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.
>>24945823i was gonna write this but while i was waiting for the countdown i saw u already trvked it out, thanks bruh. u can see happiness in the root "hap" which is like luck or fortune, the pursuit of happiness is not to feel good about your life or whatever ppl think it is today, they mean the pursuit of happiness as taking chances to success, failing fast and failing often to use a contemporary phrasing.
>>24946457>Maybe it's American capitalist brainrot, but here, in EstoniaActually you’re on point here. The state of “relationships” in the US is, well, awful. I look at my married friends and envy none of them; ALL of their wives are terrible imo, but that’s what they settled for and their reward is constant anxiety and weekly therapy sessions with their wives. I’d share the bleak perspective of some of the anons here if I didn’t travel as much as I do outside the country. Remember, here in the US most children come from a broken family/a non two-parent household, so things are kind of fucked here.
>>24949606it's not like the wives are living it up. most wives resent their husbands. that said, it's not like marriages outside of the west are "happier", people just don't feel entitled to be happy. marriage is just something u endure like childbirth or old age.
>>24949611>marriage is just something u endure like childbirth or old ageAnd in that endurance I claim you find examples of love. The average American can’t endure anything anymore which is why relationships and marriages are tanking. When I was backpacking in Southern Europe, I would regularly see both the man and the woman of the house working together in the villages, husband chopping wood, wife wheelbarrowing things here and there. In East Asia, I routinely saw elderly couples greatly taking care of each other. In Korea I saw an old man, maybe in his 80s, basically carrying his disabled wife in Seoul as they went out to eat. To me, this is true love (and also, a very cute memory to recall). You don’t find these examples as often in the US since we have a culture of avoiding any kind of struggle. Take weight loss, Americans cannot even bear the act of dieting and exercising, so they have to resort to ozempic or stay fat. How can a person who can’t even handle the stress of eating slightly less manage the ups and downs of a relationship? Answer: they can’t. So the culture is to leave the relationship and find another one. It parallels the consumer/disposal culture we have…if you don’t like something just throw it away and buy another one. Or in the case of a person, breakup/divorce and chalk it up as “oh yeah my ex was abusive”.
>>24949776Forgot to add this example: in the US, if your parent is old and needs care, the culture is to dump them into an assisted-care facility and calls it a day; taking care of your elderly parents is too much of a burden for the average American.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24943408zozzleOn a serious note, Sabato's 'On Heroes and Tombs' is a landmark novel for Argentina
>>24948859>>24948944Grazie
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED. CHILEAN AND ARGENTINIAN OBLITERATION IS THE WAY TO GO, PAL.
Las Malvinas son y serán Inglaterra boludos
>>24949628en el futuro será de china. y porqué eso? porque los ingleses van a perder su guerra con china y perder su territorio en todos lados
How does modern technology change Spengler's predictions? He probably didn't see europe becoming 30% foreigners by 2025 too.
>>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
>>24948148More importantly, why do people discredit horoscopes? Ancient people believed these schizos for centuries. Military plans that were drawn up for the Hundred Years' War was influenced by astrology. Charting patterns within the stars lead to practical applications like navigation and Newtonian science
>>24948399>I'm not enjoying it>I want to finish it.Where is this audience that you are reading the 1920s bald chud for anon?
I just realized that it would be impossible for the so called polyglots of literature to be fluent in all the languages they wrote.
>>24949680Name 1 good book written by someone who didn’t speak the language fluently.
>>24949691>my argument is that I'm fluent in english because of spending 15 years on 4chan talking daily, and before that I spend 3 years studying it, and 4 years more using the english internet.>Claiming that you can reach fluency is not possible for more than 3-4 languages.thats a resonable argument , I kind of agree in the context of the normal paradime , but I do think thier is problably an underexplored world of language , the mytical true polygot, that being said , for me to say any Autor is one of those would be silly.most polygots agree with you preposition at least , or the intent anyway.what they do is just reach the minimun for fluency aggressively , is not entirely the same as learning english , since that is the verry important globohomo lanaguage.imaging talking with someone who only knows 30% greek , but they are very clever in using that 30% , thats how it goes for them.I think they could be larpers , their is a reason I compared polyglots to tarot.although , if I had to guess , I would assume they are the type of larper who is semi decent at one part of the language (that being writing) and just over inflates their abilities a ton.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949693Bunch of Chinese poetry written by Japanese people who could read and write Chinese but not speak it. Much of it's not great, but the best is pretty damn good.
>>24949602it's not hard to learn a language if you already know some of it and you spend your time reading books or watching film instead of doomscrolling 4chins endlessly です
>>24949716That's why I have a rule that I don't use the Internet in my native language on Mondays and Fridays, to force me to practice other languages.
There is so much confusion on this board, on 4chan and within our world in general about psychology and this man. His fundamental insight is that you, I, and every truly human subject that will ever exist "Lack" in someway meaning they feel incomplete or are missing something that someone or everyone else has. This can only even be temporarily fulfilled. This manifests itself in millions of ways, but once you understand this, psychoanalysis becomes a lot easier to understand. Of course, this isn't nearly all of Lacan, but its the lynchpin. You feel lack, your mother feels lack, the hobbo down street feels lack and most importantly, the cheerleader or jock at your high school feels lack in some way.
>>24947804>the continuance of the rituals of the masters>no limit on spirits devoured>Kojeve is alpha for all headless HegelsThe ontological aspects you speak of are in the infancy of headless Hegelian ritual death rites. There can be only 1.
>>24947804>His fundamental insight is that you, I, and every truly human subject that will ever exist "Lack" in someway meaning they feel incomplete or are missing something that someone or everyone else has. This can only even be temporarily fulfilled.That is not an insight. It's something every five year old discovers. I will know to ignore everything from this charlatan in the future.
I don't doubt that it's true, but I don't see how it's novel or meaningful.
>>24947804>You feel lack, your mother feels lack, the hobbo down street feels lack and most importantly, the cheerleader or jock at your high school feels lack in some way.Lacan explicitly states that it is not lack of this-or-that, but the lack of being itself. Ultimately I side with D&G: a notion of desire as lack fails to capture the creative potential of desire, ie. desiring-production. To say that the structure of desire inhibits its own fulfilment is to confine desire within the Oedipal double-bind. Lack isn’t “lack of being”, it’s a productive negativity, a positively charged void from which incredible things can emerge. Without it, nothing would even happen.
who up lacking they can
Any books where a comfortable loser with weak character turns it around, and not just by luck? Basically opposite of picrel?
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
Books for AI sloppa causing epistemological death?
>>24949322This is not a black space.
I miss you :(
I do it because most of the time I have to be authoritative and in control and in charge and when I'm doing it I don't have to be. It makes me feel owned and used and also cute and kinda cuddly and like I'm melting. It's not right and I should stop but when I'm lying there biting a pillow I can't think about anything else.
What is it with Mexicans and always having obese silver-toothed children? Not even blacks are this dysfunctional
"Hemingwrite" editionPrevious: >>24931322/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24948048What's with the reddit spaces
Why do people write
>>24949665It's fun
>>24949494>>24949663I-it's experimental. Or something.
>Your work is full of errors, you fucking mouthbreather>What errors?>Heh, pay me kid, I don't work for free (this is a thread for writers to discuss work and help eachother).>You used two line breaks for the dialogue!>This was intentional, it's multiple people being asked about the character in multiple locations (this could have been cleared up instantly if the original poster had just stated what he thought was wrong initially).
Any serious book that talks about the cult of ugliness of the modern world? The toxic positivity, the cacophony of clashing aesthetics, the laziness, and the deliberate effort to undermine purity, all masked by so-called moral virtues or freedom? Looking at any vintage photo of a poor street, you see beauty in its uniformity -- much like the beauty found in a military parade. Yet now, even in the wealthiest streets, the only remaining beauty of the modern world can be found by gazing up at buildings that were constructed centuries ago, and that are all getting replaced.
>>24946559>The toxic positivitysurely you must be joking
>>24949635>toxic positivityyou used good word and bad word at the same time.YOU LOOOSE!.- not OP.
>>24946565what cause
I fail to see the beauty in the pictures on the right
>>24946559I guess I could spoonfeed you some books, but you're not going to read them cause you seem stupid
>read a book>it's good>read it again>it's even goodername even one time this has happened
My diary desu
>>24943875VERE ARE ZE BOOKS, LEBOVSKI??!?!!?!
>be french canadian hick>have incredible passion for auto racing and mechanics>have no money, have to steal tools, have to live in an RV with your family>somehow work your way from racing snowmobiles to racing single seaters and get noticed for beating a former F1 champion >get the most prestigious seat in auto racing>almost become world champion but come up just short>stay loyal to the most romantic team in auto racing during their worst era and put up some of the most legendary drives of all time in subpar equipment>be the only everyman in a sport full of rich dicks>finally get a car that can win you the championship >get betrayed by your team>die in a horrible accident The book writes itself. I cry every time.
>>24943875>any Dostoevsky book>Laurus
>>24943875If you liked Ulysses at Stephen's age, you should read it again at Bloom's age.
>>24949363Or, as Tolkien put it in his fiction also, in other words, evil cannot create, only copy or destroy.
>>24947068Women can translate just fine. Iconoclastic ideological motivation should be called out for what it is without resorting to retarded generalizations that merely feed the beast.
>>24947071They are honorary white (unlike jews)
>>24949442No it's not. It's an explanation of why people become ideologically possessed and the rotten fruit such bears.
>>24949723Their values are ultimately just Christianity after people stopped being able to take the Bible seriously. Justin Martyr even asserted that Jesus was exceptionally ugly. Christianity is about taking holiness and making it synonymous with weak, oppressed, downtrodden, penurious, and making evil synonymous with the Prince of this World, powers, principalities, the Whore of Babylon (Rome, Babylon).
I'll start
>>24946966to be fair, no one really talks about or cares about the book anymore
I adore this movie, both cuts
Excalibur
>>24940607>>24936012It was actually adapted a second time after this, Kinkakuji in 1976. i've only seen Enjo, though.
>>24933654Kek
bump
Bump.Second random hint:Of those unanswered, 30, 33, 35, 44, 59, 71, 75, 76, 85 are female authors.
33: Uncle Tom's Cabin?44: Mill on the Floss?
Not a lot of foreign ones left.Remaining I see 2 Japanese, 2 Russian and a French guy.If I can figure out the language translated from I can spot the 1 French guy.2 passages use Japanese names so those are out easily.48 has that Russian workcamp feel to it to me 68 has refid in it which as far as I know is no English word. Meaning it was left untranslated. Usually this means it was a foreign word in the original. Sounds French which one might think means the work is French but no! It would be translated if everything was French and Russians love using French words in their works.So I say the remaining 51 is Guy de Maupassant
>>24949738And even if refid isn't French but some other foreign word I think it still holds up because snooty Frenchmen would never use a non French word in their writing.
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
>>24949515I've read the summary and I didn't get it at all lol
>>24949335Awesome. Thank you, I'll be going through all this soon.
Continuing a thought from the last thread, I finished Port of Shadows from Glen Cook. Legitimately the worst book I've finished - I should have DNF'd halfway through. I hate saying that because the Black Company he wrote 40 odd years ago was just so fucking good and this felt like a teenage ghostwriter taking over the reins. A story of no consequence without character growth, action, good prose or generally anything interesting happening at all. To any and all people hoping to read this book series, just skip Port of Shadows. Your time is worth more than what this book has to offer.Has anyone read Lies Weeping? Is it closer to the Black Company we all know and love or is it closer to this mess? Should we all just stick to the old stuff from here on out?
the more I think about these books the more I realise they're perfect...
What are my thoughts on Le Guin and Abercrombie?
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24937627part of it is just having less screen time>>24941324*hear
>>24947566>is pasta an invention?Obviously yes
>>24947617>I was addicted from like 07-19 and stopped coming entirely until a few months ago, but I'm back now because this place actually feels like a real fucking website.Uhhhhhhh you sure?
>>24948730>Uhhhhhhh you sure?about what, that it feels like a real website? yeah 100%. the community here is annoying as fuck sometimes but that just comes with the territory, im used to weeding that shit out. this place is way more reminiscent of the old internet than a lot of other places. as long as I don't end up mindlessly habitually checking the same general threads that i gravitate to over and over again for no good reason then I'll be fine I think. If I become one of those people that posts in the same general every time with the same image then I may as well kms tho
>>24944239this guy is kinda wrong about one thingI went through this whole stuff--started by being obsessed with DFW, read and reread IJ and TPK after using them to 'detox' from other forms of media, started working out and engaging with the real world, got a job and whatnot, but I actually found some excitement there, though ultimately all casual talk boils down to media consumption. culture isn't inherently bad, a good book makes a good conversation point and interests in the occult or whatever lead to deeper personal philosophies and something to talk to. a monkish monkey life in modern society means isolation, and dudes usually drop the ball here, but the universe rewards expressions that can notice what is lacking in the wholethat said math books are as stimulating as video games, even more. so is engineering a project or something. it's not like video games, at least mmos and rpgs, aren't devoid of delayed rewards and lots of grinding, the stimulation is usually the same when you can apply a theorem or a little bit of knowledge in real life or see the abstract in it to construct proofs...it's just vidya before vidya camehaving a passion in media can make you a genuinely more interesting person. the only thing is to never just consume, grow interested in producing it, approach it like art, learn not from the passive act but the engagement in the whole, though never let it blind you. it's a passtime. careers and work are pastimes. an excuse to live (and maybe delude yourself into thinking it's necessary, it's something greater) but it's an excuse we all need.this life is empty and cold. we engage in the cold for rewards merely out of boredom, and that's alright. but don't live for anything less than your passions, everything else is suicideit helps to have good passions and addictions. mine are women and video games desu. discover yours
