📚 2 Books mentioned in "Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader | BEHIND THE BASTARDS" of Behind the Bastards
Podcast: Behind the Bastards
Episode: Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Published on March 14, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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um she starts reading around this time when she's in college Harry Potter and the methods of rationality This helps to solidify her feelings of her own centrality as a hero figure
The host mentions Ziz reading this fanfiction in college and how it influenced her self-perception as a hero figure.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
I mean [ __ ] man the the first and most his like one of the first influential works of his modern scholarship is the decline and fall of the Roman Empire It's a whole book about why a society fell apart
The host mentions this classic historical work as an example of someone who wrote about why societies fall apart, contrasting it with a reviewer's claim about Yudkowsky.