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Ladies and gentlemen, what is the most valuable book you have read in 2020?

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Throughout 2020, life will not be smooth, but we should be thankful that we are healthy and our family is safe. Although there was no great wealth, everything looked forward to. In this dull life, books are also a seasoning for me. I read many books in 2020, and today is 12.28. I hope you can recommend a book as the last one I read in 2020.
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Strongly recommended: The Coming of the Post materialistic Age
Article extract:
 
Please think about this question: where is our spiritual destination if we want to enter the post materialistic era?
In the age of materialism, "people have no ability to sit quietly", because when they stay still, emptiness will come.
We are at a loss to find a way to deal with the spiritual crisis - perhaps degenerate, perhaps paralyzed, perhaps sublimated. Most people choose to paralyze themselves, while a few go to the other ends.
Degeneration leads people to commit crimes. Most of the people who will choose this road of no return have unpleasant experiences.
For example, the "Beat Generation" after World War II is the generation crushed by common trauma: the war destroyed all the sense of security in the peaceful era, the sweet dreams were shattered, and the youth carried a painful cross; War orphans barely grow up by begging, stealing and prostitution, and they will be more likely to become addicts, alcoholics, criminals, and even self mutilation and suicide.
Born in a peaceful country in a peaceful era, we were lucky to escape the war.
But no child thinks that his sufferings are insignificant because of the heavier sufferings of the previous generation; We can only gain insight into the world from our own experience, so the word "war trauma" has been forgotten, and the word "original family" has been repeatedly mentioned: parents' divorce, domestic violence, emotional neglect, over education, and love manipulation. These new words have become words to understand and explain today's trauma.
Unhappy childhood creates unhappy adults, and unhappy adults become parents hastily before they mature and solve their own trauma, so unhappy childhood is passed on.
But everyone has psychological trauma, whether big or small, but not everyone is going to crime.
Because education will build moral laws for people; Reading and life experience will broaden our narrow vision, because we can see more pain, find the universality of pain, and then let go of our own pain. This is the meaning of "reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles".
Relatives, friends and partners, even if one of them has problems, other people's feelings can also provide comfort. People may not have many intimate friends, but if it is not strange and outrageous, it is impossible to have no friends at all.
Thanks to remember things will be forgotten, so no matter how deep the scars, as long as we survive this moment, they can gradually fade; Although the work is tedious, it also consumes the energy that has nowhere to vent; Although learning a skill takes time and effort, art can not only express the experience of beauty, but also express the call of pain.
On this point, the book quotes Sitovsky's view that people who have not received special skill training tend to limit stimulation to activities without skill requirements, such as sex, drug abuse, violence, and crime. If there is no technique to tell us that happiness actually has a more benign source, then the excitement of violence and drugs will crowd out the excitement that art and culture can provide.
To receive special skill training is to "sublimate" the emptiness, so as to release it in the way of art, knowledge, thought, sports, etc.
This is exactly the meaning of education, and is the fortress that the theory of "reading is useless" can never be defeated.

 

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