World View


Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Man's Search for Meaning
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
The Selfish Gene
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Meditations
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Mere Christianity
How Now Shall We Live?
The Art of War
1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Something Intellectual
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George Orwell
I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.
George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

Robert Buettner
Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ...more
Robert Buettner, Overkill

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