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Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. But that’s not what I’m particularly interested in.
I want to know what you learned through those stories. How they shaped your perspective. What they taught you about our world. Perhaps what you discovered about yourself. ✨
To me, that’s what’s most beautiful about a good book. 📚
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow & David Graeber taught me that humans have been reinventing social orders and constantly transitioning between them for most of history and before that. The empires we learn about in history class were drops of rigid hierarchy in a sea of diverse models for society. The lesson is that we should have the courage to keep dreaming, keep reinventing ourselves, and never accept anything as set in stone.
@Sheril One of the most important books I’ve read in the last few years is Breaking The Spell by Daniel Dennett. It makes the case that religion is ironically a logical outcome of human evolution, not some sort of incompatible-with-science purely vestigial mythology. It’s not true, of course, but it did serve an evolutionary purpose.
@Sheril Which one comes to mind when you think about #books that (re)shaped you? Just finished #Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico and it held up quite the mirror.
@Sheril perhaps that I like escapism a lot? 🤔
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