>>24862870
>Is it because your average Karen teacher cannot into academic writing?

Here in America, public school teachers don’t really decide much of the macro of the curriculum. If their superiors tell them to teach in a certain style, they have to. As such, you can’t really blame teachers. The reason why this style seems so pushed to me is because of the nature of the school system itself (in my opinion). American schooling, and possibly schooling worldwide, isn’t about actually learning and becoming an intelligent person, but about teaching kids to be efficient worker. A child is forced to learn a specific template to complete their tasks. This imprints the idea of how to follow specific instructions to the letter to that child. The reason why this is disregarded in academia is because higher level education is more focused on actually teaching students.

>>24862808
I don't care. What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

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>>24862808
millenials are reading hegel in public we'll be ok

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>>24862808
leftism is running amok in education

>>24862808
Critisizing modern academia isn’t anti-intellectualism. Modern academia defending their schlock is anti-intellectualism.

Is there a single other author in the english language more profoundly overrated than Orwell?

>>24860504
no problem

>>24860407
Haven't eaten boiled eggs since I read this book.

>>24860407
>>24861452
Fun fact: the egg stuff in the music video for Venus As A Boy is a direct reference to this book, which was Bjork's favourite at age 17. She once spoke about it in a radio interview and in particular advocated for the act of putting eggs in your bottom.

It legit gave me a chubby a few times.

>>24861887
it's referenced in Before Sunrise as well

>>24861441
Have you ever spent all day punching a cash register at a shitty job before? that's all you need. Although apparently it was a rejection of Kierkegaard, I don't see it as a dialogue.

>>24861441
Not really, but if you haven't read such literature before in your life you'll have some struggle because the whole book in an unstoppable stream of consciousness and you HAVE TO takes notes while reading it. The whole idea itself is not hard to understand, if you want to check an easier version of the book than watch "Everything Everywhere All at Once", it quotes the book literally

>>24861441
Not a difficult book, Camus is barely a philosopher.

>>24859780
Also, the guy is gigantic coward for not putting out his version of the Quran and the Book of Mormon.

>>24858175
You're an idiot

>>24859782
what about the talmud?

>>24854053
>>24855128
>>24857002
this

I think it's funny how all the Bible threads are just people from various denominations swearing by what is most commonly found in the pews of their churches.

You can count on Catholics claiming the NRSV, the Reformed claiming the ESV, etc.

>>24862540
PEBKAC

>>24862707
>the alleged objectivity and relevance of facts.
especially if it runs against experience and common knowledge

>>24862541
You have to be a complete peasant to want kids in america today

>>24862707
fact is a tribune of the people with no legislative right, but only the right of veto. fact is not truth.

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>convert away from catholicsm and religion in general a month ago
>read online that mere christianity is brilliant and will bring me back. I enjoyed the narnia books well enough as a kid so give it a shot
>his evidence for christianity's legitimacy is that it's too detailed to be made up and jesus had to be the messiah because he would otherwise be insane or the devil
lmao

>>24860323
the war with the sorcerers was kino

>>24859989
>Did the BBC cuckholding scene awaken something in you? Because otherwise I can't see anyone being wowed by this tripe
Humiliation ritual is now part of the lexicon anon
Dont you think there is a deeper meaning to it? How deep do you think it goes?

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I don't know if I fully understand what you're looking for, but for fiction, pic related is highly underrated as a weird text. I'd also add typical stuff like Borges, Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, William Blake, etc.

I think I may understand what you're looking for more in nonfiction:
Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas is a good text on astrology and history, also a good starting point for someone who doesn't necessarily believe in astrology.

>Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee
>The Eighth Tower by John Keel
>The Goblin Universe by Fredrick Holiday
All of these books are basically theories of high strangeness itself.

Also because I read it recently and it's on my mind, Kabbalah and Criticism by Harold Bloom is a really interesting book. It's mostly about literature and influence, so you'd like it if you're interested in those topics, but it also serves as an interesting interpretation of Kabbalah itself.

>>24860353
Bret Easton Ellis, most known for American Psycho
His novels don't really have anything to do with ghosts or the occult, but they're full of nihilistic edgelord psychopaths and that stuff always overlaps with the paranormal crowd

>>24861480
>Also because I read it recently and it's on my mind, Kabbalah and Criticism by Harold Bloom is a really interesting book. It's mostly about literature and influence, so you'd like it if you're interested in those topics, but it also serves as an interesting interpretation of Kabbalah itself.
Nice rec, thanks.

Meds

>>24861769
op is an onanist

>>24861968
if you don't have an interest in how moderns wrote about the sense of smell we are not the same.

>>24862098
I tried once I had to stop because of taxes and I'm perfecly fine with it because having to learn facts by memory for the oral exam is excruciating.

>>24862459
>school expects me to... learn and retain the material?
>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HELP ME NIGGERMAN I CANT REMEMBER AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>24862380
Her thesis is accessible online. Go ahead and tell me it actually says anything of substance instead of regurgitating leftoid points for 6 gazillionth time using academia's version of corpospeak.

The real blackpill is reading papers from the 70s. The decline is in quality is massive.

>>24861980
Amelia is such a pretty name. Why would she shorten it to Ally? One more thing I can fix about her.

>>24857749
>convenient social definition of the two.
Nothing convenient about it brother

>>24858309
This

>>24862790
a woman is what a man isn't and vice versa

>>24862888
textbook circle, and what is that difference between those two things?

>>24859403
Does it not seem like a fool's errand trying to restore the conditions that directly led to the present? There will never be a popular mandate for a return to absolute monarchy and bloodletting, and the religious institutions that upheld them have reformed themselves radically. There's neither a popular nor a religious mandate for this, absent some rootless embarassing zizian cyberpunk Thiel cult. What's the plan on getting popular consent for this and preventing modernity from arising again once it's in place?

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Terry Pratchet
Michael Moorcock
Jack Vance
Gene Wolfe

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>>24862718
has there ever been a sane philosopher?

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>>24862612

>>24862775
Fabian nonsense. State-socialism has always proven to be useless, no, detrimental, half measures

>>24862775
The talk of a universal religion ‘that shall unite man in brotherhood,’ is as woolly as such talk must always be. Religion needs bite, and politics can never supply the necessary teeth. The pursuit of politics produces no abnormal psychosomatic effect in its devotees. At its best, it furnishes intellectual problems for a few bright research-fellows to solve, and makes possible the manufacture of numerous labour-saving amenities. But it also destroys numerous ancient amenities; dulls the minds of its countless mechanical servitors; separates man more and more from his natural context in wild nature; and so far, like science, enthrones intellect as the greatest of all human attributes as to remove all checks on its irresponsible functioning.

>>24862612
Le feu follet by Drieu La Rochelle

>>24862612
bye !!!!

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