Books that opened your eyes to how the world REALLY is

What is the ONE book that most profoundly informed your understanding of how the world works? Or indeed, doesn't. The ONE book that made you see through deceptions and preconceived notions.
For me, personally, it was pic related.

for me it was on women by Schopenhauer.

I used to think I couldn't get laid because of some defect in my character, then I realized it was women's fault.

Good shout. Definitely made me finally realize that relationships to women just aren't worth it.

Women have their flaws and weaknesses, sure. You guys might get along with one that is compatible, though. Not that being single is the end of the world.

Modern women simply aren't agreeable to the characters of men of virtue these days, though, I'm afraid.
As Spengler wonderfully describes in The Decline of the West, women have simply become perverted through Jewish bolshevism.

Finnegans Wake made nearly every other work of art seem shallow and uninteresting. I enjoyed that book on a level I didn't even know was remotely possible. It shifted all my favorite works of art from perfect 10s to 7s and 8s

Got there via DFW too lol

DFW was a postmodernist heavily influenced by the Jewish influence in academia. I suggest you read Culture of Critique to learn the truth
Finnegan's Wake, again, is modernist trash, a movement forged by the the subversive jewish influence

>Finnegan's Wake
Not even going to grace the rest of your sentence with my line of sight.

Your loss

ugh, it's one of (You) guys.

And you're the 'can't present an argument because I've been brainwashed'-type. Try again, sweety

Didn't you make the exact same thread a few days ago? GTFO with you /pol/ bullshit.

This book is woke. Completely made me rethink my understanding of globalism and pluralism.

>muh /pol/ boogeyman
grow up

good thread OP. it's nice to not have every thread filled to the brim with (((((them)))))

anyway I like books like Intro to Economics by Thomas Sowell. really opened my eyes to the ways of the world. he's pretty smart considering.

Fucking take the redpill, scum

"This is why women are more sober in their judgment than we, and why they see nothing more in things than is really there"

Stopped reading.

>Fucking take the redpill, scum
Read the book, faggot. It's not what you're thinking I'm sure.

Not OP, but do you have something to add to the discussion? Please stay out of it if all you're going to do is whine and expose how not fully educated you are.

In addition to the OP's picture, I'll add the biography of an early jew-wise British explorer and spy who spoke 29 languages, snuck into Mecca as an infidel, and discovered the source if the Nile River, named Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice. I contend that no one has lived a more interesting life than this man.

I lied, I kept reading, this line is based:

"If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something."

My fucking sides.

Did he write about a blood libel murder in Damascus?

This desu

Why even bother with the Oprah sticker if you've won a Nobel Prize? It's like putting a blue ribbon for watermelon seed spitting next to your Heisman trophy.

I don't know off the top of my head but it's very possible since I know he was in Damascus for a time and often quarreled with the jewish community wherever he was. His book on the jews, which I read the jew part of a while back, is called "the Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam" -- I'd say an essential read for those who want to reach a scholarly level on the jewish problem. Burton was one of a kind and way ahead of nearly everyone in the 19th century in terms of his understanding of the jew.

I hate black women

because an oprah sticker is a better indicator of talent than a nobel prize these days.

The anti-jew people are hilarious because they believe lies frauds and hoaxes again and again. Literally useful idiots for capital.

How else will they make themselves feel superior and powerful?

>not OP
Yeah no one's buying that shithead. Try again.

I think the incident was excluded from the book , but he did write about it. The murder of Father Tommaso which became international news.

You are free to challenge those of us who present information about the jewish problem on Veeky Forums, though these types of petty bitterness posts tell me you have likely tried and been embarrassed.

Well, I posted that and I'm (still) not the OP. So do you have anything of substance to say or a book to add to the thread topic, or did you just come back to look like a clown for a second time?

Thanks, something to look into.

And yet they claim to oppose BLM who uses the same logic and fallacies against white people.

The people you are referring to support black nationalist movements; who they oppose are BLM's jewish donors and organizers.

I really can't tell what level of irony we're operating at right now
I need a break from the internet

It's not irony, the ontological feminine and understanding the traditional gender dichotomy is a good way to get laid. Also Veeky Forums has a lot more reactionaries than you think, and yes they are very autistic.

>the ontological feminine
Understanding the ontological feminine

it's just shills and some sad sacks who do it for free

You mean Hasbara?

you mean like .-.-you-.-.

try the redpill

>anti-jew
>useful idiots for capital
how do you square these two ideas?

by having a brain

A lot of Jews control capital, even more non-Jews control more capital.

>A lot of Jews control capital, even more non-Jews control more capital

Even if this lie were true, what difference would it make? A man opposed to global Jewish interest is almost completely opposed to capital interest.

Planning to read this next. Are you South American?

Right. We all remember how hitler ended capitalism in Germany and how he definitely didn't purge his party of anti-capitalists. Take a breath in the real world every now and then, pal.

Schoppy had god tier banter

It's a 4/10 joke.

I need a book opposite of this. I just want to forget how autistic the world is.

this guy has a point, desu

Is it Lou-tentant or Left-tenant? Pronuncian. Always wondered what was up with that.

>being wary of people that insist on being alien to us and subverting us to destroy us is moronic
>but you should totally ally with them against your literal brothers that commit the high crime of being richer than you
This is your brain on socialism. People that want to destroy both your cultural norms and your group identity are A-ok but rich people are like, evil.

Man, this thread is really spooky

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There are some good posts.

>online resurgence of older right-rings texts
>no one on Veeky Forums ever talks about pic related

Buchanan also has great stuff out there.

And Goebbels, let's not forget

Why Communism can't work

More good ones.

Post a picture of what you look like

Allan Bloom isn't right wing

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And Jeff 'Fagtron 3030' Mangum isn't (((white)))

Oprah sticker is a mark of general readability and respectibility. You'll be able to read it and get cachet for having read it. A marketing tool.

I love this book but I'm curious as to your reasoning given the OP question. Can you elaborate?

Each has opened my eyes on another topic. It's a process. There is no ONE book, because you can't just credit one single for the greatest redpill. If anything you should credit your first eye opener.

The last one which opened my eyes was God's Philosophers. It's also relevant to OP in addition to Libido dominandi and how those descriped in Culture of Critique have led us to what Barzum describes as final stage of culture in From Dawn to Decadence.

Can you be a classicist without being a conservative?

Not clever—apply yourself

The answer is yes

Sounds like Spenglerian nonsense

Welcome to 'dat new-new Right'.

eat my shorts

the answer is if you work towards the preservation and propagation of Western literary culture, you probably think that there's something there that's worth conserving in the first place

Herman Melville only has one of these two. I'll let you guess which one.

>reading a wide range of books on different topics to actually know what you're talking about instead of asking for the one single has-it-all cheap shortcut so you have to listen and believe is nonsense
The state of Veeky Forums in the current year.

>a homogenous stack of alarmist paleo-conservative whinging

Yes, that pond is wide and deep.

>reading Sci Fi, Hitchens, Sagan, Dawkins and co as well as diverse classics from ancient till edwardian with the cherry on top beeing natural science is somehow paleo-conservative whinging

I'm not about to be lectured by a tripfag from /mu/—what you've just said could be equally applied to, e.g., Lenin. Is Lenin right wing?

I don't even understand what your saying. Pat Buchanan delivered you to a rehashed Spengler?

>he boasts, hopefully in jest
>but let's be real, he actually thinks this is impressive

>I don't even understand
God's Philosopher shows the scientific progress in the commonly called dark ages meme, which is supported by those described in OPs pic related. They try to destroy the homogenic monolith of westen civilication and are quite succesfull in the last decades, as Barzun has shown in his masterwork From Dawn to Decadence. All of them a part of the journey.

What portion of this is ironic. Not sure how to proceed. Who is "they?"

Come on. Railing against relativism and the identity movements of the time in defense of the values that traditionally defined "Western culture" did place him further to the right than most other contemporaneous academics. Regardless of how Bloom wanted to define himself, he was pretty conservative in the Burkean sense.

Resume with the romans
>The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors

...in the form of Christians, you mean?

Your train of thought incoherent to me but it may not be your fault

Start with the ferengian Rules of Acquisition.

If you're talking relative to other academics, sure. But I don't think Bloom's political philosophy can properly be called conservatism in that his politics start at the Enlightenment and go back. Generally he's too eccentric of a thinker and will never be sufficiently absorbed by the contemporary left (such as it were) or right. Recall, also, that he's homosex

I used to be part of the alt-right, but I've stopped. Recently I've become increasingly disillusioned with the whole movement, as our ideological differences began to manifest. My sole reason was because the alt-right were the only ones telling the truth about race and white genocide, while everyone else was completely deluded on the subject. In the end, the only thing we agree on is that we should stop white genocide, the problem is we differ on everything else. They are full of socialists and totalitarians that hate freedom of speech and individualism, this spells disaster for me. I am too much of an egoist to surrender myself to such a collectivist individuality crushing ideology, I would just be purged in the end. There is no better example than 8ch, where if at any point in time I raise an objection (such as saying that MOST not ALL Jews are bad, or that we don't HAVE to genocide everybody, or that national socialism is still socialism) I just get banned for being a kike shill.

They have no plan whatsoever, and spit in the face of reality, ignoring the hopelessness of the situation. Their master plan is to just "keep spreading the truth" and that "soon we will gas them all" I mean, yeah, that's step one and step three, but where the fuck is step two? After blunder after blunder by the idiots like Spencer, who have no clue what they are doing, I lucked my way into finding out about Nick Land and the rest of the NRx movement. Yesterday I spent the whole day reading Land and Moldbug, and it was like a switch flipped in my brain. They know the truth about white genocide, are highly individual compatible, and offered a viable solution to the problem. I can't go back to the "alt-right" they are a failed movement that will just get themselves gulaged. I have no intention of joining them.

Nick Land is at best a fringe academic with wholly dubious ideas. Can't speak for Moldbug. But this is probably a good trade up. Here's a thought, though: study politics from books. Spend less time worrying about the inevitable white """genocide"""

8pol is full of jews trying to D&C pro-white ideas and movements. That you bought into their blackpilling shtick wholesale really only indicates that you're weak-minded. Most pro-white people are aware that individualism is what has allowed whites to be the innovative, civilization creators we are, but understand that it is also our greatest weakness and will not get us out of the current mess that has resulted from our forebears handing power over their society to tribalist jews.

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to The Economy, by Thomas Sowell

Although he hammers in the "communism bad" thing way too many times. Other than that, 10/10 book, and the OP describes it amazingly well.

Tell me more about the White Race. Are Lebanese white? Asking for a friend

No, sorry.

Who is white, then?

Nassim, please.

Weak minded my ass, nobody has a plan, NOBODY. Everyone says that the plan is to get from point A to point B, but when I ask how it is that is accomplished, they have no answer. The only solutions to 50% of the population (and growing) wanting to kill the other 50% of the population (and shrinking) are to:

1. Let the shrinking side kill the other side before the balance of power shifts.
2. Stop the shrinking and then kill each other at parity.
3. Deescalate the situation so we don't want to kill each other.
4. Achieve absolute majority to prevent conflict.

Those are the solutions, most people think that 1 or 2 are the only viable solutions, yet nobody can tell me how it is they plan to accomplish their goals. They can't even move to the first step, which is mobilizing their half and mentally preparing them for the war. It's just not possible, there's nothing that can be done. It's too late.

European peoples.

What counts as European? Surely not Serbs