I've just read "True Enough" by Farhad Manjoo, an extremely enlightening and yet disturbing book. What's disturbing is captured in the subtitle: "Learning to Love In A Post-Fact Society".
On a related note, I'm about halfway through "Ethics for the Real World" by Ron Howard and Clinton Korver (full disclosure: Clint is a friend of mine), and it is a very useful book, providing motivation and help in developing your personal code of ethics. I'm glad I've read these books in close proximity, since I will now incorporate some appoach to truth into my code of ethics. That's harder than it seems like it should be.
The third interesting book is "This I Believe", a collection of essays that you can hear on NPR. This inspiring and sometimes amusing collection motivates me to write down what I believe. Gee, maybe those would be good blog posts. Or maybe not, but I may post them anyway for my own benefit!
BTW: There is now available for purchase "This I Believe 2". Have to order that soon... or perhaps after I've written my own.
All three of these books are excellent for expanding thought and reassessing our own perspectives. Enjoy.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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