I'd like to say a lot in order to spark some extreme discussion or fuel everyone's creative minds, but I'm having trouble of thinking just what to say, so instead I'll take the blatant approach:
I love studying people, purpose, intellectual debates, creative thoughts, opinions on matters that have no right or wrong answer...but for whatever reason I find it extremely difficult to sit down with a book that's somewhere in the ballpark of 300+ pages and just read ten or twenty a night. I'm so fond, however, of reading stories that just leave me saying "wow".
The closest thing I've found recently is Plato's The Republic, which while extremely long is broken up into many digestible books that serve their purpose. However, I find it interesting only because the way everything is broken down: I don't entirely care for the actual source material, just the way it's debated and discussed throughout. It makes for a very interesting read but it's just not entirely what I'm looking for.
Styles of philosophy that I've found relevant and interesting are often very difficult to read as much of it is very old, so there's that wall.
And then there are very short things that I love to read, the only example I can come up with off of the top of my head being Aesop's Fables. Sure, it's not extremely revolutionary, but they're very bite sized chunks, and I believe if I read the messages stories like Aesop's Fables provide over and over again it will eventually become a part of me and I will act like a better person because of it. (And I'm not suffering from any personality conflicts or anything, just a bored guy who is always struggling for a bit more.)
What are some short, enlightening stories you've read, Escapist? I'm interested.
I love studying people, purpose, intellectual debates, creative thoughts, opinions on matters that have no right or wrong answer...but for whatever reason I find it extremely difficult to sit down with a book that's somewhere in the ballpark of 300+ pages and just read ten or twenty a night. I'm so fond, however, of reading stories that just leave me saying "wow".
The closest thing I've found recently is Plato's The Republic, which while extremely long is broken up into many digestible books that serve their purpose. However, I find it interesting only because the way everything is broken down: I don't entirely care for the actual source material, just the way it's debated and discussed throughout. It makes for a very interesting read but it's just not entirely what I'm looking for.
Styles of philosophy that I've found relevant and interesting are often very difficult to read as much of it is very old, so there's that wall.
And then there are very short things that I love to read, the only example I can come up with off of the top of my head being Aesop's Fables. Sure, it's not extremely revolutionary, but they're very bite sized chunks, and I believe if I read the messages stories like Aesop's Fables provide over and over again it will eventually become a part of me and I will act like a better person because of it. (And I'm not suffering from any personality conflicts or anything, just a bored guy who is always struggling for a bit more.)
What are some short, enlightening stories you've read, Escapist? I'm interested.