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Worldview:

  • Fyodor Dostojewski
    • Crime and punishment - Psychological torment of a murderer.
    • Demons - Destructive power of nihilism and radicalism in a society.
  • Aldous Huxley
    • The Doors of Perception - Mind-altering effects of mescaline, suggesting it unlocks a deeper perception of reality.
    • Heaven and Hell - Altered states of consciousness to both heavenly bliss and nightmarish experiences
    • Brave New World - A seemingly utopian future achieved through scientific control, but warns of the loss of freedom, individuality, and true happiness.
  • George Orwell
    • 1984 - Portrays a totalitarian state ruled by the ever-present, all-seeing figure of Big Brother, a symbol of oppressive government control.
    • Road To Wigan Pier - Combines sociological observations of poverty in northern England with a socialist critique of social class and economic inequality.
    • Animal Farm - Allegory for CCCP (Russian revolution) communisms > totality transformation. (wszystkie zwierzęta równe ale niektóre równiejsze). Corruption, Idealism, Apathy
  • William Golding
    • Lord of Flies - Stranded boys descend into savagery as their attempts to create a civilization on a deserted island fail. (demoralization of society) recurring pattern of falling vs: ‘De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens ‘ opisane na prawdziwych wydarzeniach z pamiętnika; tam chłopcy współpracowali.
  • Franz Kafka
    • The Trial - Portrays a man’s inexplicable arrest and nightmarish struggle against a faceless, all-powerful authority.
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    • Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Exposes the brutality and dehumanization of the Soviet forced labor camps.
  • Timothy Leary
  • David Foster Wallace

Fiction

  • David Mitchell
    • Cloud Atlas - 6 interconnected stories across time, exploring themes of karma, reincarnation, and the enduring human spirit.
  • Frank Herbert
    • Dune - The dangers of unchecked power and ambition / The importance of ecology and environmentalism / The power of the human mind / The importance of cultural identity and tradition / The dangers of religious fanaticism/ Lato II take huanity to guide his golden path.
  • Isaac Asimov
    • Foundation - Fall and rise of empire. Robot guides humanity through all events of series. The power of knowledge and reason / The importance of planning for the future / The inevitability of change.
  • Edward Gibbon
    • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Cyclical nature of empires. Internal Decay / Military Pressures / Shifting Values and Religion / Overextension
  • Philip K. Dick:
    • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Nature of humanity and consciousness in a world where artificial humans are increasingly sophisticated.
  • James Joyce
    • Finnegan’s Wake - Blends dream, history, and wordplay in a cyclical narrative exploring the life cycle and the river of human experience.
  • Hunter S. Thompson
    • Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
    • The Rum Diary
    • Where the Buffalo Roam

dune - super human that influence world for power / small actions of powerfull can infl humanity as a whole / zen Buddhism - herbert / mythology as a tool of social controll and social engenering.
tolken - / small and moral of.. ppl can change outcom of histroy / catholic

Shorts

  • Harlan Ellison
    • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream -Short story. tortured humans trapped by a sadistic supercomputer in a post-apocalyptic world.

Philosophy

  • Joseph Campbell
    • The Hero’s Journey
    • Transformations of Myth Through Time
    • The Hero with a Thousand Faces

  • George Lakoff - (people’s lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors)

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future -
  • Jean Baudrillard
    • Simulacra and Simulation -
  • Joscha Bach
  • Michael Meade
    • Finding Genius in your life https://youtu.be/h6Dasa5kIS8
  • Ayn Rand
    • The Fountain head - novel Philosophy of objectivism. Maybe have no good answers but have good questions.

History of humankind

  • Yuval Noah Harari
    • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - 2015
    • Sapiens -
    • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century -
  • Jared Diamond
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
  • Marshall McLuhan
    • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man 1964
  • Jordan B. Peterson
    • Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief -
  • Robert Greene
    • The Laws of Human Nature -

Beliefs

Mircea Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East John Marco Allegro - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth

Psychology

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  • Jonathan Haidt
    • The Happiness Hypothesis - Analysis of ancient text in context of happiness
    • The Righteous Mind
    • Don’t think of an elephant - z polecenia Haddita
  • Carl Jung
    • Modern Man in Search of A Soul -
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/v5gvr2/the_ultimate_jungs_reading_guide/
    • poznać Junga koncepcję Cienia, a potem obejrzeć Blue Velvet
  • Dan Ariely - Behavioral Economics (but was acused of falsifying data )
  • Paul Bloom
    • Psycholinguistics, Developmental Psychology
    • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
  • Madsen Pirie - How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic

  • Timothy Leary - Psychedelic Psychologist

Science

  • James Gleick
    • Chaos: Making a New Science
  • Daniel Kahneman
    • Thinking, Fast and Slow -
  • Dr. Octavio Choi
    • brain
      15. Affective Neuroscience – Jaak Panksep

Physics

  • Nima Arkani-Hamed - phys Super symmetry
  • Andrzej Dagan - tahiony / quantum theory and relativity
  • Sean Carroll - all
  • Brian Greene - all / quantum theory and relativity
  • Brian Keating - not get noble

  • Brian Cox - cosmology / astronomy

Art

  • Anatomy for Sculptors: Understanding the Human Form / Anatomy of Facial Expression - Uldis Zarins, Sandis Kondrat
  • The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants - Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
  • Cinema Speculation Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Quentin Tarantino

Animation

  • The Illusion of life: Disney animation - Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston
  • The Animator’s Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

  • Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained - Jonathan Cooper

Design

  • Reinventing the Wheel - Jessica Helfand
  • Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
  • The Good House: Contrast as a Design Tool - Jacobson, Max; Silverstein, Murray; Winslow, Barbara
  • The Design Of Everyday Things Die akustik, bearbeitet von Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

Gamedev

The Game Narrative Toolbox (Focal Press Game Design Workshops)

Math

  • Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Programing

  • Deep Learning: A Visual Approach (entagma recom)

Sebastien St-Laurent - The Complete Effect and HLSL Guide
Robert Nystrom - Game Programming Patterns‎

Economy

  • The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World - Book by Mark Spitznagel
  • Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
  • 3 rewolucja przemysłowa - rywkin The Experience Economy, Updated Edition

Geopolitics:

  • Peter Zeihan -

Finase: Lyn Aldryn

  1. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning
  2. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski

  3. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang

  4. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

Fun

  • the sacred mushroom and the cross - john marco allegro,
  • Stulecie chirurgów - Thorwald Jurgen
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Christopher Booker
101 prison of mind from 1790 ?? rainer maria rilke -

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/ https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Holiday-Books-2021

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Putting the Rabbit in the Hat https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53264823-100-mental-models / https://wisdomtheory.gumroad.com/l/100MM / https://fs.blog/mental-models/

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

The Immortality Key - Brian Muraresku

To read

  • James burnham
    • Defenders of freedom - the machiavellians
  • .
    • The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon - cultural, moral, social decay (crysis of lawlessnes, and increasing baurocracy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AdiRB9HApw PROTECTION for + from HUMANITY
  • Mimetic theory - rene girard - thinking framework