This is on books. They say knowledge is power, so to get knowledge you should read books.

When I wanted to be like Mark Cuban I picked up some books to better understand business. I went to the bookstore and picked up a series of books by Robert Greene. These books were The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction and The 33 Strategies of War.

They were pretty good. I got excited when I finished reading them cause I thought I knew a bunch of stuff, but then I got less excited when I saw other people reading the same books I was just reading. If they say knowledge is power then what’s the point of reading stuff about what everyone else knows?

When I got over doing Mark Cuban’s dream, cause a bunch of other people were going after the same dream, I decided to focus on this Earth Emperor dream.

I went to the library and asked a librarian what book I should read, cause I don’t know much about books. I told her about the dream to be the very first Earth Emperor and she recommended that I should start by reading Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. I think this book a very first edition cause it’s pretty old (it was printed in 1966 which is pretty old).

It was a pretty boring book. I fell asleep 3 times when I was reading it, but I did learn some cool stuff.

I didn’t know if I should take what I learned for what it was or if it was just some guy fooling around. On page 950 I found out that he’s been studying history for like 20 years, so he knows his stuff:

This myth, like all fables, does in fact have a modicum of truth. There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known. [I, Daniel Kemp, added the bold]

I don’t know why he spent 20 years studying this history stuff, cause it’s pretty boring.

I am probably going to read other books after this one. I just hope they aren’t as big as this one.

I am also taking notes, when I’m reading, on these little books I got from the dollar store.

I was making notes of words I didn’t know and I realized I should really start learning more about words, cause I don’t know very many words.

I also thought South Africa was where South America really is, until I looked at a map a couple days ago, so I should also start learning about geography too.

Daniel Kemp