Lots Of New Books

By Leo Gura - September 23, 2024

For a few years now I stopped reading books because I reached a point where they stopping giving me value. It just became hard to find a book worth reading.

But recently I revisited the matter from a new angle and found dozens of amazing books, mostly on history, politics, and social science. I’ve read over 30 new books and I’m burning through a couple new books every week. I’ve been reading about terrorism, extremism, racism, communism, biographies of dictators and mass-rapists, psychopaths, narcissists, corruption, money laundering, Islamic history, Zionism, Africa, war, the CIA, the right wing, and more.

All of this is crucial reading for making sense of the social world. I don’t read spiritual stuff any more, I read to deepen my understanding of social dynamics and human depravity. I study all the ways humans act like unconscious devils and how they justify it to themselves. You will never understand the full gamut of human social depravity through direct experience. So books are necessary here. To understand how the globe really works. I do this to increase the depth and quality of my politics and social commentary. To ground my politics in hard historical reality, social science, expert analysis, and awareness of global cultural differences.

I make use of these books to make sense of all the bias and confusion that’s all over the news and social media. It amazes me how just a couple of the right books can resolve an issue that people in the news business will bullshit about for decades. My advice to you is, stop consuming so much online news and punditry, and instead read high quality books on history, political science, and social science. Online news is keeping you dumb for clicks. One of the keys to developing mature politics is to read lots of history and social science books. I’m excited to share nearly 50 such books with you soon.

I’m on a mission to build a library of 100 books critical to developing mature, conscious, Tier 2 politics.

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