How to Read
Executive Summary
The radicalization of reading involves taking all books and editing them for clear writing. With books refactored as such, people will be able to get 10x out of books in 10x as little time. This could make universal advanced civilization possible, first by enabling democratic knowhow by expanding human consciousness to issues of responsibility and progress. Such capacity can be found in just about everyone, outside of abused and sick people. Editing all written human knowledge would be a profound contribution, as long as then people really learn how to read a peoperly written book.
Hope could arise that knowledge cN be translated to universal knowhow and explosion of human capacity.
This makes for an interesting project of experimenting with the creation of subgroups in civilization that buy into this possibility of human expansion.
This could also reframe the 100k campuses of interest to OSE - into a clear experiment of civilization creation, with focused goals. The focus is making knowhow and practice accessible for tangible ends. Namely advanced democratic civilization.
In such a system, we must agree that the first sentence of a paragraph must summarize a paragraph, the last sentence reinforce it, and the first paragraph of a chapter summarize the chapter, and the last paragraph restate the summary in a different perspective or ontology. For chapters, the first chapter should summarize all chapters. As such, a high quality book must be fractal.
Indeed, a useful Introduction would position the book within other areas of human knowledge and experience, with teleology of advanced, democratic civilization of prosperity and progress.
This means that human progress must be defined, as in everyone should say - 'i love that shit'.
Reading material should be serious, as in Mortimer Adler's 'reading to understand'. As opposed to reading to entertain. This does not mean that a good book should be devoid of storytelling and humor. It should be exciting, to keep one's attention. It should be written for the full human experience of mind, moral, and feeling.
A possible book that comes out of the above would be - 'The ideal structure of a book and how to write one'. What is the closest existing thing to this?
Includes
- How to read fast and retain more
- What to avoid reading - [1]
- How to Access All Knowledge - How to access all books and other sources
