Collectively eat over 84 million fast food meals per day.Collectively watch billions of hours of porn per year.Spend on average over 90% of their income.Play an average of 6.4 hours of video games per week.Spend an average of 1.5 hours on social media per day.Watch an average of 38 hours of video content per week.And this seems to be the final revolution.”Īnd then look at the world around you. “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. To understand why, consider the following from a speech the author gave in 1961 ( source ): I realize this is a curious recommendation based on what I normally suggest, but I’m including it in the series because I think it’s an important and timely read. Okay, let’s get to the featured book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Lastly, if you want to be notified when new recommendations go live, hop on my email list and you’ll get each new installment delivered directly to your inbox. If you’ve already read a book that I recommend or have a recommendation of your own to share, don’t be shy! Drop a comment down below and let me–and the rest of us “book clubbers”–know! I’ll also keep things short and sweet so you can quickly decide whether the book is likely to be up your alley or not. The idea here is simple: Every week, I’ll share a book that I’ve particularly liked, why I liked it, and several of my key takeaways from it. So, if you’re a bookworm on the lookout for good reads, or if you’d like to get into the habit of reading, this book club for you. Life is overwhelmingly complex and chaotic, and it slowly suffocates and devours the lazy and ignorant. On the flip side, I also believe there’s little hope for people who aren’t perpetual learners.
The more you learn, the more you know the more you know, the more you can do the more you can do, the more opportunities you have to succeed. I also like to encourage people to read as much as possible because knowledge benefits you much like compound interest. I get asked those types of questions a lot and, as an avid reader and all-around bibliophile, I’m always happy to oblige.
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