Noam Chomsky Type Book Suggestions

[zaxx19]

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Nickel and Dimed is a fantastic book

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Ha Ha my aunt wrote that.....lol lol lol.

Any other big B. Ehrenreich fans? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

(not my 1st aunt like 2nd or something. Im not up on those technical terms.)

[InchoateHand]

You two must not get along.

[zaxx19]

She gets along with her cousin(my dad) just fine.

He was a maoist in college, ran for a city council seat as a Democrat in the 1980's , and is active in the local Democratic party.

He also grumbles alot about how his generation was too pussy to organize(labor wise). He does tis knowing full well he is part of management and has been a white collar worker 95% of his adult life/.

[EricOF]

I highly recommend the Anti-Chomsky Reader by David Horowitz. I used to be a Chomsky nut before I grew up.

[MMMMMM]

Where did you read he bummed money off everyone? I'd like to read that and rather doubt it.

I understand that Thoreau made pencils, and later was a professional surveyor, and a schoolteacher. When he lived at his cabin by Walden Pond, he grew vegetables.

[theBruiser500]

okay what books? btw i used to, right now i am in "super libreal mode" though

[theBruiser500]

mmmm, i have Walden, i've tried reading it before but his old english is hard for me to understand i think i got bored reading it, i will give it another go at some point for you though

[InchoateHand]

You didn't know that?

The numbers he uses in Walden are made up, his vegetable crops rarely succeeded, and he was dependant on Emerson and crew to eat.

Just like his famous civil disobedeince--sure, he spends a night in jail rather than pay a tax towards an unjust war. Problem is, the penalty isn't a night in jail, he only spent a night because friends paid his tax for him. Its very easy to take the high road when someone is carrying you.

[nicky g]

Didn't he also go to his sister's house regularly to get his clothes washed and eat?

Still a great book.

[vulturesrow]

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okay what books?

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Bruiser,

Here are a few choices, Ive tried to make a mix of social and economics oriented book to try and give you the wide view of the conservative movement.

<ul type="square">[*]The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk[*]Witness by Whittaker Chambers[*]The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis[*]Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman[*]Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton[*]Neoconservativism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol[*]The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek[/list]
There are many more. Ayn Rand's stuff is good to a degree, George Orwell, A Brave New World by Huxley, and others. Also since you have read all those Chomsky tracts, you should read the Anti-Chomsky reader for some balance. I just wanted to try and give you a cross section since the conservative movement is hardly monolithic in its views.

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btw i used to, right now i am in "super libreal mode" though

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And in spite of what some people in this forum may think, I dont have a problem with this per se. But hopefully by reading some of my books you will either a) change your views [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (thats the long shot result I think in your case) or b) have a better understanding of conservative though.