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[โ€“] PP_BOY_ 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010) by Thomas Ligotti was referenced heavily in writing Rust Cohle's character in True Detective season one. After falling in love with the series, I picked up the book and... wow. If you're into some misanthropic nihilism written by a succinct fiction author and not an unnecessarily verbose philosopher, it's a good read.

Currently also reading Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (2017) by Angela Nagle. I just started last night but it's changed a lot about how I see the current alt-right, where they came from, and how to effectively counter their arguments (and why conventional counterarguments don't work).