Starting a book club

@val70 Jason Read Taoism in China

@revenant Loved his work on Marx and Spinoza, especially his writings on Wertkritik, a return to the Spinozist materialism. Somehow it's far, far away from Spinoza's thoughts on religion where there's only one super being for him and this being God who's substance is nature

@val70 Oh my ! you are surprising me !

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From what I read in your posts (this and some others) I suggest you to read the novel "The Dispossessed" by Le Guin.

@ElRengo Thank you. I'll look for it. I don't normally like any utopian read. Thomas More's book for one I could never finish

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Well......suggested that book precisely cos it´s far from being classical utopian literature.
It´s instead a reflection on the contradictions two societies / cultures, inner ones and between them.
And the simultaneous contradictions between individuals and their social frame.
As you (in other words) said, unity and conflict. What is also known as Dialectics.
Le Guin (and some of her characters) were / are (like Simone Weil) anarchists. And she, Ursula, stongly influenced by a variety of Taoism.
But she also seems to have (by the insights of one of her main characters, a physicist) a good familiarity with at least one historical formulations of the Quantum: the Bohm - De Broglie.
Interesting that Bohm, a realist, had a strong interest in both Taoism and Jung!

@OneDayMore Satire is always good. Easton Ellis, Vonnegut and Spanbauer were his own sources of inspiraton after all :-)

@val70 Honestly I started reading since 2020 and read whatever book I could get through library or purchased.

@littlepuppywantanewlife Try Simone Weil instead. Much shorter essays, but much more intellectual and sometimes even spiritual. Even Beauvoir was jealous of her

@val70 i am currently reading U Can't hurt me by david goggins. Previous I read psychology of money. 🙂

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@val70 1950s Robbie the Robot. :) I'm thinking more 1920's AMAZING STORIES, etc.

@ChipmunkErnie Oh alright. Now I see. Just wanted that. We didn't have them. Only cartoon issues and such. Even then

@Morrigan I'll try to get my hands on it. I wonder why so many people just can't think outside the box? The mind boggles. Thank you for the info. You're a dear :-)

@val70 no worries at all milady.... i basically live outside the box...in the cold lol

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