(1 November 2013, 10:06)bigpaul Wrote: [ -> ]culture-what culture??
Classic!
I don't know who said "When I hear the word 'Kulture'. I reach for my gun." but it could have been BP
For me, well i'm going to be controversial ....
King James Bible
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
and a compendium of Country Living
and crafts
the current uk tax code and all european union diktats and regulations
that way i shall have lotsa toilet paperfor future use
I doubt you have the storage space for all that. Maybe pre 1997 but not now.
I would keep a copy of hello magazine ( not in my book shelf ) but to show people why TSHTF
"Camping & Woodcraft": Horace Kephart, 1917 USA, "Keeping poultry and Rabbits on scraps":Claude Goodchild & Alan Thompson, 2008 UK, "The complete book of Self sufficiency": John Seymour(this is OUR bible!)
, and from the OH: "the complete illustrated Holistic Herbal" by David Hoffman.
Useful books and cultural books are not always the same. As much as those are very helpful books BP, I hazard that they may not help our cultural development. But they are still good books mate.
Some very interesting choices here. Would like to see what MB and others from across the pond would pick out.
(2 November 2013, 18:01)Scythe13 Wrote: [ -> ]Useful books and cultural books are not always the same. As much as those are very helpful books BP, I hazard that they may not help our cultural development. But they are still good books mate.
well they're my kind of culture!!
and more useful than anything by Shakespeare or Chaucer.
Culture falls into a two definition block my its nature;
1. material culture; The technology and the items needed to sustain that level of existence.
2. nonmaterial culture; Ideas, organization, art and tradition
Some phases of that overlap, as in an item that allows an art to exist, but the meaning of culture does include items and literature of practical value as well as artistic merit. While Kephart wrote the Camping and Woodcraft book he also did a treatise on the history and heritage of the people of the Southern Appellation mountains that is a true cultural study.
A culture can also exist without a civilization being present, since written language is necessary for a definition of civilization.
It also means that books are not actually necessary for the transfer of culture.
Plato - Republic and Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged lol
(2 November 2013, 16:03)bigpaul Wrote: [ -> ]"Camping & Woodcraft": Horace Kephart, 1917 USA, "Keeping poultry and Rabbits on scraps":Claude Goodchild & Alan Thompson, 2008 UK, "The complete book of Self sufficiency": John Seymour(this is OUR bible!) , and from the OH: "the complete illustrated Holistic Herbal" by David Hoffman.
I have those! Camping & Woodcraft is exceedingly useful.
(2 November 2013, 18:01)Scythe13 Wrote: [ -> ]Useful books and cultural books are not always the same. As much as those are very helpful books BP, I hazard that they may not help our cultural development. But they are still good books mate.
No time for things that aren't useful. Dead weight. TP of firewood.
So none of that "culture" crap for me thanks, I want stuff I can use.