If you also want to become a meme master, you must read Murad's book list

Murad became a new meme leader with his 2049 speech, and single-handedly gave meme coins a reasonable investment logic, cult meme, pvp/pve, meme price and belief index, etc.

Related reading: "Who is Murad, the "new meme leader" who has gone viral? Meme holdings exceed $24 million, and institutions are called on board in 20 minutes"

Where does this theory come from? We can get a glimpse of it from his meme book list, and recommend it to those who want to systematically study meme culture.

1. The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future BY Theodore John Rivers

《The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future》

This book explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Drawing on his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history, Rivers discusses how the promotion of medieval Christianity and monasticism began a process of giving religious overtones to the way we interact with modern technology. Rivers ultimately suggests that the continued growth of technology makes it a likely candidate for the next form of religion, competing with all of today's major religions.

2. The Religion of the Future BY Roberto Mangabeira Unger

《The Religion of the Future》

How can we live in this way and only die once? How can we organize a society so that we have a better chance of living fully? How can we reshape religion so that it liberates us rather than comforts us? These questions are at the heart of Unger's The Religion of the Future: An Argument for Spiritual and Political Revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without belief in a transcendent God or life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—humans can become more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on earth and in their own lives. They can become more divine without denying the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and acquisitiveness.

Recommended reading: Tomorrow's Gods: What is the future of religion?

3. American Gods BY Neil Gaiman

American Gods

Odin, Loki, Anansi... the ancient gods have actually been living in the United States, living around us as humans, but they have lost the faith of mankind and become weak. High technology, cars, media... a new generation of gods are born from these things, and they are becoming more powerful with the dependence and faith of mankind. In the land of the United States, the disputes between the new gods and the old gods are constantly escalating. In order to regain people's faith, the Norse god Odin traveled across the United States to unite the old gods and fight a decisive battle with the new gods. A war of gods is about to break out.

This book has also been adapted into a TV series "American Gods", and WeChat Reading has a Chinese translation.

Recommended reading: Why Neil Gaiman's American Gods is so iconic

4. Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism BY Benjamin Noys

Malicious Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism

Those who think we are not moving fast enough, rather than rejecting the ever-increasing pace of capitalist production, argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Malign Velocities refuses to accept this conclusion, seeing this "accelerationism" as a symptom of the misery and suffering of workers under capitalism. Looking back at a series of historical moments of accelerationism - Italian futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the "cyberpunk philosophy" of the 90s and 00s; our unconscious fantasy of merging with machines; doomsday accelerationism in the post-2008 crisis; and the end of negative accelerationism - showing that the joy and pain of speed indicate the need to break away from, negate and develop a new politics that truly challenges the so-called joy of speed. The word accelerationism that was popular in the cryptocurrency circle before was created by this book.

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in 5. Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer How do we explain the sometimes remarkably sudden changes in nature and society – and can we predict why and when they happen? This book provides a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems, radical changes that occur at tipping points when thresholds are crossed. Scheffer provides an accessible account of the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, covering catastrophe theory, bifurcations, chaos and more. He gives examples of critical transitions in lakes, oceans, terrestrial ecosystems, climate, evolution, and human society. He also demonstrates how to respond to these transitions, providing practical guidance on how to predict tipping points, how to prevent "bad" transitions, and how to promote critical transitions that work for us rather than against us.

6. There Is No Antimemetics Division BY qntm

《No Antimemetics Division》

Antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties, which, by its very nature, hinders or prevents people from spreading it. Antimemes are real. Think of any information you wouldn't share with anyone, such as codes, taboos, and dirty secrets, but anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you save something that can't be recorded or remembered? How do you fight the enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage when you don't even know you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

This is a science fiction novel based on the SCP concept. SCP culture is also a cultural phenomenon that relies heavily on the community. The author also has an article "I don't know, Timmy, after all, being God is a big responsibility", which is about a story about a supercomputer powerful enough to simulate the entire universe.

7. Society of the Spectacle BY Guy Debord

《The Society of the Spectacle》

Guy Debord developed and proposed the concept of spectacle in this book, which is considered the seminal text of the Situationist movement. WeChat Reading has a Chinese translation. The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism, involving issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and mass media. When Debord said that "everything that was once directly lived has become pure reproduction", he was referring to the central importance of images in contemporary society. Debord said that images have replaced real interpersonal interaction. Therefore, Debord's fourth argument is that "spectacle is not a collection of images; on the contrary, it is a social relationship between people mediated by images." In consumer society, social life is not for survival, but for possession; the spectacle uses images to communicate what people need and must have. Thus, social life moves further, leaving the state of "having" and entering the state of "appearing"; that is, the appearance of images. "In a world that is truly turned upside down, reality is only a moment of falsehood."

Recommended reading: Into the meme stream: The value and spectacle of Internet memes

8. The Sovereign Individual: The Coming Economic Revolution BY James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

"The Sovereign Individual: The Coming Economic Revolution"

The two authors are well-known investment advisors and authors of the best-selling book "The Great Reckoning", which reveals the great changes in human history, the tide of disaster, and the potential for prosperity and revival as we enter the next century. They present the strategies needed to economically adapt to the next phase of Western civilization, exploring the greatest economic and political transformation in centuries—the shift from industrial society to information society, which they call the "fourth stage of human society," which will liberate individuals as never before and irreversibly change the power of governments.

Recommended reading: 《The Sovereign Individual》Book Review: Takeaways, Quotes, and Critique

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