Book Suggestions

**Red_Lizard2** · 08-20-09, 10:20 PM

looking to read some books on ideologies likely here soon because it just interests me. Going to check out Wayne Allen Root's book but also looking for some more suggestions.

I know i should read the Communist Manifesto as well. Any others that deal with ideologies in politics, maybe promote different ideas on some subjects? Be interested in checking them out. Do note i'm not going to read books by idiots like Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, Maddow, etc etc. But out of those i'm willing to give it a chance.

Doesn't have to be non-fiction by the way either (Actually still need to read 1984).

**TehSpaz** · 08-20-09, 10:28 PM

not really about "ideology", but it paints a great picture at where christianity and humanity are headed as far as "mega churches" are concerned.....and an all around AMAZING sci-fi novel...

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlin

**Panic** · 08-20-09, 10:38 PM

Nietzsche, Engels of course, Camus, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Bertrand Russel, Richard Dawkins, Jean-Paul Sartre, Rene Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, John Locke, Zeno of Elea, Socrates, Voltaire.

**Red_Lizard2** · 08-20-09, 10:53 PM

on the topic of sci-fi ideology books (or kind of ideologic) Snow Crash is a good read, it creates a very interesting world.

**TehSpaz** · 08-20-09, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by Red_Lizard2

on the topic of sci-fi ideology books (or kind of ideologic) Snow Crash is a good read, it creates a very interesting world.

oh yes......one of my other favorites!!! It is the true cyber punk novel....

I tried to read "Diamond Age: A Young Girls Illustrated Primer" by the same guy, but just couldn't get into it and ended up dropping it.

"Poor Impulse Control"

***AcidBath*** · 08-21-09, 01:18 PM

VALIS, by Philip K Dick, is an interesting novel debating topics such as god, reality, the human mind, and philosophy. You should check it out.

**Warflagon** · 08-21-09, 02:15 PM

1984 is the scariest book I've ever read.
I highly recommend it.

**Big_Boze** · 08-21-09, 02:40 PM

Just about anything that starts off with.... Star Wars is going to be good. :9

***AcidBath*** · 08-21-09, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Red_Lizard2

on the topic of sci-fi ideology books

Originally Posted by Big_Boze

Just about anything that starts off with.... Star Wars is going to be good. :9

Star Wars?

**MotoZ** · 08-21-09, 05:53 PM

For what it's worth, I recommend against reading too many ideology or philosophy texts on your own. One is probably enough just to see what the issues are.

The people that write those books do a good job of selling their ideas. Without critical thinking or a mentor/professor to bounce ideas off it is possible to get sold on shit as bad as Hitler's Mein Kampf. :5

The main issue with all of those books is that they are written by philosophers that rarely, if ever, got their hands dirty. All their ideas sound good in a vacuum, but the world doesn't live in a vacuum. The world is full of people that are primarily the same but disagree, sometimes vehemently, over details that are important to them.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is the best book that I have run across that provides both a discussion at an ideological level and common-sense instructions on how to navigate through life while maintaining your own true north setting.

/end another sales pitch for Seven Habits