Back in the days before wokeism became predominant I used to read a lot of fiction. Alas, the lockstep ideology in the publishing industry has destroyed what used to be a great pastime. The requirements for feminized characters who tend to be of untraditional sexual orientation and the great combat skills they seem to have gets a bit boring. I am leaning toward nonfiction more often.
That presents its own problems. Much of the nonfiction is also politically correct and tediously predictable. I used to be able to get recommendations from others who read a lot but the books they have recommended to me and I have read are not as awesome as I was led to believe.
What is a man to do?
I am going back and reading things I read years ago. Thomas Sowell’s Conflict of Visions is always worth a reread. C.S. Lewis is rewarding. The current book I am planning on working through is Idols for Destruction by Herbert Schlossberg. It is copyrighted in 1983 but views society like it was written tomorrow. He starts off like this,
“The technological flowering and economic expansion of the 20th century has been accompanied by an astonishing growth in pessimism, even despair.”, p. 1I read it twenty years ago and took notes. It seems worth reconsidering. I doubt if you will find it in the library but I think it is worth your time.
I have several long term reading adventures going on. My hope is I live long enough to finish them but knowing me I will keep adding more to expand the list. Does that lead to immortality?
Schlossberg, Herbert. Idols for Destruction. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983.
homo unius libri
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