I was thinking Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith or Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell but those may be a bit advanced
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I would totally not be surprised by it being intentional. Older men at least those I know about seemed to highly value reading and literature. My granddad always pushed me to read, and when he got older he was more well off and bought up a pretty big collection of high end books of just classic literature that he'd let me read and now myself and my brother split up when he passed. Even my great-grandfather from a totally different part of the family, who was very much greasy old school blue collar held on to some books I have my hands on now. They are compliations of 20-40 page writings on different things in history, written with detail and intelligence the modern world would have you believe no one but those with a list of degrees could even understand. Men used to value this stuff, yet now how many average-age adult men read at all?
I remember a teacher saying that getting the boys in her class to read was easy once she had them read stories about action/adventure. The curriculum only had books that appealed to girls.
It's totally intentional. If you disconnect men from literature, which is their culture and heritage, how long is it before they can be told they're anything? "Oh, American has ALWAYS been majority minority!" "Oh, the Founders were extreme democrats, there were no guns and MUH ABORTIONS in colonial America!"
They also pick some boring new books too, always about either the holocoaster or oppressed black women. I was interested in sci fi and military stuff and I only ever got to read two things that I liked ("For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "1984"). Nowadays I read a lot of technical books on military equipment, aircraft, maritime, science stuff. Nothing we would have ever read in Middle or High school.
As with everything. Look for who pities the ox instead of the donkey.
I didn't come out bitter like the above guy, but I came out with a superiority complex the size of Santa's naughty list filtered to Google employees.
My college peers were pathetic. They wrote like shit. The standards were pure unremitting garbage. And the professors were complete idiots. They couldn't catch subtext for one, and read so haphazardly that started replacing whole pages with spaghetti logic and still passing.