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我们能从路易吉·曼吉奥尼书单中窥见他的真实内心吗?

2024/12/16
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主持人:作为近期互联网焦点人物,路易吉·曼吉奥尼的个人书单引发了广泛关注。我发现,人们试图通过分析他的阅读选择,来解读其犯罪行为背后的动机和信仰体系。然而,这种解读可能存在过度推断的风险,因为阅读行为本身可能并不直接关联犯罪。我观察到,路易吉的书单涵盖了自我提升、社会批判、以及虚构文学等多个领域,这反映了他兴趣的广泛性,但也使得我们难以从中提取出明确的犯罪诱因。我注意到,尽管他阅读了《工业社会及其未来》等具有批判性的书籍,但同时也阅读了《哈利·波特》等虚构作品,这进一步增加了分析的复杂性。因此,我认为,我们应该谨慎对待通过书单来推断个人行为的尝试,避免过度解读和主观臆断。 主持人:我发现,路易吉对《工业社会及其未来》的评价是复杂的。一方面,他似乎认同作者对现代社会的批判,另一方面,他又对作者的暴力倾向持保留态度。我注意到,他在评论中提到“当所有沟通都失败时,暴力是生存的必要手段”,这句看似激进的言论,可能反映了他对社会不公的强烈不满。然而,我并不认为这足以构成其犯罪的直接动机。我倾向于认为,这更多的是一种情绪化的表达,而非理性的行动指南。我强调,在分析此类问题时,我们需要保持客观和理性,避免将个人言论与实际行为简单地划等号。我始终认为,对路易吉书单的解读,最终应回归到对其个人经历和社会背景的综合分析,而非仅仅停留在书本的层面。

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本期节目讨论了最近网络爆红的Luigi Mangione及其涉嫌参与的美国联合健康保险公司首席执行官谋杀案。我们将探讨案件的背景、经过以及Luigi Mangione的个人信息。
  • Luigi Mangione因涉嫌谋杀美国联合健康保险公司首席执行官Brian Thompson被捕
  • 案件发生在宾夕法尼亚州阿尔图纳市的一家麦当劳餐厅
  • Manhattan检方指控Luigi Mangione犯有谋杀、无证持枪和伪造证件等罪名

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Luigi Mangione is definitely the most popular person on the Internet recently. Some people really don't know this person. I'll just briefly describe what's going on. The U.S. police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania on December 9, 9:00.

He is believed to be related to the US health insurance company's chief executive, Brian Thompson, who is currently being prosecuted by the Manhattan police for murder, unlawful shooting and forged documents. Louis is in good shape because of his face, strong body, and a painful history of his body. So it can be said that it is a change of pace on the Internet. If it is a little exaggerated to say that it has received many admirers, it is more objective to get a lot of worship and heated discussion from netizens.

His family, education, love life, and so on were all exposed by netizens. Some of them were even turned into a movie. Of course, among them, Luigi's book list is a very important part of the story. Since the discovery of the Goodreads account, many netizens have been using this famous reading website to subscribe to his personal account to see what he's been thinking about after reading a book.

In Goodreads' personal main page, Luigi has a total of 297 books. Of which, I've read 65 books, read 3 more, and want to read 242 books. In addition, there are 15 love books marked. So I don't think the Luigi book list that is now circulating everywhere on the Internet is very accurate. Because many of them are even stuck in there.

The bullet journal method.

According to the author, this is a personal management tool that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world. It uses special symbols to distinguish between the main points and different types of content, and thus clearly sets goals, plans for life, and records the corresponding life. Wow, it sounds like a typical self-taught book. In his favorite book, there is also a book titled "The Habit of The Human Being", which was translated into "The Habit of Control" by the mainland.

When there are such books in the bookshelf, I used to think that this person was looking for ways from the wrong place. And then I found that, including myself, everyone, whether rich or poor, will find the help of this type of book in some moments, and will no longer wear colorful glasses. Besides, he is a high-quality student. Isn't it normal to read books that can help you learn and grow? What's our problem? A self-help book for societies. Where does our problem lie? A self-help book for society.

After reading the summary, the title of this book is "The Self-Defense of Society", but in fact it basically asks what's wrong with the United States. Based on the social division and chaos that the United States has seen and read over the years, the author wanted to give the country and society a diagnosis, and further find the cause of the disease, and try to give treatment.

In his love letter, I think the one that is similar to this book is "A New World of Beauty". OK, this sounds weird. The first book is non-fabricated, and the second book is a novel. But I always think that "A New World of Beauty" is a fictional anti-Utopian social novel. The plot is all like this. The social ideas that He Xuli wants to express are the most important.

In addition to these books, there are also very popular books like "The Iron Man" in the books that Luigi likes. Ah, think about those years, Musk was still normal, and the reputation was not as hard to get as it is now. Of course, these are not books that we are really interested in. The future of industrial society of "Teddy Up the Car" is the focus of our attention. When I hear this name, I immediately think of what Luigi did. But when I look at his score, four stars, I feel a little off.

The author of this book, Katyn Szycki, is a famous person. Graduated from Harvard University, he had a bright future, but became a bomb freak. After giving up his post as a professor, he lived in a small house in a remote area in Montreal, where he targeted universities and airlines. He fired 16 oil-packed bombs, causing three deaths and 23 injuries. He was then executed in the US Federal Prison. Until June 10, 2023, he committed suicide in prison at the age of 81.

So you can imagine, when you find a book about a CEO who is a suspect, read it and commented on it, how shocking would it be? Luigi wrote in his book that it's easy for people to take this book as a crazy declaration to avoid facing the uncomfortable problems he faced. But the author's accuracy of modern language is unbelievable. The author is a violent person, who should be punished, and he also hurt many innocent people.

From this we can see that Louis treat the book with a rather tangled attitude, but the following few words will make us quite confused. The author is brave enough to realize that peace struggle does not allow us to go anywhere. When all communication fails, violence is the necessary means of survival. At the end of the book, he wrote some words that remind us of the case of this issue. All peace struggle will be completely ignored, economic struggle cannot be completed under the current system.

These companies don't care about you and your children. They have no concern about destroying the earth for money. Then why should we care about destroying them for survival? We are animals like other creatures on earth. The only difference is that we forgot the law of the jungle. This law exists for survival, and those so-called rationality can no longer deal with these predators. It's quite impulsive, but can it be used to explain this incident?

A.O. Scott in the New York Times wrote, What can we learn from the history of Goodreads, the gunman of the CEO? He asked such a question. Is Mr. Manji's reading habit to put himself in the left or right side? This question is inevitable to us now, but it may not matter.

The historian Mark Harris describes the story as a very easy to interpret young male ideology tourist, a person who is addicted to everything that is explained, and a faith system that lacks consistency. I have to say, although the position of the New York Times' Bob's writing is vague, this sentence is really a piece of the puzzle, and I think it is a state that many young people will have at the moment.

The text continues to write: "Many of the books he has read, such as "The Roots of the Spirit", "The Human Fist", "How to Change Your Thoughts", etc. all prove his interest in the broad, explanatory, and socially scientific popularization of gambling. In addition to many other books, their common interests are very obvious. The recognized non-fragile marketing books can be smoothly integrated into TED lectures, podcasts, and business journals.

From this young man's diary, we can easily find his signs of discipline. Like many Americans with similar backgrounds, Luigi's book revenge is also determined by the books other people are reading or the books they think they should read.

In other words, his reading on Goodreads is as expected of us as it is expected of a college student who just graduated from a computer science degree and wants to improve himself. He hopes that the books he reads can help him think about some major problems and have an actual effect on his physical and mental health. It is possible that these books in a certain book or their combination will lead to a violent effect. Reading sometimes has such an effect.

Some of the most normal modern publishers may also have a lot of imagination, which is really amazing. But reading can also be an impulse to resist and calm down against society. At least a reader immersed in books is safe at this moment in the boundary of thought and action. Oh, I still want to say that the New York Times is too left-handed. Be sure to read the books you like, even read the book itself to define a tendency.

相比之下,我更喜欢出名读书网站 LitHub 的专文。

The author James Fota wrote: "When I read through his book, I remember that I had done the same thing before. I read through other people's books to see what I could learn from them. How many new friends and potential date objects are we able to guess from the books? This is always very interesting. But how many times is it correct to infer from the bookshelf? How many things can we see from a book that one person has read?

If you use the words of John Waters, if Luigi's book on Goodreads is a bit basic, do you think he can become your target? Because his book is really basic. A standard business and technology book, including all the popular books of the millennial era of youth literature, and the core books that business leaders will read on the audio and video.

The book or DVD of a murderer is both fascinating and we feel like we are full of human feelings. But these details can't explain anything. We are doing this in the incident of the recording. We select the book he reads, trying to find the trace or motive, find his violent, cruel, even righteous origin.

Searching for someone's bookshelf and guessing who he is is a great joy in everyone's life. But Lou's profound lessons about crime cannot be found in his Goodreads record. Although we did our best, we still can't just understand ourselves through his books. Because every deduction we make on his bookshelf is inseparable from the crime he has committed.

Yes, because of this act of crime, when we look at all the tracks in his life, we will be in a hurry to connect with what is happening now. But forget that life is so wide, there are so many obstacles. Even more forget that reading itself can actually be an action with no purpose. When we admit this, we will realize that the books he has read may not be too related to his own behavior.

He did read some of the books about industrial society and its future, but he also read Harry Potter and Hobbit, and he also put in his favorite book a book about the same thing. The big book about the big picture, like the "White Gold" and "The Endless Joke", is still in his list of books.

I believe that the more we explore, the more we will find that the number of questions is not decreasing. Just like what the article "Lit up" says at the end: "We know everything, but we know nothing at the same time."