The reading collection
Psychology, geopolitics, philosophy—and everything in between.
152 readings · 133–144
Nuclear Weapons In recent years, The US, UK, France, China, North Korea, and Russia have been trying to publicize their nuclear threshold, but Israel have denied being the first state in the Middle East to possess…
Baudrillard’s “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures” is a book that looks at the modern world through the lens of consumerism. It examines how we as a society have become obsessed with acquiring things, even if…
Science and religion are an odd couple. Ancient religious myths were helpful when they called people into action that was beneficial to them but were not objectively true. Modern science is a collective story, but it…
Chapter 7: Now… This I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason,…
Chapter 11: The Huxleyan Warning Our world has any prison-cultures who have structures similar to what Orwell describes.
Chapter 10: Teaching as an amusing activity Reading books and watching television differ completely in what they imply about learning. America is a case in point of what can be thought of as the third great crisis in…
Usually, shows aren’t very educational. But sometimes they are. Below is a list of some great shows that could teach men a thing or two about a thing or two. Plus they’re fun. 1. The Sopranos– Hilarious,…
In his book “The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena,” Jean Baudrillard poses the theory that contemporary society is characterized by a new kind of evil. This evil is not perpetrated by wicked…
This chapter discusses the main obstacles of the peace process that developed between Israel and Palestine since 1991. Both sides claim to fight for their identity and for their rights.
I’ll admit that when I first picked up “Seduction” by Baudrillard, I wasn’t expecting to be blown away. In fact, I was mostly just assigned the book for a class. But from the very first page, I was hooked.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity* by Cipolla is a short book is a funny, clever, and simple description of the phenomenon of stupidity. In his book, Italian sociologist Mario Cipolla argues that there is no such…
Chapter 2: The Media as Epistemology In this chapter, The Media as Epistemology*, Postman explain the role of media as a means of understanding the world.