What's on your bookshelf Sup Forums?

Recommended reading and Sup Forums approved books.

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Ammo, gold, silver, rags, my travel bag, box of stuff to go down to the hazardous materials recycling place.

I keep my books in boxes because I don't read most of them more than once.

no dvds?

But if you want a better answer, I've got a pocket constitution at my desk here as a Sup Forums reference material.

In my daily backback: The Secret Team by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty in case I'm stuck somewhere needing something to read.

In my car: Between to Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski for when I drove somewhere and now need something to read. I would suggest starting with The Grand Chessboard, though. That's a great starter book on geopolitics that is relevant to our current post-Soviet era seemingly about to take a major shift from that general plan.

In my travel bag: Foundations: Their Power and Influence by Rene M. Wormser for when I'm travelling and need something to read.

In my office: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffen so I can give it away to the next person interested in starter material on the banks.

In the hopper for the next small book: Nudge by Cass Sunstein

In the hopper for the next big book: Not sure. I was thinking I'd finish off The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzenitzen, but I think I might dig around to see what I haven't cracked open yet.

Used to have Horrowitz & Hill next to my work bench but I loaned it out.

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I've already given away many of my best DVDs as Christmas presents (I keep .iso copies of course). The only one that's not in a box is a recent crowdfunded one about Nikola Tesla that I haven't ripped yet.

Think what you want about Alex Jones, but Endgame and Fall of the Republic are actually very well made for the genre. For less theater, maybe hit up the classic Freedom to Fascism by Anthony Russo. But really just like with books you can go in a bajillion directions. Those are good starter "gee huh maybe they're not so crazy after all" documentaries.

1984 and Brave New World if you want to be edgy.

Maybe throw in Animal Farm for the kids

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I read 1984 for the first time a few years ago despite being in my mid 30s already. It really did quite an amazing job of describing the modern world that would not have been so clear to me at the level of ambient technology as when I was in high school.

But BNW is really where it's at. Don't forget that Julian Huxley reformed eugenics into transhumanism after Hitler gave eugenics a bad name and the state of technology had gotten science reality of the day closer to the scientific fiction in the yore of that day.

"Industrial Society and Its Future" by Ted Kaczynski is very important. Essential.
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"The Technological Society" and "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul are also very important.

Now that I think of it, one of my high school English teacher's told me to check a copy of Soylent Green out of the library. Why is that relevant? That's the model for the incumbent medical systems -- the economic motive determines when you get euthanized, and all the while the waste products from your body, including your body itself (after all, your urine etc. is all full of old cells that have been cycled out), comprise the food (soylent) and (UN's "toilet to tap" program) that you will be rationed.

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I haven't read Make Room! Make Room! yet, but I've watch Soylent Green and I think it would be a great thing to read up on

Are you familiar with any of Mike Rupert's work? After doing groundbreaking work on exposing CIA drug running operations and stuff he went on to be consumed by what he called the Infinite Growth Paradigm, which he considered to be fundamentally incompatible with the parameters of life on Earth.

It's an interesting topic indeed. But I don't think there's such a thing as infinitely stagnant life because it would then invariably be overtaken by a less stagnant form of life.

Whatever the answer is, I'm a big fan of space exploration both as a potential basis for acquiring more room and as a positive unifying source of economic growth, production, and technological innovation.

(((Tuchman)))

Not bad, but I'd throw her book in the trash