why is there such an enormous library of literature in support of third worlders whose governments have betrayed them to westerners in exchange for money, but the library of literature is virtually nonexistent in support of westerners whose governments have betrayed them to third worlders in exchange for... something? why is there such a glaring difference in the quantity of literature for these two topics which are fundamentally the same, despite the lesser written topic actually being more important?
>>24972132China and Russia are too chickenshit to bankroll a colour revolution in the West, even though I need the money really really bad.
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>>24968664I want you to imagine going into battle equipped with nothing more than an abbreviated breast plate, a crotch cup and a sword.
>>24969017I keep telling myself they'll make a TV miniseries, eight episodes to a season, one season per book, and they'll be called the Wanak. and not the wankh.
>>24972021I can never tell if that pull quote was in on the joke.
>>24971971The Flashman Papers. They're more comedic-historical.>During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from the 19th century, often taking actions that cause or affect events, such as his flatulence affecting the Charge of the Light Brigade,[a] or being the person who probably shot George Armstrong Custer. When circumstances run against him and he is forced to fight, he often does so relatively capably. Despite his cowardice and his attempts to flee, he becomes a decorated war hero and rises to the rank of brigadier-general. He also meets people who either were notable at the time—such as Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington—or became well known after Flashman met them—such as Abraham Lincoln. Flashman either has or tries to have sex with most of the female characters. By the end of the ninth book he estimates that he has had sex with 480 women.
>>24972118Cuckolded by his own virgin bride, tho
Give it to me straight. How bad is it out there for fantasy authors that don't write for women?I love writing, but I think I would be depressed if I spent 5+ years writing a series if only 13 people bother to read it.
>>24972061I’m querying now. The truth is that every agent and editor will say they’re looking for “historically underrepresented voices” then list a long series of identities that boils down to “we don’t want white men.” Ignore that. They just want good books they can sell, and that trumps everything else. Just write a good book, and believe in yourself.
>>24972061You wouldn't even be able to write a story for men either.
>>24972093I can tell they’re not a serious write because they love it. A good writer hates writing.
>>24972088>they’re looking for “historically underrepresented voices”even this is only if you deliver the message they want
Writing is a hard game no matter who or what you are Writing for.The market is hyper saturated and it's difficult to get or maintain attention even if you are very good. Marketing is a totally different skill set to writing and extremely few are good at both.My advice would be to write shorter works, polish them well, then put them out and see what gains a audience. Once you have found a audience write more substantial works for that audience. Eventually you will get a small but dedicated fanbase that you can count on to show up and read your epic fantasy series, or whatever big project you long to create. That said don't expect it to pay the bills. Only a microscopic fraction of the top 1 % of writers earn their primary income from writing. Think of it as a hobby or way of expressing your self. That way you won't be frustrated that money never seems to roll in.
Why did Oscar Wilde and his Aesthetic band walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in their ‘mediæval’ hand?
>>24972136it was an earlier version of hanky code
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>>24969554it is a real ancient text and you can tell by reading it
Merry Christmas everyonewww.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/1?lang=eng
I think Joseph Smith was insane. I think he had some sort of mental episode that put the Book of Mormon together. I don't think he was just shitting, I think he was genuinely crazy, and reading the book only confirms this.
>>24968777>T. ex-mormon in BrazilI would like to get your feedback from that perspective
>>24968777>>24970734Seconded.
what are some books where I can learn about occult rituals and stuff across the world? maybe mainly in western countries? I want to learn more about magic and shit because sometimes I see media reference some wacky rituals
>>24972092Read Guénon and Evola.
>>24972092Heed Christopher Lee's advice
Picrel is a good resource.
>>24972138As well as this.
Was he right? What comes after the Faustian civilization?
>>24970407>Something I would like to see, personally, is a greater pluralism towards civil law, allowing for Shariah courts to manage issues like inheritances, contracts, marriage and divorce. This would of course subject civil legislature to regular market forces, which would have a practical (and positive) effect on the society as a whole.>Let us build a Trojan Horse to take over your country
>>24971252If you draft a contract you generally need a notary, a marriage requires witnesses, etc. Obviously this wouldn't work for tort law, but I would see it as beneficial for our current marriage laws, for instance, which are destroying rates of family formation. Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau emphasized the volonté générale but in a post-national society there is no longer a singular people for a singular law to apply to and this solves the problem of minorities without directly affecting the majority.>>24971295It's not really a Trojan horse when I'm outright saying what I want and advocating it, is it? I think Shariah law would be an improvement on our current system, at least for people who wanted to opt in to it, because it emphasizes virtue as an active quality. I also think that certain segments of Western populations, conservative christian groups in particular, would benefit from a liberal and disinterested system which is flexible enough to accommodate different legal codes in so far as they apply to different groups of people.Open discourse is pretty central to any society worth living in, imo. Just focusing on marriage law, our current system can completely ruin a man financially and doesn't even ensure he won't get cheated on. The results of this are obvious enough, marriage rates are collapsing across the West. Under Shariah, the man pays a dowry up front to his prospective wife, that she herself sets, which is intended to support her financially in the event of a divorce. So the cost of divorce is front-loaded into the contract. This is obviously preferable, even if you aren't a religious fundamentalist, so allowing people to opt into this kind of contract (or not, I think that there should be a plurality of options that have to compete on a free market of ideas, the state is bigger than any one religion) creates a much more flexible and open system.
>>24971488We had these conversations centuries ago. We came to the conclusion that church and state should be separate and to enforce rule of (secular) law under a single constitution. Creating laws for each individual or even just the myriad of different groups of people foolish and impractical. I do appreciate you showing all of us how conniving and aggressive Islam really is.
>>24970407>Currently there's a huge unresolved question in Islam with regards to it's evolving synthesis with Western society. So literally what I said? All the inward questions are answered, all the forms are already set in place. And the only problems are how to react to external eventualities. Which they are admittedly rather adept at doing. Fundamentalist Islam is just a re-stating of old maxims in response to a new encroaching civilization. Not even the explosive ISIS like movements are unprecedented. They actually kind of remind me of certain extinct Shia groups, or the Almohads, or Sufi messianists, etc.It all goes back to the past, to tradition, and the way things were done then. >Something I would like to see, personally, is a greater pluralism towards civil law, allowing for Shariah courts to manage issues like inheritances, contracts, marriage and divorce. Very Magian, I reckon you are an arab and not a convert, yes?If so, you are just hoping to reproduce the Ghetto living natural to your culture. Sunni muslims here practicing muslim law, Christians there, Shias over there, etc. Religious Jews do it a lot too. >>24970682I don't know, I like Liszt, and do not think one should ignore the role Poland had in medieval HRE politics. And anyway, my heuristic for whether a specific European ethnicity or state was/is part of Faustian Europe is this: Did they natively participate in the reformation? If yes, then they are Faustian, if not, then they are not. Incidentally, it seems to exclude the Gaelic Irish. But that means it works.
>>24972079Finally, someone who gets what I am proposing.Convert, but from a very Magian strain of Germanic culture; a breed of conversos that never fully integrated into the modern world (but were early and energetic participants in the reformation, ironically). You're right about the Ghetto living, in the absence of meaningful nation states (which admittedly aren't coming back, that question was settled in 1945) the medieval Ghettos are the most immediately applicable way to reintroduce community and meaning into the West.It's notable that Indian Reservations, another form of primitive communitarianism, is one of the only places in Western countries that has managed to maintain replacement birthrates and even grow. The Chinese hukou system is another interesting concept which Westerners haven't even begun to grapple with.
>The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.Did he read Kant?
wrong kind of autism
>>24972028gives me>We have now not only traversed the region of the pure understanding, and carefully surveyed every part of it, but we have also measured it, and assigned to everything therein its proper place. But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion, where many a fog-bank, many an iceberg, seems to the mariner, on his voyage of discovery, a new country, and while constantly deluding him with vain hopes, engages him in dangerous adventures, from which he never can desist, and which yet he never can bring to a termination.vibes.
LOVECRAFT WAS A KANTIAN WTFUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>24972037Kant uses rich language, but he's really just describing the system of thought to a certain limit. Lovecraft is doomposting with all those value judgments.I wouldn't be surprised if Lovecraft read Kant. He is only the high point of German Idealism, after all.
HELP ME KANT I'M GOING INSANE AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
PBUH?
>>24968998>What are your essential Guénon (pbuh) and adjacent readings beyond the obvious ones?Introduction to Traditionalism>Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines>East and West>Crisis of the Modern WorldMetaphysics Trilogy (only read after the above)>Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta>The Symbolism of the Cross>The Multiple States of the BeingIndispensable Kino >Symbols of Sacred Science Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24971009Thank you anon. Currently halfway through the trilogy. Noted the adjacent recs as well.
>>24968998>We shall see later what fundamental importance the symbolism of numbers has in Dante's work; and, even if this symbolism is not purely Pythagorean, even if it appears in other doctrines simply because the Truth is One, it is nevertheless permissible to think that, from Pythagoras to Virgil, and from Virgil to Dante, the 'chain of tradition' was doubtless not broken on Italian soil.
>>24970964I'm not quite sure if this is true, but wasn't the information found in The King of the World theretofore completely unknown to the West and not exactly openly expounded in India, even among Brahmin priests? The imprudent disclosure of which caused his source(s) or teachers or what have you in India to stop communicating with him. Which, if true, indicates at the very least that he was trusted enough at one point to be in contact with legitimate Vedic scholars.
>>24972119> The imprudent disclosure of which caused his source(s) or teachers or what have you in India to stop communicating with him.This is all just unsourced headcannon rumor bullshit that took on a life of its own. Guenon never wrote anything about any of those claims being true.Guenon never once claimed to be ‘in le secrect contact’ with hidden easterners. This may be connected with the speculations that Guenon was secretly initiated by some Hindu, also a totally unfounded rumor.
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>>24968652Saved. This is a nice one, anon
>>24969550Bible is hard
Please add:Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)Bowling Alone (Robert D Putnam)Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)Oh and the list should have included MUCH more non fiction books like scientific treaties, though we all know STEMfags rarely if never read books, they read papers and use other mediums to gain knowledge
>>24970579>>24970533Kek
>>24971048Added>the list should have included MUCH more non fiction books like scientific treatiesAdded Hippocrates, Galen, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Copernicus, William Harvey, William James, Freud, Einstein, Keynes, Alfred Marshall, and Henry George.
What do you think of Simone Weil's Christianity?
>>24971964What's with this post? She's a thinker, not a celebrity. You're not supposed to be passionate let alone being hysterical about thinkers.
>>24971883she kinda cute
>>24971883I mostly think of her hairy dork cooch
>>24971883an invention made by catholics to downplay the paganism of her thought
>>24971883She looks like the kind of girl who would rim my arsehole.
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
Every night and every mornSome to misery are born.Every morn and every nightSome are born to sweet delight.Some are born to sweet delight,Some are born to endless night.Auguries of Innocence
I’m going to kill God, gonna nail him to a pile of shitWon’t keep him down, that’s not the point of itI’ve never heard his voice when I’ve prayed, and it won’t start nowI’m gonna tie God to the front of a plowI want God to feel how I feel, even for a half a second
ESL here. Which of these works has a more strict meter? The shakespearean sonnets, paradise lost, pope's homer, the prelude or don Juan?
All, nothing, love – the third rate Roman usurper stretches like a cat.The empire is falling, or has fallen already. It barely registers on Saturn’s clock.Red blanket, cover my mischief. The weight of time breaks the day.The setting is precarious, the silence barely working - Stunned, the bell that nobody rings. It shouldn’t be. Someone keeps leaving smoky cups on the marble sill He must not know how warmth works – for it is winter and nobody’s home.No timestamps whatsoever, the tape is preserved from A to Z. If you want to find anything you must dig until sweat blinds you. Try to read it all backwards and see if it gains a semblance of sense The page, unlike flesh, doesn’t twitch if you pinch it. Murder will get you in trouble – reading too.
You guys ever ask AI to generate images based on your poems?
Looking for recommendations on futurist novels. It seems like their literary output was mostly poetry. There's pic rel but I don't think it has a complete English translation unfortunately.It doesn't have to be Italian or strictly within the movement, a novel with "futurist themes" would be good too.
>>24971558maybe check out Tarr, by Wyndham Lewis, who was a futurist-adjacent painter in addition to being a modernist writer and semi-fascist. The Childermass is a way weirder and more experimental work of his, but i haven't read it. enoyed Tarr massively though.
>>24971558I always recommend the twisted-spoon press translation of ‘i burn paris’ by the polish-futurist bruno jasienski
>>24971670>>24971638thanksbump
Is there a chart or reading order for getting the full story of the rise and fall of Rome and everything in between? I'd prefer ancient texts like picrel, but I'd be open to more modern texts.
>>24964966Here's a good reading order:Start with Robinson - A History of the Roman Republic. Not as good as his equivalent works for the ancient Greeks but it's the only non-pozzed modern writer to give a truthful overview of the early period.After that you should start with first hand sources: Polybius - The Histories of Rome and the Mediterranean. Well written and easy to read.Plutarch's Lives covers the fall of the republic and Suetonius The Twelve Cesars the early empire.Tacitus is an excellent writer too and should be read.And finish with The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You only really need to read the first book to get the gist.
>>24960014Michael Grant wrote multiple books about Rome that are all very good. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/31375.Michael_Grant
>>24960014read americas decline by revilo oliver
>>24960153why hasnt livy been turned into a tv show
>>24960014youre welcome
Have you read with a partner? Cuddling, each reading their own book or both reading the same book.What was that like and what are fitting books for such exercise?
>>24971887stop it. it hurts.
>>24971900Take no heed of my actions. Carnal desire is spark to the dry tinder of the human heart. Despite what the temporarily embarrassed socî malorum will tell you, it is not better to have loved and lost, as the hole that is opened only grows.
>>24971900god i miss the 80s
Not a fan. I need no distractions while I’m reading and i can’t listen to another person breath near me. I also don’t think i like physical contact so that could be an issue
>>24971837i read "stranger in a strange land" aloud to a girl in her bed. she described it as "bucolic" and ghosted ne a frw weeks later.
