Books Too Dangerous to Read
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Fiction is full of deadly, cursed tomes, but what about real life? Can a book ever actually hurt you?
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Thanks for the second warning at 7:12 - but it's actually referring to the incorrect timestamp to skip to: it reads 7:37 but probably should be 8:37.
I'm certain that the anarchists cookbook is left on amazon so they have a digital record of who bought it when. Just a guess though.
I thought it was going to include Liz Truss' latest book...😊
You said, "leather bound" like it isn't human skin. 😂
What do you call an evil book that tries to eat you?
A Necro-nomnomnom-icon.
There actually is a cookbook with (almost) that name.
@@Zandaarl The necronomnomnom
@Zandaarl Link plz?
@@dubuyajay9964 look up the necronomnomnom
@@dubuyajay9964 google?
Any book can kill you if you're unlucky enough
Me: goes to old library
Book that hasn't been opened in 30 years: Curse of black mold!
True
You’re*
Bonk. D:
@@GIBBO4182 fixed it
2 ways a book can kill you:
1) the knowledge in it being a cogito hazard
2) by moving fast enough.
Some commenters also mantioned that if said book is particularly old, it can contain dangerous amount of Arsenic or black mold. I would also mantion that it can be so dusty that it can trigger asthma attack in some people
Or, rather, by moving fast enough then suddenly stopping on you
Well said 😂
@@pedroff_1 Not just speed but also weight. I have no fear of a dime store paperback. But a medieval tome as big as a person? I probably won't be taking it off the shelf without wearing a helmet.
@@nabra97yeah, see option 1.)
the mold and arsenic is the real eldritch secrets of the book!
The Necromicon just sounds like the Terraria Wiki, "Contains knowledge of Eldritch Entities, How to beat them and how to summon them".
YESSSS
It basically is actually.
Thats a perfect description of the book, an Eldrich wikipedia.
People just go straight to summoning without bothering to read about beating
the title means “dead name book” or maybe “book of dead names”
@@JStainto If you look at the end of the book you will see a list of citations and chain links with the name of the respective source.
"This Book Will Kill You"
And that is why kids the Librarian is an Orangutan.
Terry Pratchett?
@@hiya-de5hd Hell yeah
Hahaha.... Love that reference!
Ook!
Some errant magic transformed him, and he has passionately resisted any attempt to change him back.
Can't say I blame him.
The turner diary ban and the anarchist cookbook lack of ban in Canada makes for an interesting statement. “Telling someone how to build a bomb is less dangerous than giving someone a reason to.”
That statement is very true
The Anarchist Cookbook starts off with the authors political beliefs critical of the US government.
@@mEmory______ ...Were you even listening to the part about the Turner Diaries?
@WobblesandBean what about them? I just thought that since the above comment implied that the Cookbook had no political ideas or reasons I would point out that it wasn't the case.
@@mEmory______ i wasn’t trying to imply that. My main point was that a book centered around “here’s why we should do this” can be more dangerous than a book that is centered around “here is how to do this” at least at extremes like bombings and stuff. My belief from this video that the Turner Diaries is generally more politically motivating to the group it is trying to appeal to. Or the groups that agree with it
Well, John Wick did kill that big Russian dude in the library by smashing a book between his jaws.
knowledge is power
@@marcusrauch4223 “knowledge is power”
So is John Wick.
@@salvit6024 I would guess John Wick is this generation's Chuck Norris! 🤣
Boban is a really nice guy!
There's also the case of books made with arsenic, either to produce brilliantly coloured covers or, in one case, to drive home how dangerous arsenic-based dyes in wallpaper, clothing, etc were. The latter was sold with a "do not let children touch this" warning. And arsenic never degrades, so they're exactly as toxic as they day they were made.
I will never fail to be gobsmacked at the sheer stupidity of people, especially kids. "Hey, don't touch this, it will literally kill you." kids:
@@WobblesandBean*puts into mouth*
At first, I thought that's what this video was about.
@@brianroberts783same, imagine my disappointment when it wasn’t mentioned at all.
In case anyone in the replies to this comment is wondering the book in question was called "Shadows of the Walls of Death" and I know this because a different comment on this video mentioned it
I think the most dangerous thing about the Anarchist's Cookbook might well be the bits that are *almost* right but will probably get you killed.
yeah there is a surprising amount of straight up false information in there that can end up looking like a suicide if you do them
First lesson of how to handle a weapon: How do I not kill myself
That sounds like "Darwin passages," aka, a method for keeping [those who do not look to secondary sources to confirm information] from fully using the contents of the book. If you trust primary sources without question, you are NOT a leader in the revolution, you are but a pawn in somebody else's game, and pawns are expendable.
@@andrewdreasler428 And if you don't have access to any other sources?
@@MySerpentine then enjoy your banandine, comrade
"Shadows of the Walls of Death" can literally kill you if you don't handle it with gloves because it contains samples of various arsenic containing wallpaper. There are also some emerald green books that used arsenic to color their book covers.
I've seen it at the MSU art museum.
in a similar vein, marie curies diary is sealed away with her corpse, as both are still heavily irradiated.
NGL The quality of these videos legit reminds me of broadcast educational television like on PBS. I'm genuinely very impressed at how high quality the animations and illustrations are for these videos. I've learned a lot from this channel but I am never not amazed by how quality everything is in these videos.
Way better than PBS too.
I haven't seen anything this good on PBS since I was 16.
Banning books honestly just makes me want to read them more.
The only reason I've not found a copy of Anarchists Cookbook is because the author genuinely regrets publishing it and asks people not to buy/sell/read the book. Since my impulse to own or read a banned book is a freedom of speech matter, I'll respect the wishes of the one who's speech this book represents.
I try to own a copy of every book actually banned.
@@FairbrookWingates Look around garage sales, you could probably find one already in circulation. Not perfect, but it's a partial solution.
I thought I, being the nosy little sucker that I am, would be the same. But noooope :P When a local bookstore had a banned book sale (that they very loudly advertised as having been obtained through off-the-grid means, like donations and rummage sales and not Amazon or smth), I wasn't interested in the least. Not even when the owner who, for the record, I know and (somewhat) trust, asked me if I wanted to take a peek. The fanfare around the books being banned made me feel like they all suck and their only selling point is morbid curiosity.
All these books are online. Sail the high seas, and you'll find the treasure you seek.
I'm surprised Nami no Tou wasn't brought up briefly, as much like the effect The Sorrows had, this novel may have supposedly been what further pushed people to see the lonely Aokigahara forest as a place to die, eventually creating its own popular folklore.
yeah I like Nami too esp. when she control the weather.
The line, "Ideas are slippery, they can happen in unexpected places whether intended or not" really hit me. Well done, TF.
"Honey, Fred's ideas are... dangerous."
"But Mom, all he wants to do is be left alone, and not have to give half of what he grows to the Council."
"What your mother means is, if you don't stop trying to defend Fred, the Council will come after *you* next. And unlike Fred, they can come and take you away, any time they want."
I was thinking the same.
The pen is mightier than the sword…but you gotta hold it just right 😵💫
According to Pratchett
"... but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp"
Or if you are John Wick.
John Wick? Is that you?
A friend of mine that went to an all girls highschool had some english lessons examining the writings of charles manson. The goal of these lessons was to teach critical thinking and how to identify the ways the author would manipulate young women. A worrying number of girls in that class walk away thinking that charles manson was charming and had a good point.
I would want to lay some groundwork before doing something like that. I guess, though, Manson's message was custom-optimized for that audience, so maybe just no. Also, they always have a good point, that's how they convince people to follow them, and how they hide all their bad points.
Reminds me of my senior high school year, where we read 1984 and a large portion of the guys in that class walked away doing the edgelord "Lol that society is kinda based though" bit
@pancakes8670 wow. I could understand Brave New World (since it's more simiar to dystopian consumer capitalism ie control via manipulation, drugs, entertainment, etc ) but 1984 is so over the top authoritarian fascist what would be the appeal in being watched 24/7 and they have to escape just to get laid.
@@Vinemaple Yes critical thinking is absolutely necessary when dealing with the writings / ravings of a jackass like Manson (or really for anything/anyone). Villains don't just get people to follow them by saying all bad things all the time; they usually have a lot of charisma and say just enough good things to get people on their train before they go off and leave for crazytown. Unfortunately very rarely to the passengers get to go up and shoot the engineer or derail the crazytrain (NOTICE I am making a METAPHOR here. If you don't know what that is, go look up 'metaphor' and then reread this... I was suggesting it is unfortunate that Manson's followers all didn't collectively bring him down before he harmed anyone, instead of what actually happened, which is them going outwardly and harming innocents. I am not advocating for anyone doing anything bad involving an actual train). [and PS the "you" is directed at more naive readers; not necessarily you @vinemaple, since you are probably already well aware of metaphors]
@@rickwrites2612 Well, some people are into that kind of thing. They may have missed the subtext, at that age.
This can actually start a debate about how we are promoting the society to become childish and the dangers that come with that. Specially places like CZcams, where you could get demonetized for saying a word the algorithm doesn't like.
Right? Its almost like the content of the books itself isnt the problem💀
This argument has been ongoing for decades (I remember such arguments growing up in the '80's). We just need to amplify it and not let it be ignored.
I remember a Video Essay that explained UnderTale’s story. One of the 3 main paths is the Genocide Route. The Creator had to refer to it as “No Mercy” to nor be Demonetized. Just knowing makes it feel like Profanity or something. Don’t say sex, that’s a bbaadd wwoorrdd
In Unordinary, there is a banned book by the same name. The book inspires people to become "vigilanties," which is something that is in direct odds with the in universe societal power structure. It's a good story, not perfect, yet i do find it rather entertaining.
Just in case anyone reading OP's comment doesn't know yet, "Unordinary" (aside from an in-universe banned book) is a Korean web comic available to (legally) read on Webtoon [yes, even in English].
@@amegenshiken ooh I love Webtoon and Tower of God.
The Necronomicon is the kind of book that opens you more than you open it.
In Deep R'lyeh book read you!
My uncle opened me.
Just like the box of ravishment.
The King in Yellow being 'too moving' really resonated with me. I have extreme anxiety, so if I read a book that's especially thought-provoking, I sometimes physically hurt with the intensity of the whirlwind in my head. I still read them, though. I understand why The King in Yellow would still be so sought-after despite the ban on it.
On a gentler scale, this is one reason why bad movies continue to survive in the face of better ones: sometimes one doesn't want to have your heart broken in a movie theater, one just wants to relax for a few hours and look at something pretty... and crudely cathartic.
Having read it, there's really nothing to it as the short stories in the first part are just stories of how the book "The King in Yellow" affected them or someone close to them. Nothing truly mind-altering or horrific. Eerie, yes, but more obscure and Lovecraftian, which I understand is where Lovecraft got his inspiration.
Immediately reminded of one of my favorite "South Park" episodes: "The Tale of Scroty McBoogerballs"
"The Catcher in the Rye" is taken off South Park Elementary ban list and while reading it, our main cast of four find the book lackluster. They then write a book so juvenile and crass most people can't read it without an intense visceral reaction.
The rest of the episode deals with things like how one gets a book banned and the will of the artist vs. The interpretation of the audience.
I need to watch that episode!
Necronomicon in Evil Dead tries to bite you.
Well, one of the fake ones anyway. When dealing with the Necronomicon, always make sure you don’t pick up the wrong book.
"KLAATU... BARATA... [cough] necktie! [cough]" --Ash
putting the Nom in necronomicon
I have never considered Lovecraft's Necronomicon and the Evil Dead's Necronomicons (3 books) to be the same books. But that just me.
We seem to confuse the difference between banned and limited or restricted. Some "banned" books are just age restricted, but people ignore that fact to make their point.
More than a few book "bans" are, in all sincerity and honesty, actually about curriculum. There's a world of difference between banning a book, and promoting it as a worthwhile source of information.
Trust me, I have _no_ doubt that I would very much hate some of the book "bans", thinking that the book really, really should be part of the curriculum. Still, I wish people would be honest about what is actually happening.
The biggest trick people pull is to claim that a book being removed from the compulsory reading list for some 5th grade class in a single rural Kentucky school is the same as “OH MY GOD THEY’RE BURNING BOOKS AND DISAPPEARING PEOPLE WHO TRY TO READ THEM AAAAHHHH!”
Age restricting is still a form of banning.
@@localvega688 Restricted means limited in extent, number, scope, or action. Prohibited means that has been forbidden; banned.
@@ObsidianFallen That is what banned means. Even the "Approved" people are allowed to read the banned books. It's "Rules for thee, but not for me". 👑
There's a book called "Shadows From the Walls Of Death" with wallpaper samples that contain enough arsenic that warrant specialized containment. My brother and I saw it on display at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. It was in a protective case to protect visitors.
Imagine that, an artifact kept in a case not to prevent it from being stolen, but to prevent it from harming whoever might touch it.
its interesting you mentioned goethe's werther! im from germany, i remember my high school literature teacher telling us that some years before our school time (so around early or mid 2000s i think?) a girl from our school killed herself (threw herself off a local tower monument) cause she was heatbroken due to werther. take it with a grain of salt if it was really cause of werther, but she did kill herself. just something i still remember, so it was interesting hearing it here as well.
Yes, that smells folkloric, but even if it is, it'd be a sort of social commentary on how poorly our society fosters our children's _emotional_ maturity.
Although not a girl, as a person with some pretty intense / heavy emotions as a teen,
who fell in love a few times, and had my heart broken etc.
I can imagine that it doesn't take much to push a person who can get that high-strung (hormonal) over the edge.
A book might 'do it'.
It's not the book's FAULT, of course, but sometimes people who are already prone to doing something,
may latch onto an excuse for doing it.
I will say, however, that as a polyamorous person, I got messed up by Western society (well specifically 20th century USA)'s mentality of 'one true love' and 'finding your soulmate', and the complaints floated by some about 'why don't you settle down with one perfect person?' etc etc.
While well-intentioned, all that kind of propagandistic crap can mess someone up who isn't oriented like that,
since
(besides the monogamy vs polyamory difference, which which I have less problem since I know monogamous people will always outnumber polyamorous people by a large degree; that is the more usual orientation)
it presupposes that:
1. there IS someone out there who is a 'perfect fit' for another person.
While with billions of people on the planet, that might be true, but does the unknown original author / creator of that 'soulmate' 'perfect fit' concept expect everyone to be combing through all people on the planet to find the 'one true perfect person' ?!?!?!
(In other words, there is not enough onus put upon the protagonist to _THEMSELVES_ get it together and be someone others would find worthy of dating, instead of just voyeuristically 'window shopping' for a partner, like on a dating app for example)
2. Also, some of this crap tends to be from a male perspective and a bit objectifying.
As a person who already unfortunately tends to objectify people, I greatly dislike any philosophy which would encourage me to do so of a potential love interest / girlfriend, (i. e. 'do they look the way you want them to look?' 'do they act the way you want them to act?') instead of meeting them on an equal level as a friend, and each person making allowances and adjustments for the other person's quite human non-perfection, and foibles.
The latter is way more grown-up, mature, and also egalitarian and humanistic towards the other person, but unfortunately that's not a lot of what I was brought up on in fairy tales, romance novels and the like.
I WAS brought up to treat people decently, and be chivalrous etc. which is good;
but that can conflict with the Stepford-Wives-and/or-Ruby-Sparks-designer-partner-objectification of finding
'one's perfect partner' or 'true soulmate'
espoused in classic romance narratives and couched in so much OTHER ethics (also taught along with it in those same books),
that it's made to look like a 'good thing'
(and this isn't just about visual 'perfection' either, but also about having a personality one likes, being into things...
basically grocery-store-shopping or genetic-engineering or genie-bottle-wishing these things about one's imagined partner).
12:34 one fascinating example of "Writer makes something that the fans interperate in a different way" is Rorschach from the Watchmen series, I can't remember the exact details sadly but Alan Moore's original interperitations of the character as a deconstructive parody of characters like Mr. A and The Question, a character meant to mock those objectivist Blacka and White morality. But in spite of his ridicule, readers and watchers of the Watchmen series fell in love with the character and propped him up in ways that Moore was shocked to see
A good cautionary tale for those who create strawmen... and for anyone who wants to start writing parody or satire.
Thank you for this one, as slippery and delicate as this topic is. So many people who approach it with the message of trying to tell others "what to think". Rather, this is very refreshing and heart warming that in the end, what you ask is for people "to think"
A very delicate subject handled gently and impartially. I am genuinely impressed, and quite relieved that you were able to tackle this subject as well as you were. VERY good video.
0:27 love the use of the evil dead necronomicon
After seeing the bit about The Catcher in the Rye I think I now know why so many news sites began scaremongering about the movie Joker so much.
those news sites were trying to wishcast a Joker movie mass shooting into manifesting for some reason. One of the big humor websites (Cracked? ) called them out on it.
@talesofgore9424 They wanted a mass shooting so they could milk it for ratings and most likely push a narrative that movies like the Joker were bad for America and it's people, "This movie caused a shooting! We should ban it and ignore any ideas it might put in people's heads!"
That is very apt.
@@talesofgore9424 Did they call out the actual authors of the actual articles? And did said authors turn around and squeal on editors and other people trying to get them to deliver that kind of story?
Harvard has a book with nothing but wallpaper samples in it. Might actually be the deadliest book, or at least the most dangerous. It's called Shadows from the walls of death (awesome title!) Everything is an eerie green. That green pigment, comes from arsenic. Not what the video was about, but it did feel like it was a notable exception.
The most dangerous book I knew of before this was Malleus Maleficarum. The book that fanned the fire of the witch trials.
You naver heard of the book hitler wrote?
That was the first book I thought of, in the line of properly dangerous real-world books!
@@jonberg5331 I thought for sure that was the book our robot friend was going to mention rather than that Turner one.
"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" does NOT include any recipes for explosives or anything like that!
What does it have?
@@FelicityUwU it's more of an environmentalist ideological manifesto iirc
@@FelicityUwUI'm about 2/3rds of the way through the book. So far, it's mostly building a case for why the insistence to stay non-violent within the environmentalist movement may actually be detrimental to its cause. It argues that the climate crisis is potentially one of the greatest crises humanity has ever faced, and that more violence has been instigated by protestors, activists and rebels for much less severe threats. It also argues that having a more extremist and militant side of a movement aids in accomplishing the more moderate goals, and it cites examples in the american civil rights movement, the ending of apartheid in south africa, and more. It never outright explains how to actually blow up a pipeline.
@@thegamesforreal1673 a tree was killed for that book on violent climate protests and it won’t even tell me what it promised me to? SMH dude, clickbate really did exist back then
@@thegamesforreal1673 It's funny though because if they try to use violence people will use violence against them and they'll lose.
Most times I'm less than appreciative of ad spots at the end of videos but yours are actually soothing to listen to especially after a video like this one.
It's so true than banning a book really only elevates it's notoriety and often times just applying a bit more academic understanding and some context can sort it out fine. I am reminded, however, on the topic of restricting access to objectionable content and tools of violence; we'll just find some other way to crudely display our ugly, broken sense of self.
"This book will kill you!"
"That just makes it better😀"
I live in Germany, here “Mein Kampf” (Hitlers diary) is rightfully banned but the commentated version is even read in some schools (History class) so I think that just proves the point here :)
I disagree with it ever being right to ban a book. That said, I am glad schools are at least using the commentated versions to warn of the dangers of evil people in power.
Ideology always determines if a book is dangerous not content
Haven't seen the whole video but I have to say that "The Book Thief" immediately commes to mind, as it is a story about the power of words and their danger, specially by emphasizing the way that Hitler used words to cultivate his regime of hatred during World War II.
I remember seeing the movie. That was certainly a Jolly watch….
The book is on my bucket list
Another "dangerous" book example could be "The Neverending Story," which sucks the reader into its own fictional world, and gradually causes you to forget your real life. (In a way, it's kind of similar to Neverland, but in book form.)
I have never seen the Neverending Story described like that, I don't remember there being any serious warnings given to Bastien in the novel, doesn't the bookseller just hand it to him? This is a seriously underrated comment, I'd love to see some property like The Librarians or the SCP Wiki do a shout out by giving a line or two to the "real" Neverending Story, locked away so it can't suck anyone in. (No, don't go and make an SCP about it, that's not how the SCP Wiki works, they no longer accept tribute SCPs)
@@Vinemaple the multiverse is so huge, its inevitable that you would be fiction in some universes.
@@tomkatt8274 I am fiction in _all_ universes.
@@Vinemaple why
@@tomkatt8274 Because that's not how the SCP Wiki works, they no longer accept tribute SCPs.
"This book will kill you.
"How?"
"It's being held by John Wick."
"😳😳😳"
Any book held by John Wick > The Necronomicon
I'd argue there is no dangerous books out there, just dangerous people.
Exactly this!
The most scareing story I have read, or more played actually, was "Hello Charlotte". It does something really weird with you, it combines feelings of spirituality with mass suicide... It is scary af.
Been watching a playthrough of it. Haven't finished it yet but OH BOY. It's got some rough stuff in there and is only pretending to be slightly subtle.
I didn’t expect to see another Hello Charlotte fan in the comments here, but I thought of my experiences with that game while watching this too. While I love that game, and I think I can say that I and most people I know can approach the game with enough critical discernment to recognize the difference between depiction and endorsement, I can definitely see how some of the more sensitive topics could be acted on harmfully if not handled carefully.
An interesting thing to note about "Catcher In The Rye" being included in this list is that it was also used as a major plot device in the "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" anime wherein the hacker known as The Laughing Man uses a line from the book as part of his logo. He goes on to inspire other copycats as well, all of whom adopt the same emblem as a meme. There's a part in the series where the detectives of Section 9 even refer to "The Salinger Angle" as a hypothesis for the true motives and methods behind The Laughing Man's actions and use that as a means of tracking him down.
"How to think critically so the text doesn't decide our feelings for us" What an amazing line. I have read so many books in my years that have made me feel uncomfortable because I knew the author was pushing their ideaoligy hard through the characters and events. So that line really resonated with me.
In the movie "Conspiracy Theory," there's a subliminal implant in brainwashed sleeper agents to keep buying copies of "Catcher in the Rye," so that if one of their agents goes rogue, they can look for anyone recently buying a copy of it.
Also, there's an episode of "South Park," where the boys write a book called "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs," which everyone in town sees as a masterpiece, reading messages into it that were never intended, satirizing people's reactions to "Catcher in the Rye."
Don't make the pipe bomb in the cookbook. It is not measured right and will blow up in your face. Same for the flamethrower.
Thx man, it's honestly gonna be useful theese days. The pipebpmb part that is. Idk abt the flamme thrower much
@@ardugaleen2231 whatever you're planning, do not
I wasn’t planning on it.
Im almost certain the anachist cookbook that's on amazon is a newer edited version with recipies changed to be less dangerous, that's why it is still sold
I think this to me highlights how powerful knowledge and perspective together truly are. Any information learned or reflected on can profoundly influence how someone sees the world, others and themselves. But changing perspective in turn influences how we interact with the world, others and ourselves.
For better or worse...
The Anarchist Cookbook is a great book to un-alive yourself. Many recipies are more dangerous for the reader than the actual target.
Im so mad that Tale Foundry doesn't have at least 10 million subscribers, if you see this comment you are morally obligated to subscribe to Tale Foundry
I concede, just subbed.
they recommend him so often, Hell, i thought i was subscribed O_o
Already have. I love his work
This made me realize I wasn’t. Thanks
"A book can't kill you"
SCP-3023: ...right.
Was expecting a Malleus Maleficarum mention, as its kind of the real world inverse of the Necronomicon.
This reminds me of a song that was banned because suicides spiked whenever it was played on the radio. It was a sad song and apparently made a lot of people very sad and depressed.
They talked about it on QI if you're interested, that's where I heard of it.
Was it Gloomy Sunday?
I was thinking about a song too, a totally different reason though. Polly, by Nirvana was written to show how inhuman some people doing a specific nasty thing could be, but ended up being used as a mantra by some of those same people who missed the point entirely. I imagine it might have been part of what lead to Kurt's end...
@@AbstractStew Pretty sure that it was Gloomy Sunday. I`m not sure if this is true, but the version of the story I've heard is that the original, Hungarian, version was banned after an outbreak of people self-deleting while listening to that song. Then it was translated to English, and the most cheerful Jazz singer in history, Billie Holiday, recorded her own classic version. According to legend, the same thing happened in both America and England, and at least the BBC, and possibly some US radio stations as well, banned Billie's version for decades. Bjork did a great cover of it, too!
Lavender Town Syndrome?
_"While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power, words offer the means to meaning and, for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth..."_
- V for Vendetta.
Hermaeus Mora wants to: know the books location
My god will not be denied. 🤪
In addition to lethal books, there are lethal ideas, not all of which are limited to books.
15:18 A book that everyone was assigned to read in high school? Statistically speaking, I would be surprised if it didn't have a body count associated to it.
By the way, from my favorite list of books that kill comes the one in
**spoilers**
The Name of the Rose: a book with its pages coated with a deadly poison, so anyone who might read it would die before being able to divulge its contents.
That can't be a real book. Books are made to be read.
"Rage" is legit an excellent book. I understand why King pulled it, but it was an excellent read. Would absolutely recommend.
I love Maths, so the idea of a Black Theorem, some piece of maths that shatter minds is so cool
Cool
SCP-033 is kind of like that. It proves the existence of a previously unknown integer, named θ', that completely breaks all computing devices if it's integrated with them.
You mean the Anti-Life Equation?
@@localvega688 Or Alien Geometries from other dimensions, described by Eldritch Equations that have new number systems too complex for the human mind. Lovecraft had a fear of Maths, but I'd be looking for such anomalies
@@user-qn2bg7zb9s This is very interesting. I must learn more about this Lovecraft lore.
I occasionally empty out the insides of books and fill them with bees and put them in no bee zones
I just got some ideas for devising that "story so beautiful it breaks the human mind", then a character experimenting with such a craft, inflicting it upon those near 'em, and then laughing like a mastermind while rolling it out en masse. I don't know why, but something about the premise made for a hilarious supervillain plot hook.
That aside, there's a certain trend of trying to delete ideas, and that's what banning and combat are all about. Entire ideologies are forbidden for similar reasons, as if experiencing specific emotions is something those of power are trying to wholesale prevent.
The book "Rage" merely poses a compelling and necessary question, to which my own comic book proposes the answer: *Sic Semper Tyrannis!*
always lovely to see another video from you, Tale Foundry! 💚
Should we be concerned that someone might attempted to do something similar to the Rumbling one day just because that person happened to be depressed about the situation of the world and then read Attack on Titan?
Let’s just hope that person can’t control nukes
@@Antasma1 with the way the world has gone in the past decade, I am legitimately concerned that could actually happen.
What was the Rumbling?
@@localvega688 An apocalyptic event that destroyed most of the world and killed %80 of humanity.
Was almost killed by a dictionary once....fell off top shelf and missed my head by millimeters. The thing was MASSIVE! Catcher in the Rye was the single most boring book i was ever forced to read.
Just like how star treck had the episode where they said irland unified in 2024 was banned
Any book can kill you at a high enough velocity.
thats what you get when you open the face exploder book
I love the intro so much
Why don't the characters who guard the necronomicon take the parts that can let people fight the eldritch entities, and publish stories with them? Even just adding those methods to stories that don't mention the actual entities could give people the ability to defend themselves if they find themselves faced with those entities.
Sorry if that's a stupid question. I'm not too familiar with Lovecraft's work.
Fun fact: there are "sequels" to the Anarchist Cookbook, from several authors, which go into detail about everything from making drugs and medicine from plants to making biodiesel. The poorly-bound example i found at a yard sale was specifically about homemade medicine, but it had three separate chapters about different kinds of drugs...
It mentioned the Anarchist's Cookbook in the dedication, as inspiration for its creation.
I also have a book from 1964 about how to make fireworks. Most of the ingredients aren't readily available anymore, but some of the larger models described are terrifying. Apparently safety and common sense were not fixtures the author considered important.
just what i needed for this terrible thursday morning
better not read it then
There actually is a book that can kill you. It’s called “Shadows from the Walls of Death,” and it is actually a collection of wallpaper samples that were made using an arsenic based green pigment. It was originally written to raise awareness to the dangers that this particular green pigment posed. Two surviving copies exist and are kept at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, and to access it you have to take special precautions. Needless to say, checking it out from the library is not an option, though it is available in PDF. To my knowledge the PDF can’t kill you like the physical copy can.
Love your animations!!! Very talented
Understandable why you wouldn't mention the Bible. As a Christian even I can't deny the way book has be interpreted. That would probably get political, and I know how unpleasant that gets. However, could of mentioned it being one of the only books that will kill wasps and hornets effectively. Is it disrespectful? Maybe. Is it effective? Yes.
Forreal.
The Bible: I cannot stress enough that doing everything in love is of utmost importance
People: oh okay, so crusade
The same goes for other religions' hold on their followers.
What about Mein Kamf? Extremely evil
Oh man. You’re great. Thanks for doing what you do.
im always happy when you post
its night where i live right now so its just like a bedtime story
Left-wing dangerous book = ok with Amazon. Rightwing dangerous book= not ok with Amazon. Hmmmm
Are you trying to claim one of the most capitalist companies in the world is left leaning...
Sry for the cringe but first
You're not sorry. Not in the slightest! Lol. It's great for the algorithm, so it's no big deal 😅
i hereby dethrone you, i am now first
You are not forgiven. Doing wrong and acknowleding it with self awareness is arguably worse because you knew it was wrong and did it anyway.
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when i read this and i went insane
Listening to this, I can't stop thinking of a book called The City of Dreaming Books by German author Walter Moers ("Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher" in the original German). Dangerous books are a big part of the story, as well as the dangers of read in general, especially if the books are "too good".
It's fantasy, but a very unique kind of fantasy. Although I can't speak for the English translations too much, I'd recommend the book (and most of his books in the Zamonia setting in general). Knowing your channel, you might have some fun with it :)
Reading does not lead to hate crime, terrorism, or ending your own life. Those are actions separate from ideas. If a person commits such an act then they were susceptible to committing such acts regardless of the influence
The question is whether or not there are ideas which having them in your head are inherently harmful simply as ideas.
There are absolutely books that will irrevocably damage the soul. An easy example is 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade (there's a reason his name is the root of the word Sadism)
I'm sure others can think of works they wish they could purge from their minds but are forced to live with because they were unlucky to encounter them. These are the books too dangerous to read
In the podcast, The Magnus Archives, there are a number of books under the name Jurgen Lightner that quite literally kill or at least, make you do things. Sort've a cross between The Necronomocon and The King In Yellow, but depending on the subject of the book, it's much worse. Like for instance, A Guest For Mr. Spider. For those who know, you know...
I love the bone turners tale
Ain’t no way my man said “slibbery.” 16:55 “…but ideas are slibbery.”
ephipiny comes in various ways.
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only way books can kill you, is when its hard, heavy and literal.
I remember when Mein Kampf was brought back to the bookstores of my country some years ago. It sparked some discussion in the media at the time, understandably. If I remember correctly, the copies came with lots of disclaimers about the dangerous ideas showed by this book. I don't particularly see this as a bad idea to let this ouvrage be available to the public along with the right keys to read it, like you said in the video. It is probably better than a situation where there is no regulation and anyone who really wants it to could get their hand on it anyways.
There could be a secret link to ACB. Making it when a person buys one, it put their IP on the map.
Alright, so the Anarchists Cookbook... I got my hands on a copy years ago for academic purposes, and it's profile is hugely over-exaggerated in media.
There's generally two kinds of information in the book:
- Info that is so simple any random person could figure it out on their own.
- And info so complicated you need a chemistry degree just to understand what you're looking at.
There's not really much of an attempt to bridge the two either, so most of the people who do find themselves in possession of a copy either won't be able to use the majority of its contents, or won't need any of it because they *already know* how to do complex chemistry. More likely, people will just own a copy because its an edgy thing to own. Like owning a copy of the Satanic bible, which they probably never bothered to read either. It's just *a thing rebels are supposed to have* and so they get a copy.
If someone was serious about causing problems, they'd probably be better served picking up surplus military training manuals in the 70s and 80s, unless all they wanted the cookbook for was recreational drug recopies - which actually make up the *majority* of its contents.
It really is more 'cookbook' than 'anarchy'.
Put it on the coffee table. A nice conversation starter during the holidays - probably the most dangerous thing the average person could do with it, lacking a 3rd year university chemistry course.
No one is going to "learn" to make a bomb from it. Either you already have most of the knowledge to do so, and maybe it can provide a few things weren't covered in class, or you don't. If you don't; it will not help you any more than staring at a chemistry textbook you can probably find at your local library, and also not understand.
I still love the intro.
Hope you keep getting more subs and supporters, so can do more of this amazing content
Well. That went harder than I was expecting. Good on you!
This is some of the most compelling material on CZcams. Maybe it's the material itself or the way you tell it.
A fantastic educational video guys. Thank you so much for making it 😁
Oof... Wasn't expecting the Heath High School mention. It gets forgotten in the school shooting discussion because it happened just before Columbine, which was so much worse.
I grew up in Paducah, Ky in the 90s. I was in 3rd grade when it happened and went to church with Ben Strong, who was the teen that talked the shooter into putting down the gun.
19:30 thank you for reminding me to look you up on Nebula!! I love that platform, I'll see you there 😁
thanks bro, your warning saved me from the book that almost fell on my head and killed me
Well done on this. It’s a hard topic to cover but I think you did a good job doing it in your own way. Here’s hoping we can all have access to the knowledge that we need one day.
Hey, as someone subscribed to Nebula, may I ask for more content regarding Worldsmiths? Really enjoyed it but I’d love more creative minds to dive into. Really grateful for the hard work though!
I'd love to see you make a video on the game fear and hunger
Ah, the Necronomicon. The McGuffin of the only gumshoe/Chthulhu mashup every made: _Cast a Deadly Spell,_ starring Fred Ward as grumpy detective Phil Lovecraft, Julianne Moore as duplicitous _chanteuse_ Connie Stone, Clancy Brown as arrogant mob boss Harry Dunwich, and David Warner as obsessive occult scholar Amos Hackshaw. Everyone uses magic in 1948 Los Angeles except Lovecraft, staunch independent that he is, who gets caught up in the search for the Necronomicon, and the dangers that result in the calling of Cthulhu. If you haven't seen it, you must dig it up. It's filled with some of the most quotable lines ever written. "Magic. Gives me the shakes what you can buy in this town." "Good ol' Phil, subtle as a flagpole." Just great stuff!