Most Harmful Books...A Conservative's Guide

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:23 pm

tee hee. The funniest bits are some of the book summaries.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Mein Kampf
3. Quotations from Chairman Mao
4. The Kinsey Report
5. Democracy and Education
6. Das Kapital
7. The Feminine Mystique
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
9. Beyond Good and Evil
10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

*Origin of Species got an 'honorable mention'.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:26 pm

I don't know, the Complete Works of Shakespeare would be pretty heavy if it fell on you as well. Lots of pages in that one.

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:32 pm

On the Origin of Species...
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Blind Watchmaker
A Brief History of Time
Any scientific writings of the post-Copernican revolution era I'd say.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:35 pm

Jurassic Park was one. The book rocked so much that after seeing the film i loved so much as a child, THEN reading the book, i hated life for being so awful to me...

What a god damn stupid order to do it it, see the film THEN read the book...

Anybody else read the novel? What did you think? I honest fealt that the story, the characters and the over all scale of things was so much better than the film. The film is still great in my eyes, but damn, that book...

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:01 pm

From the summary of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money:

The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

THAT'S an interesting leap.

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:23 pm

Lol, there's a lot of military economic activity being spurred....

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:27 pm

The Kinsey Report, wtf? lol, fucking conservatives

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:33 pm

Grudge wrote:The Kinsey Report, wtf? lol, fucking conservatives

What makes the Kinsey Report so controversial?

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:46 pm

Didn't he engage in a lot of EXTREMELY unethical experiments and research practices? Involving kids and such?

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:50 pm

I'm not sure...I am going to google it...I've probably heard of it at some point, but I have no idea what it is at the moment..

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:51 pm

He spent years researching sexual habbits

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:54 pm

FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.

Yes, FDR did contribute to an ever increasing national debt, but what he fails to mention is that it was Republican Ronald Reagan who astonishingly tripled the national debt during the Cold War, from $1 trillion to $3 trillion.

I wouldn't consider myself "a Democrat", but blaming FDR and the Democrats for the annual debt is insane - Republicans from Eisenhower to Reagan have vowed to decrease federal spending and ended up actually increased the size of the federal government (as was the case with Eisenhowever) or vastly increasing the nation's debt (Reagan).

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:54 pm

Ohh...Kinsey...yea. The sexual researcher. Wasn't there a movie about him with Liam Niesen (sp?) recently...

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:56 pm

Post by **tnf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:56 pm

By the way, it'd be funny, but the bottom line is that many of the books on the honorable mention list are extremely significant and have had a profound impact on bettering the world for everyone - conservatives included.

The Silent Spring, for example, really finally drove environmental issues home.

That websitel, and its contributors, are grade A dumbfucks, regardless of their university affiliations.

To be honest, I'd be somewhat proud to have a book that some of those guys voted as harmful.

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:58 pm

Nightshade wrote:From the summary of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money:

The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government. When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.
THAT'S an interesting leap.

Interesting leap my arse. It's pure fantasy. The enormous deficit comes from Reaganite corporate tax cuts combined with an ever-increasing military budget (which in turn showers money over many of the corporations, like defence contractors, who profited from the tax cuts, hence the gap between rich and poor in the US growing drastically under Reagan).

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:00 pm

Yeah, that's pretty much my point, you goon. :icon26:

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:08 pm

From the 'precis' of the Communist Manifesto:

The Manifesto envisions history as a class struggle between oppressed workers and oppressive owners, calling for a workers’ revolution so property, family and nation-states can be abolished and a proletarian Utopia established. The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.

So a nation state put the abolition of the nation state into practice? Hm.

That whole list reminds me of why I fucking hate 'conservatives', most of whom are nothing more than the lackeys of empire, the modern equivalent of courtiers, usually mediocre intellects chasing power and influence.

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:09 pm

Nightshade wrote:Yeah, that's pretty much my point, you goon. :icon26:

I know. I was amplifying your point with facts.

Dunce :icon26:

Post by **Cool Blue** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:10 pm

I'm sorry to say that neither of you seem to understand the real reasons the US is ears deep in debt and the economic structure continues to become more and more skewed.

The problem stems from the Federal Reserve Bank and the use of a fractional banking system. The US economy is completely controlled and driven by a private corporation (the Federal Reserve Bank), for private share holders for private profits.

The mention of Reagan's antics are simply a symptom of the system going back to the 1920s when the traitorous stooge President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve act removing the dollars connection to the gold standard. Since then, the US economy has expereinced inflation beyond comprehension. But hey... that's what you get for allowing a private corporation to print money.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:25 pm

I came across this at Reason Online, good laugh.

Alongside Mein Kampf we have books by evil secularists and immoral scientists. Godless bastards.

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:26 pm

Don Carlos wrote:He spent years researching sexual habbits

Actually, it was sexual hobbits, but nevermind. One of my former mentors used to be director of the Kinsey Institute....quite a fun place if I do say so my damn self.

The snippet on Dewey's "Democracy in Education" almost made me lop one of my nuts off. Yeah, teaching 'thinking'...holy fuck.