I was going through the original, categorised list and I noticed that one book, Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power, has incredibly powerful insights across sections 2., 3., 4. and 5., so I wanted to recommend it.
While I'm there,
- Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber has a bunch of essays that seem to be made on purpose to connect 3-to-5;
- Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies will probably get you as soon as you read the full index;
- Nick Chater's The Mind Is Flat is like the blackpilled, neurosciencey version of the elephant;
- C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures is incredibly short and incredibly prescient (big rift between humanities and science, and effects of the lack of a language between the two);
About the "People Have Reactions, Not Beliefs": I think the wording might be the issue. It's usually been phrased "Beliefs/justifications/stories come after feelings"; in your version I'm afraid the reader would be distracted by "what you mean, NO BELIEFS".
If you're interested in the genealogy, Dennet's "Consciousness Explained" introduces the press secretary (and has a bunch of insight related to your WokeGPT posts); William James' "The Principles of Psychology" was the first modern book to admit the primacy of emotional reaction, and will connect to section 1 of your list.
Finally, speaking of genealogy: it's insane how much of all of this is found in The Gay Science, check for instance #116, #319 and #345.
I was going through the original, categorised list and I noticed that one book, Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power, has incredibly powerful insights across sections 2., 3., 4. and 5., so I wanted to recommend it.
While I'm there,
- Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber has a bunch of essays that seem to be made on purpose to connect 3-to-5;
- Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies will probably get you as soon as you read the full index;
- Nick Chater's The Mind Is Flat is like the blackpilled, neurosciencey version of the elephant;
- C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures is incredibly short and incredibly prescient (big rift between humanities and science, and effects of the lack of a language between the two);
About the "People Have Reactions, Not Beliefs": I think the wording might be the issue. It's usually been phrased "Beliefs/justifications/stories come after feelings"; in your version I'm afraid the reader would be distracted by "what you mean, NO BELIEFS".
If you're interested in the genealogy, Dennet's "Consciousness Explained" introduces the press secretary (and has a bunch of insight related to your WokeGPT posts); William James' "The Principles of Psychology" was the first modern book to admit the primacy of emotional reaction, and will connect to section 1 of your list.
Finally, speaking of genealogy: it's insane how much of all of this is found in The Gay Science, check for instance #116, #319 and #345.