Catch and Kill. It's the Harvey Weinstein tell all book that took down NBC. Pretty good read, really makes you respect the author if everything he is saying is truthful.
The National Emergency Library Makes 1.5 Million Books Free to Read Right Now
in Books, Internet Archive, Libraries | March 27th, 2020 1 Comment
The coronavirus has closed libraries in countries all around the world. Or rather, it's closed physical libraries: each week of struggle against the epidemic that goes by, more resources for books open to the public on the internet. Most recently, we have the Internet Archive's opening of the National Emergency Library, "a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed." While the "national" in the name refers to the United States, where the Internet Archive operates, anyone in the world can read its nearly 1.5 million books, immediately and without waitlists, from now "through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later."
"Not to be sneezed at is the sheer pleasure of browsing through the titles," writes The New Yorker's Jill Lepore of the National Emergency Library, going on to mention such volumes as How to Succeed in Singing, Interesting Facts about How Spiders Live, and An Introduction to Kant’s Philosophy, as well as "Beckett on Proust, or Bloom on Proust, or just On Proust." A historian of America, Lepore finds herself reminded of the Council on Books in Wartime, "a collection of libraries, booksellers, and publishers, founded in 1942." On the premise that "books are useful, necessary, and indispensable," the council "picked over a thousand volumes, from Virginia Woolf’s The Years to Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, and sold the books, around six cents a copy, to the U.S. military." By practically giving away 120 million copies of such books, the project "created a nation of readers."
In fact, the Council on Books in Wartime created more than a nation of readers: the American "soldiers and sailors and Army nurses and anyone else in uniform" who received these books passed them along, or even left them behind in the far-flung places they'd been stationed. Haruki Murakami once told the Paris Review of his youth in Kobe, "a port city where many foreigners and sailors used to come and sell their paperbacks to the secondhand bookshops. I was poor, but I could buy paperbacks cheaply. I learned to read English from those books and that was so exciting." Seeing as Murakami himself later translated The Big Sleep into his native Japanese, it's certainly not impossible that an Armed Services Edition counted among his purchases back then.
Now, in translations into English and other languages as well, we can all read Murakami's work — novels like Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore, short-story collections like The Elephant Vanishes, and even the memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — free at the National Emergency Library. The most popular books now available include everything from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to the Kama Sutra, Dr. Seuss's ABC to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (and its two sequels), Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to, in disconcerting first place, Sylvia Browne's End of Days: Predictions and Prophecy About the End of the World. You'll even find, in the original French as well as English translation, Albert Camus' existential epidemic novel La Peste, or The Plague, featured earlier this month here on Open Culture. And if you'd rather not confront its subject matter at this particular moment, you'll find more than enough to take your mind elsewhere. Enter the National Emergency Library here.
Thanks to @CalvinAndHobo i am currently at exactly the halfway point in The Passage by Justin Cronin. And it is good. It is very good. Vampires, but like you’ve never encountered them. It is what I’ve seen called archeological fiction, meaning everything that happens is there before you, and it is up to you to figure out just which thread your going to follow.
"Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Wow, for a 30 MHz signal and assuming only 50% efficiency, that's a 500 x increase in receiver gain (27 dB) and a 0.7 degree beamwidth. That's amazing at frequencies that low.
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15 APRIL 2020
Matter–antimatter symmetry violated
In a mirror world, antiparticles should behave in the same way as particles. But it emerges that leptons — neutrinos, electrons and their more exotic cousins — might not obey this expected pattern.
15 APRIL 2020
Matter–antimatter symmetry violated
In a mirror world, antiparticles should behave in the same way as particles. But it emerges that leptons — neutrinos, electrons and their more exotic cousins — might not obey this expected pattern.
"Gone South" by Robert McCammon. It's the first time I've read one of his. Our public library is closed and I'm going through old books in our library.
Aldous Huxley in 1958 – Pharmacology and Propaganda Will Make The Masses Love Their Slavery
May 2, 2020
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times
As the world is forced into accepting greater and greater levels of government control in all areas of life, remember that nothing in politics happens by chance. There is a science to creating empires. Tomes have been written on the techniques of controlling masses of people.
Three important axioms stand out: people are much easier to control when they love their slavery, people in fear are very easy to control, and individualism is dangerous to the state.
During a prophetic interview with journalist Bill Wallace in 1958, Aldous Huxley commented on what he foresaw as a potential future for the United States and the world.
Huxley’s classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, was written almost 90 years ago in 1931, prior to World War II, and his insight is still highly relevant today. We are seeing in real-time the emergence of a global, technocratic super state, of which pharmaceutical companies play a critically important role, and terrorism is always a lurking background threat.
Huxley, as introduced by Wallace:
“A man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us.” ~Mike Wallace (1958)
If Huxley was able to see all of this coming almost 90 years ago and describe it so well in Brave New World, what are we missing?
He was able to make these predictions because he understood that mass control is the most studied science of the world’s wealthiest and powerful people. He also understood human nature and the nature of government.
“…obviously the passion for power is one of the most moving passions that exists in man; and after all, all democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one man or any one small group have too much power for too long a time.
After all what are the British and American Constitution except devices for limiting power, and all these new devices are extremely efficient instruments for the imposition of power by small groups over larger masses.” ~Aldous Huxley
Today, over 40 million Americans regularly take antidepressants, a testament to the omnipresence of the pharmacological state. Huxley foresaw this being a critical tenet of control, for people need to love their slavery, and new drugs can really help with that.
To Wallace, he states:
“In this book of mine, Brave New World, I postulated a substance called Soma, which was a very versatile drug. It would make people feel happy in small doses, it would make them see visions in medium doses, and it would send them to sleep in large doses.
…this is the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs, which physiologically speaking are almost costless.
…if you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled, and this they will do partly by drugs as I foresaw in Brave New World…” ~Aldous Huxley
Furthermore, he spoke about the need to disrupt the natural thought process of human beings, accessing their subconscious minds, so that their emotions instead of logic will lead them. Huxley foresaw advanced forms of propaganda being used to hack the mind’s of the masses.
“[They will do it]… partly by these new techniques of propaganda.
They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious and his deeper emotions, and his physiology even, and so, making him actually love his slavery.
I mean, I think, this is the danger that actually people may be, in some ways, happy under the new regime, but that they will be happy in situations where they oughtn’t to be happy.
…We know, there is enough evidence now for us to be able, on the basis of this evidence and using certain amount of creative imagination, to foresee the kind of uses which could be made by people of bad will with these things and to attempt to forestall this…” ~Aldous Huxley
With the state of national media and the clear biases they project onto the population, it’s hard to imagine a more propagandized environment in America, however, the rise of internet censorship foreshadows an even darker future for free thought and free speech.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is emerging all around us. Are you paying attention?
Watch the full interview, here:
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (Aldous Huxley in 1958 – Pharmacology and Propaganda Will Make The Masses Love Their Slavery) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.
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@silvermouse , if I could hit the Awesome button 50 times I would for that post. ^^
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I've also been browsing the Archive.org collection of open books and begun reading HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness while smoking KBV Mountains of Madness tobacco when I'm not reading the next section of Charles Bukowski's Run with the Hunted collection.
I know it's not the same as reading a physical book, but it is an option.
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Just finished a book called My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth. One of the most unique books I've ever read, in a very good way. It's similar to a western, except it takes place something like 15 or 20 years ago. The whole book is written vernacularly, about a somewhat crazy hillbilly Moonshiner living in the woods in western North Carolina who's dog gets stolen. It took a few chapters to adjust to the intentional misspelling and slang, but it added so much to the story and the character. To anyone who likes westerns or noir this is a must read. Going to read the rest of the series now.
"What these studies reveal is that power, which easily frightens us, turns out to be all the more cunning because its basic forms of operation can change in response to our ongoing efforts to free ourselves from its grip. "
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Catch and Kill. It's the Harvey Weinstein tell all book that took down NBC. Pretty good read, really makes you respect the author if everything he is saying is truthful.
https://youtube.com/c/RepublicofDebauchery
Against my better judgement, Run with the Hunted, a Charles Bukowski Reader. I've read this several times before. Not a happy book.
This one seems appropriate: we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain" by Charles Bukowski
http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/2008/04/billyblogs-favorite-poems-4-we-aint-got.html?m=1
I took advantage of the National Emergency Library today to continue reading the Bukowski book, the library has a good selection.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/04/13/the-most-important-image-ever-taken-by-nasas-hubble-space-telescope/#154623683077
This arrived yesterday. I could have saved my wife the $10.00 if she would have just asked me. Think she is trying to understand my charming attitude?
I think my Wife has been listening to that title on Audible.
I've decided that Bukowski goes well with cigars, and age.
Thanks to @CalvinAndHobo i am currently at exactly the halfway point in The Passage by Justin Cronin. And it is good. It is very good. Vampires, but like you’ve never encountered them. It is what I’ve seen called archeological fiction, meaning everything that happens is there before you, and it is up to you to figure out just which thread your going to follow.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-funds-proposal-to-build-a-gigantic-telescope-on-th-1842880061
Wow, for a 30 MHz signal and assuming only 50% efficiency, that's a 500 x increase in receiver gain (27 dB) and a 0.7 degree beamwidth. That's amazing at frequencies that low.
why there is stuff:
15 APRIL 2020
Matter–antimatter symmetry violated
In a mirror world, antiparticles should behave in the same way as particles. But it emerges that leptons — neutrinos, electrons and their more exotic cousins — might not obey this expected pattern.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9
Read this yesterday, very interesting
Rereading this till I can get something new
I'm a monster. I use dust covers to save my place too.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ant-societies-point-to-radical-possibilities-for-humans
The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core
Very interesting read, @silvermouse
"Gone South" by Robert McCammon. It's the first time I've read one of his. Our public library is closed and I'm going through old books in our library.
Prospective Study of Polygenic Risk, Protective Factors, and Incident Depression Following Combat Deployment in US Army Soldiers
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/361725v1.full.pdf
Arrived today
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2020/05/02/aldous-huxley-in-1958-pharmacology-and-propaganda-will-make-the-masses-love-their-slavery/
Aldous Huxley in 1958 – Pharmacology and Propaganda Will Make The Masses Love Their Slavery
May 2, 2020
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times
As the world is forced into accepting greater and greater levels of government control in all areas of life, remember that nothing in politics happens by chance. There is a science to creating empires. Tomes have been written on the techniques of controlling masses of people.
Three important axioms stand out: people are much easier to control when they love their slavery, people in fear are very easy to control, and individualism is dangerous to the state.
During a prophetic interview with journalist Bill Wallace in 1958, Aldous Huxley commented on what he foresaw as a potential future for the United States and the world.
Huxley’s classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, was written almost 90 years ago in 1931, prior to World War II, and his insight is still highly relevant today. We are seeing in real-time the emergence of a global, technocratic super state, of which pharmaceutical companies play a critically important role, and terrorism is always a lurking background threat.
Huxley, as introduced by Wallace:
“A man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us.” ~Mike Wallace (1958)
If Huxley was able to see all of this coming almost 90 years ago and describe it so well in Brave New World, what are we missing?
He was able to make these predictions because he understood that mass control is the most studied science of the world’s wealthiest and powerful people. He also understood human nature and the nature of government.
“…obviously the passion for power is one of the most moving passions that exists in man; and after all, all democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one man or any one small group have too much power for too long a time.
After all what are the British and American Constitution except devices for limiting power, and all these new devices are extremely efficient instruments for the imposition of power by small groups over larger masses.” ~Aldous Huxley
Today, over 40 million Americans regularly take antidepressants, a testament to the omnipresence of the pharmacological state. Huxley foresaw this being a critical tenet of control, for people need to love their slavery, and new drugs can really help with that.
To Wallace, he states:
“In this book of mine, Brave New World, I postulated a substance called Soma, which was a very versatile drug. It would make people feel happy in small doses, it would make them see visions in medium doses, and it would send them to sleep in large doses.
…this is the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs, which physiologically speaking are almost costless.
…if you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled, and this they will do partly by drugs as I foresaw in Brave New World…” ~Aldous Huxley
Furthermore, he spoke about the need to disrupt the natural thought process of human beings, accessing their subconscious minds, so that their emotions instead of logic will lead them. Huxley foresaw advanced forms of propaganda being used to hack the mind’s of the masses.
“[They will do it]… partly by these new techniques of propaganda.
They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious and his deeper emotions, and his physiology even, and so, making him actually love his slavery.
I mean, I think, this is the danger that actually people may be, in some ways, happy under the new regime, but that they will be happy in situations where they oughtn’t to be happy.
…We know, there is enough evidence now for us to be able, on the basis of this evidence and using certain amount of creative imagination, to foresee the kind of uses which could be made by people of bad will with these things and to attempt to forestall this…” ~Aldous Huxley
With the state of national media and the clear biases they project onto the population, it’s hard to imagine a more propagandized environment in America, however, the rise of internet censorship foreshadows an even darker future for free thought and free speech.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is emerging all around us. Are you paying attention?
Watch the full interview, here:
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (Aldous Huxley in 1958 – Pharmacology and Propaganda Will Make The Masses Love Their Slavery) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.
Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter.
@silvermouse , if I could hit the Awesome button 50 times I would for that post. ^^
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
There aren't a lot of free thinkers who haven't drunk one flavor of Kool-Ade or another left.
The First Eagle, Tony Hillerman. Found this book when I cleaned my studio. Sure hope the library opens soon.
I read a lot of Hillerman novels in the past. Looks like there's several in the National Emergency Library on Archive.Org
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
I've also been browsing the Archive.org collection of open books and begun reading HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness while smoking KBV Mountains of Madness tobacco when I'm not reading the next section of Charles Bukowski's Run with the Hunted collection.
I know it's not the same as reading a physical book, but it is an option.
Just finished the Orphan X series. Not the best series I've ever read but enjoyable.
Just finished a book called My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth. One of the most unique books I've ever read, in a very good way. It's similar to a western, except it takes place something like 15 or 20 years ago. The whole book is written vernacularly, about a somewhat crazy hillbilly Moonshiner living in the woods in western North Carolina who's dog gets stolen. It took a few chapters to adjust to the intentional misspelling and slang, but it added so much to the story and the character. To anyone who likes westerns or noir this is a must read. Going to read the rest of the series now.
"The Institute" by Stephen King. Pretty interesting so far.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever
"What these studies reveal is that power, which easily frightens us, turns out to be all the more cunning because its basic forms of operation can change in response to our ongoing efforts to free ourselves from its grip. "