, et al, are legion. What's missing is a solid book on Envy-- rampant through all societal contexts these days, but ftmp unexpressed in contemporary scholarship. For good reason, no doubt

[Anonymous No.20520994]

>>20516891
bump

[Anonymous No.20521015]

>>20516891
Anon I wanted to ask this same question but if the frequenters of this board had it they would not be in here or share it. The real answer is to reverse engineer that book for yourself by looking at the world. Also check goodreads.

[Anonymous No.20521410]

>>20516891
Kuso thread

[Anonymous No.20521553]

>>20516891
Pic related it's just about communication.
>The Gift of Fear
book that explains violence, not like "this type of person does this violence" but like "if someone threatens you, they're trying to control your behavior because otherwise they'd just do the violence" or "here's how to predict someone's propensity for violent behavior". It is heavily gendered but not about gender.
>Altas of the heart by brene brown (yeah i know, yikes brene brown)
I wouldn't buy it, but basically she did a major study over the course of years where she asked a bunch of people what certain emotions and states were and the book provides definitions for these based on those responses. I think it's good to read because it speaks to something true psychologically that we don't have a lot of emotional granularity, and it really helped me personally sort out of a lot of more complex experiences. I'm more clear with the way I talk now and express how I feel (not entirely by the definitions of this book) because I read it. I'm also a lot more open to others who may not be clearly expressing themselves (most people) and I help people in my life express themselves better through basically babying them through this granularity process. The human experience is so much more than happy/sad/pissed off, we all know that but we rarely properly express or communicate that.

[Anonymous No.20522645]

>>20519739
>No one reading: books by former interrogators on how to get information you want from people and manage people's self image.

That's an interesting thought there, anon. While the topic slightly leans toward self-help, I think such logic—reading books written by former interrogators—offers better potential than any journalistic approach to self-help. I would add a certain factor to improve the logic: it is perhaps better to read books written by former interrogators who aren't well known. My logic is simple: if social tactics are popular, such as the works written by Robert Cialdini or Olivia Fox Cabane or any popular book on influence, those books aren't as effective any longer precisely because such tactics are popular (which means that people are aware of such tactics and thus less likely to fall for the dubious tactics). The lagging-end-result of popular books isn't sacred, hidden knowledge but the improvement of the lowest common denominator, which is not necessarily bad or good. It simply means you would have to learn more to stay ahead. So, then, what are example of books written by unknown, unpopular former interrogators? Is anyone willing to give away such secrets?

>No one writing: books about exploiting the law of big numbers in everyday life.

I think it is already too late about that. For example, books like Thinking Fast and Slow and any book written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb already cover how the law of big numbers impacts daily life and how one should go about on exploiting it. The "new" concept seems to be the Power Law, however, the Power Law is equally talked about and thoroughly explained by any top-tier venture company. But it does bring one into the following question: what other mathematical laws, besides what is taught at university, is practically applicable to life? Or, if such mathematical laws are taught in university, which of those laws are underappreciated and underused and still highly applicable to life?

[Anonymous No.20523638]

Essay on the inequality of human races. He predicted sissies and BLM culture in 1853