A Book That Changed Your Life

That book is too sick for my taste... Why the hell would you read something like that? Really. I get enough reality from the news and from everyday life, reading a book about 24/7 rapes is the last thing I wanna do. If you ever read this response plz tell me why the hell did you read that book.

Honestly, some authors are borderline SICK.

 

Kerry Katona's autobiography.

It made me feel really sorry for her, how hard a life she's had and like how hard her upbringing was aswell. It made me like feel lucky for everything I have in life.

 

This is Cliche, I know but Keroacs "on the road" I read it when I was 17 and it changed my life, led me to Ken Keasy and Neal Cassady.

Sooo many books I could list. Bukowskis "women" as it got me into obsessing over Bukowski and that gave me a fascination with the 60's.

Anne Rices first two vampire books while not anything remarkable I still smile at and occasionally re-read since it ushered me out of plain boring life and gave me a glimpse into a change of consciousness.

Self help book that changed my life: The power of now gave me my spiritual tools and showed me the beauty of eastern thought and mysticism. One doesn't need hypocritical organized religions, you can worship God by worshiping reality. This is a powerful thing to learn when you are young.

 

The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz. Helped me to simplify and let go.

 

I feel I've stumbled upon different books at different paths in my life that have helped me out or changed my life. But the one that stands out to me the most, and really changed my life when I was younger, was The Once and Future King by T.H. White. Might seem like a strange choice, but there is a lot to learn about life in that book, and highly entertaining at the same time. Much pertains to our Modern world and lifestyle. It is so much more than just an Arthurian retelling. Still is my favorite book.

"The best thing for being sad,is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

 

I may have already answered, but my book is "A Guide To Rational Living" by Albert Ellis and Robert Harper.

 

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

The Art Of Deception by Capaldi

The Doors Of Perception by Huxley

Brave New World by Huxley

The Acid Diaries by Christopher Gray

Walden ( i know, cliche)

and pretty much anything by Sartre, Nietzsche, or Camus...3 badasses

 

Brave new world... it unveiled so much about what the world is and what it's coming to be.

Many people are very critical of the book, never quite got to the stage of digesting it... so much as just tasting it... and that's understandable. It's not exactly written with well descriptive scenes or anything too intrinsically established details. It was written bluntly, without any absolute details that many book thumpers love to read into.

Especially when presented as a "prophesy" of the world... but you have to understand that it infact is NOT a prophesy of what the world will be like, but what it will "become".

You see, many of his ideas have become incredibly apparent...

1. Children are being introducted into sexuality at much earlier and free-er ages.
Oh yes, the media strongly sends messages out to young children that otherwise would have been rather hard during a traditional family. Yeah, and if that's not enough there's all kinds of rapists and molesters out there who introduce children by force. The internet is full of pornography, just an unsupervised click away. Sexuality is displayed everywhere.

2. A medicated nation is a sustainable nation
There are many drugs on the market that are made to increase your productivity and rid you of any alleviations of emotion and to distract you from the big picture of things. The biggest one being cash money and the rise of unnecessary things.

3. Genetic "superiority" is highly valued.
Just ask sperm banks whether they want to take the highschool drop out, homeless man down the street. His "genes", they in the eyes of a "nature" supporter (In the debate of Nature vs Nurture) are inferior, and unless he contributes to society, is tall, handsome, healthy and successful his sperm are worth less than that of Donald Trump's.

4. Appearance is indicator of class
Children are very medically looked after and shaped at an early age after birth to be healthy and productive... for those with medical care. Poorer people much of the time can't seem to afford to immunize their children or check for any debilitating disease to be brewing as a baby. Yes, the successful ones are often the ones best taken after, as nature seems to put it in place. Many poor people see little hope in this new world, and no incentive to work for appearance or an exuberant lifestyle.

5. Media is a giant in the lives of the modern era. His ideas of a world where people were too entertained to be unhappy and therefor unproductive has begun to become reality.

6. reservations for the natives, given in the worst land possible because they thought it was "innefficient land" and gave them reservations. They are still retaining ancient culture, and although many of the ways are changed they still retain some traditional sense. Communes are a very good example of Huxleys world coming true, places where the government has allowed people to live together and not retain modern values.

7. Efficiency is now king, more than ever before.

8. Things are just thrown away, and thinking otherwise is simply ridiculous.


Basically, his idea was that our pleasure would enslave us, and that it would be a very hedonistic society, basically the absolute most efficient society possible. We strive for this each and every day. I hate to say it, but facebook has consumed many people to a lifestyle of distraction, telivision has occupied the minds of people, low energy activities have been constructed in many homes. Videogames, all kinds of wonderful, wonderful things are what distracts us from actual life.

But we've all been.

9. Conditioned.

We're all conditioned from birth... it's natural.. the most prominent form of parenthood.
This idea is as old as humanity. We are sent to schools at an early age to be conditioned on how to act and behave in society. It is necessary for modern society to be so efficient and sustainable. Religions condition people at very early ages for the reason that it is impressionable in that child's mind.

 

that is definitely hvite niggere for me

 

Yes! brave new world is excellent, it is more true than 1984 we are all so pelted with the drug of ego; mindless entertainment, consumerism, societal cliques etc that no one cares anymore.

I recommend reading the polar opposite of brave new world Huxleys "Island" brave new world is not the whole truth, you must understand how Huxley felt about drugs and his experiences with meeting Krishnamurti to truly get it all.