/lounge/ Book Club

Social media, Netflix, TV, movies... that's for human garbage.

Read books to improve your life. Not garbage grocery store romance novels or best-selling pleb shit, but important books. No scifi or fantasy escapist trash either. Read books that make you think.

What kind of books have you read lately? What kinds of books do you like?

Here are some books I like:
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Society of the Spectacle
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Can Life Prevail?
Propaganda
Walden
Th Ego and Its Own
Authority and the Individual
The Machine Stops
Technological Slavery
Crime and Punishment
The Collapse of Western Civilization

Books I plan on reading:
Animal Farm
The Will to Power
The Degenerate Society: Postmodernism And How You Can Oppose It
The Panopticon Writings
Beyond Good and Evil
The Decline of the West
Why Nations Fail
Revolt Against the Modern World
Democracy: The God That Failed
Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

I read a lot of programming books too, though you'll notice that I didn't list any here. Even though it's the industry I'm in, I can't help but feel like tech is soulless bugman shit that is accelerating the rise of degeneracy in the west.

Ideologically-driven books are the most captivating. They're the kinds of books that make you want to read them cover to cover.

But enough about my taste in books. So what do you like? And what would you recommend reading?

People can independently publish books.

The keyword is "can".
Books don't exist in some ideal world where their existence automatically gives them popularity. They are promoted by mass media, education, governments,etc. They're not some free-thinker media: they're controlled by publishing industry and sites like Amazon. They cost money to produce and distribute: they are part of centralized commercial enterprise called "The Book Industry" with its own cultural clout, comparable to the TV broadcasting companies.
There is censorship and control that shapes books exactly how the industry wants.

Books can go against popular opinions.

You're in for a surprise here.
Most books reinforce popular opinions& narratives. The few rare books going against the grain are promptly ridiculed and quickly go out of print.
Your """radically""" conservative narratives are not some unique 'rebellion against the modern world'. They existed since the industrial revolution and in some forms were available even in ancient greece(read on the Golden Age).
The anti-modernity narrative is as mainstream as it gets: most ideologies form to fix society into their version of golden age, critiquing current(modern) world and proposing a change - the image of good old days and harmony with nature are especially potent for uneducated and conservative. Are you just on the first stage of disillusionment with current affairs and seek something concrete to base your opinions on, desperately searching for some solution to fix the world once and for all, a perfect recipe that is hidden in some book?

Yeah, stay woke watching CNN, buddy!

I don't own or watch a TV, I sometimes view video on the internet, but i choose what i watch(from limited options dictated by cost of video hosting and policies of companies owning the video websites of course, you'd think its some decentralized free speech medium, eh?).