What are you reading right now?

[Sweejak]

I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

[Cordelia]

I'm needing an antidote to violence and despair in the news, so just started:

Beauty and the Soul, by Piero Ferrucci

http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ ... p?id=19535

[annie aronburg]

[Nordic]

[Nordic]

[Alaya]

Re rereading the Alexandria Quartet for the upmteeth time.

Has Durrell fallen out of favor? Does anyone know why?

[lightningBugout]

Cass Sunstein - Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures

[Hammer of Los]

I read that article through from start to finish about five times, LBO. It didnt help my paranoid psychosis at all. In fact, quite the reverse. It's damn interesting though, isnt it? The guy really screwed with my head with that one, though. Sometimes I think that was part of the intent of publishing it online.

I was going to do a line by line dissection of that thing, but I grew too scared and paranoid, and left it alone.

I really hope you are well LBO, and I am very glad to see you still posting here. Take care man.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

Eaarth - Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (McKibben)

[Alaya]

How to Get Up and Get Dressed

by Anonymous

[Sweejak]

The Universality of National Socialism (The Mistaken Category of 'Fascism')

PDF
http://nationalism.org/library/science/ ... R-2002.pdf

[Jeff]

The Universality of National Socialism (The Mistaken Category of 'Fascism')

PDF
http://nationalism.org/library/science/ ... R-2002.pdf

I'm reading that now. Thanks.

[Sweejak]

Here's a short video via Bill Moyers.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99ZCeO7wfU

[lightningBugout]

[Sweejak]

“ChesterBelloc” and the Fairy Tale of Distributism
The essay goes on to refute the title. Lots of choice quotes.
PDF
http://www.isi.org/books/content/423chap1.pdf