I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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It's very hard to sum up and it's very long. He goes over his entire life first as he says that he doesn't just want to trot out his prescriptions for reality but wants people to understand how he got to where he was. First focusing on the period where he lived in the woods and would go into his local city to try to serve people randomly on the street for a decade as a jesuit trying to emulate the life of Jesus. Then he spent another decade going further into the woods reading all of Nietzsche after becoming disenchanted with Christianity. He had an interesting take on Christianity, that Jesus wasn't trying to make a religion for the masses, but rather sought out special people with "eyes to see and ears to hear" which I essentially translated that to "red-pilled people" in our terminology. He blamed Paul for ruining something that was meant for a small elite and only really respected Jesus and the "synoptic gospels" aka those who actually saw Jesus themselves in person. He felt that Christianity has, over time, "primed the pump" for socialism and communism, probably an idea he got from Spengler, wherein socialism is the atheistic reinvention of our societies religion which this reinvention of religion is something that seems to occur during the end of empires or peoples.
He then goes from spelling out his life in detail and the last half of the chapters are devoted to eviscerating an aspect of our current society each chapter. A list of the chapter names might sum it up better than I can.
I snagged a copy off ebay for like $80, but it's available free online.
https://ia800706.us.archive.org/4/items/9NeinsEbooks/Which-Way-%20Western-Man-%20William-Gayley-Simpson.pdf
It's insanely based, there's a reason why the phrase is a meme. Incredibly long, incredibly wordy, incredibly detailed.
Interesting. Thanks. I’ll add to my queue