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Title: 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
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URL Source: https://www.amazon.com/10-Books-Tha ... /dp/1400157919#customerReviews
Published: Sep 8, 2008
Author: Benjamin Wiker
Post Date: 2018-03-16 13:30:29 by Liberator
Keywords: Sources, Subversive, Ideas
Views: 5282
Comments: 49
You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive-in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, '10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help', he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative expose, you'll learn: -Why Machiavelli's 'The Prince' was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand) Witty, shocking, and instructive,'10 Books That Screwed Up the World' offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can avoid them in the future. Poster Comment: This book. GET IT. (although frankly, it's far too late to "avoid" the aftermath of the institutional sociopaths and insane who now run this world.) Been wondering how this culture, our schools, politicians and Media EVER began accepting and sanctioning evil over good? Insanity over sanity? Have turned our world of morality and ethics upside down? Been wondering how universities and Hollywood were EVER allowed to teach subversion and lies -- and make it seem "normal"? How the type of hateful, counter-intuitive politics that the Democrats routinely support have EVER seen the light of day? Here's a yuge advantage of reading this book: The author has already painstakingly read, critiqued and summarized the "highlights" and its respective 400+ year long message of subterfuge, deception that "normalizes" evil and packs it in these series of "manuals." So now you are able to blow through 15 of the books that have most influenced Democrats, Liberals, Leftist, too many gummint drones in general, BLM, Antifa, the NEA, "Nasty-Women," University-types, and Hollywood-types -- i.e. serial psychopaths, sociopaths, and demon-possessed. For what it's worth, the comments at Amazon are a hoot. Liberal and Commies are screeching bloody h*ll, having had their cover blown.
-How Descartes's Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego
-How Hobbes's Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want
-Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written
-How Darwin's Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society
-How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"
-How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism
-How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations
-Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science 
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#3. To: Liberator (#0)
I would've thought pseudo-religious texts would've been high on the list,
#6. To: Willie Green (#3)
Drink the Kool-Aid by Jimmy Jones & Marshall Applewhite HA! Didn't quite catch on. Dunno why not. Applewhite -- had he waited until 2018 -- might well have wound up one of America's great TV personalities on one of Oprah's programs. L Ron Hubbard (Dianetics), Joseph Smith (Book of Mormon) have made their mark for sure. In a great sense they are influential books. But I'm not sure their philosophies have seeped universally into the collective psyches of most people across the board. What's insidious about the author's selection of works is that in his opinion, they all have affected/infected fundamental Western thought to some degree. I'm assuming (having read this book) that the common thread has been the institutional influence and re-calibrated ethics conferred by the authors on the West's collective psyche. Many people and politicians still cite and use "Machiavellian" ethics and perception of "good" and "honorable" to rationalize screwing others.
Not to mention the Bible,the Koran,and every other religious dogmatic book that ever existed. And The Koran should be number 1 on any destructive list.
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like Dianetics by L Ron Howard,
The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith and
Drink the Kool-Aid by Jimmy Jones & Marshall Applewhite
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#14. To: Willie Green (#3)
I would've thought pseudo-religious texts would've been high on the list, like Dianetics by L Ron Howard, The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith and Drink the Kool-Aid by Jimmy Jones & Marshall Applewhite
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