Marc Andreessen -- e/acc Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In conversation with Sam Harris about the three-stage process of new teach adoption: "I used to think that I was fantasizing this, but then I found a book that explains it by this MIT professor from 50 years ago, pre-internet, where this goes through the history of new technology."

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15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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"Stanley Cohen investigated a series of 'moral panics' in Folk Devils and Moral Panics. Cohen describes the reaction among the British public to the seaside rivalry between the 'mod' and "rocker' youth subcultures of 60s/70s. In a moral panic, 'the untypical is made typical.'"

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3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild Mine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

Marc Andreessen -- e/acc

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Hardcover by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr https://t.co/CaCXwFU7cN

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18. Three books on the philosophical underpinnings of our time: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History by James Nichols Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

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9. Two books on fascism and anti-fascism, titled Fascism and Anti-Fascism respectively, both by Paul Gottfried.

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5. Two comprehensive biographies of Adolf Hitler. Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich

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16. Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy by Richard Hanania -- a sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions.

Marc Andreessen -- e/acc

This is true. It’s the older, bourgeois, pre-managerial model of capitalism that created the modern world. Contrast with the present degraded, wokified, zombified oligarchy. The book to read -> The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Revolution-What-Happening-World-ebook/dp/B07MMDWBQN/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1519041920806395907