I was watching some video and there was mention of someone getting 1984. Upon which, a guy said that this one (one who got 1984) will end up being radicalized. I was already born into a very radical environment so no needs of books to radicalize me (although I am trying to be moderate and chill now)
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A People’s History of the United States blew my mind wide open in high school.
Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. It took the blinders off and I became a convert to functional programming.
I like to joke about recursion and how it gets overused as a “good” programming practice, but I genuinely have a solid understanding of it and find it pretty intuitive… In OOP. I cannot wrap my head around tail recursion
Tail recursion is just recursion? I mean who cares if it’s the last thing done or not 😋 ?
Check out template meta programming if you want some recursion to blow your mind (like the variadic template).
I mean 1984 did a pretty good job radicalizing me against fascism. I consider it radicalization because turns out America really likes fascism so I guess I’m in the minority.
But why then US fought Germany if US also likes fascism?
Read 1984 and you’ll understand. Or any history of a region just after WWII with insane leaders.
It’s not just a question of fascism or no fascism. It’s that fascist leaders only want their fascism out there. Neighboring fascist counties usually hate each other because of the competition.
Also we can spot evil in others. Its dangerous for us to recognise it and then realise its us too.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Bible
For me, it was Quran who made me question the majority and gave me a questioning mind and now I am an atheist.
The book that reads at the very beginning something like “you must believe everything written in this book with blind fate” made you question things? Or maybe I picked up a tampered copy… 🤔 I read that, put it back on the shelve and never picked it up again.
yeah cuz I wanted to be a better Muslim and I dove deeper and deeper and that made me question my sect, then my religion, then all religions.
For me, i was raised religious. Fully believed it all because I was a child and the idea that its all a con was way beyond my capabilities. Got a little older, family fell apart and religion stopped being shoved down my throat.
Decided to read the bible so I could understand the whole story instead of just being lectured about a couple of paragraphs plucked at random.
God creates everything and then straight up fireballs everyone to death in the first like 5 minutes of reading. Ive been taught since birth that God loves us. Been drilled into my head that God has a perfect plan. Chapter fucking one God says whoops and does a genocide.
I did not finish the book.
Every time I see the nice leather bound Barnes and Noble edition with all the other leather bounds I say “I love to see all the works of fiction together in the same section”
Never fails to get a laugh.
Is it because you went in alone?
No Logo by Naomi Klein.
Unfortunately, it made me really against sweatshops and child labour. But most people want to hate stuff that come with very marginal costs, rether than things that force you to rethink how you live.
“I hate structural racism!”
“Like our clothes?”
“No, no…”Why are we calling being an empathetic individual and being against fascism “being radicalised”?
Because it is the correct use of the word. It is the american conservative propaganda machine which gave it the negative connotations.
Being antifascist matches at least two definitions of radical: “Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter” and “(slang) Excellent; awesome”
Being against fascists is normal. There is nothing radical about it. Only right wing extremists would call that being radicalised.
My question exactly
well it is just you. Radicalized can entail many things. When I was in early to mid teens, I have read and listened to extremists and that made me a hardcore extremist in my religion.
The Dispossessed
This was the one I came to mention lol.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Also from the introduction/short story The Day Before The Revolution:
My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn’t get into the action — except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with; not the social-Darwinist economic “libertarianism” of the far right; but anarchism. as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.
Didn’t really radicalise me but it’s interesting that people had those ideas a long time ago too.
“The right to be lazy” (translation by me so it’s worth what it’s worth)
Quel banger
🥱 parfaitement !
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
this is the perfect book to understand what’s about to happen to latin america again.
Reform or revolution -Rosa Luxembourg (Not a book per se but worth the read)
Black shirts and reds -Micheal Parenti
The conquest of bread -Peter Kropotkin
Mutual aid -Peter Kropotkin
The Black Panther Party ten point program - Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
Guerrilla Warfare -Ernesto “Che” Guevera
Rich Dad Poor Dad (no joke). It’s a glimpse into the inner workings of a wealthy shithead’s mind. It unironically tries to convince you that profit is the only thing that matters, people are disposable and those who disagree with these ideas are intellectually inferior. The “poor dad” in the book is a teacher (and the guy’s biological dad) who’s pictured as someone well-educated, who tries to live an honest and modest life, and is therefore a “loser”. It’s nauseating.
The dude is a total hack too. There was an If Book Could Kill episode on it that was fantastic.
Unironically “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczynski.
I don’t agree with it at all. I think disabled people are people too, radical stance I know. But some points, especially about modern left and new technology becoming mandatory are well argued and true.
I always thought he was just a random looney and he’s definitely not. I think the book didn’t radicalize me but showed me what I believed to be true (that the guy was just a looney or evil) was wrong.
I don’t believe that the rise of technofascism can be stopped by hiding in the woods tho and I don’t think rejecting all tech will make everyone’s mental health immediately better, he does not at all take things like community and purpose into account.
The terms of service for the warranty on my first car after the first time I tried to use it.
Just read people’s history by Howard zinn and that’ll radicalize a lot of people. It’s just the rich fucking everyone over and over.
And it continues to this day.
