The scourge of existential nihilism has a cure
A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
http://www.amazon.com/Significant-Life-Meaning-Silent-Universe/dp/022623567X
pure philosophy inside, lots of Aristotle reasoning examined.
Also if you are at all interested in the surveillance state, and some of the legal reasoning that it may be breaking the separation of powers, the whole issue of the Monthly Review is excellent reading
The New Surveillance Normal
http://monthlyreview.org/archives/2014/volume-66-issue-03-july-august/
The New Surveillance Normal
It took me less than a paragraph to get to
we need to consider how the NSA and corporate metadata mining converge to support the interests of capital
at which point I stopped reading.
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