Best civic & citizenship books according to redditors
We found 8 Reddit comments discussing the best civic & citizenship books. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 8 Reddit comments discussing the best civic & citizenship books. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Agreed. Once upon a time, science and philosophy were much more closely related than they are today. We are polarizing individual aspects of the arts, which has done more to create robotic thinkers than open minded learners. Homeschooling is a great first step to breaking his daughter out of the conveyer belt thinking process, and introducing her to every aspect of the world of education, even religion, and allowing her to pursue those subjects that interest her most. This will feed her curiosity and allow her to become her own person in the long run. Pushing her toward Atheist thinking is as dangerous as pushing her toward religious thinking, if the goal is to allow her to choose her own path and ideas, and truly become an individual thinker. If her religious upbringing by her mom is more restrictive, and you create an open environment that is truly open to all possibilities, she will be a great leader.
But it starts with you, the parent. If all you are doing is teaching her things in direct opposition to the mom, then this is petty and not in your daughter's best interest, nor will it draw her toward your way of thinking, it will repel it. If your goal is to have her think like you do, then, again, you are not really raising a "free thinker" are you? So start with your own education, your own style and teaching philosophy. Here are some great books to give different and honest perspectives. Do what works for you.
Enjoy the journey!
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'Fraid so.
In it he even paints himself as the "leader" of the new movement "chosen by fate."
Like I said, the kid knows how to cash in. I'll give him that.
Thanks for posting those links! Always wondered about the Title Four Flag bullshit.
(pt 2)
>Illegitimate power imposed over another is a key element of authoritarianism.
The only legitimate ruling power is reason (organizing principles). That mandates the application of conscious, salient thought on the problem domain. Modern governments get by using empirical measures of happiness and contentment (products and services and the ability to purchase a home, and other material comforts) but this "industry" of the Old World Order is quickly dying out as the rich get more extreme in their thirst for endless wealth. They will only stop when everyone is destitute enough to respond. The dominant extrovert mind, in its extreme, can't see clearly what it is doing (it has no empathy for the other).
>When primitivist ideologies take root, people are involuntarily divided by characteristics that seem to match some authorities perception of natural order. That’s what makes it a form of primitivism.
It's not government ideology that forces people into rioters, looters, trolls, the homeless, the xenophobic, the racist, the predatory. It's human psychology. There are various points of contention in modern society, but the biggest beast of them all is the finger pressed onto the backs of the poor and the vulnerable and those inable to gain one up over everyone else. It's always the community that suffers when the rich are dominating (as they have consistently throughout the major part of all human history to date).
We need the end of monarchies and their modern corporate analogs; and we need the rise of the educated; the able; the spiritual; those who care and deliver; those with vision and imagination geared towards bettering society in some major, significant way. Everyone else should stand back and let us work. Fixing the world is a sacred task, and it will not be helped by think tanks (corporate forces masquerading somehow as "the good"), GDP, investment strategies, blasé social policies that just skim the surface of what civilization and society actually are when you examine them conceptually, rationally in the mind-space in terms of minds. Scientists in particular are not voyagers of the mind and so it stands to reason that their assessments are always superficial, given that they will only accept empirical, sensory inputs and pass anything else off as "anecdotal evidence" including, we might add, Introverted Intuition (which is also the basis for correctly examining what reality is in itself; i.e. what alien life would necessarily have to agree is the overarching necessary form of reality).
>When primitivist ideologies take root, people are involuntarily divided by characteristics that seem to match some authorities ... The abandonment of science and broader context in forming the fabric of power that substrates society.
This is an ideological foundation, not something to do with the character of individual people. People don't become so influenced by the leading ideology of the day that they ignore science completely because of it. People think according to their cognitive habits (MBTI theory) and the psyche (elucidated by Carl Jung).
>It’s the common element of all flavours of malignant socialism which plagued the 20th century: statism, authoritarianism, fascism, nazism, collectivism, marxism, communism, jingoism, corporatism. All children of primitivism because they are driven by primitive ideological perception of a natural order; superior as they see it.
It's the common thread of human history that the rich have ruled over the poor, the poor being slaves and the rulers the masters. That's a much clearer picture, and the difference is, shall we be surprised, the degree of clear thinking.
Socialism is a concept; you would have to engage in reasoning to clarify something about a concept and its application in our world. You don't bunch things together based on their empirical results; that's a category error. Anyone capable of reasoning could see this.
There is no natural order other than what people allow. People are being conditioned to accept things like advertisements, poor working and living arrangements; all because they think it's necessary. Soon this bubble will pop under the weight of absolute incompetence of the billionaires and hedge fund owners who have the power to make the big decisions (usually these are heartless land grab and loan type deals; products and services only make this more abstract).
What we need is to build heart into capitalism; this would be accomplished by ensuring that enough profits are sent back into communities, invested into education, policing, healthcare, and so on (going by the markers of Quality of Life carefully using the best minds of society). In that is the policy of kindness (rational kindness; rational consideration of human needs). Consider what it would be to wear down the very workers that your corporation relies upon -- by the sawdust in food analogy. Isn't this a form of negative.. capitalism? Yet that's what they are doing, the rulers of the economic activity (styles of economic patterns);- they're hacking away at people by various vectors, and this can be proven intuitively when you look at the various aspects of life and how it is being worsened by capitalism.
>Supremacists don’t require elections to be authentic. They rule through divine entitlement.
The elite used to rule by the "divine right" of kings. This needs to be inverted. People need to speak their minds and be heard, but they must respect the most intelligent and compassionate: the only ones who can redesign society in a safe, rational, fair way. Nobody else cares. We have tried all the other systems at this point other than the rule by the most meritorious, smart, compassionate, expert, educated.
>Socialism is harmful because it’s a form of primitivism;
Socialism isn't capitalism and thus isn't competitive enough to produce actual results. There must be a market and (healthy) competition. There. That was a lot easier and simpler.
>Rummel’s Law: The fewer freedoms people have, the more likely their rulers are to kill them.
I will quote from a book I read recently;-
>“Strain Theory” concerns the discrepancy between an individual’s awareness of society’s accepted goals and his equal awareness that he is deficient in respect of the legitimate means to attain those goals – the resultant strain may pressure the individual into using illegitimate means to get what he wants i.e. he may resort to criminality. When people are subjected to severe strain, something has to give. A person suffering from anomie and alienated from the mainstream is unable to secure the goals society endorses because of the structural limitations to which he is subjected e.g. lack of job, hence lack of money, lack of education and qualifications, lack of any occupational training. If he wants the things others have ...
― Adam Weishaupt, The Illuminati Phalanx
Not quite
Patriot Fire Team Manual by Paul G. Markel
Its not necessarily a "prepper" book, but really should be read by everyone (seriously...everyone): Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
My Parents Open Carry
EDIT: link to goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20977661-my-parents-open-carry?from_search=true
Read the comments. Note: the main character is Richard 'Dick' Strong and at one point his arm morphs into a gun a la Army of Darkness