Advice for young people: Read dangerous books | Douglas Murray and Lex Fridman 

Omw to read Mein Kampf on the train and shake my head so people know I disagree

The first book that shook me to the core was 1984. The concept of doublethink was so hard to comprehend to me.

When Douglas said: I discovered books can be dangerous and I loved it. I had the exact same experience half a world away in Australia! That really resonated with me. Great Interview Lex!

While I agree 100% that reading and educating oneself is important, it also seems to be a problem with young people. They read books on philosophy and politics, then cling to one of those philosophies and espouse it everywhere they go without ever going out into the world and actually living real life. Keep educating yourself, but living dangerously is far more beneficial now. I don’t mean literal danger, I mean do things that make you struggle. For some, it’s simply moving out of your parents house and supporting yourself.

Douglas Murray’s voice is mesmerizing. I think I would fall sound asleep listening to an audiobook of his work if it was read by him.

I wouldn't say I'm a big writer or story reader, yet I understand those moments and experiences where you write something so clearly and fruitfully that when you read over it, it blows you away. It's like making something with your hands with excellence except this is in words.

If you're reading this, give Stoner by John Williams a go. Truly mesmerizing and a great work of literature with writing like no other. An easy read but beautiful in all aspects and quite an emotional journey

When you read a book, you get all the ideas and wisdom from another person life. You get their story, and all their best most valuable thoughts into one piece.

Just read something that makes your brain feel like it’s whirring and buzzing and makes time ripple. I live by the 5 page rule, you’ll know by the first 3-5 pages if the type is worth the ink.

Douglas Murray is one of my favorites

I’ve recently cut down on TV, social media, and video games quite a bit and replaced the majority of my free time with reading, and have been astonished these past couple of months on how much my mind has grown, my vocabulary has expanded greatly, and In general my life feels richer, my reading comprehension has also vastly improved. I’m being exposed to ideas in much richer detail. Such a wonderment that we can literally read the minds of some of the most interesting people in history! Not everyone’s going to be a reader, but If you do have the interest, put down the technology for a bit and dive into a good book! You won’t regret it!

I read a few books by Tiziano Terzani who led a life traveling through Asia, Russia ( when Lenin crashed down) He wrote beautifully about jobs in Bangkok called body snatchers and how they wait for fatal accidents on the freeways to retrieve the bodies and perform ceremonies so the soul left and didn't stay and play tricks on the living They would then get donations from the families. It is very competitive and it's for different Buddhist sects. I like reading about investigative journalism and learning about stuff I don't hear about on the news. The real world is very interesting and cultural differences are sometimes invisible to the regular tourist. I also like Twain's autobiographical works like Roughing It when he told the story of the mountain meadow massacre orchestrated by the Mormons for revenge. The stories of the Brigham Young are mind blowing. The story of traveling in a stage coach , the stops, changing the horses, stuff we really don't think about.

This might now be my favorite take on writing 👍 love it

Any Dostoyevsky fans? He does it for me

This is great advice for everyone. Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Terence Mckenna are some of my favorite dangerous authors ;)

4:43 Exactly why books are amazing!

Awesome talk. When i was young i re-read a few of the classics cause we were poor and didnt have many, and in early teens started going to used bookstores and getting anything. I'd recommend that too, you get any sort of random thing.

“One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was mind blowing to me and it still throws me when I read it now.

Happy in writing I understand you

Great clip, I love that lex never attempts to interrupt.

Lately, I choose books by the author's voice. If the author has a distinct way of expressing themselves, I will want to know what they have to say. This usually works in fiction but I found the same thing in nonfiction books too. I read a lot of history and when I read The Poison King about Mithridates of Pontos, I noticed how hesitating the author sounds. Because a lot of Mithridates' life is unknown, she had to imagine what came in between. Kind of weird to do it in a history book and it stuck with me. The best beginning of a nonfiction book ever was in a book about the Persian Empire. The very first sentence: "When Cyrus entered Babylon, the world was old."

Dubliners by James Joyce. I still find some of those short stories unsettling. They really cut to the bone at times. Yet Joyce is do delicately skilled in the way he does it.

So grateful you have these wonderful conversations with such deeply interesting people. Something very happy about it and soothing.

1984 and the catcher in the rye changed my life

Until the age of 12-13 I read only the books we were told to read at school for classes or just some detective and fantasy books my parents had at home library. And then i came across "clockwork orange", book so different from the things i'd read before that i perceived reading it to be something bad. I finished it in a day but I had no one to discuss it with, had to keep it to myself. Seeking more of that I read Welsh, Kafka and it was another turning-point experience

Just finished Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's The Doomed City. Fantastically relevant

Oh yes, I love this discussion!

I remember 'Lord of the Flies' from school too, and Animal Farm. But Lord of the Flies had a part in it that I remember clearly more than anything else. It was one boy that wanted to hurt another boy and he couldn't or wouldn't. It was though the boy had an aura about him. Or maybe it was described as a glory. Some psychological... an unseen protection that surround the boy. At least at that point in the story and then things descend into the law of the jungle and innocents was lost forever. At that point for me, nothing could ever be the same again. The world wasn't a different place. I was just seeing it as it really is for the first time.

One day Lex will live his true passion as a TikTok boy and hit the meanest renegade you’ve ever seen.

For me, a shocking moment like he described came from a video game - Final Fantasy Tactics for PS1. I couldn't believe what was happening, the tragedy, the realization that even if you aim to do good, you might not succeed; and even if you succeed to some degree, you may be forgotten, your deeds disassociated from your person. It felt very far removed from the save-the-girl types of games that tended to end with a kiss or what have you.

“The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy “, Mark McCutcheon. “The Unique and Its Property “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. “The Bible Came from Arabia “, Kamal Salibi plus his 3 other bible study books. “No Treason: the Constitution of no Authority “, 1,2 and 6,Lysander Spooner, 1867-1870.

"WE READ TO BECOME OTHER PEOPLE." - great line

I've read "How to make friends", the title was different but i forget, remember me now of "How to make friends and influence people", but wasnt this, was a little book, short with less than 150 Page, green front and back, i read it in 2-3 days, and i do not used to read at that time, i kept the book left-side my bed and always i would read again the chapters i need to remember, to apply

I strongly recommend for every man watching this, to read "Sperm Wars" by Robin Baker, and "The Evolution of Desire" by David Buss Those 2 will clear the clutter of most of the doubts men have revolving women (which is something that most of us waste a lot of time thinking about)

Interested first book

Deadkidssongs is my favourite novel. If you’re into dark and disturbing set in idyllic and normal then holy sheets that book is the one. Four 70s middle England children, one dies, the other three get revenge. My favourite non-fiction I’ve read just recently is The Glucose Revolution. Jessie Inchaupse compiling research to show how simply changing the order of the food you eat, greens then protein/fat then carbs, will reduce ageing, reduce fat stores, keep you alert and help prevent age related illnesses. That’s an eye-opener.

Intro to Understanding Power: "The Prince" - Machiavelli, "The Art of War" - Sun Tzu, & "The 48 Laws of Power" - Robert Greene You'll never see the world the same again ...

Anyone knows about the thumbnail image. Never seen such a beautiful thinking.

Ngl this is one of my Favourite videos on the platform.

Constantly break your ego. Try new things that make you realize your place on life. Knowing where you are is the only way to get where you wanna get.

Ernest becker the denial of did it for me

I liked reading the gunslinger, it was a step up from the nancy drew series 😂

I use to think Douglas was a sharp good run of the mill, IDW type but nowadays my respect for his writing, thinking, and opinions overall has gone thru the roof. The man is a conservative, slightly less cantankerous version of Hitchens. Although it may not be wise to compare a one of one like Hitchens to anybody else. Douglas himself is a 1 of 1

What's book?

Yes!

can i get a list of other dangerous books that will teach me a lot? I've read 1984, animal farm, lord of the flies, etc..

Any dangerous book list !

When did deranged spree shooters stop carrying copies of Catcher in the Rye, btw? That used to be a thing.

Well to recommend something, tobacco by dimitar dimov. It has very deep look on the way a society and the human soul works.

the lack of the physical present of paper books in the public eye removes it from the public mind. Kindle does not encourage one to pickup a book or create interest in the reader or the text. A book is an invitation to an question, it is social in nature.

Anthony Burgess, and even Vonnegut seem innocuous, but are simply destructive in way they spotlight how Strapped to our Nature we are while Chasing our Perceptions of Ourselves, inevitably becoming awkward chaos

You can travel the edges of the universe... From mitzvahs to distopian worlds, fight club to box cart kids.. our redeeming and more terrifying attributes, is our ability to articulate, grammatically paint a canvas, and project our imagination on others.

In that case: "Where Did the Towers Go?" by Judy Wood. A lot of people think it is an opinion book, but it is not. It is a revelation of many true documented observations, painful because they are undeniable.

"TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE" I who am dead a thousand years, And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers The way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas, Or ride secure the cruel sky, Or build consummate palaces Of metal or of masonry. But have you wine and music still, And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good and ill, And prayers to them who sit above? How shall we conquer? Like a wind That falls at eve our fancies blow, And old Maeonides the blind Said it three thousand years ago. O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young. Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you. You will understand. By James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915).

Anybody have book recommendations?

Carl Jung shook me to the core. Never been the same since.

Book recommendations?

Bro when he said dangerous books the first book I thought of was doors of perception then it literally popped up on the screen swear to god that book gave me psychosis

Foundation (1st book) by Asimov...I was like "how fuck did he come up with these ideas in 1951?!"

Learning how to learn - Idries Shah

"Morals and Dogma" by Albert Pike was very revealing. Although when it comes to Masonic literature I preferred Manly P. Hall's "Secret Teaching of All Ages". Not a Mason myself, but those were two very interesting books from two very high level Masons

I'm reading "Democracy, The God That Failed" right now. Crazy read...

Read 200 years together. History rhymes.

Writing can be a collaborative effort between Creator and the created merging hearts and spirits with pen and paper.

I love reading manuals, I'm a dangerous fixer 😂

The Brothers Karamazov.

I 100% agree. I just finished state and Revolution by Lenin. Starting Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin soon.

Mindfulness books like 30 Days to Reduce Stress by Harper Daniels are short and powerful.

The book that made me feel like that was “brave new world”

RU-vid saved me. When I try and read, I'll get about a paragraph in before my mind shoots off in 10 directions relating to the information in the four sentences I just read (maybe even just a few words), by the time I get back to reality a half hour has gone by. I need the visual to keep me focused. If you can read like a normal person, don't take it for granted.

DON’T read the end of alice by am holmes That sht traumatized me

Cs is a great company

I'd just start with "read" first, that's the first hurdle.

Some one who has time, can you go through the comments and consolidate a list of all the badass books.

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe Book by Bob Berman and Robert Lanza is a recommendation of mine. given the past series of discussions.

One day I am going to be too old for these videos sadly.

been there, done that...... my high school professor told me the same thing...... the problem was, that he was jewish and the book was "Mein Kampf"

the first book to shock me at my 1980s surrey prep school was 'Kes.' it was just so offensively northern and working class. 'hand off cocks, on socks!'

What is a dangerous book?? Why are people afraid to sit and think upon issues…really think and contemplate… we are being constantly programmed…..

Would anyone of you guys suggest to me a dangerous book I will be very thankful .

Read something written before 1950 To see what a book that took 20 year,at least, to write looks like

1970s controversial books were kept out of school system in my burb. Personally if these books had been school I would not have felt like a rebel sneaking over to the public library. Thank you Kurt Vonnegut. My 2 cents POV

just to add a kookoo comment. I'm a big dreamer. and what if you read a author that wrote a book that once you read a certain phrase or sentence or maybe once you finished the book that maybe it was "you" or a piece of you in a past life. or someone that is linked to your events that are Infinity going to happen in the universes with "you" in it. anyone catch on to what I am saying...

This guy is terrifically British. Is he the queens brother? Haha

Mark Twain. We 3 girls would run around pretending to be Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn trying to reenact adventures. No one wanted to be Becky Thatcher

To be fair, I read the entirety of Huxley's Doors of Perception through TikToks

Hello people in this comments section, I hope you can leave here a few of the most impactful books you've read for me and for everyone else.

I discovered books could be dangerous when I read, “This Perfect Day” by Aldous Huxley.

The art of filling air with sound

I think what he means is, read books that challenge your worldview, the views of others ard u

Antelope Hill publishing and Arktos media has banned books

Where can I find banned books? Asking for my friend, of course

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I, for one, could never maintain a conversation for this long without accidentally saying the n-word. Well done, good sir!

Oh yes, books are extremely dangerous, they challenge you to think outside of the framework that you've been brought up in. It makes you see reality for what it is, once you obtain this knowledge there is no way back and your thirst for new knowledge will only grow stronger! This is healthy and this process is called growing up, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

Brave New World was my Lord Of the Flies

I only read books with good titles

The Strange Death of Europe should be required literature for every current European politician, preferably every citizen

I know something which nobody knows..

I never found books to be that dangerous or secretive. By the time a book is available to read, it has been vetted by publishers, distributors, book stores and popular opinion. I prefer the raw ideas directly from a wide variety of people. I think the internet provides much more diversity of thought. I want to read what most people don't know and what those big publishers would rather not sell. The danger of this is of course misinformation. You have to be able to think for yourself and sort the plausible from the nonsense. What most people don't realize is that the published works are full of nonsense too. It's just the nonsense that they all agree they want you to believe.