One little quibble--if we want to de-serf ourselves we might want to avoid buying anything from Amazon as much as is rationally possible. Anyone able to use the interwebs with sufficient skill to have found your Substack ought to be able to find independent bookstores, if not in their own neighborhoods, at least in their own regions. And though this updated version might be the preferred edition, supporting one's local or regional used bookstore to hunt out previous editions is also a worthy endeavor.
I try to buy only used from Amazon, though I am told he's now bought Abe Books too. In the US, where book stores are dying or gone, there's Bookshop.Org, where you can pick a tiny little shop trying to hold the line against monolithic forces. I read there is an entire town of bookshops in Scotland.
Where I live there's an annual used-book fair that's one of the joys of life here. We go staggering home with shopping bags full of treasures. Plus we have a used book store and an independent bookstore that can order on request.
I have gotten some used books via Amazon but I am now trying to be more disciplined in adhering to my principles.
Ebay is a gold mine of used books and many other items. Many/most of the sellers are actual bookstore owners. Many are charities such as Goodwill who resell donated items on Ebay.
In addition to finding great deals on specific books that I'm looking for, I put in search terms on a specific subject, and have found very interesting books that no one has heard of.
LOL! I wasn't telling YOU to get the book at Abe, I was supporting your contention about not buying from Amazon by providing a link for others to use to get the book without having to go through Ama-monopoly. :-)
Many products that have been replaced by foreign goods are only available on Amazon. Parts for older mowers, VO5, denture brush, and much more. I get my size 5 shoes there, but NO ONE ELSE CARRIES my size, and haven't for years.
Here are some from beyond the pale of physicalism:
--Explorers of the Infinite: the secret spiritual lives of extreme athletes-and what they reveal about near death experiences, psychic communications, and touching the beyond Maria Coffey
--The Third Man Factor Surviving the Impossible John Geiger
---Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Karsten Heuer
I've been reading Patrick Harpur and ran across a reference to Shambhala, and tracking that down found this very intriguing, suggestive bit on wikipedia:
"Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[15] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala
Fabulous read. Hayek was brilliant. Huxley better detailed the road to serfdom, however. A startling 1958 interview with Mike Wallace haunts me every damn day.
The Austrian School from Menger and Bohm-Bawerk, to Mises and Hayek to Rothbard and beyond argued against the policies that got us here. It's too late now for gradual change. The accumulation of debt and malinvestment must be adjusted and re-directed to the extent possible.
Excellent addition to a list of must-reads.
One little quibble--if we want to de-serf ourselves we might want to avoid buying anything from Amazon as much as is rationally possible. Anyone able to use the interwebs with sufficient skill to have found your Substack ought to be able to find independent bookstores, if not in their own neighborhoods, at least in their own regions. And though this updated version might be the preferred edition, supporting one's local or regional used bookstore to hunt out previous editions is also a worthy endeavor.
I try to buy only used from Amazon, though I am told he's now bought Abe Books too. In the US, where book stores are dying or gone, there's Bookshop.Org, where you can pick a tiny little shop trying to hold the line against monolithic forces. I read there is an entire town of bookshops in Scotland.
Where I live there's an annual used-book fair that's one of the joys of life here. We go staggering home with shopping bags full of treasures. Plus we have a used book store and an independent bookstore that can order on request.
I have gotten some used books via Amazon but I am now trying to be more disciplined in adhering to my principles.
Ebay is a gold mine of used books and many other items. Many/most of the sellers are actual bookstore owners. Many are charities such as Goodwill who resell donated items on Ebay.
In addition to finding great deals on specific books that I'm looking for, I put in search terms on a specific subject, and have found very interesting books that no one has heard of.
Agreed. Get the book here:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results&kn=road%20to%20serfdom%20definitive%20edition&sts=t
I have a local bookseller.
LOL! I wasn't telling YOU to get the book at Abe, I was supporting your contention about not buying from Amazon by providing a link for others to use to get the book without having to go through Ama-monopoly. :-)
I am urging people to find a local or regional bookseller.
I see, yes, that would be even better than Abebooks, since it will help in keeping a local shop open...
My mission to save independent booksellers everywhere...
Many products that have been replaced by foreign goods are only available on Amazon. Parts for older mowers, VO5, denture brush, and much more. I get my size 5 shoes there, but NO ONE ELSE CARRIES my size, and haven't for years.
Feel free to reread my comment.
Fascinating that anyone would ever want to give more power to others.
That's the operating system of all religions. "Just tell me what to do so I don't need to think."
With all those copies sold, we still ended up here
Imagine how much worse if they hadn’t been printed or, more importantly, the ideas contained therein had never been disseminated.
Here are some from beyond the pale of physicalism:
--Explorers of the Infinite: the secret spiritual lives of extreme athletes-and what they reveal about near death experiences, psychic communications, and touching the beyond Maria Coffey
--The Third Man Factor Surviving the Impossible John Geiger
---Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Karsten Heuer
I've been reading Patrick Harpur and ran across a reference to Shambhala, and tracking that down found this very intriguing, suggestive bit on wikipedia:
"Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[15] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala
When it comes to recommending libertarian books, I like to pair this with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Calculation_in_the_Socialist_Commonwealth
If you would like to see my take on it I have a short post:
https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/a-pinch-of-communism
What has Government Done to Our Money by Murray Rothbard: https://shorturl.at/4dtwt
Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises: https://shorturl.at/aLewy
Friedrich A. Hayek, Road to Serfdom
https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/friedrich-a-hayek-road-to-serfdom
F.A. HAYEK ROAD TO SERFDOM 2
https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/fa-hyek-road-to-serfdom-2
I hope you enjoyed my Ken Hamblin story. This goes with it. TRIP BACK IN TIME. Samuel Barrett Pettengill U. S. Congressman 1886-1974.
https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/trip-back-in-time-samuel-barrett
Fabulous read. Hayek was brilliant. Huxley better detailed the road to serfdom, however. A startling 1958 interview with Mike Wallace haunts me every damn day.
A must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40
I've been narrating 10's of books for our podcast and beyond. This was my favorite recently.
Check out our version on Spotify... or on our podcast with hundreds of others.
Thanks for posting this! Everyone needs to read this book. It's more relevant than one can imagine at this time.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2uLvWb92FZ8SxCxbyray7r
https://adultbrain.ca/
Fee.org has many fine articles.
The Austrian School from Menger and Bohm-Bawerk, to Mises and Hayek to Rothbard and beyond argued against the policies that got us here. It's too late now for gradual change. The accumulation of debt and malinvestment must be adjusted and re-directed to the extent possible.