Whats so funny about peace, love, and understanding? Give me the basis for your philosophical and political musings on this board.

i.e.

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"
Karl Marx "The Communist Manifesto"
John Locke "Second Treatise on Civil Government"
Friedrich Engels "Private Property and the State"
Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan"
George Carlin's "Brain Droppings"

etc.

note: these do not reflect my personal leanings, just examples (or are they..)

Henry David Thoureau-Civil Disobedience, Walking and Walden

Ralph Waldo Emerson-Self Reliance

Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat

Revenge of the Latchkey Kids--Ted Rall

Everything Berkeley Brethed ever wrote/drew.

being a human being...........with some intelligence

^ Nice.

I like that piece from Emerson on Self Reliance.

Kiplings "If" is pretty good too.


But essentially I'm just a lowly moderate libertarian.

I really enjoyed Emerson's thoughts on what made a poet a, well, poet, and while he does romantice the topic a great deal it is a hell of a interesting read.

Thanks to those of you who responded with maturity. Very interesting stuff.

I've gotta agree on "Brain Droppings." Bill Hicks to an extent.

Oh. And my wallet.

I was going to have a thread titled "Post Your Library." Fuck it! I'll do it here.

Night - Elie Wiesel
9/11 – Noam Chomsky
The Oh Really? Factor – Peter Hart
America: The Book – Jon Stewart
Lies – Al Franken
The Simpsons and Philosophy – ed. Irwin, Conard, Skoble
The Portable Henry Rollins
Silencing Political Dissent – Nancy Chang
What We Do Now – ed. Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians
Culture Jam – Kalle Lasn
Steal This Book – Abbie Hoffman
Criminal Justice – Joel Samaha
The New Subversive Political Cartoonists – ed. Ted Rall
Bridges of Respect – American Friends Service Committee
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy – ed. James B. South
Crashing The Party – Ralph Nader
Approaching the Qur’an – Michael Sells
The People’s History of the USA – Howard Zinn
Language Truth & Logic – AJ Ayers
Crime & Criminology – Jay Livingston
Theorizing Black Feminism – Stanlie M. James and Abena P. A. Busia
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell – Marilyn Manson
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
White Lies, White Power – Michael Novick
Chomsky for Beginners – David Cogswell
It’s About Time: America’s Imprisonment Binge – John Irwin & James Austin
The Criminal Elite – James William Coleman
The Other Feminists – Susan M. Hartman
Heavier Than Heaven – Charles R. Cross
Salt: A World History – Mark Kurlansky
I’m Just Here For The Food – Alton Brown
What Einstein Told His Cook – Robert L. Wolke
Constitutional Law For A Changing America – Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker
IBM and the Holocaust – Edwin Black
Blinded By The Right – David Brock
A Primer of Drug Action – Robert M. Julien
Crime & Disrepute – John Hagan
Five Dialogues – Plato
Constructions of Deviance – Patricia A. Adler & Peter Adler
Theoretical Criminology – Vold, Bernard, & Snipes
The Dilbert Principle – Scott Adams
50 Ways To Fight Censorship - Dave Marsh & George Plimpton


There are others, but they're mostly goofy gifts, insignificant fiction, or directly relating to my job.

Whatever B says....I disagree!

Damn B, thats a pretty big library you got there...

I'd post mine but it seems like an awful lot of work, how long did it take you to type that list?

I could never post my entire library: I'd get banned for jamming up the board!

My fav titles:

Declaration of Indepence-Howard Zinn
Revenge of the Latchkey Kids--Ted Rall
This Bridge Called my Back--varied authors
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce--Judith Wallerstein
Welcome to the Jungle--Geoffrey Holtz
13th Gen--Neil Howe and Bill Strauss
The Closing of the American Mind--Allan Bloom
Prozac Nation--Elizabeth Wurtzel
Heavier than Heaven--Charles Cross
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Star Trek--book is upstairs...

as is the rest of my collection.

edit: the Bloom book is actually contrary to ny belief system, but it is always good to know what the "enemy" is up to...

Eh .... 15 minutes