"A Time for Choosing"

[Sib]

The convention in written English is to somehow distinguish book titles, usually with italics. For example, if I suggested that the decline and fall of the Roman empire was interesting, you might not get my meaning.

Won't happen again.

[NoStepOnSnek]

Everyone needs to read The Law, by Frederic Bastiat. This online PDF version has an excellent forward by Walter Williams.

https://fee.org/media/14951/thelaw.pdf

[Ericw]

1984 is technically fiction but Orwell got some things frighteningly accurate. The Prolefeed being one of them.

[LuciusSulla]

Thanks Rip et al, advice appreciated. I think we’re living in a world on the brink and that arrogant vengeful leftism is about to push us over the edge of the precipice. Tyranny now exists and dominates in every field of cultural, political and social life; elections are rigged and the ‘wrong’ outcomes (e.g Brexit) are undermined and attacked from within by what can only be referred to as the Deep State. Part of the push back against this is, in my view, a self educated citizenry. As a citizen of a Western nation, I see it as my duty to learn the counter narrative to that which is being pushed by big government and its apologists.

[Sib]

1984 is technically fiction but Orwell got some things frighteningly accurate. The Prolefeed being one of them.

Yes and he sums up the leftist very well in 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. Its amazing how nothing at all has changed.

They don't care about the working class, they are disgusted by them.

Though I should add when Orwell wrote 'The Road to Wigan Pier' he still thought socialism was the answer. You should read in conjunction with 'Homage to Catalonia' it's really a sad account of how these idealistic movements end up as totalitarian evil. Both are non fiction.

While you're at it read 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Solzhenitsyn. It's very hard reading but if you want to learn about why communism always ends up in a pile of human bones it's a good place to start.

I also thought the movie 'First They Killed My Father' on Netflix gave an horrifying but accurate account of what happens when these kind of ideologically possessed revolutionaries take over. A lot of murder.

[Ericw]

The Gulag Archipelago is indeed a difficult read. It’s difficult to imagine such things have happened repeatedly throughout history.

[Sib]

The Gulag Archipelago is indeed a difficult read. It’s difficult to imagine such things have happened repeatedly throughout history.

Yet it is a good reminder how close that kind of hell is to becoming reality if poisonous ideas take hold.

[johnst_nhb]

Yet it is a good reminder how close that kind of hell is to becoming reality if poisonous ideas take hold.

A-fucking-woman. And Jordan Peterson does a good job of distilling down why that hell is so close (in his talks about the book(s)).

[Sib]

A-fucking-woman. And Jordan Peterson does a good job of distilling down why that hell is so close (in his talks about the book(s)).

He does indeed. I've just started Gad Saad 'The Parasitic Mind'. Its billed as a follow up to Jordan Petersons work. Seems good already.

[IlPrincipeBrutto]

As a complement to some of the titles already mentioned, I would humbly suggest to read the section 'The Chile Experiment' from Chapter 4 of Jason Hickel's The Divide (not as a definitive account, but as a good introduction to the subject).

Chile went from Communist hell to libertarian paradise in the space of a coup. The economic policies of the Chichago School of Economics, direct spiritual successor of Von Hayek's ideology, were applied in full and with no restraint. Von Hayek himself was a strong supporter of Pinochet, holding one of the annual meetings of his Mont Pelerin society in Chile at the height of the regime.

I don't think it's a coincidence that it took a dictactor as ruthless as Pinochet to put in practice Hayek's and Milton Friedman's ideas; their application produces a society so unfair and oppressive that any democratically elected government proposing them would be voted out at the earliest opportunity.

IPB