>>24743261
IT'S ALL THE SAME!

Wrong, there was art that meant something, there were movements and connections that meant something, people believed in something.
The 80s might have been consumerist garbage for the most part. But it would have been a 100x better for your kid to grow up there than to rot Infront of his videogames today.

And even if it was all performative back then too, there was at least the shadow of something real. Globalization, and late-stage capitalism hadn't set in fully yet.
We should have worked to preserve and amplify those parts of our culture, but we failed, the future is cancelled.

>>24743261
and btw, the most "pop", "entertainment" nigger music/culture from the 80s has infinitely more soul and authenticity that the most artful, indie culture made by the "talented" "intelligentsia" of today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYE5QEBOMA8

>>24743292
Shut the fuck up you cunt. The 80s is full of retards like John Coltrane

>>24743312
John Coltrane died in the 60s

>>24742962
retards in ancient Athens were probably saying the same thing about deviations from Homer

you don't get to decide what is authentic

>>24740118
The churkas were pretty placid though. The ones chimping out were the Balts and Russians themselves.

>>24742314
Israel is teeming with random Slavs that are about as Jewish as a drive thru McRib on a Saturday, basically all of which immigrated in the Soviet era. They’re so abundant they even have their own successful political party.

>>24743267
Is this true? Why would Israel allow them in then? What party are you talking about?

>>24731216
I'd never heard of this goofy motherfucker before this thread, but this quote makes me want to read him.

>Where's my money?

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his wife btw

>>24741009
did you use AI to generate an image of anna

>>24743003
No, it’s Levin after transitioning

>>24743003
ya and when I told it to make her boobs bigger it yelled at me for trying to make a sexualized image...

>>24741720
The chapter of Anna submitting to Vronsky through the metaphor of him committing murder and taking her soul is so ridiculously good. Just one of those things you read and wonder how other writers could compete

Levin is literally me and he’s literally Tolstoy which means I’m Tolstoy

>>24741293
you talk about antisemitism when you are as cucked and reddit as your pic related yourself.

>>24741335
sandnigger beef? Damn.

>>24741997
No, you are out of control, a bully abusive of power, and a bunch of hysterical control freaks.

you're the cancer post 2009 that made this site gay.
the elites laugh at you idiots defending their degeneracy and evil because you're just as guilty yourself.

>/lit/s daily anti-semitsm thread

>>24742114
"antisemitism" means everything said against them is forbidden/banned. as a victim card and power grab. Disgusting.

It always was a Nazi board. I take pity on the Americans and other whites who are the real victims, the real good people, and the most valuable people (ask anyone who has sex)
you expect everybody to have manners and have their mask on but those values and virtues to be for real this time, and be completely brainwashed so then you can take advantage of these people and persecute Christians.

Kill yourself.

>>24740351
And I am fine with that. The attempt to shame public reading only want to make me do it more.

>>24742174
Yeah do it. Do whatever you want. Zoomers are so fucking weird, worrying all the time about being perceived as "cringe" or "performative" or "thinking they're a vibe." They're so exhausting. I don't know how they ever leave the house.

>>24742210
I imagine it must be difficult being raised on social media. Like everything they do, they have to consider the irl and digital perceptions. It must be exhausting, which is probably why a lot of them suffer from some form of anxiety.

I like my Zoomers. I work with a few and they are good. They just get pulled in way to many directions and have far to many outside influences in their lives.

I don’t know who this author is or what the book is about. I’ve never seen it mentioned or heard about it before coming to /lit/.
I looked at some quotes on good reads to get a feel for it and it seems interesting and well written.
What exactly makes reading it performative?

>>24743320
cuz it's not ya prose

>>24740888
Summa Theologica by Thoma Aquinas

I mean it's shit but it's long enough


Personally I'd pick some really dense and complete book about engineering or something

If anthologies/collections of books are cheating (this excludes the bible btw) thenn war and peace

>>24738983
The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Peak comfy

Finnegan’s Wake
Only way I will read it is if there is absolutely nothing else to read

>>24738983
30 Days of Discipline

>>24739176
Peak midwit (or retard) is going to prison, reading the bible and becoming a Christian.

Filtered Abrahamic.

>>24743284
Spinoza was a Jew, though. And I am not an abrahamic. Just a cool and reasonable dude who can sniff flawed and fanciful metaphysics concocted by egoistic retards.

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How can a substance be modified?

>>24743287
>a reasonable dude
No. His philosophy inspired communism if you follow the dialectics

>>24743189
easy, stop being a fag and go out

Does a barbershop have customers or clients?

Does "pointed confusion" make sense?

>someone read 176 out of 385 pages of my book on kdp
Fuck... That guy dropped it. I'm a failure of an author

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What do you think of a short preface right before the Prologue kicks in for a fiction story? Something like pic related, that's like one or two paragraphs worth, to put the reader into the setting without using exposition in dialogue or narration later on.

>>24741298
This nigga's cat be like, I WANT YOU TO OVERTHROW THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

>>24741298
He really left at his peak. The Sea of Fertility is underrated.

I am studying Japanese for literature but it's so difficult to keep motivated

>>24743281
I still think it drops off massively. First two volumes are so astonishingly strong. He had all the pieces there, but book 3 could have a smoother arc/ending, and 4 feels unfinished. Peak talent, not peak delivery

After reading Sun and Steel, I can't help but pity Mishima. His ideals could never survive in this world.

>>24742934
Oh also Israel was the one most profiting of ISIS, after years of destabilizing the region, they keep attacking Syria seeking expansion into the region.

>>24742934
Muslims are evil

>>24742934
Why are muslims that get btfo so desperate to appeal to these man-made laws?

Doesn’t that make them bad muslims? Pls respond with yes or no?

>>24742121
Extremely dogmatic, traditional, and authoritarian. Not worth fucking with most of the time. We have to tolerate them because we operate in liberal land unfortunately but they’re the worst. Like Jews except they don’t keep to themselves.

>>24742934
Silence you dog, you WISH your weak corrupt shitholes had even half the credibility of western states. Yeah it’s not perfect but the West is actually built on something and strives to produce evidence and treat the world with the complexity it deserves, your Stone Age monkey brain cannot comprehend the leaps and bounds it operates on. You guys love to flap your mouths about the supposed corruption in the West but they have some of the most resilient and robust institutions the world has ever seen. Meanwhile in other places the people just get flossed by the people in power 24/7. The best thing that could happen for humanity is the decrepit Middle East being blown off the face of the earth so the civilized world doesn’t have to deal with your antics anymore.

>>24735647
The thing is that the AVGN isn’t a legacy to be ashamed of. The man almost single-handedly shaped internet culture as we know it today. He could have done nothing but The Nerd, and that alone would have been enough to immortalise him.

>>24742674
>The thing is that the AVGN isn’t a legacy to be ashamed of.
>The man almost single-handedly shaped internet culture as we know it today.
pick one

>>24742644
Nope, still nothing. James' haters are so lame. Can't be arsed to share the thing online so we can all have a laugh.

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Is it better than the puppet combo books?

>>24741583
>98 pages long

Surely not...

>>24743000
>Will Wight
Checked and thanks

>>24741683
Honor Harrington - great space-navy autism but all the filler and political rubbish can be hard work

Black Fleet series by Joshua Dalzelle

The Expanse but it's not a focus

>>24742538
>eat apples if you want oranges

Man, the Cyteen series is good but it got me blueballed as fuck.

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>>24742995
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39328479-runeforged
that is like mistborn but a little better and by someone else

>>24743265
Isolation is not good for you. This is the worst thing you could do if you want to marry and have kids. Also, God doesn't exist.

>>24743271
>Isolation is not good for you.
You don't know that
>This is the worst thing you could do if you want to marry and have kids.
I want no part in your society of sinners, where pedos and criminals are glorified and parade on TV.
>Also, God doesn't exist.
You don't know that. Also, I look down on people like you. Have a good night.

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Death precedes (eternal) life.

>>24743288
I hope you cure your mental illness. I do know the effects of isolation and maybe after you begin to realize your mistake you'll also re-examine why you cling to the idea of "God." The "mean thoughts" you think about other people and your belief in God are likely due to the same phenomenon. You could abandon your delusions now without any suffering, but it looks like you're determined to make your life worse before you engage in any kind of actual self-reflection. Good luck.

>>24743265
>Reaching a state of social nonexistence took me a while but I finally fucking DID IT
>my new job

I Spy - Turkish Bathouse

That one. Also the point and click adaptation of it.

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>>24742778
My favorite. The PC game as well as Spooky Mansion, because I wasn't allowed to get the books for this one nor fantasy as we were tight on money, I was enjoying this on PC only.