what's the lesson to be learned from the hunchback of notre dame and phantom of the opera and shit?>this guy is ugly and he loves, but he will never be loved, and therefore... uh... um... yeah i dont get it??? is this proto-looksmaxx culture? i dont get it, is it political?? i dont get it!!!!
Read De Sade and you'll understand, you see French pipo be crazy n shiet
>>24891708That's the tragic character of those characters, retard
>After Auschwitz, to write a poem is barbaric.Do you agree with this quote?
>>24891578>I just don't care about reading books about itthank you anon but we already know you are retarded.
>>24891581You haven't explained yet why this magically makes things not suck massive donkey dick
>>24891583you have to be at least 18 years old to post here. don't make me contact your parents.
>>24891586Ok
>>24891557The only reason you think everything sucks is because it fails to give you pleasure. Once people realize this, they will see your whinging as the pathetoc farce that it is.Ultimately, Adorno is just another facet pf western civilization's primary drive to satisfy people's increasingly large desires
I'm enjoying the book; is there anything similar in terms of writing style or story dynamics? I want something like it.
>Not to contemporaries nor to compatriots, but to humanity I deliver my work, now complete, in the confidence that it will not be without value to it, even if this value, as happens with everything that is good, is acknowledged only very late. For it is only for humanity, not for the generation that now passes its time absorbed in the illusion of the present, that my mind, almost against my own will, devoted itself to unceasing labor throughout an entire life. >The lack of recognition during all this time did not make me doubt the worth of my work; I saw continually the false and the base, and finally the absurd and nonsensical, earning general admiration and honor, and I thought that those capable of recognizing what is authentic and correct would not be so rare that we would have to search in vain for twenty years around us for them, and that those capable of producing good works would not be so few that such works would later constitute an exception amid the transience of earthly things; otherwise we would lose the consoling hope of posterity, which is necessary to strengthen anyone who sets a great end before himself. >Whoever practices and takes seriously something that does not lead to material advantages cannot expect the sympathy of contemporaries. Most of the time he will see, meanwhile, that the mere appearance of such a thing prevails in the world and enjoys its day; and this is in order. Yet the real thing must be considered in itself, otherwise it will not be found, for everywhere any interest threatens understanding.
>wahhh i wrote stuff but no one likes it>im so misunderstood genus :(
>>24890866fuck off.
this is by far the best post modern bookit's obscure only because the author isnt anglo
>>24890177There are two genders. Are you triggered????
>>24890166A finger's width of 335 pages
My russian edition has a very pretty cover.
>>24891215Дa. Этa книгa пoдoйдeт.
>>24890980But is it actually like a dictionary or does it have a story? How the fuck do you sit down and get immersed in a dictionary?
Is technically legal to write fictional biographies of living or dead people?
You would have to get consent from a living subject.
>>24891444dead people is ok. living people can get you in trouble because they may sue for defamation like jessica alba did, though that was in france. in a US court she would have had a harder time.
>>24891629Based America
>>24891629Also are there any already written examples?
>>24891444A dude wrote a book in which a character called Scarlett Johanson did some crazy shit and was then later revealed to not be Scarlett Johanson at all. She successfully sued.
Qrd on why she causes so much seethe?
Basically Ayn Rand thinks we live in a meritocracy where hard work is always rewarded, and if you're a failure you just arent working hard enough. And Ayn has a parade of ridiculous caricatures and strawmen to illustrate this point over and over and over and over again.
Ayn Rand was the edgelord of her time. She would go against every convention or accepted opinion just for the sake of it. Doesn't mean she is wrong about some things though.
>>24891620Libertarians shouldn't support "meritocracy", because it's a deterministic concept, and libertarians are much concerned about uncertainty, about the second or third order consequences of intervention and so on. Meritocracy needs a metric to measure merit, which would be centralised (for example, a public examination to access a position of public official). In a free market, if you succeed it probably means that you satisfied an intense demand of some product or service, but it can happen out of pure luck, or an indeterminate proportion of planning and luck. The thing is that luck it out of the scope of justice: just because something is not fair, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's unfair and should be compensated.
>>24891466got hard from reading this. thanks.
>>24891475>This is true. Source: fucked an uggo.We've all been there, I fucked an Influencer girlie once, tens of thousands of rando followers and thirst traps etc, and she didn't give head, fucked a rando girl from a bar who looked like a walmart cashier and she transformed into a demon.
The pessimistic worldview is more philosophically coherent than the normie cope everyone peddles but it gets memory-holed because society literally cannot function if people accept it. The structural "life is good" narrative isn't more true, it's just more necessary for the machine to keep running. Think about it, who gets the time and mental space to actually contemplate existence? Not the wagecuck grinding 60 hours a week to afford rent, not the single mom juggling three jobs, not anyone trapped in survival mode. The system deliberately keeps people too busy, too distracted, too desperate to sit with the fundamental question of whether this whole project is even worth it. The few who do break through (philosophers, monks, NEETs with enough breathing room) keep arriving at the same dark conclusion but their ideas get filtered out because admitting "maybe we shouldn't keep this going" would collapse the entire social contract overnight. Schools don't teach Schopenhauer or Cioran alongside Disney movies for a reason. The powers that be need you believing in Progress™ and Meaning™ because the alternative is everyone collectively realizing we're just a cosmic mistake out of biological inertia and social pressure. The truth is structurally unpopular because it's structurally incompatible with civilization itself. You can't run an economy on "actually, non-being is preferable to being" so the real redpill stays esoteric, locked behind paywalls of leisure and education, while the masses get fed hopium by every institution that depends on their continued participation in the charade.
>>24890393Saying pessimists are wrong because the world is too complex to judge is just a dressed-up admission that you have no counterargument, and the claim that reflection is inferior to unexamined experience is the oldest anti-philosophical cliché in the book.
>SHITlosophyShit's for midwits, Dragon Ball is better
Goku could beat Schopenhauerian Will
>>24891441In a thread started by a fagcartes about shit Schope already addressed littered with garbage like>muh middle management bruh>no stacks no bitches tate tate frfrfrfr>muh muh Ize coasting bruh>muh w-w-worldview heh can't refute pessimism There is one anon who is thinking.Iirc Heidegger sided with Nietzsche and also offered a criticism that Schope was forever stuck in a form of metaphysics that was obsolete. Schope/Nietzsche threads usually devolve into cope and seethe fests. Schope/Heidegger could provide something interesting, Schope is a philosopher who doesn't really go away and there is enough non-Nietzsche related art material between the 2 of them to keep it away from cope and seethe.
>>24890393>The crowning achievement of a philosopher is to grow out of the need for philosophy.For what purpose? To what end?
>dude being poor is no funokay? could i have a compelling narrative also?
>>24889920I much prefer Grapes of Wrath myself, as I have accidentally read it instead, having thought that my conception of The Grapes of Wrath was wrong, or that somehow the story would segue to post-war farming activities, but never did.
the characterization in this is beyond infantile. aw shucks we just all good workin folks. grr we're the capitalists and the government and we're here to exploit you. they have early 20th century oklahomans talking about injuns like they're ethereal beings they were forced to kill in a war, all part of the chungus underclass. it's pretty good but steinbeck was retarded and his prose is nonexistent
>>24889986>A*what joke country gives A*s?
>>24889920This book sucked. Social realism sucks.
>>24889920True
Recently reverted to Islam and I want to know you do guys have any books recommendations
If you haven't read at least a few post-2010 academic books on the history of Muhammad and the Quran, you don't know the history of Islam. Too many discoveries have been made to rely solely on Islamic sources. Any religion must be studied objectively.https://thegreatsecretofislam.org/https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringtheQuranandtheBible/videoshttps://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/wiki/index/https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/wiki/index/bibliographies/
>>24890507https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/wiki/talmudparallels/
>>24891339>>24891341go back>>24890225Read lots of hadith
>>24890253>Even look at "Christian" countries todayThis argument shows that you haven't even studied Christian theology. Think of Bosnia and Indonesia, where girls flirt with non-Muslims online. But this isn't directly related to the heretical nature of Islam, so Christians don't use such arguments in discussions with Muslims. Be honest, you don't know Christianity.
>>24890225Zutt nutt in the butt
>tfw rejected for publication again
>>24891603Declaring you will SAGE is a bannable offence.
>>24891638The blood of a dead thread is on your hands, OP. how the fuck do you even live with yourself?
>>24891112uli :3
>>24891612Fuck off, I got work to do
>>24891638Isnt this too?
Has anyone here read Dietrich von hildebrand?I’ve only read his small essay on the dethronement of truth, which I’ve found to be quite insightful. Now I’m interested in more.
>>24891601His monograph on Wagner is good.
>>24891601I have five of his books, Aesthetics I and II, Ethics, Morality & Situation Ethics, and Jaws Of Death Gate Of Heaven. Where to start?
Many of you have trouble getting published even though you have faith and confidence in your own work. As a first timer and a literally nobody you will be competing against an infinite amount of similar fellers. It's the same as trying to get laid as an incel. You're fucked.Theres one way to approach this problem which I want to bring forth. You must be /somebody/ first. It is fairly easy to become a somebody these days. Depending on how much soul you are ready to sacrifice for your self you can become a viral somebody by doing retarded shit for very little effort. You can also go and lie to amplify who you are supposed to be. Works both with chicks and getting a book contract. They need to have a vague idea of who you are and what you are going to do to entertain your presence.It also helps a lot if you get to know someone in the industry who can pitch you to their local publisher. Say, you are the fucker who that one time drunk drove into a family of five and now you want to get your fiction of gay whales published. The publishers will eat. out. your. hand. In no time you will have a contract in front of you, with expected sales in the thousands. They will take care of the marketing, you just need to be there and fix up that script.In a lesser, more realistic, perhaps, scenario, you can be an active hobbyist in some specific field, fucking miniatures I don't care. Some pick-thick-wrist chud who has been in the local papers once before, have been interviewed for who gives a fuck -reason can be percieved as a imaginary talent by some publisher who knows none the better, but is given a script as thick as the cunts head.Tl;dr a script and a pretty face gets you no-where. You need a lore. Luckily it can be rather cost free.
>>24891561Safety, always off
The writer needs to be more interested in the reader than their own thoughts. I hate this place. If you are going to limit yourself to commas, at least learn how to use them.
>>24891650Bullshit. The reader can be literally anyone from a granny to a blind pilot. You do NOT have *a* reader. The only reader you must serve by your writing is you. Everyone else will follow if you your self manage to curate and edit a text that makes (you) feel /fresh/.
Specifically inner monologueNo talking to more women irl is not an option
>>24890593Very good rec, i would also recommend Rupi Kaur.
>>24891549I hooked up with a 17 year old when I was 22Yeah I probably won’t have any younger like 14-15 but that’s life
>>24890593Brutal truth
>>24891660don't give up
>>24891566Duly noted. I honestly don't even care at this point. The internet is a trash heap.
Read anything good recently?
>>24889802Personalism by Emmanuel Mournier
A Tale of Two CitiesI like it more than some other Dickens works I've read. The Jackal is literally me. Mr Lorry is my favorite character though.
cs lewis' essays Of This World and OthersLoving it #YUM >>24889874i hated it didn't get the hype
>>24891400I believe that is the one and only, Loretta
Read the Witch and the Priest after seeing an anon talk about it in a Halloween thread. It's very good and I'm surprised it's so slept-on.
