Reading

Modern bookstores are utterly depressing. “Classics” get shoved off to their own couple of shelves, as if “classics” doesn’t mean “books actually important enough to be worth reading”. And for us non-Anglos then only some small subsection of the classics section contains books in English. That subsection must again necessarily be broken down into all the actual genres of literature that exist.

Somehow they decided to turn the vast majority of the bookstore into the “won’t ever be considered a classic” section. Shelves upon shelves of trivial romantic dramas, women’s porn, celebrity biographies, and sci-fi slop that will all be forgotten within the year. To have this golden medium of distilled and refined thought wasted on such modern trivialities is insulting.

Books have the ability to grant you a tête-à-tête with the mind-concentrate of the greatest men in history. Living or dead. Books can allow you to tap into ancient and forgotten wisdom, esoteric knowledge and the journals of long dead legends. All free from comment section retardation, lo-fi hiphop background music, unskipable ads, “algorithms”, and overbearing censors. This can be the true arena for free thought, contemplation, and the ultimate medium for mental growth. An incredible opportunity, if you allow it to be.

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To read 🔗

• Homer — The Illiad (Peter Green’s translation)
• Aldous Huxley — Brave New World
• Roger Williams — The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
• James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State
• Anthony G. Jay — Estrogeneration
• Sam Keen — Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
• David Foster Wallace — Infinite Jest
• Thomas Pynchon — Gravity’s Rainbow
• David Deida — The Way of the Superior Man
• Julius Evola — Pagan Imperialism
• Julius Evola — Eros and the Mysteries of Love
• Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
• Costin Alamariu — Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
• J.R.R. Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• Niccolò Machiavelli — Discourses on Livy

Currently reading 🔗

• Julius Evola — Revolt Against the Modern World
• Friedrich Nietzsche — Genealogy of Morals (Øystein Skar’s translation)
• Friedrich Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Hollingdale’s translation)

Have red 🔗

This list is obviously non-exhaustive. I am only mentioning the ones I remember, and thought enough of to give a mention.