Books and a Series of Book Reviews

I would like to do a brief review of fifteen books written between 1513-1963. My blogs will actually be reviewing the work of Benjamin Wiker, PH.D. and his book 10 Books that Screwed up the World. I think many people wonder how did we ever learn to think and reason in modern Western Civilization in a way that is so contrary with reality. I hope to categorize some of these thoughts and expose the radical contradictions that exist between these ideas themselves, not to mention the contradiction they have with truth and reality. You may not agree with me, but I certainly wish you didn't agree with Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Mills, Darwin, Nietzsche, Lenin, Sanger, Hitler, Freud, Mead, Kinsey and Friedan. Several of these I have addressed in my own book Hope for America's Last Generation. Some of you may agree with the basic premise of some of the fifteen authors mentioned above. That is fine, . . . OK, whatever. But, others may not realize how dangerous a bad idea is. If ideas have consequences, then bad ideas have bad consequences. Wiker writes a quote from Thomas Carlyle who said,

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first edition.

I am not against reading these books, in fact, I own copies of most of them. I recently purchased and read the 1912 edition of A Civic Biology by George William Hunter, PH.D. (Google it. I will eventually blog about the contents in this book.) Most do not know this book by its title, although most have heard of turmoil it caused. Very, very few people actually know what is contained in this (clue) high school text book:

. . . epilepsy, and feeble-mindedness are handicaps which it is not only unfair but criminal to hand down to posterity. The science of being well born is called eugenics . . . If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading. Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy . . .

To stop our decline we must read these books, understand them, and be able to identify their perverted, malignant logic when we hear it roll out of the mouths of politicians, religious leaders, educators and others who claim to know the way to the Land of Utopia.

Here are some critics and few supporters of the book 10 Books that Screwed up the World. Many do not like it and mock the authors values, education and world view. I disagree with those who mock this book and disregard their insults:

• http://www.stuartgeiger.com/wordpress/reviews-and-responses/2008/05/12/review-10-books-that-screwed-up-the-world-by-benjamin-wiker/
• http://www.chronwatch-america.com/articles/2938/1/Ten-Books-That-Screwed-Up-the-World/Page1.html
• http://freethoughtfortwayne.org/2009/05/29/open-forum-friday-ten-books-screwed/
• http://au.christiantoday.com/article/a-review-of-10-books-that-screwed-up-the-world-by-benjamin-wiker/4286.htm
• http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=417
• http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=247x25414
• http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=247x25414
  

See Benjamin Wiker discuss his book on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNy5hO-ylM4

Galyn Wiemers
http://www.generationword.com/