I’m talking about topics which you had a basic idea of.
I recently got interested in my country’s(Georgia) history after ignoring it for years and mostly reading/watching random historical facts on the internet, so I picked up a book a called “The Experiment: Georgia’s forgotten revolution 1918-1921” by Eric Lee, a history book about the first Republic of Georgia, reading it and finding about how our first democratic country were basically founded by marxists. This m i g h t get a little political but the word “marxism” is a boogeyman word here since it’s associated with USSR(which invaded Georgia in 1921) and Stalin, so learning about it was a hard pill to swallow.
There’s also Wladyslav Szpilman’s “The Pianist” where I found out that Nazi Germany “hired” jews as policemen, learning about it this late was shocking for me.
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Many Lives, Many Masters by Bryan Weiss, M.D. was it for me. It made so much sense for me. I know that probably makes me sound crazy, but for me, it explains how you intuitively know things you shouldn’t at a young age.
The Anarchy by Dalyrimple about the British East India Company and the conquest of India,
Bury my Heart at Wounded knee,
The Chaos Machine by Fisher,
Being Wrong Adventures on the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schultz
Most recently, Max Marshall’s *Among the Bros* was eye. opening.
Fraternities and Sororities are cults at best and literal cartels at worst. They should be banned from our University Systems and participation in the culture should immediately no longer be a symbol of anything but “view this person with healthy suspicion.”
And this is just one story.
Maybe not as wow or historical, but “Endless Forms” taught me so much about wasps and they’re an absolutely fascinating set of critters.