Thursday, June 14, 2012

arnach makes another modest proposal

Almost exactly a year ago that I proposed a subreal summer reading list. I hope y'all read, enjoyed, and learned something from those books. Especially you, BD.

This year, I would like to ask all subrealists to submit "The One Book" that all other subrealists should read. For me, the suggestion is easy:Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Check out the NY Times review and yesterday’s New Yorker blog “Why Smart People are Stupid” by Jonah Lehrer.

You may need to read it more than once to absorb it all, but this book will change how you think. Good luck, and I look forward to your suggestions.

18 comments:

Dale Asberry said...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

CNu said...

 Parasitism and Subversion - The Case of Latin America

The African Predicament - A Study in the Pathology of Modernization

Dale Asberry said...

Would these add anything not gained from other sources such as Confessions of an Economic Hitman?

CNu said...

Andreski was an old-school scholar writing in a style and with a narrative and explanatory completeness that no longer even exists in the academy. That's why these books (like Fred J. Cook's The War State) have fallen into complete obscurity except among those dedicated few who want to have a deep understanding of living memory history.

Big Don said...

That ubiquitous Screaming Flower has skin cancer...

Tom said...

The Intelligent Investor

Dale Asberry said...

Lol, Donnie that picture really has you creeped out. If you would be so kind, could you indicate with an arrow and circle the features that make you think that the flower is 'screaming' and post here? Truly, the expression I see is the exemplar of calmness. The eyes are neither in slits nor wide open, and, the mouth is closed with the corners neither up- nor down-turned. Expressionless.

If anything, I would think your description is a self-description projected upon a neutral subject. How terribly sad.

CNu said...

rotflmbao...,

It's Arnach King of the Flowers and it reminds me of looking down into a freshly packed bowl on a MIT bong-design contest champion.

Dale Asberry said...

BTW, for those with even a modicum of ability to pay attention will realize that the picture is only used when CNu posts something from his friend arnach. Remind me again how you're supposedly 'intelligent'? IQ100 LOOZER.

arnach said...

Oooh...burn.  Ouch.

Is that really the best you can do Don?  Is there no work of enlightened wisdom that you can contribute?

  Probably not.  Seems like coping with your own cancer of the mind is all you can handle these days.

Tom said...

Don, you are so lacking in reading ideas that you can't participate properly in the thread by posting a good summertime book?

CNu said...

Why y'all all go so hard on my boy?!?!?!

Can't you see that 99% of his problem is that nobody ever packed him a legendary party bowl and that he's never seen in technicolor? http://youtu.be/V5d4wWGK4Ig

Dale Asberry said...

Lol

Big Don said...

Today we are reading "Escape from Camp 14 - One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West."  Blaine Harden author, for you oppressed folks who think you have had it so rough.......real scary sht, they breed slaves over there.  

Big Don said...

Much earlier appearances of that pic were smaller, and the shaded area below the lips appeared to our geriatric vision, as an open mouth...

Dale Asberry said...

Fair enough. In the small pic the mouth does look like it's yelling.

Tom said...

Appreciate the on-topic portion of your comment.  Personally I've never been oppressed since I left home at 17 and started hanging out with people who I had nothing in common with ethnically.  But don't let that switch you off your track.

DD said...

Ok, my book is "The Long Descent," by John Michael Greer.

See y'all west of Mindolluin.

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