How did you read the teacher? Predator or just a concerned adult?

You got it backwards my guy. The backlash comes because of the problem, it doesn’t create the problem.

I am not opposed to reading them, though it looks like those are kids' books. If I lived in Florida and had kids I would want to know why they were banned and would do the research myself.

I use Goodreads to track, but I also have an app called Leio that lets you track reading sessions. It communicates progress to Goodreads and also you can add notes and quotes

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It's important to acknowledge that we all have pre-existing beliefs and bias. Understanding this useful to all areas of study

It sounds like public backlash renders them wrong? No one should seek to form their own opinion?

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Serious question, have you or do you plan to read books that have recently been banned in states like Florida

LOVE this book!!!!! I think about it all the time. It deserves to be a modern classic I am so surprised more people have not read it. It is fantastic, and deeply moving.

I think there's a difference between wanting to examine for yourself books that were "cancelled" to understand the causes of the controversy and if you agree with them, and building a world view entirely on bullshit. It depends on whether you only read these books or if you read other points of view too.

I have a few techniques. I have some books that I have to listen to as audiobooks. A few I found interesting listening to that way. Making a playlist as a soundtrack to amp up the story. A few it helped, although some I just jammed out to. At least one, I ended up recruiting a few friends and read it out loud and kind of did a study group version of MST 3K with their commentary getting me through the story.

This was one I hated. I finished it bc I kept waiting for something to happen. 0/5 stars.

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What kind of politics are you interested in learning about? And what country?

I’d suggest reading history and philosophy, literature and probably some psychology. Read widely about the world and it’s people. You may never agree with other people’s views but that’s not really the goal, the goal is to understand other people and live your best life.

Some writers to read over a lifetime, Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, De Tocqueville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Melville, W.E.B. du Bois, James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Toni Morrison, Nietzsche, Barbara Tuchman, Zizek among many many others.

Please post 'Should I read X book''What do I need to know before I read X' questions, in our Weekly Recommendation Thread.

Dostoyevski. That’s basically the point of his whole body of work, how to deal with the anxiety that erupts from an atheistic rationalization of the world. Peterson and his ilk commonly reference Dostoyevski as an influence, but if you read say, Crime And Punishment, you’ll see D would not have vibed w most of their conclusions.

Instead he really means to help the misguided fledgling intellectual type. "Hamlet’s” who are caught up in their heads way more than is good for them.

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I like lofi synthwave myself

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Check with the incel subreddit

If you’re looking for something to confirm your pre-existing beliefs and tell you they’re correct, you’ll find no shortage of people willing to take your money to provide this service.

You shouldn’t be looking for books on the importance of tradition for example, that’s just a conclusion in search of an argument.