Summer Reading List

[pasithea]

I bet Ashy has most of these in her library. I should make this my summer reading list.

The 10 most harmful books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The real question here is 'Harmful to whom?' Let's exclude Mien Kamf, which is thrown in there just as a Godwin to say 'AAAA! Liberals and Feminists are nazis!' and possibly Mao's book too ont he same grounds. What's left and who do these books hurt? Rich white guys?

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[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I've only read part of Mein Kampf. Booooring! I downloaded Beyond Good and Evil along with a bunch of other free e-books, but forgot all about it until just now.

(Oh, wait, I have a copy of Silent Spring, too. I find it hilarious that it's even considered here; it's like the original anti-pollution book.)

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Putting Mein Kampf on the list is kind of a sop to the pro-Israel crowd, too. I say this because this same conservative crowd was pretty damned anti-Semitic, up until the 60s or so, when we figured out that Israel was useful to us; that's also about the time we discovered Arabs existed.

Furthermore, during the 1930s, the powerful in this country were ecstatic about fascism and Hitler's 'accomplishments' in Germany, at least until Hitler started invading other countries. They couldn't wait to try fascism out here; they thought it was a godsend. At last, a way to keep society in line and make sure everything ran smoothly for the people who mattered. And that attitude didn't change after the war, it just went underground; thus we used former Nazis to crush communist and liberal organizations in Europe post-war, and we rolled Nazi intelligence into our own apparatus. The powerful in the US thought the Nazis kicked ass; they just wanted them working for us, not competing with us. Thus our involvement in the war. It was not to shut down the extermination camps; they were not a priority, even though we could have shut down Auschwitz et al with a couple of bombing runs. We didn't know about the camps? Ask Israel; they'll tell you a different story, or would if they weren't keeping their mouth shut about it because they like the influence they have with us now.

I don't know, maybe the people at Human Events Online have forgotten what their grandfathers were in favor of. But probably not.