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I can repeat myself too Ace: Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity: “Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.” Ask the mods how many accounts I have. 1. I have been dormant for a number of years because... Kids.

I am sorry you have such comprehension issues. Anyone who has been reading my posts has an excellent idea of who I am by now. You on the other hand... We all know you. You exemplify Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity: “Debating an idiot is like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”

Start here: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript Then... Part I = Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics and Society Part II = Imaginative Literature Ancient World, Part I. The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts, The Romans, Corinthians I and II, Revelation. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts & Pictures (2 vols. ed. by James B. Prichard). The Presocratics (ed. by Philip Wheelwright). Plato: Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Lysis; Euthyphro; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Timaeus; Laws. Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle (ed. by Renford Bambrough). Herodotus, The Persian Wars. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (use M.I. Finley, The Portable Greek Historians for Herodotus and Thucydides). Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle (ed. by Jason L. Saunders). Plutarch, Lives of The Noble Greeks and Romans. Suetonius, The 12 Caesars. Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations. The Portable Roman Reader (ed. by Basil Davenport). Part II. Bulfinch’s Mythology. Homer, The Iliad; The Odyessy. Hesiod, Theogony. Aeschylus Euripides FOR THESE FOUR USE GRENE and LATTIMORE, Sophocles The Complete Greek Tragedy Aristophanes Virgil, The Aeneid. Petronius, The Satirican. The Portable Roman Reader (see above) Medieval World, Part I. Selections from Medieval Philosophers (2 vols., ed. by Richard McKeon). Philosophy in the Middle Ages (ed. by Arthur Hyman and James Walsh; use to complement McKeon). St. Benedict, Rule for Monks. The Koran Part II. Beowolf. Song of Roland. Dante, Divine Comedy (above all, Inferno). Boccaccio, The Decameron. Langland, Piers the Plowman. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Malory, LeMorte D’Arthur. Early Modern Period (ca. 15th-18th Centuries) Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man. The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (ed. by Ernst Cassirer, et al.). Machiavelli, The Prince; The Discourses. Castiglione, The Courtier (abridged). Cellini, Autobiography. Erasmus, In Praise of Folly. More, Utopia. Montaigne, Complete Essays (ed. by Donald M. Frome). Thomas A. Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Luther, Three Treatises (“An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility”; “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”; “The Freedom of a Christian”). Calvin, On the Christian Faith (Library of Liberal Arts Selections, ed. by John T. McNeill). Bacon, The Great Instauration; The New Organon; The New Atlantis. Descartes, Meditations; Discourse on Method; Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Hobbes, Leviathan. Spinoza, Ethics. Leibnitz, Monadology. Locke, An Essay on Human Understanding; Second Treatise of Government; A Letter on Toleration. Newton, Principia (Spinoza, Leibnitz and Newton can be sampled from From Descartes to Locke, ed. by T.V. Smith & Marjorie Grene). Galileo, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo; Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems (both ed. by Stillman Drake). Pascal, Pensees; The Essential Pascal (ed. by Robert Gleason). Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (selections if possible). La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. Milton, Areopagitica. Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary (ed. by Richard H. Popkin). Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Federalist Papers. Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. Montesquieu, Persian letters; Spirit of the Laws (ed. by David Wallace Carrithers). Early Modern Period (continued) Vico, The New Science (selections if possible). Herder, Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History (selections if possible). Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire (read it all). Diderot, D’Alembert’s Dream; Rameau’s Nephew. La Mettrie, Man A Machine. Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; The Social Contract; The Confessions; Emile. Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments. Johnson, The Rambler. Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Gay’s selection is OK). Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man. Malthus, On Population (do some judicious skimming based on detailed table of contents). The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology (ed. by Peter Gay; use this to complement the other 18th Century titles). Fichte, The Vocation of Man. German Idealist Philosophy, ed. by Rüdiger Bubner. Lichtenberg, Maxims. Part II. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantegruel. Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; MacBeth; Othello; Julius Caesar (read all the plays if there’s time). Cervantes, Don Quixote. Milton, Paradise Lost. Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus. LaFontaine, Fables. Moliere, The Bourgeois Gentleman. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. Pope, Essay on Man. Richardson, Pamela. Fielding, Tom Jones. Rousseau, The New Heloise. Voltaire, Candide. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Lessing, Nathan the Wise. The Nineteenth Century, Part I. Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Mind; Philosophy of History (use Hegel Selections, ed. by Jacob Loewenberg). Goethe, Poetry and Truth. Clausewitz, On War (Penguin Abridgement). Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Strauss, Life of Jesus (skim). Comte, Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings (ed. by Gertrud Lenzer). Mazzini, The Duties of Man. Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity (use selection ed. by E. Graham Waring). Proudhon, What is Property? Marx, The Marx-Engel’s Reader (ed. by Richard Tucker). Darwin, Origin of Species; Descent of Man (read the whole Norton edition, Darwin, ed. by Philip Appleman). Mill, Autobiography; Utilitarianism; On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Renan, Life of Jesus (abridgement). Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Tönnies, Community and Society. Dilthey, Pattern and Meaning in History (ed. by H.P. Rickman). Nietzsche, Use and Abuse of History; Beyond Good and Evil; Twilight of the Idols; Thus Spake Zarathustra. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method; Division of Labor in Society. LeBon, The Crowd. Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism. Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class. Part II. Novalis, Hymns to the Night and Other Selected Writings. Schiller, William Tell. Goethe, Faust. Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Manzoni, The Betrothed. Stendhal, Red and the Black. Balzac, Peŕe Goriot; Eugénie Grandet. Büchner, Danton’s Death; Woyzeck. Dickens, Hard Times. Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons. Hugo, Les Misérables. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov. Hardy, Return of the Native. Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina. Ibsen, A Doll’s House; The Ghosts. Huysmans, Against the Grain. Zola, Germinal. Nineteenth Century. Part II (continued) Maupassant, Selected Stories. Hauptmann, Before Dawn; The Weavers. Fontane, Effie Briest. Strindberg, Miss Julie. 20th Century, Part I. James, Varieties of Religious Experience. Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Interpretation of Dreams; Moses and Monotheism; Future of an Illusion; Totem and Taboo; Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, The Portable Jung (ed. by Joseph Campbell; read it all). Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams. Bergson, Creative Evolution. Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Essays in Sociology (Gerth & Mills edition). Simmel, Selected Writings (ed. by D.N. Levine). Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialism; Social Classes. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. deSaussure, Course in General Linguistics. Pareto, The Mind and Society. Mosca, The Ruling Class. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics (abridged edition) Michels, Political Parties. Lenin, What is to be Done?; State and Revolution; Imperialism. Sorel, Reflections on Violence. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks. Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism. Husserl, Ideas. Keynes, General Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man. Spengler, Decline of the West. Ortega, The Revolt of the Masses. Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals. Toynbee, A Study of History (one volume ed.). Orwell, Homage to Catalonia; Politics and the English Language. Frazer, The Golden Bough (abridged). Benedict, Patterns of Culture. Piaget, The Moral Judgement of the Child. Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind. Cassirer, Essay on Man; The Myth of the State. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigation; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Heidegger, Being and Time. 20th Century. Part I (continued) Four Existentialist Theologians (selections from Maritain, Berdyaev, Buber, and Tillich, ed. by Will Herberg). Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (ed. by Walter Kaufman). Sartre, Being and Nothingness. Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison. Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man. Marcel, Philosophy of Existence. Bultmann, Existence and Faith. Tillich, The Courage to Be. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Russell, What I Believe. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World. Merleau-Ponty, The Essential Writings of Merleau-Ponty (ed. by Alden L. Fisher). Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man. deBeauvoir, The Second Sex. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy. Camus, The Rebel. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge; The Foucault Reader (ed. by Paul Rabinow). Barthes, A Barthes Reader (ed. by Susan Sontag). Rawls, Theory of Justice. Ellul, The Betrayal of the West. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Part II. Gide, The Immoralist. Conrad, The Heart of Darkness. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard. Shaw, Man and Superman. Mann, Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage Books); The Magic Mountain; Doctor Faustus. Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. Eliot, The Waste Land; The Hollow Men. Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago. Joyce, Ulysses. Capek, R.U.R. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Forster, A Passage to India. Kafka, The Trial; The Castle; The Metamorphosis. Hesse, Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. Musil, The Man Without Qualities. Huxley, Brave New World. Malraux, Man’s Fate. Silone, Bread and Wine. Koestler, Darkness at Noon. 20th Century. Part II (continued) Camus, The Stranger. Sartre, No Exit. Hochhuth, The Deputy. Beckett, Waiting for Godot. Osborne, Look Back in Anger.

OUT ON A LIMB: Relax, Liberals, The Third Reich Isn’t on the Way. Well, that’s a relief. Could somebody talk this would-be Dietrich Bonhoeffer off the ledge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77K_zeZUu4

Hitler was religious? Really? Tell me, ever heard of Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Hitler sought to manipulate and control the church, but he was a pagan AT BEST. Tell me, how many pagans that you know are Republicans? And, oh, by the way...true conservatives are more individual-rights oriented than liberals. After all, we're the ones who abhor taxation, Social Security, and the government bureaucracy in general.

My professor in school gave me this list of books to read to "truly be educated". In 20+ years he's only had one former student complete it. I'm working my way through it though. Western Classics Reading List Part I = Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics and Society Part II = Imaginative Literature Ancient World, Part I. The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts, The Romans, Corinthians I and II, Revelation. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts & Pictures (2 vols. ed. by James B. Prichard). The Presocratics (ed. by Philip Wheelwright). Plato: Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Lysis; Euthyphro; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Timaeus; Laws. Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle (ed. by Renford Bambrough). Herodotus, The Persian Wars. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (use M.I. Finley, The Portable Greek Historians for Herodotus and Thucydides). Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle (ed. by Jason L. Saunders). Plutarch, Lives of The Noble Greeks and Romans. Suetonius, The 12 Caesars. Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations. The Portable Roman Reader (ed. by Basil Davenport). Part II. Bulfinch’s Mythology. Homer, The Iliad; The Odyessy. Hesiod, Theogony. Aeschylus Euripides FOR THESE FOUR USE GRENE and LATTIMORE, Sophocles The Complete Greek Tragedy Aristophanes Virgil, The Aeneid. Petronius, The Satirican. The Portable Roman Reader (see above) Medieval World, Part I. Selections from Medieval Philosophers (2 vols., ed. by Richard McKeon). Philosophy in the Middle Ages (ed. by Arthur Hyman and James Walsh; use to complement McKeon). St. Benedict, Rule for Monks. The Koran Part II. Beowolf. Song of Roland. Dante, Divine Comedy (above all, Inferno). Boccaccio, The Decameron. Langland, Piers the Plowman. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Malory, LeMorte D’Arthur. Early Modern Period (ca. 15th-18th Centuries) Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man. The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (ed. by Ernst Cassirer, et al.). Machiavelli, The Prince; The Discourses. Castiglione, The Courtier (abridged). Cellini, Autobiography. Erasmus, In Praise of Folly. More, Utopia. Montaigne, Complete Essays (ed. by Donald M. Frome). Thomas A. Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Luther, Three Treatises (“An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility”; “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”; “The Freedom of a Christian”). Calvin, On the Christian Faith (Library of Liberal Arts Selections, ed. by John T. McNeill). Bacon, The Great Instauration; The New Organon; The New Atlantis. Descartes, Meditations; Discourse on Method; Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Hobbes, Leviathan. Spinoza, Ethics. Leibnitz, Monadology. Locke, An Essay on Human Understanding; Second Treatise of Government; A Letter on Toleration. Newton, Principia (Spinoza, Leibnitz and Newton can be sampled from From Descartes to Locke, ed. by T.V. Smith & Marjorie Grene). Galileo, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo; Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems (both ed. by Stillman Drake). Pascal, Pensees; The Essential Pascal (ed. by Robert Gleason). Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (selections if possible). La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. Milton, Areopagitica. Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary (ed. by Richard H. Popkin). Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Federalist Papers. Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. Montesquieu, Persian letters; Spirit of the Laws (ed. by David Wallace Carrithers). Early Modern Period (continued) Vico, The New Science (selections if possible). Herder, Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History (selections if possible). Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire (read it all). Diderot, D’Alembert’s Dream; Rameau’s Nephew. La Mettrie, Man A Machine. Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; The Social Contract; The Confessions; Emile. Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments. Johnson, The Rambler. Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Gay’s selection is OK). Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man. Malthus, On Population (do some judicious skimming based on detailed table of contents). The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology (ed. by Peter Gay; use this to complement the other 18th Century titles). Fichte, The Vocation of Man. German Idealist Philosophy, ed. by Rüdiger Bubner. Lichtenberg, Maxims. Part II. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantegruel. Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; MacBeth; Othello; Julius Caesar (read all the plays if there’s time). Cervantes, Don Quixote. Milton, Paradise Lost. Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus. LaFontaine, Fables. Moliere, The Bourgeois Gentleman. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. Pope, Essay on Man. Richardson, Pamela. Fielding, Tom Jones. Rousseau, The New Heloise. Voltaire, Candide. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Lessing, Nathan the Wise. The Nineteenth Century, Part I. Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Mind; Philosophy of History (use Hegel Selections, ed. by Jacob Loewenberg). Goethe, Poetry and Truth. Clausewitz, On War (Penguin Abridgement). Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Strauss, Life of Jesus (skim). Comte, Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings (ed. by Gertrud Lenzer). Mazzini, The Duties of Man. Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity (use selection ed. by E. Graham Waring). Proudhon, What is Property? Marx, The Marx-Engel’s Reader (ed. by Richard Tucker). Darwin, Origin of Species; Descent of Man (read the whole Norton edition, Darwin, ed. by Philip Appleman). Mill, Autobiography; Utilitarianism; On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Renan, Life of Jesus (abridgement). Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Tönnies, Community and Society. Dilthey, Pattern and Meaning in History (ed. by H.P. Rickman). Nietzsche, Use and Abuse of History; Beyond Good and Evil; Twilight of the Idols; Thus Spake Zarathustra. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method; Division of Labor in Society. LeBon, The Crowd. Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism. Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class. Part II. Novalis, Hymns to the Night and Other Selected Writings. Schiller, William Tell. Goethe, Faust. Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Manzoni, The Betrothed. Stendhal, Red and the Black. Balzac, Peŕe Goriot; Eugénie Grandet. Büchner, Danton’s Death; Woyzeck. Dickens, Hard Times. Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons. Hugo, Les Misérables. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov. Hardy, Return of the Native. Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina. Ibsen, A Doll’s House; The Ghosts. Huysmans, Against the Grain. Zola, Germinal. Nineteenth Century. Part II (continued) Maupassant, Selected Stories. Hauptmann, Before Dawn; The Weavers. Fontane, Effie Briest. Strindberg, Miss Julie. 20th Century, Part I. James, Varieties of Religious Experience. Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Interpretation of Dreams; Moses and Monotheism; Future of an Illusion; Totem and Taboo; Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, The Portable Jung (ed. by Joseph Campbell; read it all). Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams. Bergson, Creative Evolution. Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Essays in Sociology (Gerth & Mills edition). Simmel, Selected Writings (ed. by D.N. Levine). Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialism; Social Classes. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. deSaussure, Course in General Linguistics. Pareto, The Mind and Society. Mosca, The Ruling Class. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics (abridged edition) Michels, Political Parties. Lenin, What is to be Done?; State and Revolution; Imperialism. Sorel, Reflections on Violence. Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks. Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism. Husserl, Ideas. Keynes, General Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man. Spengler, Decline of the West. Ortega, The Revolt of the Masses. Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals. Toynbee, A Study of History (one volume ed.). Orwell, Homage to Catalonia; Politics and the English Language. Frazer, The Golden Bough (abridged). Benedict, Patterns of Culture. Piaget, The Moral Judgement of the Child. Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind. Cassirer, Essay on Man; The Myth of the State. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigation; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Heidegger, Being and Time. 20th Century. Part I (continued) Four Existentialist Theologians (selections from Maritain, Berdyaev, Buber, and Tillich, ed. by Will Herberg). Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (ed. by Walter Kaufman). Sartre, Being and Nothingness. Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison. Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man. Marcel, Philosophy of Existence. Bultmann, Existence and Faith. Tillich, The Courage to Be. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Russell, What I Believe. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World. Merleau-Ponty, The Essential Writings of Merleau-Ponty (ed. by Alden L. Fisher). Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man. deBeauvoir, The Second Sex. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy. Camus, The Rebel. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge; The Foucault Reader (ed. by Paul Rabinow). Barthes, A Barthes Reader (ed. by Susan Sontag). Rawls, Theory of Justice. Ellul, The Betrayal of the West. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Part II. Gide, The Immoralist. Conrad, The Heart of Darkness. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard. Shaw, Man and Superman. Mann, Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage Books); The Magic Mountain; Doctor Faustus. Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. Eliot, The Waste Land; The Hollow Men. Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago. Joyce, Ulysses. Capek, R.U.R. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Forster, A Passage to India. Kafka, The Trial; The Castle; The Metamorphosis. Hesse, Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. Musil, The Man Without Qualities. Huxley, Brave New World. Malraux, Man’s Fate. Silone, Bread and Wine. Koestler, Darkness at Noon. 20th Century. Part II (continued) Camus, The Stranger. Sartre, No Exit. Hochhuth, The Deputy. Beckett, Waiting for Godot. Osborne, Look Back in Anger. Note: Before each section, read a Western Civ. Text for the period. Mortimer Chambers, et al., The Western Experience is good enough. For the modern era use R.R. Palmer, A History of Modern World (6th ed.). For science, use Anthony M. Alioto, A History of Western Science. The best history of philosophy by far is Wilhelm Windelband’s A History Philosophy (goes up to end of 19th century).

Your historic ignorance is only matched by your sheer ######ation. If you knew anything about Nazi Germany, they were pro-abortion, anti-gun and anti-Christian. Ask Friedrich Bonhoeffer about that. Oh wait. You can't. THEY MURDERED HIM.