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    Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman
    What are you reading right now?

    If you are consuming media that relays information via written word, digital or physical, Discuss it here. Audiobooks too, as they have papercut-inflicting counterparts as well.

    What do you like about what you are reading? What do you dislike about it? Has it changed your views on a certain subject, or reinforced your current beliefs? Have any quotes from it stuck with you?

    Right now, I am reading, "The Political Tradition Of The West", by Frederick Mundell Watkins. There is very little known about this author and some of his books are no longer purchasable. The only thing on Libgen by him is linked below.

    The book begins as a sort of dive into the history of Western politics. He attempts to explain how the history of western politics led to Modern Liberalism (The book was written during the 40's, published in 48) of which the author says ""Modern liberalism is the secular form of western civilization"

    The book ends with the author's predictions for the future of western society, as well as criticisms of nationalism and authoritarianism for some reason.
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    Does he have any interesting predictions of the future?
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    Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by πŸ¦„πŸŒˆ MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING - vaxxed and octoboosted πŸ’‰ (we beat covid!) πŸ‘¬πŸ’•πŸ‘­πŸ€ (🍩✊) Does he have any interesting predictions of the future?

    Well, we are living in his future right now, but I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet. I might just skip some chapters that are just fluff and read the juicy ones.
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    Originally posted by Kingoftoes Well, we are living in his future right now, but I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet. I might just skip some chapters that are just fluff and read the juicy ones.

    People who are writing books almost always seem to think they have a moral obligation to waste wood pulp on filler material.
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    Instigator Naturally Camouflaged [the staring tame crusher]
    I smoke weed and read Wikipedia cause its gives me knowledge.
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    Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman
    Originally posted by πŸ¦„πŸŒˆ MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING - vaxxed and octoboosted πŸ’‰ (we beat covid!) πŸ‘¬πŸ’•πŸ‘­πŸ€ (🍩✊) People who are writing books almost always seem to think they have a moral obligation to waste wood pulp on filler material.

    In this case it is necessary to fulfill a condition of his main premise. But generally yeah, it seems that way. That's why I liked The Prince, it was short and sweet.
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    Thursday Meme
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    Crispy reverse pedophile
    Im reading this post, not really i just read the title
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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    Nuclear Waste, Conspiracies, and E-Meters:
    Remarkable Religion and Technology
    with Sebastian Musch, β€œThe Atomic Priesthood and Nuclear Waste Management:
    Religion, Sci-Fi Literature, and the End of Our Civilization”; S. Jonathon O’Donnell,
    β€œSecularizing Demons: Fundamentalist Navigations in Religion and Secularity”; and
    Stefano Bigliardi, β€œNew Religious Movements, Technology, and Science: The
    Conceptualization of the E-Meter in Scientology Teachings.”
    THE ATOMIC PRIESTHOOD AND NUCLEAR WASTE
    MANAGEMENT: RELIGION, SCI-FI LITERATURE, AND
    THE END OF OUR CIVILIZATION
    by Sebastian Musch
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