1. Metal
2. Hip Hop
2.1. R.A.P. Ferreria
2.1.1. "Love is Choosing"
2.2. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
2.3. Elucid - Revelator
2.4. Dalek - From the Tongues of Filthy Griots
2.5. Mos Def- The Ecstatic
2.5.1. Revelations
3. Metal
3.1. Necrophagist
3.2. Sepultura
3.3. Body Box
3.4. Black Sabbath
3.4.1. Master of Reality
3.4.1.1. After Forever - A surprisingly Christian song. Ozzy was very christian.
3.5. High on Fire
4. Literature/Non-Fiction
4.1. The bible
4.1.1. The Book of Job
4.1.1.1. Is there a reason for suffering
4.1.2. The Tower of Bable
4.1.2.1. Language as separation
4.1.3. Revelation
4.1.4. Original Sin
4.2. Algorithms to Live By
4.2.1. Optimal Stoppinng problems - Statistically speaking, it is best to non-commitally view about 37 percent of your options before cashing in.
4.3. Art of Loving - Eric Fromm
4.3.1. True love is rare
4.3.2. Love is our attempt to overcome seperateness
4.3.3. Most accept a dogmatic love when love is not found, but actively made.
4.4. Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Murray Bookchin
4.4.1. Argues that Marx wrote based on conditions he was a part of and could not forsee a world of overproduction.
4.4.2. For much of human history, we have fought against scarcity of resources. Bookchin argues that we are now facing the ramifications of overproduction through climate change. He critiques the authoritatiran threads of Marxism, born out of the social conditions from which marx wrote.
4.4.2.1. Authoritarianism in Marxism would include the notion that a worker's state should be created out of centralization. Anarchic society would develop out of spontaneity.
4.4.2.2. When an ideal like socialism or freedom is said to be accomplished, it ceases to be, because it must always be constructed.
4.5. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
4.5.1. Despite consuming drugs at the same rate, actually a lower rate than whites, black people are about twice as likely to be imprisoned over a drug charge
4.5.2. Affirmative action, while helping many, was unable to help many more who were not seen as ideal victims in the eyes of the law. This created an appearance of greater racial equity, while unable to address the racial gap in drug charges.
4.6. Doppleganger - Naomi Klein
4.6.1. Amazing and horrifying. This book talks about Naomi's experience being confused for Naomi Wolf. Wolf, at least formerly a liberal feminist, went deep into anti-vaccine and weather engineering conspiracy theories.
4.6.1.1. Klien uses this experience to show how social media can erode our sense of self. For example, she found it hard to be critical of pharmaceutical companies, who withheld vaccines, for fear of it sounding like the same type of conspiratorial nonsense Wolf was saying about these companies.
4.6.1.2. Discusses the history of Autism and its connection to vaccine conspiracies. It cites Silberman's Neurotribes.
4.7. Punished By Rewards - Alfie Kohn
4.7.1. Allowing students or workers time to explore options allows for greater creativity in solving problems.
4.8. Neurotribes - Steve Silberman
4.8.1. A fantastic history of Autism.
4.8.1.1. Hans Asperger was the first to develop a theory of what we now call autism in Vienna, Austria. He had a sympathetic view towards these children and called his autistic patients "little professors." With world war two, Nazism took over the university Asperger worked at. Eventually, Asperger signed paperwork sending most of his "little professors" off to camps. His sympathetic view did not survive the war.
4.8.1.2. American psychology was also deeply steeped in eugenics, and only in recent years has Asperger's initial view of Neurodiversity become favorable.