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A friend keeps urging me to read this. I know the premise. Is it actually going to be entertaining or interesting? Will it be thought-provoking? Or just a bunch of racist drivel?
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>>24734918
>violent crime, property crime, drug violations disproportionally "US-born citizen"
How many of them are black, latino?
I wonder what the chart would look like if you subdivided "US-born citizen" into four groups: White, Black, Latino/Hispanic, and other.
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>>24734244
Thought provoking, maybe; you won't get anything out of it (aside from confirmation bias) if you already oppose mass migration into Europe (or wherever). I read the book, found it kind of cheap: the point is belabored into absurdity and the content mawkish. I also think it is overrated because it happens to intersect with modern politics, though it's impressive how seamlesly it melds with modern anti-immigration sentiment.
I say give it a read if you want. But I don't consider it a good book. And I doubt its defenders here would disagree in their heart of hearts, but political convenience trumps all things.
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It got btfo
https://youtu.be/T_tjK4R-1HM?si=6Lh1LrExxsTTetYs
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>>24738055
The "political left" and capitalists are apples of the same bushel. They're consumerists at heart. One is more upfront with its consumerist ideology while the other tries to rationalize it.

Eitherway, they're both concerned with perpetual-growth due to death anxiety.
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>>24739887
Capitalism is about low time preference. Time preference is a concept in economy that describes the consumption time horizon of a person. High time preference means that such person is prone to consume short term, and low time preference means that such person is prone to consume in the long term. Capitalism needs low time preference, otherwise the means of production couldn't develop in order to increase productivity.

You think that capitalism is about consumerism because of keynesian disturbances which translate to government intervention in the economy aimed to increase consumption, as they think everything will collapse otherwise. Central banks deliberately increase the monetary base and that stimulates consumption (if money is devaluating, the preference to consume increases over the preference to save money), interest rates are often set low by central banks to stimulate economic activity and then set high after inflation increases (low interest rates tend to cause inflation). And these are the most "scientific" policies resulting from keynesian theory, because you can also find full blown stupid policies to stimulate consumption like cash for clunkers by obama or the veiled obsolescence programme by the EU to replace old cars with an ecologist excuse.

tyrion stroll edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24739626
Except the one that lets you bring back dead people and spawn shadow assassins and the one that lets you do greenseeing and warging
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>>24739612
the Seven gave the Andals the power to conquer Westeros and cast down the blood sacrificing demon worshippers who inhabited it before
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>>24738777
boring and gay fanfic
saying this as a sansa hater myself
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>>24739645
There doesn’t need to be a higher power for those things to exist. It’s literally just a form of soul-magic (or really advanced telepathy, since GRRM is a science-fiction writer after all), which can be aided by certain substances or genetics.
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>>24739670
It was the Rhoynar who gave them the power to do that by teaching them how to work iron and even then they were still btfo by Theon Stark.

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ITT share what books you are currently going through and discuss with others about theirs.

This is my new batch that just arrived. I'm gonna get into them as soon as I finish my current book.
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>>24739785
How's that Sahlins? I heard somewhere he's a noble savage kind of guy but I want a second opinion.
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>>24739769
I gotta finish with Hume first, it's the last book from the previous batch. I'm slightly less than halfway through, I reckon I'll get through it this week.
>>24739774
I'm trying to take it in chronological order starting from the 18th century onwards, while also reading the classics and sprinkling in some more modern stuff or other books I hear about on /lit/ for extra variety. I got the Melancholy of Resistance because some Anon here recommended it.
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>>24739769
Think of how good they'll look on his coffee table, though.
The guests will love 'em!
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>>24739797
I've probably read over 80 philosophy books or so i ended up mostly graduating to sociology, theology, history and psychology soon after.
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>>24739728

Divine Comedy

Is this the book that teaches you real world isnt a romantic fairy tale and you need to stop being an idealist?
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>>24739901
This is escapism. It won't teach you anything you didnt already want to learn. Instead of reading it just eat the book and be satisfied.
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>>24739928
Nigger, your reading comprehension is trash.

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What are the best books to read while going through a divorce?
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>>24739048
If your dad died and you made a thread here posting about it I would be here for you
If your child died in an accident and you posted a thread here I would pray for you
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>>24738802
>"I just really fucking hate you right now. I'm not sure why."

She sounds like a fucking retarded bitch dude just start recording the abuse then file a police report
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>>24739062
That's a nice sentiment, but I have my family to help me grief. I don't need a stranger from a Mongolian weaving basket forum
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East of Eden.
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DUSTROY TROLY
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Prince of Darkness, Thomas Ligotti sitting on the throne of Horror Fiction.

The greatest living author. Ligotti-sama I fucking kneel.
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>>24739812
>You're a zoomer who does not read literary fiction so of course you'd think that
I have read litfic but I discover that I don't give a shit about human relations and all of the pleb shit that normalfaggots care about. I am interested in more aristocratic emotions and contemplations.
>Because you're a left wing faggot false flagging as "based"
I am apolitical. I don't care about the personal views of a writer because I am not a direction brained retard. I only care about art.
>He's horror fiction for left wing retards filtered by based trad fiction written by right wing chads
More directioned brained retardedness. I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.
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>>24739827
> I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.
>Prince of Darkness, Thomas Ligotti sitting on the throne of Horror Fiction.
>The greatest living author. Ligotti-sama I fucking kneel.
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>>24739870
I look like this and say this
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>>24739870
i've been picturing the opposite and yet, in some ways, the same

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Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
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>>24739685
Your categories mean nothing to me. Engage in good faith.
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>>24739681
you should marry your cousins there's good evidence it is genetically beneficial and selected for, but the extended ones not your close cousins.
Marrying your 1st cousin generation after generation gets you to a bad place.
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According to roman era census records of occupied egypt sibling marriage was notably common perhaps 20% of marriages with some 40% of men with a marriable sister actually marrying her.
Many challenges have attempted to discredit it the idea but a number of pieces of evidence arose that reaffirmed the sibling marriage pattern such as wedding invitiations, naming pattern quirks and successive census returns of the same household.


For a long while I've wondered just how different their society must have been.
Do any of you know any books that attempted to tackle a world such as this where the incestuous marriage tabboo was seemingly absent, a woman marrying her brother was just considered a normal part of everyday life without the outcry of fetishism it attracts now?.
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>>24739014
I heard sibling incest is actually kind of common according to dna tests or something and now imagine the ones who know to use birth control
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>>24739741
Egypt was all kinds of ass backwards according to the Greeks. Supposedly the men urinated sitting down and women did it standing up. They also thought it strange that Egyptian doctors would specialize in only a single part of the body, such as doctors who only work on teeth.

I was quite surprised, after thoroughly reading through the masterworks of this King, by some falsely considered the godfather of nazism, to promote an almost full equality of the female gender and describe the Aryan Germain as an otherwise tolerant, non-nationalistic, unprejudiced towards foreign nations, individualist man who doesn't go to the temples and resents priests with a passion. He wants nothing other than to contribute to his community and who would, if necessary, even sacrifice his life and all his wealth for it. He is a man who does not love authority and who is good to his slaves. Spreading the message of justice and fair government, with violence if necessary, is the true Aryan's sole concern. They lived inside their rural farms, democratically organized under the head of an uninfluential federative King. Unfortunately there are not many of them left, as Gobineau explains in his book. To say of oneself that one is an Aryan, is almost the same as claiming to be a true genius. But who other than a true Aryan would dare to accept such worldview? Combining the idea of racism with a love for all humanity is a step few people dared to make.
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Benevolent racism is the way to go but /lit/ will never get it.
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>>24739802
The English had it right the first time. You tell 'em.
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>>24739184
Thats because you seem to view people in terms of class which is a common European mistake. Marx might have had a point here or there but biological science points elsewhere.
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>>24738446
I couldn't care less what he thinks because paternity tests are illegal in his country all things considered
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>Also about the attitude of the superior to the inferior races, the Negroes, for instance. R. says the greatest triumph for the intellectually superior person is to win the love and devotion of those beneath him, whereupon the Count [Gobineau] says such love can be found among Negroes, but not mulattoes.

>We come back to the subject of race, wondering which theory is right, Schopenhauer’s or Gobineau’s. R. feels they can be reconciled: a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.

>‘Negro slave owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals.’

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>It will be found that the impressions of sense give the first occasion for bringing into action the whole faculty of cognition, and for the production of experience, which contains two very dissimilar elements, namely, a matter for cognition, given by the senses, and a certain form for the arrangement of this matter, arising out of the inner fountain of pure intuition and thought; and these, on occasion given by sensuous impressions, are called into exercise and produce conceptions. Such an investigation into the first efforts of our faculty of cognition to mount from particular perceptions to general conceptions, is undoubtedly of great utility; and we have to thank the celebrated Locke, for having first opened the way for this enquiry. But a deduction of the pure à priori conceptions of course never can be made in this way, seeing that, in regard to their future employment, which must be entirely independent of experience, they must have a far different certificate of birth to show from that of a descent from experience. This attempted physiological derivation, which cannot properly be called deduction, because it relates merely to a quæstio facti, I shall entitle an explanation of the possession of a pure cognition. It is therefore manifest that there can only be a transcendental deduction of these conceptions, and by no means an empirical one; also, that all attempts at an empirical deduction, in regard to pure à priori conceptions, are vain, and can only be made by one who does not understand the altogether peculiar nature of these cognitions.
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Stop posting Kant. He's not cool anymore.
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>>24739874
This is irony btw.

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Behold, the logical conclusion of secular philosophy.
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>>24739220
>Group attacks emerged with the birth of agriculture
no, EVIDENCE of group attacks emerges with the birth of agriculture, but that isn't even true because i remember reading about some mesolithic or whatever massacre site where they found bones with cut marks and evidence of being bound including women and children. also some of the most violent "group attackers" weren't agrarian at all but steppe nomads. i like scott, but he has an ideological axe to grind which makes his work non-serious.
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>>24738176
Behold, a terrible thread
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>>24738180
This but replace "people who believe in god" with "atheists" and "niggers".
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>>24738176
Is that the suicide chair? And is that quote literally on the suicide chair? wtf?
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>>24738176
Logical? Show me the derivation.

Weekly World News ed.
Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)
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What are the best swamp monster stories?
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>>24736122
Did you dislike The Shining that much? I thought it is one of his very best novels; very strong atmosphere, great well-rounded characters, both supernatural and psychological horror, a lot of well written tension, just fantastic overall.
Also, which Last Days?
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Necroscope 2 was better paced than the first book, but the constant backstory exposition got monotonous, also didn't care for the Cold War espionage stuff. The parts with Thibor and Faethor were great though, anything to do with the vampires was kino, really.
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>>24718068
That ending really got me good even if the name was a huge giveaway.
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>>24739658
Yeah, the ending was pretty well done. Glad you enjoyed it!

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Will this help me get laid?
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>>24738141
femcel?
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>>24738141
whats the plot anon? and what year does it take place
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No way fag
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>>24738302
It's the memoirs of a guy in the 19th century where he writes how he had sex with a bunch of women.
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>>24738141
>he was not molested by the nursemaid at 5 years old
sorry anon, either the ladies want you from the start or not at all

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madeleine de proust is fake and never existed
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they're fucking retarded

Got rejected this week by two different different open submissions based in my city. Wouldn't have been too bothered but the quality of the work that they usually accept has been so middling I thought I had a great chance of getting in but no luck... How bad must my work be then if I can't get a look in? Make me doubt my own perception of my work and if you start doubting that, where does that leave you?

I know rejection is just part of the process. How do you guys wrestle with it?
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>>24739325
Wouldn't have minded so much if you'd said something halfway intelligent or perceptive.
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>>24739166
You have to take a long hard look at the work itself as dispassionately as you possibly can (getting feedback can help with this) and decide whether its a you thing or a them thing. Is your writing truly where you want it to be? Honestly? There's always room for improvement though after a certain point you can redraft your way into oblivion. Once you're truly content with it to the point where you have to let go then there's no more you can do. Their rejection is entirely down to their own tastes and interests and is ultimately is out of your hands. You've just got to keep going, keep pushing yourself and hope you get lucky with the next publisher or the next piece of work because, in the end, whether what you're vibing with is the same thing as what the publishers are vibing with is entirely a matter of circumstance. It's like getting into a relationship in that way.
>>24739358
Ignore him, most advice like that is people just talking about themselves.
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>>24739358
Guess I am wrong, You are a diamond in the rough and no one but you can see it. Would you do the me the honor of posting some of your writing so I can print it out and put it on my fridge?
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>>24739376
Thanks, that resonates. Sometimes the discrepancy between your own self appraisal and the appraisal of others can take you by surprise, though sometimes in a super enlightening way
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>>24739166
To make it in any pursuit, you have to have an healthy amount of contempt towards the opinions of others.

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>rod serling voice
Picture this, an ordinary town, an ordinary day, an ordinary man. Enter Anon Anonson, the most average man in the world. Even he thinks he's average, but little does he know that he lives...in The Indian Zone
Hundreds of Indians pouring into the country while the government assures him everything is fine
Houses destroyed, people in homeless camps, while the politicians get rich off investments. A more terrifying world cannot be imagined, but such is life, in The Indian Zone


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