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10 books that screwed up the world

post #1 of 22
6/16/09 at 1:33am
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Anyone hear of this book? I heard about it on the radio and was appalled after learning which books it referenced. Here they are:

* The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513)
* Discourse on Method (René Descartes, 1637)
* Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes, 1651)
* Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men
* The Manifesto of the Communist Party
* Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill, 1863)
* The Descent of Man (Charles Darwin, 1871)
* Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886)
* The State and Revolution (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1917)
* The Pivot of Civilization (Margaret Sanger, 1922)

And the “5 more that didn’t help”?

* Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler, 1925)
* The Future of an Illusion (Sigmund Freud, 1927)
* Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead, 1928)
* Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred Kinsey, 1948)
* The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan, 1963)
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post #2 of 22
6/16/09 at 2:05am
Everything I need to know about that book, I learned from the "Customers who bought this..." feature on Amazon.
  • Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
  • Liberal Fascism:The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg
  • The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You To Know About by Iain Murray
  • The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski

Sometimes I think all you need to write a right wing screed is a properly placed colon.
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post #3 of 22
6/16/09 at 3:38am
Some of the 'reviews' on amazon are tragi-hilarious...

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The reviewers here who object to the Christian views Wiker present seem unaware that Christians are increasingly realizing that most atheism and Marxism is nothing more than pagan state worship, that is, putting faith in men to create heaven and righteousness on earth. If pro-Christian reviews/books need to be moved to a "religious section", then so do the state-worshipping ones. Well done, Benjamin Wiker!
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Why has the Christian voice been so muted? There has been a significant Christian response to atheistic evolution. But what this book clearly points out and elaborates on is that atheistic evolution is only one secular theory that tends to undermine Christianity, and a number of these books were published prior to Darwin's well-known publications. Perhaps now, in recent years, the Christian community has regained its commitment, which it clearly had in the first few centuries of the Christian era, to challenge the erroneous ideas of the surrounding culture.
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The Left worships many of these writers but steadfastly refuse to assume responsibility for the horrendous outcomes when the ideas found in them are implemented as public policy. Those who refuse this patrimony are here commenting on the book's facile nature and use Doctor Wiker's Christian faith and worldview with approbation as if the disreputable collection of evil, murderous, lying Atheist psychopaths inspiring and inspired by these works are beyond reproach and unimpeachable .
That is the problem with the truth is usually very simple to understand and extremely difficult to embrace. I can only recommend this book with the highest acclamation as a worthy addition to your library and to clarify the nature of the entrenched evil confronting Western Christian Civilization.

I don't think I'd last ten minutes living in the states, how do rational thinking humans not simply scream and gibber incoherently in the face of this shit?
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post #4 of 22
6/16/09 at 4:59am
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The Left worships many of these writers but steadfastly refuse to assume responsibility for the horrendous outcomes when the ideas found in them are implemented as public policy.
Hahaha. That's pretty funny, coming from someone who worships THE BIBLE.
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post #5 of 22
6/16/09 at 9:42am
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I don't think I'd last ten minutes living in the states, how do rational thinking humans not simply scream and gibber incoherently in the face of this shit?
It's hard. I just walked away whenever I had to deal with it.
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post #6 of 22
6/16/09 at 9:57am
No matter how badly the idiots outnumber you, they're still the idiots.

--Daria
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post #7 of 22
6/16/09 at 9:57am
Funny, I don't see any Ayn Rand on there. Big omission.
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post #8 of 22
6/16/09 at 10:13am
Yeah, number one on that list of books which lead to some seriously fucking up of this world should have been the Bible.

That book is a big pile of horse shit.
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post #9 of 22
6/16/09 at 10:13am
You know what else screwed up the world? When the serfs got educated and stopped going to the clergy for advice about how to run their lives.

In short, fuck this book, fuck the author and fuck those who read it.
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post #10 of 22
6/16/09 at 10:18am
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In short, fuck this book, fuck the author and fuck those who read it.
Well said, my compliments to you Stelios.
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post #11 of 22
6/16/09 at 10:29am
It´s always good to hear that while those filthy muslim terrorists hate our freedom we are more than eager to be even more scared shitless by our freedom ourselves.
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post #12 of 22
6/16/09 at 10:40am
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It´s always good to hear that while those filthy muslim terrorists hate our freedom we are more than eager to be even more scared shitless by our freedom ourselves.
QFT
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post #13 of 22
6/16/09 at 5:31pm
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It´s always good to hear that while those filthy muslim terrorists hate our freedom we are more than eager to be even more scared shitless by our freedom ourselves.
Speaking of which, I wonder how many drafts it took before somebody convinced the author that putting The Koran on the list was a bad idea? Because you know it was there.
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post #14 of 22
6/16/09 at 5:36pm
Thirded for the Bible. Sorry, JC.

EDIT - Those Amazon reviews are a knee-slapper, though. I love how Christians seem to ever be duking it out with the "surrounding forces", as if they're trapped in a fucking mall and the rest of us non-believers are all mindless zombies trying to chomp their fucking brains. Is this not a so-called "Christian nation"?
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post #15 of 22
6/16/09 at 5:40pm
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Speaking of which, I wonder how many drafts it took before somebody convinced the author that putting The Koran on the list was a bad idea? Because you know it was there.
For the sake of the argument: Precisely because we are afraid of our own freedom (Though this guy surely did it for all the wrong reasons).
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post #16 of 22
6/16/09 at 7:23pm
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Funny, I don't see any Ayn Rand on there. Big omission.
Agreed on that one Ed.
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post #17 of 22
6/16/09 at 8:09pm
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I don't think I'd last ten minutes living in the states, how do rational thinking humans not simply scream and gibber incoherently in the face of this shit?
Oh, at times, I do.
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post #18 of 22
6/18/09 at 10:36pm
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It's hard. I just walked away whenever I had to deal with it.
You must be very far from home by now. And what enormous calf muscles!
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post #19 of 22
7/6/09 at 4:48pm
Discourse on Method (René Descartes, 1637) seem a really odd choice all things considered. Either the author is either really a hard line catholic or just does not understand what the book is about.
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post #20 of 22
7/6/09 at 5:28pm
No Dan Brown?
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post #21 of 22
7/6/09 at 5:42pm
I like how the list starts off with hating on liberals and educated individuals and then drifts into outright stupidity with the "Books that Didn't Help." Of course Hitler's autobiography is the same thing as Freud's outdated ideas and books about burgeoning sexuality.
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post #22 of 22
7/6/09 at 6:06pm
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Either the author is either really a hard line catholic or just does not understand what the book is about.
The former would not be surprising at all, but the latter is pretty much a given.
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