ITT: Essential pseud-core

Sun Tzu was not himself a pseud

they were super blackpilled by the failure of "48ers", read their old articles from those years

have some pride in your work, straighten that shit out

Oh no, the book itself is fine, it's just treated like gospel by those who have read nothing else.
I almost put 'Meditations' there, as well.

Add Thomas Sowell Basic Economics

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Tao, Russell's History, The Republic, and Zinn's Peoples History are not pseud

Russell's History is outclassed by authors who give a less biased perspective, and the only reason why his book sells is because of his name. Hence, pseud. There is nothing wrong with Plato's Republic, but if it's the only dialogue by which you read, then you are indeed a pseud. There is way more to Taoism the the Tao Teh Ching, and the Zuangzhi, and tradition has been subverted for its understanding to only be limited to these two works. This is forgivable since all the Eastern traditions have been butchered beyond recognition by the West, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism. I haven't read Zinn, and can't comment on him.

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the society of the spectacle is not fucking pseud-core its just treated like that by fucking anti marxists such as yourself. libtards in this day and age use it like most other marxist texts in arguments to try and one up people by naming a book this book itself though is alright

This. SotS is pseud if you haven't read any Hegel or Marx.

What are the main criticisms of C.G Jung's theories?

To be fair, the retards who read Sowell don't even pretend to be intellectuals.

>it changed my life

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>Russell's History is outclassed by authors who give a less biased perspective, and the only reason why his book sells is because of his name
This is true
>but if it's the only dialogue by which you read, then you are indeed a pseud
This is true
>his is forgivable since all the Eastern traditions have been butchered beyond recognition by the West
This is very true

First year creative writing student whos main influence is Kafka

Good point

Salt is a fantastic and illuminating work, thank you very much.

(((Westerners))) are retarded. Easterners can preserve their traditions just fine.

incredible list

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The pseud label here always comes before an argument about a book, and has morphed into those puerile taunts from kids learning how to swear. It's not entertaining, nor enticing, and the diminishing returns are dropping so heavily now that the baseline can't even really be said to provide pleasure. Both "pseud" and "-core" are more stagnant reminders of not just Veeky Forums's inability to be creative shitposters, but of our contemporary culture's glorifying of any instantaneous pleasure, even in language.

I think you want The Image by Boorstin.

there gay

Scrap everything except Plato, Rusell, Klein and the manifesto.
And never, ever, read anything by Ayn Rand until you're able to use your brain critically. When that happens, you'll easily notice that everything is political propaganda disguised as philosophy.

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what's wrong with Klein

even at the ripe age of 13 I was able to recognize, as I was reading it, that "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" was the ultimate pseudo-intellectual self-flagellation.

I think your list touches on something deep and persistent in the soul of the pseud: a desire to read books with critical acclaim so that he can say he has read books with critical acclaim. Thus books that are decent, say The Art of War, become the poster-child of the pseud, the book which adorns the studies of millions of businessmen who read it for the sake of saying they read it. Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is an interesting book at least, becomes the face of the pseudo-historian, who reads the book not because it presents a vision of history, but because all the other historians are reading it.

>keeping Klein

>Bread and circuses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_of_Romulus
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plato is entry level, not pseud unless you've just read the republic and act like you've mastered philosophy

not an argument
No Logo is good at least

The Communist Manifesto is a pseud trap. The real patrician choice is Das Kapital.

Freud
Sartre
de Beauvoir
Derrida
Foucault
Zizek
Baudrillard

>Special mention
Naomi Klein. I don't know why, but all pseuds I've met in my life praised her unabashedly mediocre and economically-ignorant work.

these

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If Plato is entry level why is it so few understand it? I mean, I bet you can't even tell me what The Republic is about, let alone explain its theories in depth.

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I’ll give you Sartre and Baudrillard but I think it’s pretty hard to make a case for the other ones.

Do we mean works that pseuds like, or thinkers that are actually shitty? If anybody bothered to read Freud himself they’d realize that while he might not be right, he at least makes a case for what he’s arguing. Reading The Interpretation of Dreams is incredibly rewarding and he also has the distinction of not writing so obtuselty that you need to dwell on it sentence by sentence like you do with a lot of popular thinkers.

Also I’ll defend Zizek to the hilt, beneath the pop surface he’s genuinely an interesting and innovative thinker. People get so caught up in his sex jokes and cultural critique that they forget that he is ultimately a philosopher and especially in his more recent books, he’s actually trying to put forth a new understanding of ontology.

The popularity of Klein surprises me considering she is afterall just a journalist and not a scholar so I’m not sure the authority that people thinks she has on the topics she writes about..

Doesn't answer the question. And Eastern Solipsism isn't better than Plato.

Zinn is a cuck