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Commie BS America beginning with Obama’s Reign of Terror entered an age of mendacity and criminality were just telling the truth and having integrity became revolutionary, subversive and counter cultural. The Democratic Party, Faux News outlets, Hollywood, Academia and their social media enablers traded the truth and civil rights of social conservatives for acquisition of power. As a result, we social conservatives lost essential elements found in a democratic society. We lost the freedom to dissent, the freedom to be left alone, the freedom to speak out against injustice, the freedom to disagree with our government, and the freedom to present our ideas without fear of retribution or penalty which are essential in a democratic society. Thanks to Trump, America will no longer be heading towards a level of control and fear seen in Orwell’s 1984 and V for Vendetta.

Hesse is one of my favorite writers, but I find “Narcissus and Goldmund” totally unsatisfying. Hesse claimed that the spiritual and sensual embodied in the title characters need to be balanced, but the novel seems to come down squarely on the side of the latter. Goldmund himself is one of the most annoying creations to have escaped Hesse’s pen - oblivious to why farmers would object to his sponging off them and bedding down with their daughters in exchange for a poem or a song (the brutes!). Anyone who wants a reason to despise Hesse need look no further than “Narcissus and Goldmund”; anyone wanting a reason to admire him should be warned away.

Born to be Wild!

If my memory serves me correctly, I don't remember any females allowed to pursue the Glass Bead Game, or become Magister Ludi. They were definitely relegated to being ..knecht.

Not a fan of this thesis at all. It's like Great Man Theory applied to history of science.

I've read all of Vonnegut's books. This one's my favorite.

I've read this book at least three times. It's in my top 5 ATF books.

I read Siddhartha, Damien and Steppenwolf. Steppenwolf was my favorite. I related to Harry,

This was the greatest novel I ever read. Tolstoy really despised Napoleon. It gave me a less favorable view of the general than I previously had.

Great book.

sounds like AI ... not going to listen to that

Oh dear. This is what happens when you insist on reading current slogans into old texts.

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Anybody seen the 1974 movie? Starring the great Max von Sydow.

Fauci Proclamations = Witch Hunt. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Carl attempted to remove what he did not understand from culture. Enlightenment science is innately prone to irrationality and tyranny. Logos, Pathos, Ethos, and Mythos were the domains that interested the Greeks. Mythos reveals very strange and interesting patterns in Logos, Pathos, and Ethos, but it is "unscientific". As near as I can tell, the concealment of Mythos forms the basis of the Enlightenment and the record levels of depression, anxiety, drug ODs, and suicide.

The book only appeals to the uptight.

I used to napp flint as a kid. It's difficult and takes lots of practice. Wear safety glasses. Better yet buy a good carbon steel knife and learn to sharpen it.

If we had followed Carl Sagans` advice we would not have been stampeded by authority figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

I bought the book, 3 years back on q referral, not yet opened.😢. I have about 50 books to read.

Luigi Mangione?

This was an excellent summary of the basic lessons from this book.

One of the best books I ever studied. Long. Tedious. And requiring my thought and attention to understand it. It is a bit of a microcosm of life. One of my favorite passages is about a stuck screw preventing removal of the engine side plate in order to get it running again. The entire value of the motorcycle bound up in solving a simple problem that appeared unsolvable...

Way back when I was training as an Air Force technician, a fellow trainee loaned this book to me. I remember the shock (no pun intended) that I felt when I realised that the narrator was recounting his own mental breakdown and treatment. It was tough going, but I enjoyed it and tried to apply his principles of quality to my work on aircraft. Unfortunately, in my experience, the RAAF (despite adopting "Total Quality Maintenance") was, in practice, more interested in the *quantity* of maintenance carried out, usually meaning the number of serviceable aircraft on line every morning. The "A" Team were always the ones who got the job done quickest, usually by knowing the task so well that they didn't always follow the maintenance manual. When they stuffed up, sometimes spectacularly, the consequences were usually mitigated due to being "our best performers". (I was proudly "B" Team all the way.) In return I lent my fellow trainee my copy of Neville Schute's novel "Round the Bend". It explores similar themes to Pirsig's book, but in a much more easily readable way, and is set against a background of aircraft maintenance, where the main character preaches (literally) the concept of pride in ones work as being a spiritual thing.

Would have been nice to get warned about the 'SPOILER '.. I'm began reading this last week..

I have this audio book. Took many drives to the coast listening to this one. Great book but takes a while for it to sink in. One book that really shook me was The Courage to be Disliked. Brings up a lot of shit that one does. Alfred Adler.......

The Tao that is described is not the eternal Tao.

A brilliant book - like all of his books. Loved Steppenwolf.

Do your best in all you do. Take your time. Be thankful for each challenge. That’s what I got from the book.

Pirsig didn't struggle with mental illness. The society in which he lived struggled with his genius. They had more power, and so they sucked him into their world values and tortured him under the guise of making him better. It's a very common thing among civilized people. The Chautauqua he was on was trying to reconcile that.

If the society in which you live has a compulsory education system, you do not live in an open society.

Thanks for making these ideas more accessible. I’ve been a reader all my life. But sometimes, as an average guy, I miss the deeper meanings of good literature and philosophy…

i really hate this boomer classic. its about an absent father who is too busy 'doing his own thing, maaan' to be a day to day parent. then when he gets his kid for awhile he just falls over himself congradulating himself about it. the lack of awareness of the kid's autism is a lesser fail as it reflects the era it was written in when that was poorly understood, but yet not to the absolute lack of awareness and magical thinking that this supreme egoist protagonist has (because he hasn't been around to deal with it). it's a shame its trapped in this selfish male-centric era because otherwise its a great book, but that just ruins it. maaan.

Thanks A.I. robot man. You "talking" about emotion and mindfulness is hilarious!

I read this book when I was a teenager. Didn't really understand it at the time. I'm surprised to see that it explains, to a great degree, how I've spent the subsequent 50 years since.

Hey Gemini! What is the Multiverse Theory? "It's important to note that the multiverse theory is still highly speculative, and there is no definitive proof of its existence. However, it remains a fascinating topic of discussion among physicists and philosophers, and it continues to be explored through scientific research and theoretical investigations." Thank you, Gemini.

Ironic that AI cannot recognize a silent "K".

Crappy AI voice

Getting into the last 100 pages. Second attempt at it after 30 years or so.

Mindfulness has become increasingly difficult to achieve because of the intrusion and addiction to the instantaneous nature that technologies and distractions bring.

You murder German surnames. It's not "Hessa" or "Ka-nect".

A book many claim to have read, but have not.

What is good and what is not good ? Do you need to ask?

I tried reading this book and found it unbearably dull. The summary provided by this video is more than enough for me!

this channel might be good if a real person narrated

love your brief video format. ❤

the next generation needs to know about the Herman Hesse books also.

"The cycle you are working on is yourself." Once I understood that, everything became better.

A class I took in the 1970's for my undergraduate degree in Religion (at Univ. of Hawaii) had as texts the Heart Sutra and this book. Both prompted much self-examination.