By John Scalzi
ISBN-10: 1592231497
ISBN-13: 9781592231492
In each box of human exercise, there are humans, issues, and ideas that rank the most effective mankind has ever produced—the Book of the Dumb isn't approximately any of that. This quantity from Uncle John’s toilet Reader teaches us one worthy lesson: by no means underestimate the ability of human stupidity.
Since 1987, the lavatory Readers’ Institute has led the stream to face up in the event you sit and browse within the toilet (and in all places else for that matter). With greater than eleven million books in print, the Uncle John’s rest room Reader sequence is the longest-running, hottest sequence of its style on the earth. the place else may you discover such a lot of examples of the worst principles, so much regrettable utterances, and largest crackpot theories within the fields of artwork, technology, politics, activities, leisure, and extra? Uncle John ideas the realm of humor and all issues ridiculous, so prepare to be completely entertained. learn all about…
Crashes…on Mars
Vegetable-flavored Jell-O
Land wars fought in the course of the winter…in Russia
And a lot more!
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The way one reads a philosophy or history book is formed-or better, deformed-by education. The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount. Students are taught to read a book so that they can repeat the author's main thoughts. This is how the students "know" Plato, Aristotle, D escartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Heidegger, Sartre. The difference between various levels of education from high school to graduate school is mainly in the amount of cultural property that is acquired, which corresponds roughly to the amount of material property the students may be expected to own in later life.
This new outlook has made for greater honesty-as well as more frequent change of partners. It has not neces sarily led to a greater frequency of loving, and the new partners may love as little as did the old. " (In The Art of Loving I pointed out that the word "falling" in the phrase "falling in love" is a contradiction in itself. Since loving is a productive activity, one can only stand in love or walk in love; one cannot "fall" in love, for falling denotes passivity. ) During courtship neither person is yet sure of the other, but each tries to win the other.
Unfortunately, the work has been published only in the Czech language and hence has been inaccessible to most Western readers. ) 22 A F I RST G LANCE process. ) There are many other forms of incorporation that are not connected with physiological needs and, hence, are not limited. The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. This is obvious in pathological phenomena, such as alcoholism and drug addiction.
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