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At this point in my life, I tend to prefer intelligently written essays, articles and books with which I have enough disagreements to actually have my mind challenged. I have long had a critique of modern science. By reading intelligently written books by scientists, I have had to hone and refine that critique, to give it far more nuance than it originally had. In philosophy, I can also find much of this sort. In anarchist writing, I get bored reading ideas that seem just like mine (unless they are written humorously or poetically or both), and if the writing is bad and the arguments poorly made (which is far too often the case), then I simply wish I had never come across them.
Oh, I do sometimes read informative books the basic premise of which I agree with, in order to gather evidence for my perspective, but that is simply research, and not that interesting to me,
In the realm of ideas, I want to be challenged, and challenged well. That is what I find most engaging.4ptUga