Reading children’s books and romance novels is yes. Oh and contemporary realist novels about pursuing a masters while brown

>>24862633
YWNBAW neckrope tranny

>>24862562
>>24862572
You are exactly the retard they were talking about. Not even the tiniest hint of self-awareness or any kind of thought, just regurgitating stale tropes everyone heard a billion times, like an AI only dumber.

>>24862595
You invaded and occupied my country for 50 years just to make sure we were exposed to US radio and TV. The explicit, official plan of the US was to flood us and the rest of the world with propaganda to undermine local traditions and the associated issues in favour of a global, secular culture that "doesn't see" religion, race or any person as anything but a unit of potential economic output and consumption.

>>24862634
Big Sleep

>>24862622
Yeah that’s nice and all kid but what part of EUROPE gave AMERICA the ideological syphilis did you not fucking understand?
The French view of race and colonialism was always cucked going all the way back into the 1800s. While Anglo-Saxons were taking over half the Earth for the White man with explicit racial supremacist ideology the French were going on about how blood didn’t matter as long as the nons spoke French and had French culture then they could BE French. Or did you think that old propaganda poster made by the nazis came from nowhere? It sure as fuck wasn’t America that did that.
And before you say ‘yeah well that’s just like the French maaan’ what about that the time the wunderbar Germans sent that Jewish nonsense they so lovingly nurtured for centuries over to Russia to deliberately weaken them? Remember that? Wasn’t that funny? It’s particularly fucking relevant to this conversation by the way because it was in turn the Russians who infected America with ideological perversion during the Cold War and spread anti-white -anti-colonialist rhetoric all over the world besides. But I guess thats all our fault too huh?
What ridiculous nonsense. You don’t understand shit. And we haven’t even gotten to the part where life without modern civiiization is barely worth living due to child mortality, disease, toil and boredom and yet post industrial society is also hideously dysgenic as mutational load increases and IQ decreases within the White race. Face it the world is fucked and it’s always going to be a nightmare.
Oh and by the way the correct formula for saving our gene clusters is ‘Ethnoreligions which promote adaptive values’. Particularly the Pagan variety. Atheism leads to low birth rates and ultimately death and Christianity is a universalist mongrel religion. You can’t tell your kids to worship an ethnic Jew and how all Christians are brothers in spirit and expect them to stay White. It’s all so fucking obvious. But apparently I’m one of the last White men on Earth with a brain despite being a Scotch Irish retard but what do I know.
Not goong to tell you retards try to foist the all the blame for the modern world on us though I’ll tell you that much.

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>>24861468
It's just the clearest image I could find of it, the old image stopped at Iron Pill if I recall correctly.
>>24861685
Gray Pill is just the Green Pill but being silent about it in public.

have you taken the brown pill yet mateys?
it's a tough one to swallow.

>>24862533
I find it considerably difficult to imagine a person who can actually go monk mode in english speaking countries without being thrown under the bus non-stop.

>>24862478
>Green Pill
Books for green pill por favor?

>>24862654
those charts are easier to find, although I never saved any, /x/ had a lot of green pill reading lists and it's posted on here a lot, can't recommend any because I can't remember.

>>24862470
I think he wants to know if the information has become outclassed by another book or if it's still relevant for modern political dialectic.

>>24862476
What titles would you recommend that fit the description of worthwhile Marxist texts?

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>>24862469
No. Fisher is Satan.

>>24862469
>AAAAAH I CAN’T ESCAPE CAPITALISM
>BUY MY BOOK WHERE I WHINE ABOUT IT
>WAIT I FOUND A WAY OUT JUST FOLLOW ME COMRADES! JUST TIE A ROPE LIKE THIS AND.. ACK!
The “intelligensia” at work.

>>24858749
Pick one of the other founding father's last names to replace Washington (District of Columbia is named after Columbus: you could probably just harp on the name of another hero of colonization).
New York is just the name of an old world place but the problem is if you call any place 'New (blank)', most people are going to smell it for what it is. You might be better off just using New York.

>>24858831
Niggburg: Home o' da Whoppa

>>24858749
Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City...

>>24858749
Neither of those sound American. Benton City. That sounds American. You know how I got that name? I zoomed in on a random place in Missouri.

>>24858749
>The Northeast megalopolis, also known as the Northeast Corridor, Acela Corridor,[5] Boston–Washington corridor, BosWash, Bos–Wash corridor or BosNYWash,[6]
Acela, "After the Amtrak train lines connecting its cities, viz. Burns, Alexander"

>>24862359
>bro there is this nasty little rat-faced bitch at my work with huge front teeth. i'd destroy that shit, bro. i'd keep her chained in my basement for a year and feed her nothing but cheese and my cum
This shit reeks of autism and you might be right because of that.
Gorlock the Destroyer is a prime example of what men (with a poorly developed brain) do for their fetishes.

>>24862364
women like all the time
give me some siliconed up bimbo and a skinny tomboy with glasses and buck teeth I'll pick that 100% of the time. I have had my face buried into perfect double Ds but my heart is for flatties alone. Girls who say dad bod are just lying, they'd pick a Chad over that all the time, in fact they do as soon as they can cheat.

>>24862424
*lie
>>24862359
>bro there is this nasty little rat-faced bitch at my work with huge front teeth. i'd destroy that shit, bro
that's literally me
rat-faced describes what makes me diamonds to a T

>>24862394
>13yo girls will stereotypically be into smooth androgynous boymen
yeah beauty in Asia is a lot more closely associated with neoteny

>>24862300
Watch some jerry springer. You will see two women fight eachother over someone who is at best average looking, doesn't have a job, and cheated on both of them.

Seasons 10 and on have some pretty good ones. Its very enjoyable to watch in the background of other things. Season 13's holiday hell 2003 is also highly recommended.

>>24862543
I disagree with his view on art. To me, clarity is a flaw, as it limits the possible interpretations you can get out of a piece of art. When you see a string of words in Shakespeare, their meaning is not immediately clear. You can connect them in several different ways (Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer): that's poetry to me. True beauty comes from ambiguity, from trying different puzzle solutions and from the satisfaction of it all coming together in the end. And then you talk to other people and they solved the puzzle differently. The puzzle gains extra layers, it has additional depth you weren't aware of. It mimics how real life works, with all its confusion and chaos. You can prove the same theorem in several, seemingly disconnected ways. The world is unstable on a fundamental level. When you send an unguided missile, you're not sure where exactly it'll land, there's too much uncertainty in the aerodynamic and mass characteristics, how the nozzle is attached, what wind you'll encounter. You can put a control system on it, but it won't change the underlying uncertainty, just mitigate it. Tolstoy, by simplifying, cuts off a whole layer of beauty. And his heavy-handed moralising is crude, arrogant even. When Ayn Rand does this, everyone hates her for it.
I also hate his writing style, it puts me to sleep in a way not even Henry James (as much as I like the guy) does.

>>24862617
>t. seething shakespeare fag

>>24862467
Anyone with two braincells starts editing the Bible account since it’s obviously full of mistakes and contradictions. If they had three of them they’d realize the endeavor is futile.

>>24862642
>If they had three of them they’d realize the endeavor is futile.
And if they have 4+ they'd realise that these reddit tier arguments about muh contradictions and bible mistakes are easily refutable and that Christianity is the only worldview that accounts for metaphysics and epistemology.

>>24862617
I disagree. In my view Tolstoy astutely characterizes the essence of art as sincere emotional expression and infection, while overly cerebral work detracts from the emotional faculties and has really nothing to do with art. I don't see why you shouldn't lump math equations into the domain of art if art is about demonstrating the beauty of ambiguity.

>>24862172
Nice bait.

>>24858607
>it is musical
This is such a strange attempt to defend an inferior work against one literally written in verse.

>>24862632
>Prose can't be musical
Pleb whore

>>24862636
Bad prose can‘t. Even good prose does when it approximates verse.

Also you should probably stop with the weird headcanon that I‘m a woman because I‘d rather "tame" and fuck them than seethe at their existence and allure.

>>24862640
>Bad prose can‘t.
LMAO

You still haven't posted tits with a timestamp

>>24860869
>had a nice house
It was an aunt's IIRC.
>had a rich wife
His Wife's hat store (hardly 'rich', btw) actually failed a few years into in their marriage, though. They divorced because of financial problems.
>made a living off of his hobby
Famously made pennies.
>had friends
I mean he did. But they were generally correspondence friends. Not nearby.

>>24860869
>cosmic horrors aren't actually real
In which pocket universe of delusion do you vegetate, Anon?
Or did you expect Lovecraft's descriptions of indescribable cosmic horrors to be accurately described, lol?

>>24861551
What experience did you have to support this idea?

>>24860869
>Isolated in an all-female household with his aunts and a verbally abusive mother in his teens and early twenties
That's all it takes really

>>24862638
wtf he was literally me

For a general History of “art” try Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages”.
It’s one of the standard histories of art used in Art Universities.

Another interesting book, is Thomas Locke Eastlake’s “Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters”.
Dover publishes the book in one or two volumes.

>>24859924
Kenneth Clark's The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

>>24859924
I liked Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"

Also liked Ayn Rand's romantic manifesto, got me thinking about the definition of Art and its purpose

Briefly, art is a good synthesis of masculine feminine appeal for ideal/material as it is the concretization of ideas by giving those a perceptible format through an unifying aesthetic structure; art is ideas as object or phenomena.

Art is good for communicating things that are hard for words to convey.

It's also good to for a mind to accept something as true because people only believe in things if they *feel* it to be true, essays are good for developing ideas when you have some common grounds with an author, but if you disagree intuitively only art can help, rational arguments to no end aren't a good way to gain back someone who disagrees with you on feelings; we are beasts as much as we are machine of cognition, art speaks to both parts that's why it's strong and we wish to have it everywhere in our lives.

>>24862512
i find this one book by rand pretty interesting, too. funny seeing her mentioned at all since i feel like everyone automatically disregards everything she's ever said because of her retarded capitalism championing novels

>>24862405
I'm slogging through Plato, I'm not too inspired lately, I think once I finish this book I'm going back to some poetry or plays

>>24853121
Do your studies involve the pictograph economy that predated literature? I like those glyphs more than even Egyptian heiroglyphs.

>>24862451
I am interested first in his Phaedo and his Politea. I will tack on Homer and Herodotus to hit the regional accents, and then circle back once fluent into Drama and the rest. I attempted Athenaze a while ago, but realized I failed to continue because it is a hateful textbook. I will succeed with my new one but have yet to set a schedule. You may see me here for the next few weeks.

What Plato are you reading?

>>24862498
the Phaedo actually; I like Plato's prose, it's what drove me to read more(I had read the Crito because some anon had posted some passage here IIRC), I'm not so much invested in the philosophical content(even though it's good I am checking it out at least a bit), that's probably what has made it a bit sloggish
Homer remains by far what has made learning the language worth it so good luck

>>24862491
>Do your studies involve the pictograph economy
My what involve what?

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>In the same vein my last novel is entitled Foucault’s Pendulum because the pendulum I am speaking of was invented by Léon Foucault. If it were invented by Franklin the title would have been Franklin’s Pendulum. This time I was aware from the very beginning that somebody could have smelled an allusion to Michel Foucault: my characters are obsessed by analogies and Foucault wrote on the paradigm of similarity. As an empirical author I was not so happy about such a possible connection. It sounds like a joke and not a clever one, indeed. But the pendulum invented by Léon was the hero of my story and I could not change the title: thus I hoped that my model reader would not try a superficial connection with Michel. I was to be disappointed; many smart readers did so. The text is there, and maybe they are right: maybe I am responsible for a superficial joke; maybe the joke is not that superficial. I do not know. The whole affair is by now out of my control.

Tried reading this with a friend and we didn't finish it. It's not bad per se, quite witty and atmospheric at times. But it's just not all that immersive imo, sure the "drawing connections to everything" is fun to read, but I find there's a bit of a lack of actual mystery to the book, and there's other authors that do the paranoid fiction thing better. And the little romance there is is kinda meh

>>24862307
It's not paranoid fiction in itself, it's merely about paranoid fiction.

>>24862114
I really don't think you need to
read Foucault at all for this. The Name of the Rose would be more useful, even Pynchon would help more, perhaps the WW2 era Calvino stories in order to get a better take on the emotional aspect of Italy's war humiliation. Why that matters may not be apparent till the final chapters

>>24862115
I like Umberto Eco. But you shouldn't read any of Foucault's books because they are all bad.

>>24861510
Wasn't TS Eliot very conservative?

>>24861510
T.S. Elliot was a giga conservative, what are you talking about
Did you confuse modernism, the vague umbrella term for 20th century post romanticism art with "modernism" as defined by retarded grifters online?
Wait until you learn that Dali, Pirandello and Pound were fascist synpathizers and that Evola was also did weird abstract futurist art

>>24861510
Pound and Eliot actually got their criticism of Milton from Johnson, where he says that Milton writes English as though it were a dead language

>>24862392
Almost every single modernist author I can think of is conservative. Even the bull dyke Gertrude Stein was conservative and a fascist sympathizer.

>>24862502
> conservative
Idk about conservative, I wouldn’t consider Ezra Pound conservative. More likely to praise/quote Marx than Edmund Burke. The old left had a kind of edge to it that makes you think its conservative but that misses the point. I was reading Proudhons book Pornocracie and wow, this guy was the master of anti-feminism. It’s actually an insane and amazing book, he makes Strindberg look soft. But this is the father of anarchism and a huge influence of Marx

hey it's unfair but it's unfair for everyone

>>24862612
I don't judge you. I see suicide as simply closing a door. The problem is the effect it leaves on those around you. I almost killed myself several times in the past year. If you push on you will come out the other side of it. The problem is that at some point you are going to be back there again. That's something you either accept and deal with or you just give up. And in this life, if you give up, that's it. You're on your own in this life. You can never truly know other people and you should never depend on others entirely. God will not help you and there is no point in appealing to him because he will not be there for you when you need him. You've got to do it all yourself. Some people can cope with that burden, others can't.

I recommend The Road by Cormac McCarthy but only if you either have a child that you love or you love your dad. If you hate your father and also have no kids you will probably not enjoy it