>>16056080>Is this a bad thing? Context?Just emphasising how gaining knowledge always gains you pain.
This one is a short read and will touch things that are relevant to every other book;
>Frank Poletti Plato Vowels 15 pages.
This one and Byung Chul Hans books ( which are very direct and short ) I would say you start with of my list ; Edward T Hall's ones are about Human Culture and how they affect our Perception.
I also must add
>Decline of the West - Spengler >A Study of history - ToynbeeThese three
>Hyperreality - Baudrilliard>Society of the Spectacle - Dabbord>The Crowd - Gustav Le BonAre included because how we , People of the 21st Century , are interacting with median and Information and Socializing around it , is complety screwed. ( Think 4chan conspiracy iceberg memes and how people invent them and link this to Psy-Ops)
Bonus:
>Jacques Ellul ; "Technological Society" and "Propaganda" 