Recommend Me New Brain Books!

willtupper

I like stuff like Daniel Quinn. Stuff that doesn't just bitch about the way things are (and who is to blame for that), but books which maybe point out a new way of thinking, view the world, and living in it.

Because this is my thread, I'll start by recommending one of my favorites. It is called, "No More Prisons," by a neat guy named William Upski Wimsatt. It's actually kind of like five books in one, with sections on Prison Reform, Self-Education, A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing (you read this section and you can't help but think, "Heeeey... Pearl Jam fans already do a lot of that!), The Cool Rich Kids Movement, and Why Philanthrophy Will Be The Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century.

Interested? Words can't say how much I love me this book:

http://www.amazon.com/More-Prisons-William-Upski-Wimsatt/dp/1887128425/sr=8-1/qid=1160893770/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2457522-0313742?ie=UTF8

Now, what about you? Tell me some things that you've read that are enlightening. Things that lit up the shadows in your thoughts.

enharmonic

The Bhagavad Gita

lucylespian

"Raising Boys" by Steve Biddulph, a fantastic child raiing bok, but which doubles as a decoder for older men like myself who have struggled through life after poor fathering.

Purple Hawk

A great book that I could recommend is "Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America" by Morris Fiorina, a very accomplished political scientist. Using facts, he completely discredits the notion that "moral issues" (whatever they are) decided the 2004 election, and the ridiculous notion that people in red states are completely different than those in blue states.