From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@grnail.com>
To: Victoria Stodden
Subject: Re: Books
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:26:36 +0000
thank you„ i will do so this weekend.. however, my view is they like most others suffer from the socializaition
gene. The behavior dictated by what benefits the group, and then rationalized in the individual mind. this is
much more exciting.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Victoria Stodden < > wrote:
Dear Jeffrey,
I wanted to explain the books that should have arrived at your house today.
They both can up in our discussion in responses to questions you had.
I. iWoz: I immediately identified with Steve Wozniak's thinking within the
first few pages (honesty, truth, sense of discovery, building). The reason I
sent it is that he does an excellent job of articulating why and how he
feels a desire to be useful and helpful to others, as a framing philosophy
in life. Personally, I find this discourse fascinating. Here's a quote from
the book:
"I felt these were really mighty goals in life: looking consciously at the
sort of person you want to be, the sort of life you want to live, the sort
of society you want to help build."
2. Atomic Bomb: You asked the question this book is trying to answer - how
did they pull together such a project? You also mentioned Szilard. This book
makes an effort to tell Szilard's story and even starts with his perspective
- I hope you'll glance at the first few pages. You can get a glimpse of his
underlying goals, one based on HG Wells' _The Open Conspiracy_: Szilard's
"deepest ambition, more profound even than his commitment to science, was
somehow to save the world.... The Open Conspiracy was to be a public
collusion of science-minded industrialists and financiers to establish a
world republic. Thus to save the world. Szilard appropriated Wells' term and
used it off and on for the rest of his life."
Crazy! And so fascinating.
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