Darth Richard II Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 The fuck? Aynn rand? Am I having a stroke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 atlas shrugged is a bit of a decivilizing text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 So assuming that the peoples among we've been sent hold the books we bring as the Greeks held the Iliad, if not necessarily as Abrahamic religions hold their holy texts, which books would be best for creating a Dunyainic society? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Theophysics, The Episomologies, and The Third Analytic of Men, obvi Edit: not in response to Mr Inchie, who so inconsiderately jumped the line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Theophysics, The Episomologies, and The Third Analytic of Men, obvi Edit: not in response to Mr Inchie, who so inconsiderately jumped the line *swoon* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 larry already gave us the dunyanic list. inchie list is de sade, crick & watson, and gobineau. cunuroi list is cioran, DFW, and the stanek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 atlas shrugged is a bit of a decivilizing text. Well I suppose you could give it to them and tell them to do the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoë Sumra Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 If immediate survival isn't an issue, a comprehensive medical text or possibly pharmacology would be item 1. Would omnibus editions count? I had a massive philosophy omnibus that included key short texts from Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Nietzsche and Mill amongst others, and if I could chuck that in, I would, as it gives an overview of a few thousand years' influential thinking. Item 3... this is tricky. One out of: a physics and cosmology overview text that I could understand, Life:The Unauthorised Biography, On Writing by Stephen King, the Karma Sutra, or The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days (if I'm going to spend the rest of my days teaching the remaining humans how to be a society, there'd damned well better be cake at the far end of my efforts). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasp of Many Reeds Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 larry already gave us the dunyanic list. inchie list is de sade, crick & watson, and gobineau. cunuroi list is cioran, DFW, and the stanek. Would the Inchies and Dunyain read the Genealogy of Morality at book club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Writhen Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Well that's just it. Atlas Shrugged could be viewed as a direct analogy for what has indeed occurred in our society... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 you mean someone disappeared our cappies? why wasn't i cc:ed on the memo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Grimm's Children and Household Tales The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection The Jack London Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Terry Goodkind sock puppet! Calling it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 https://dynamic.indigoimages.ca/books/047063801x.jpg?altimages=true&width=310&quality=85&maxheight=310&lang=en&z=100026988bc481945514ceb6a3e444d8a28be436d6c49-7 As one of the chosen few, a millwright, my first pick. Next I would pick a book on raising vegetables. Third would be a reasonably complete mathematics text. With trig and log tables. We're going to be figuring by hand. Good thing I still have a slide rule. That will make me the king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 You people are all fucked if you don't include the complete works of PG Wodehouse. A society with no sense of humor deserves to perish from this Earth in as rapid a fashion as possible. So I change my answer to the Juggalo thing, the sex thing, and the laughs. eta: To be clear, I use 'laughs' as a slang for 'haha's or 'lol'. Any of you oldtimers out there might say 'comedy.' All of these terms are outdated and quite pedestrian, and you should probably deep-six them from your vocabulary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 The Bakkake is strong in this thread. Also, on cue, here's a list of 20 books for civ. ETA: This is Eno's list, but you can read others at the link too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Walker Texas Ranger Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Principia Mathematica, the book Vesalius wrote and then either Leviathan or Analects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Principia Mathematica, the book Vesalius wrote and then either Leviathan or Analects Newton's or Russell/Whitehead's Principia? The latter is probably one of the most useless books for rebuilding civilization... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 I would only need to bring one, the Borgesian [i]Book of Sand[/i] ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigei Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 How to grow marijuanaA guide to hallucinogenic plantsAlice in Wonderland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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