Many old books ARE good, but there are plenty of solid, righteous, truthful, and interesting NEW books as well.
Also, there are (WERE, in many cases . . . many didn't stay in print for long) plenty of BAD old books . . . just as today. A bigger percentage of bad ones today, I expect, but I generally avoid them (Amazon Kindle's Free Sample feature is helpful in that regard).
Examples of worthy new-ish books that many here might enjoy:
. . . each hemisphere attends to the world in a different way -- and the ways are consistent.
. . . consciously altering our habitual mode of attention to one based on a more integrated, empathic, relational and embodied sense of relationship can have dramatic, perhaps even revolutionary, consequences.
Given such extraordinary evidence for a very special environmental fitness for human biology and even for the path we took from the stone age to the twenty-first century, a reader might well question why, if the evidence is so abundant, does the mainstream in biology "look the other way." The reason for this blind spot among evolutionary biologists may be that, as Henderson stressed over a century ago, biologists since Darwin have focused almost entirely on the fitness (or adaptations) of organisms to the environment, and not on the prior environmental fitness that enables the actualization of the adaptations.
Whoever cannot hit the nail on the head should please, not hit it at all.
~ Nietzsche
That's a bit extreme (the full aphorism starts with something like "There are horrible thinkers who muddle a subject and make it more difficult for all who come after" -- but I can't find it just now). Still, fits with the problem of faulty premises. Memes, like other forms of communication, work better when they're as accurate as possible.
Here's the quote as translated by someone other than Walter Kaufmann (who is by far the most artistic and poetic translator of N I'm aware of): https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/friedrich_nietzsche_395397 -- annoyingly, there's no suggestion of which book, chapter, or section the aphorism might be from.
Many old books ARE good, but there are plenty of solid, righteous, truthful, and interesting NEW books as well.
Also, there are (WERE, in many cases . . . many didn't stay in print for long) plenty of BAD old books . . . just as today. A bigger percentage of bad ones today, I expect, but I generally avoid them (Amazon Kindle's Free Sample feature is helpful in that regard).
Examples of worthy new-ish books that many here might enjoy:
Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World by Iain McGilchrist. Sample quotes:
The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence by Michael Denton
Yes, faulty premises weaken or ruin anything.
~ Nietzsche
That's a bit extreme (the full aphorism starts with something like "There are horrible thinkers who muddle a subject and make it more difficult for all who come after" -- but I can't find it just now). Still, fits with the problem of faulty premises. Memes, like other forms of communication, work better when they're as accurate as possible.
Here's the quote as translated by someone other than Walter Kaufmann (who is by far the most artistic and poetic translator of N I'm aware of): https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/friedrich_nietzsche_395397 -- annoyingly, there's no suggestion of which book, chapter, or section the aphorism might be from.