Early Monday morning, i'll be able to select $200 worth of more books

As i write on Thursday morning i have 2 options:

1. more Plato books

or

2. 12 Wilhelm Reich books

The reasons:

Why Reich? Well as i narrow my focus on Plato through at least of what i currently have of and on him, Reich would be a wacky boon companion, and i might fit in Rousseau's Emile as well, probably not cost a thing if i wanna read it on Kobo, for as Bloom writes in his Preface to the 2nd edition of his Republic translation Emile is the perfect book companion to it.

I'm also going to be going through the other dialogues from the Hackett edition of the complete works, when another is mentioned as a comparative work, i go to it, and begin the begin, which i've begun so far just Protagoras, it's Socrates (and Plato) taking on a Sophist, a teacher who gets paid something Plato despised, and there's a Leo Strauss volume in Kobo Plus of lectures he gave on that dialogue!!

If i go with more Plato, i'd get the old collected dialogues edition pictured here (not cheap)


along with Proclus' commentary which will be 3 volumes but only 2 out so far, and the Cambridge Companion to the Republic

Other translations of both that work and other Plato works would have to wait.

It's a dilemma really, can i live on the Plato i have currently for a whole month and a week almost, and can throw a radical psychologist in the mix, or build a stronger resource library for a foundational thinker in the Western tradition?

Either way the other that isn't chosen will be chosen next, OR i could combine the 2, with a) the collected dialogues / or Proclus and Cambridge, along with say 5 or 6 of the most eye catching Reich titles, the ones listed off in Makavejev's WR Mysteries of the Organism, what a funny little scene that is, as you hear these bonkers titles while seeing a big machine moving trash around, the symbolism there is how America banned his books, treating his peculiar ideas like trash. He was considered dangerous back in the day, but now i think the majority of the world's populace find more surface inconsequential things as intolerable, nothing like Reich will even be half understood anymore by the hoi polloi that requires effort to even know if there's anything to get angry about.

But as i read Wilhelm, i'd want to at least imagine a world that got all ruffled feathers about his ideas, to read on the wild side, and not have such a dead vision of life on earth circa 2025. I remember reading Listen Little Man, and it was electrifying, that was a mind on fire!!

Another perceived allure of Reich is that it seems like his appeal ran it's course not too long ago, and would be seen as too early for the world spirit to "discover" again, i love that way, to come late to the discovering party that may or may not have happened say a decade ago, and feel like i'm one of the very few globally just sinking my teeth into his oeuvre.