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Rhydian the Red · 88w
Just started my next Bitcoin-adjacent read. What should I add to my reading list? #AskNostr #Bookstr https://image.nostr.build/ad57abc3e3f73f255c2cd10df5c96ee38c689d3eb45dbcbdadb967e2c407c206.jpg
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Or for long form argument:

Philosophy
Lao Tzu - Tao te Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but IMO ignore his appeals to post-theist Christian ethics)

Liberty Politics
Etienne de la Boetie - Politics of Obedience
Mises - Liberalism, in the Classical Tradition
Rothbard - Anatomy of the State
Gene Sharp - The Politics of Nonviolent Action

Economics
Rothbard - What has Government done to our Money?
Bagehot - Lombard Street (as an enemy strategy)
One of:
Bylund - How to Think about the Economy (easy)
Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson (intermediate)
Mises - Human Action (advanced)

Religion
(reflecting my own pantheistic/pagan, nonchristian views)
Nietzche - Antichrist
Alain de Benoist - On Being a Pagan
Spinoza - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Language
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors we Live By (as an enemy strategy)

Fiction
Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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