Listening to podcasts or watching videos, I hear people knowing things and it makes me want to get in on the action, but I have no idea where to start. What book do I need to read to start being knowledgeable?
Listening to podcasts or watching videos, I hear people knowing things and it makes me want to get in on the action, but I have no idea where to start. What book do I need to read to start being knowledgeable?
The closest we've ever got is Justified True Belief and even that is wrong due to Gettier. Epistemology is a spook, no one knows how people come to know things, knowing anything is a spook.
Other joke answer: What they teach at Harvard Business School & What they don't teach at Harvard Business School (my partner got me both as a joke gift once, the first one is kinda interesting and the guy that wrote it attended Harvard Business School the year before 2008 - interesting to see the mindset of those people leading up to the Great Financial Crash. The other one is just some boomer style BS).
A more serious answer for learning about communism, ABC of Communism by Bukharin which was literally meant for pre-Soviet Russian serfs and working people to understand or Value, Price, Profit by Marx which is also a good intro to Marxism. Even the manifesto isn't too hard. There's also the Bread Book (conquest of bread) by Kropotkin which is pretty decent.
If you wanna just be more knoweldgeable in general, I guess watch youtube science videos or video essays on art or use your local library dunno. The only other way is to pay some college like 10K and force yourself to learn a wide survey of topics over a couple years.