ITT: Books or series thereof you will make sure your kids never read

i don't think the point was to make me "successful" since my parents let me drop out in 9th grade lol

>Letting your kid grow up to be a normie
My son is going to be a poon slayer. He won't even have time for trivial things like television or YA books. He'll be too busy slaying poon. And when he comes home from his adventures with stacy, he'll be gladly reading patrician literature.

Yes, it's implying Ron is a tranny

All YA stuff is shit and mass marketed garbage. The only "series" I'd let my kids read would be Tolkien and Agatha Christie.

Why not Narnia?

controlling him like that isnt going to make him any better you dolt, it will make him resent you and learn that there are enjoyable things in the world that you forbid which will make him stop respecting your authority

That's wholesome and christian too.

Harry Potter
Tolkien

haha that was funny

>hating your kids

Redwall for the young reader? I loved that shit when I was little.

I've played videogames as a kid but my mother introduced me to literature at a really young age. I was reading Dickens and García Marquez when I was 11, so I guess it depends on how you treat and educate your kids. I also read Harry Potter while being very young, but when the 7th book came out I've never read precisely because I've lost all interest in that kind of literature. It's my theory that the kind of people like op's picture were engendered by the movies phenomenon.

What's wrong with Tolkien?

He'll resent your authority anyway. If you cave in to every demand your child makes he won't respect your authority any more than if you let him have every video game or watch every tv show.

Some of my coworkers' children have never eaten candy or watched tv.

Harry Potter, ever since that whore Rowling started crying about how there weren't enough refugees in her mansion

I'll concentrate that they don't become enamoured with vidya, anime or comic books

>he'll resent your authority anyway
Not necessarily.

>If you cave in to every demand your child makes
Fine, but I never said nor suggested a parent should do that

>Some of my coworkers' children have never eaten candy or watched tv.
Totally irrelevant

I will raise my children to be Chads and Stacies. Being well read has never helped me or made me happy.

It mostly makes me hate the people around me for being uneducated trash.

I feel like I belong to a dying class; the educated middle class. Most people I know of similar economic background don't come from a tradition that values knowledge. Kinda sad to feel like a relic.

>I feel like I belong to a dying class; the educated middle class.

that's because everyone is told to just get work training in college instead of getting an education, since facebook is telling everyone to waste their degree on stem shit, maybe they should be paying these bills instead of the government or the student

Harry Potter is like the bible. A shitty book on its own but with such a widespread influence that you'd be left out if you don't ready it. The literature of tomorrow will undoubtedly include subtle nods and references to Harry Potter.

>yfw J K Rowling is the Homer of our time

Opposite is true. Im getting a stem degree myself. Look at the world a hundred years ago, doctors and engineers belonged to the cultured class.

The stem hate on this board is stupid and irrational. Being educated should mean being interdisciplinary. Which someone with only humanities knowledge isn't.

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these are truly the last days

Every day is just the first day of the last days of your life, senpai

>doctors and engineers belonged to the cultured class

doctors and engineers belong to the working class, they are not gentlemen.

the best example of the squarely middling status of doctors can be seen in the fine film "eyes wide shut", no the film is not just a way for people in a pre-pornhub world to see some titties and bush, it's actually a fantastic class analysis among other things

>relatives undermine your way of raising your offspring and actively disrespect you in front of your children
Fuck this makes me mad
If i choose not to let my kids drink soda and eat candy, what gives my cunt cousins the right to go against my wishes and turn my kids into little addicts

Your child will be born an addict. The base state of man is addiction to pleasure. The only way to stop this is to abuse your child into lifelong depression.

doctors maybe, engineers not so much at all

engineers were basically a step above skilled labourers before ww1

Any great art produced by my generation will be done by those who did not engage with it. Those books have a lobotomizing effect on those who read them.

But it wouldn't surprise me if it survives in some form.

If he never knows pleasure he will never crave it

>tfw Media reshapes man in its own image
>tfw you can already see the internet massively reshaping humans in its own image (sexual dimorphism, cognitive patterns, concioussness encompasses the entire planet, short-circuiting of all existing reward mechanisms)
>tfw already the havoc REKT by the cybertubes goes far beyond the massive and mostly unexamined impact of 20th century technologies like TV and the process is just accelerating
>tfw probably at the beginning of a terrifying a new stage in human evolution
>tfw spend 1hr a day synchronizing your brain to the very matrix of deterritorialisation, the autism mainframe, psychically communing with sexual deviants and psychotic ideologues

what's the redpill equivalent of Harry Potter? You know, YA that makes the kids grow up into swole aryan superman rather than fat sjws

Don't have children.

>tfw probably at the beginning of a terrifying a new stage in human evolution
Why should it be terriying? Gotta step on up that Kardashev ladder

this.
it's better to have the tv and game systems but teach them moderation and the downsides to endless empty entertainment.

there is no guarantee any of us will survive this process. The world we grew up in is already dead. Modernity is a sterile wasteland drained of signification, doomsday cults huddle among the ruins. No one seems to have a clue of what's going on.

Anything that's not gaddis or foucault.

If you would force your kids not to read something, you don't understand human psychology.

Kek.
Maybe in America. But America didn't really matter in the pre WW1 era. America was in many ways a scientific desert until the mid 30s, but that's beside the point.

In many parts of Europe engineers held huge status until sometime after world war two. And were given huge responsibilities in building and ruling society.
Your ignorance of this only proves my point.

You never even touched on my actual point, that actually being educated implies having knowledge in a great many things.

engineers are only high status in in non-democratic places that don't have rule of law, if you look at the countries that still value engineers as a high status profession it's usually despotic oriental places that don't have clear rule of law and have an economic with heavy state interference...if the local dictator stomps any innovative businesses, but is always looking for engineers to build his next big state backed infrastructure boondoggle, being an engineer is probably a neat idea, but in a free country like america, being an engineer is an uninspired and mediocre way to go through life

m8, engineers grew organically as a level just above a skilled labourer in european industrialized nations like great britain, basically just a mid level technical position that has very little to do with the broad definition of modern engineering

basically all that was an engineer in pre great war GB was drafting skills, algebra, geometry and basic physics at the most academic level

also the reason why civil engineers are called civil engineers and not just like plain "engineers" is because they mostly worked in the army, so when some fairy faggot did engineering outside of the army they added "civil" to it, to show he was a pussy, ok i'm being slightly rude about it, but there you have it

I should have been clearer on what I meant exactly since English terminology is confusing.

But basically once engineering was formalized as an academic discipline around the 1850s iirc. That degree was held in very high regard, atleast in the Germanosphere. Saying that engineering grew organically from labourers/machinists is plain wrong.

I won't force my kids to read certain things, just be an example for them by reading good things myself.

Also, regarding STEM, just double major. Pick one humanities field and one STEM. Easy. Or do what I did: English major undergrad, STEM master's.

>That degree was held in very high regard, atleast in the Germanosphere. Saying that engineering grew organically from labourers/machinists is plain wrong.
in the germanosphere it would make sense that engineers would be of an academic stock and more towards sciences than industry due to the crazy amount of science booming in germany in the 19th century
however, for example, I have a field engineer's manual for ww1 my grandfather kept from his father who served in the royal newfoundland regiment, and it seems more to do with basic math, geometry and physics like making temporary bridges to get heavy equipment moved over streams, digging proper trenches, etc etc

I feel there were two very different manners in which the position of engineer arose in the west

This is a stupid idea, unless you're a genius you'll just end up being a jack of all trades, master of none.
To put him on the path of greatness you should teach him how to be obsessed by ONE field of study. It won't be limited enough for him to grow up close minded, but it won't also be free enough for him to not develop any relevant skill and working knowledge in his formative years.

When he'll be in his 20s, after having mastered whatever he picked, he will be able to drift off to other fields without being scared about losing time. The earlier he ends up his path of study the more serene he'll be. At least this was my experience.