How does modern technology change Spengler's predictions? He probably didn't see europe becoming 30% foreigners by 2025 too.
>>24948255Here's an updated version of that collage for you, with higher quality/more color accurate images and notesNeed to do a third revision at some point
>>24948062Certainly those who emigrate into the Western economy to take our jobs, not at wagie level, but at Bachelor/Master/PHD level.The problem is that if their home nation isn't built enough, they are actually trapped, and can't go back home, so their ambition isn't passed on to their kids.From a US perspective this is interesting. The Indian has nothing to go back to. But the Chinaman is now at a point where going back is a option, but some of them don't want to do that due the memories or Mao or Deng.
>>24947777How would his philosophy explain the rise of the PRC? is it obviously in some kind of spring now. Is it a re-flourishing of the same Sinic culture that already declined before? Is it the rise of a new culture with a new ur symbol?
>>24948375>>24947784>>24947777I'm trying to read this fucking brick but I fell like he's saying nothing and I'm wasting my time. I want to finish this book. any advice?
>>24948365ty
it is tradition for the nobel prize winner in literature to meet the swedish children. yesterday this years nobel prize winner in literature László Krasznahorkai met the swedish children and discussed books.
>>24948117that ahmed wasn't allowed to bring his gun to school that day
literature?
>>24948377the martians
>>24946043I'm gonna rape you
>>24946070Whats wrong with being hateful?>>24946088Exploitation and subjugation are awesome.
>"They dance so languorously, the women of Syria. I knew then in Jerusalem a Jewess who, in a hovel, by the light of a small smoky lamp, on a bad carpet, danced raising her arms to clash her cymbals. Her back arched, her head thrown back and as if dragged down by her heavy auburn hair, her eyes drowned in voluptuousness, ardent and languishing, supple, she'd have made Cleopatra herself pale with envy. I loved her barbaric dances, her slightly husky and yet so sweet singing, the smell of her incense, the semi-sleeping state she seemed to live in. I followed her everywhere. I mixed in with the vile crowd of soldiers, boatmen and publicans she was surrounded with. One day she disappeared and I never saw her again. I looked for a long time for her in doubtful alleyways and taverns. She was harder for me to do without than Greek wine. A few months after I had lost track of her, I learned, quite by chance, that she had joined a small group of men and women who were followers of a young Galilean miracle worker. He was called Jesus, came from Nazareth, and was crucified, for what crime I don't know. Do you remember that man, Pontius?">Pontius Pilate frowned, bringing his hand to his forehead like someone who is trying to remember. Then, after a few moments of silence, he murmured:>"Jesus. Jesus. From Nazareth? No. I can't bring him to mind."
>>24945494This. The Romans literally just falsely attributed Judaea to the Philistines to make the Jews mad in revenge for their constant uprisings.
>>24943625I only wish to read this type of literature, forever.
>>24944367Jews were nowhere near as small an ethnic group back then as you probably think they were, they made up like 10 percent of the empire's populaton which meant millions even back then. And by roman standards their religion was seen not unlike the way non-deluded westerners see islam nowadays.And if you know how jews think of gentile westerners now, you know how the average jew thought of romans back then. Having millions of people adhering to a religion in your empire that think only they are truly human and everyone else are subhuman helots made by their god to serve them is basically a recipe for disaster.
>>24948635jews were never a tiny ethnic group up until the post-ww2 eraeastern europe was full of them in the 19th century
>>24943625I bet he remembered when he got to Hell though. Although the reference isn't totally clear, Dante seems to have in the vestibule of Hell, amongst those who failed to choose a side between good and evil.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24948869Well, just about every university has a literary magazine that sees little traffic. You could always start with universities around you, but if that's not your style, type in a genre of writing you like, or adjectives you would use to describe the writing you like and then add the words "literary magazine" to the end. So long as those words aren't egregious, you'll find some, and probably with more traffic than you'd expect.
>>24948883I said NAME the magazines. Give me the names.
>>24948867>>24948869I'll be honest I submitted half a dozen poems 3 or 4 times over to literal-who publications under my own name and they got rejected every time. Changed the name to silly ethnic shit like Malcolm Oluwale or Zuri Chukwu and they all got published first try
>>24948922Jeeze, anon. I gave you all the steps I followed to find my own list of literary magazines. Why do you need that list to prove that I used them? Do you think I'm making this up? I haven't read as many this past year, but the year before I had a low-effort office job and would read about 3 stories a day from 20 or so magazines.
>>24948926I'm calling bull. Because they're not linked to your name, you could share them with no repercussions. Go ahead.
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24946037Polygamy is how you enforce narcissistic psychopath societies where 90% of the male population hates women. Completely dysgenic and irresponsible.
>>24946653interesting. i hope you realize you are very very luckyonly similarity of your story to mine is that i also fell in love in college but only thing i got from that is extreme, prolonged and intense suffering for 5 or so years. i tried to make a move, she would leave me in orbit always, late replying to texts etc. then she started running through boyfriends and that's something that if not breaks you irrepairably( hopefully not), just makes you suffer immensly. im happy for you bra, i always wanted true love.let's hope i will have better luck with love in future
>>24948203Are you really using terms like "word cells" unironically while posting on /lit/
>>24945823ABSOLUTE TRVKE
I wonder what gay people think. What are their philosophies about love? Do they believe true love is possible between gays? Are they purely lust driven? I think you can glean a lot about reality just from how gay people perceive things. If monogamy is near-impossible among gay people then love is probably doomed purely from a behavioral standpoint for how the average man behaves.
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
>>24946542How Is She Insufferable?
Has anyone read any of pic related?Who is the true heir of Ligotti?I ask because I have read all of his short stories, and I still yearning for his brand of horror.
>>24946642Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read. I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
>>24946566I can't stand her. And she's an absolute bitch in She and Allan.
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24948024english are not germanic and the reason tolkien stole was bc he lacked english myth
>the english will literally name themselves after a germanic people but then turn around and say that english people are "white" but germanics are not
>>24948034Are you talking about their Celtic ancestry, or are you drawing a distinction between Germanic and Nordic (which the Normans were)?
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
>>24947882>may have influenced TolkienIt'd be a hell of a coincidence
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24948759>latch onto one writer or style or genrewelcome to /sffg/. this gets reinforced by the boring normalfags here in every fucking thread.
Reminder to report and ignore newfags like >>24948799 who have been spamming off-topic for literal years.>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21311319#p21323327
>>24948881You missed your calling as a janny
>>24948309The Anvil of Ice?
Just learned the news that R.A. Lafferty was recently outed as a holocausts denier. Saying in 1990 "I myself never did accept the idea of the Holocaust in the context of the Six Million".I just burned my Lafferty collection. Now maybe he will have some idea as to the pain that the Jewish people faced during the Shoah™.
Overrated or deserving of praise?
>>24948919Are you capable of having a conversation with someone without being a sarcastic and condescending jerk or is it necessary for you in order to compensate for your false sense of superiority?
>>24948927You should be thankful that I'm bumping your retarded thread so that someone as stupid as you might see it and take your question seriously.
Good writer, shitty person. Many such cases.I regret not getting to see him at a convention the year before he died.
>>24948906>>24948919>>24948929unprecedented levels of reddit energy
>>24948940You probably go there given it's the only place Ellison is actively discussed.
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
Wilderness War by Allan Eckert
>>24947281
>>24947364>Gravity's Rainbow >Unnecessary cursing>11/10>All-time favouriteYou have to be 18 to post here, Europoor
>>24947281Candide
>>24947281SuttreeThe Tunnel (the Argentine one)The Glamour by Christopher PriestAnd the Second Apocalypse fantasy series which is 7 booksHonourable mention to Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe, and Hard to be a God by the Strugatskys.As far as nonfiction, I haven't finished these books but Laocoon and Wagner's On Music and Drama.
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24947357You all come across as so conceited and douchebag-like when you get angry that some woman on Tinder doesn’t want to listen to your lecture on In search of lost time vol. 5
>>24948563>>24948586see this is why you niggas get no pussy.you don't go to tinder to find the love of your life.you go to tinder to get your dick wet.
>>24947390>He's afraid to mention the book hereAre you seriously not gonna tell us which book?
>>24948721That's why I don't go to tinder. Tall, rich, handsome, high charisma, high int btw.It all correlates, also correlates with general health and I go to the doctor less than once a decade.
>>24948091I mean, I just haven't had a context where I could develop a friendship with a woman. I'm a coder, back when I worked in an office it was just guys, and my hobbies just don't have women in them, although curiously, that's beginning to change with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
And what size?
>>24948276>20 when writing, 12 when exportingjust zoom in dude
>>24946557He's right, Calibri looks like putrid shit
>look at me, i'm a wolf. I have worms, ticks, lice and mange, i sleep in a muddy ditch and watch my sister getting fucked by the alpha male!
>>24948298I don't find Times New Roman very easy on the eyes for extended readingI think the characters are too tall, there's not enough uniformity in stroke widthI find Sitka much more legible
Bitter for readingIosevka SS03 for text editingIBM Plex for general UI stuff
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24948699it's a poorly formed question.
>>24948690>reading modernistsDegueu. I read 19th century historical novels and old classics, not narratively and aesthetically fried "form experiments".
>>24946217I have a dream of rampaging through a parking lot full of buzzword spouting freaks like you and caving your skulls in with a tire iron
>>24946267Truth social might be more your speed, Cletus. Now calm down, the suboxone clinic will be open first thing in the morning.
>>24948538Nta but I believe the credit at the end of the movie was "Inspired by" rather than "Based on". It arguably shouldn't be called an adaptation; its similarities with Vineland are much looser than Apocalypse Now's use of Heart of Darkness.
>december 2025>novel still unfinished
>>24948774So you are ahead. Some anons haven't even started.
It's just me and you, anon
I read approximately 300 pages today and it’s only noon. This doesn’t feel all that different from doing nothing desu. Unless you’re actively learning something, or you’re artistically obsessed with a specific kind of fiction, most “reading” of fiction is just passing the time.
every second you spend not having sex with underage girls in the Philippines is wasted time
i learn a lot about the real world reading fiction. good authors don't waste your time.
>>24948700Not everything resonates, even if one thinks it would.>>24948707You think it’s the correct choice?>>24948728I’m a Physicist and I was talking about Gore Vidal’s Julian and Delilo’s Cosmopolis. They were fine, but I didn’t feel as if I gained anything out of reading them. >>24948787I get that, but I happen upon this resonance far too rarely. More often than not reading literature fiction leaves me, not cold, but rather unfulfilled. Unless I “gel” with something.
>>24948794I wish I was an aristocrat…>>24948803Uh-huh…>>24948814But those are rare and I think it’s also subjective when it comes to personal attraction towards a certain novel or some such.
If you're not trying to do anything special with your life then you're retarded.If you're actually trying to make an impact on the world in some way then just read books that will make you closer to that aim. If you're trying to be an artist or a politician just tell yourself that reading well written fiction improves your rhetoric.
