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I've gotten quite a reading room going, so my answer would be Warhammer and History in the most abstract but:
This is the Sci-Fi for me, Earth is gone and the years are on a calendar that has no relation to ours. Frank Herbert's son reduces this world, but the original author made an utterly bland story in the first book to hand-hold us through the fantastic world that he constructed. a philosophic school called mentats exist because of a jihad that took place ten thousand years before where thinking machines were done away with because in thinking for us they came to rule over us. A 1965 book predicting what the WEF and their "Free will doesn't exist because AI" is only coming up with today.
Every man should study the studies of war.
The histories, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is compelling not because it is an interesting story but because it breaks your mind into seeing how alien cultures can be from one another in their political pursuits and social necessities. Humanity is not universal, there is no uncultured man but a brute or a savage. Every good man is a cultured man, and so there is no universal human but only nations and their citizens. The last three books then let you see Western Civilization as the oddity that it is rather than the unexamined default.
This is just Crack Cocaine, you will think like me and laugh at odd things.
This is the Sci-Fi for me, Earth is gone and the years are on a calendar that has no relation to ours. Frank Herbert's son reduces this world, but the original author made an utterly bland story in the first book to hand-hold us through the fantastic world that he constructed. a philosophic school called mentats exist because of a jihad that took place ten thousand years before where thinking machines were done away with because in thinking for us they came to rule over us. A 1965 book predicting what the WEF and their "Free will doesn't exist because AI" is only coming up with today.
Every man should study the studies of war.
The histories, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is compelling not because it is an interesting story but because it breaks your mind into seeing how alien cultures can be from one another in their political pursuits and social necessities. Humanity is not universal, there is no uncultured man but a brute or a savage. Every good man is a cultured man, and so there is no universal human but only nations and their citizens. The last three books then let you see Western Civilization as the oddity that it is rather than the unexamined default.
This is just Crack Cocaine, you will think like me and laugh at odd things.
