Victoria EditionPrevious: >>24975069/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24989554Trying to get lung cancer is kind of funny. Not actually having a preference for the type of cancer and choosing lung cancer because it's the most accessible is funny. There's no possible recovery for that delivery though. The context of the rest of the page is too heavy a burden.
Am I getting this right? For narrative texts:Em dash: peppy, enthusiastic, conversational.Parenthetical commas: smooth, matter-of-fact, cold.Parentheses: timid, secretive, quiet.
>>24989691No the em dash is ruined forever just like "not x, but y" rhetoric you can't use it anymore
>>24989250>This is traditionally published and your slop isn't.This statement is only surprising to the strange breed of morons who don't realize publishing is a business and businesses want to make moneyQuality doesn't sell. Marketability does
writing is hard
>This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure above any success, he will even seek it out, unconsciously of course. This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.Does this autist have a point? Are failures more conducive to moral salvation than success? Is my loser life finally going to be of some use?
>>24984553Damn that's a funny quote
>>24983970Good postI like you!
>>24982958he has a point, but i don't think that's the full story. simply trying itself, regardless of your personal views on the chance of success or failure, seems to make God pleased regardless of the outcome. in my experience, things tend to go nowhere near as terrifying as my mind makes them out to be, but even failing isn't the end of the world. most others understand making mistakes and will help calm you if you're having clearly having anxiety over such.
>>24983988Cioran was the one who never figured out this was the reason to his angstNice failure of a post
>>24984571You can blame Mossad and the rest of the paid shills for fucking this place up.
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>>24988351Yah, it takes a big investment to read the Bible. I am on my first serious attempt, and progress is very slow, although I am really enjoying it.
>>24980085I fully understand why one would find Moby Dick difficult to get through. The actual narrative is straightforward and written in straightforward prose but the shift in topics and randomly calling out that one visual encyclopedia or whales can be jarring to people who are more used to novels being a narrative and not a narrative + some articles from a nautical encyclopedia.I'm mad that Proust isn't higher and that Les Miserables didn't make the list. I would remove Animal Farm or Dubliners to make room for it. I don't understand the reverence for Dubliners.I would also have argued strongly in favor of The Little Prince being included and maybe something by Robert Louis Stevenson. Markheim probably. It's overall a fine list though.
>>24988244Not interested in a story about how all humans inherit a guilt from another person and are then required to endorse the human sacrifice of a different person to pay a price that is completely arbitrary anyway because even when someone is wronged, the wronged party has the capacity to simply forgive without needing some vengeful pound of flesh to be satisfied. The whole thing is a work of primitive myth, trying to bootstrap the old scapegoat magical thinking with a flavor of burnt sacrifice in order to try and propitiate the angry father in the sky. Such is not worthy of men with dignity.
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>>24988181It repeats itself too much, it's like Alien Ant Farm performing Smooth Criminal 3 times in one concert.
How important is psychiatry/psychoanalysis, in terms of creating societal change?I am a psychiatrist-to-be.How would you practice, if given unlimited power/funds to create your own health department? How would you set it up?I know of critical psychiatry and books like bad science and some by James Davies. But any thoughts on modern policy thinkpieces? Books about the best way to manage societies (mental) health from a macro/state/gov pov?Is psychiatry /lit/ or /sci/ ? Or some other bumfuck board?
>>24989504Yes, and then I considered the same thought about all the other religions.That's when I realised it would be stupid to just use the one that mentions 'Jesus'.
>>24989518you think mental health is different from sociability health?.
>>24989518Including atheism?
>>24989518That doesn't make any sense and you haven't sincerely considered anything.
>>24984277In theory, the licit place would be /his/ (humanities). But /His/ is a massive shithole even by 4chan standards so stay here.>How important is psychiatry/psychoanalysis, in terms of creating societal change?I would say not very. They are generally downstream from culture; that is to say they adapt to wider changes in culture and society rather than the other way around. Psychoanalysis is a dead current btw. All the interesting branches of psychology are very far away from shrinks and the like. You pigeonholed yourself into the most boring part of psychology.I don't read any books about psychiatry, clinical psychology, etc. I ocassionally read books about psy-ops and advertising, though. And I took some rudiments of organizational psychology in college as part of an administration class.
Reading Translations is not reading.
>>24989700>That was literally the argument for a centuryIf you accept that as an argument then how do you come to the conclusion that Arabs and Urdus will fare better? You're raising points against your own premise by even bringing that up.>IQ is a result of good educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_(chimpanzee)When you raise chimps with children,the children fall to the level of the chimp,the chimp does not raise to the level of the human. Public school is suffocating success because it all falls to the lowest common denominator.
>>24989715My argument is that the argument was always bullshit. You're side used to argue that Irish were subhuman monkeys who couldn't form a civilized society and would drag America down, and have continued to do it with every immigrant group since only for those populations to assimilate and integrate and contribute. >When you raise chimps with children,the children fall to the level of the chimp [citation needed]>Public school is suffocating success because it all falls to the lowest common denominator.Public schooling is one of the most successful programs in human history. It elevates people beyond their 80 IQ origins more than literally anything else. not sure why you fell through the crack though
>>24989484>links to literal Washington DC investment firm-funded glowieIt's over
>>24989066Wrong. US already was third world shithole before Trump first presidency. Nothing really changed, it is a shithole already, more than ten years. Btw it gets worst.
>>24983605What anime should I watch in German dub to get a feel for it? I know this is how half of ESLers learn English.
>increases your creativity x25
>>24989526>>24989497Sleep flushes out metabolites you would not want to accumulate, fags
>>24989526Tesla and Da Vinci, appearently.
>>24989533>appearentlyspat my screen, ty anon
>>24989497Ah yes. Augmented reality.
>>24989533>TeslaHe was literally shizo. >>24989520On the second week you die/go to asylum for next year or maybe forever
Recommend works that are multiple volumesHere are some>Oxford's History of Western Music.Six volumes, or five with the last volume, the bibliography and index, distributed over the others. Currently reading the unabridged version and it is wonderful writing, a sort of "story of music" showing how different movements and figures are responding to others and how to appreciate them in context>A History of Philosophy Nine volumes, with a tenth and an eleventh written later. Despite being explicitly for a Catholic readership, this work is much more objective than Russell's and the writing is immensely engaging. >Friedrich Schiller: Poet of FreedomFour volumes, this anthology of Schiller's work is mostly notable for its commendable translation, with the translators believing that Schiller must not only be translated literally but that his meter and rhythm are inherent to his work and also must be thoroughly maintained. They even adhere to his rhyme scheme where he uses one. More about it here>>24988997>A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics TextsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Crocodile Tears edition.OLD: >>24978375
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>>24988269>goodreads lol
We sharing Goodreads profiles?https://www.goodreads.com/om_420
>>24989820Programmed to kill? Nice.
Happy 4:20 my dudes!
What are the best science fiction anthologies?
The Prince if The Prince was written sincerely instead of as a joke.
>>24988698>guy named ralphdropped
>>24988800>fpbpWalden Pond also sucked, and it was written by a RALPH (Waldo Emmerson), too.How many other authors are named "Ralph" (and how hard should their insufferable works be dropped)?>t. refuses to read ralphean 'literature'
>>24988698>send your enemies a bunch of porn and whores to make them into weak coomer degeneratesChud shi huang sama... I kneel.
Trying to put together a short list of 5-7 books that most comprehensively capture the character of America. All I have are Moby Dick and JR by Gaddis.I think this is a retarded exercise but my ocd wont allow me to not do it. What would /lit/ add or remove?
>>24983220Look Homeward, AngelOf Time and the Riverboth books by Thomas Wolfe
>>24983220Read a book about the history of your state.Real cool shit you never really think about. Learned that the State governor was flirting with communism during the great depression. He was getting letters from all over about citizens crying about needing blankets and that their children might not making through the winter. Tough times.And all the waves of immigration and the construction of the US state you realize that majority of this country is actually relatively new. Also for the west coast part of the US i recommend the book Boneshaker.
The Crying of Lot 49Phenomenology of SpiritThe End of History and the Last ManWaldenHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsWalden IIHow to Win Friends and Influence People
>>24983220Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
>>24988647>Harry Potter and theThat's a Londoner book, ya dolt.>HegelShitposter
>When the loud options are moralistic anti-technology on one side and managerial techno-optimism on the other, the vacancy is real. Into that space Land arrives, not with a program, but a jerry can full of accelerants. He offers a style of lucidity that makes refusal of justificatory exposure feel like realism, and he supplies different factions with the same transferable permission to burn what they already want to burn.>Land exploits that vacancy by treating contestation itself as pathology. The slow work of stating conditions, specifying stakes, tracking costs, and admitting defeaters is redescribed as security reflex and primate panic. His central gesture is substitution, the labor of justification gives way to the glamour of inevitability. He swaps arguments for accelerants, then calls the burn insight. Landian inevitability is counterfeit realism, a get-out-of-reply-free card stamped with ‘what is coming.’ If every objection is already a symptom, nothing has to be answered on the merits.>Thus, the space of the reasons is displaced by a regime of selection, time, capital, war, optimization, whatever can be invoked as an external criterion. Behind this move sits a familiar ancestor. Darwinian selection, abstracted into a metaphysics. The Landian trick is to treat selection not as a local operator but as a final arbiter. Whatever survives is taken to deserve survival. Whatever scales is taken to be true. This is how selection is promoted into a theory of justification, and it is also how resistance becomes illegible. If the arbiter is selection, then objections are not reasons, they are symptoms.Actually pretty good. I think the polemics lean a little too heavily on a dated caricature of Land’s thought, but the criticism of provenance as a substitute for justification is sound, imo. If you submit your ethical judgements to the invisible hand of technocapital then every criticism can be framed as a transient pocket of negentropic drag that doesn’t deserve an answer. Of course if in raising your metaphysics to the status of an ethics your position magically becomes immune from criticism, there’s definitely a problem there.
>>24988608You could literally say the same thing about Marxism. The only difference is NRX has yet to put forward a concrete political vision in the way that Marxism (as a mode of analysis) gave rise to communism.
>>24989718the vision is Exit/Patchwork
>>24989729Was*Even Moldbug has all but disowned patchwork theory. Let me know when the first sovcorps start actually consolidating themselves, until then it’s just a pipe dream.
>>24989742ideologically the right functions under Patchwork logic in the sense that the last ~15 years or so has been about building alternative institutions, networks, spaces etcfloating cities was always a little fantasticalNRx only really failed to account for the virulent white nationalism we're seeing now
>>24989769I guess my problem with this is that patchwork isn’t a vision of the future, it’s a vision of how to assemble it. That’s what I mean when I say it isn’t concrete. Whatever is able to monopolise in the marketplace of ideas will win, sure, but not even the most diehard neoreactionary could tell you what that will be.
Reading Austen and the Brontës won’t give you an immediate "hookup" advantage, but it will significantly improve your romantic competence. Here is the breakdown:>Emotional Intelligence: These authors provide a blueprint for how women think and feel. Understanding these nuances makes you a much more effective communicator.>The "Darcy" Archetype: Austen’s Mr. Darcy is the gold standard for many. He proves that being a man of character, who listens and admits when he’s wrong, is more attractive than being a "bad boy.">Superior Banter: Reading Austen helps you move past boring small talk into witty, challenging, and playful conversation—a major "green flag.">Cultural Signaling: Carrying a Brontë novel is a massive "status signal." It suggests you are patient, intellectual, and comfortable enough in your masculinity to value female-centric stories.The Bottom Line: It won't work like a magic spell, but it transforms you into a man who is higher-value and more interesting to talk to.
>>24989283Also want to add it's weird that she was a finalist for the Pulitzer in a year when they decided to give no one the award and then she just disappeared completely
>>24989255>just opinions and not backed by any data or scientific research. Theyre literally backed by data. Its what the AI told me.
>>24989293Why are more people not freaking out about this? This is the kind of shit that really makes you believe in the Illuminati.
>>24989293That was a weird year too. The other finalists were Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, which was technically published a decade before in a magazine but only published as a book that year, and The Pale King, which was basically a posthumously released draft of an unfinished book. I haven't read The Pale King yet but I have read Swamplandia! and Train Dreams and I feel Russell was robbed. Literally their one job is to award a prize, and they were too chicken to make a decision. I think Swamplandia! deserved it but literally ANY decision would have been better than no decision.
>>24989235>Carrying a Brontë novel I recommend this one
Did /lit/ read it? Just dropped a few days ago. Main points>The emancipation of the working class is the task of the working class itself>Support accelerated development of AI and crush petit-bourgeois opposition>Continue to wage class struggle on an international basis>All power to Amazon: militantly support the unprecedented concentration of capital and destruction of petit-bourgeois elements >Resolutely oppose the Mussolinite blackshirt thug now occupying NYC >Free Palestine? To the contrary, free Israel!>Conduct socio-demographic analysis on a class basis on the the current dictators of capitalTo be clear this is ICP-US (NY) not ICP-US (PA). Thoughts?
>>24988626>icp>no stance on faygo or neddin'The fuck js this nonsense?
>>24988626>Free Palestine? To the contrary, free Israel!Wtf is this shit lmao
>>24989384Bordigists like Israel because they're contrarian and oppose national liberation struggles on principle
>>24989405They don't like Israel, they want the working classes of Israel and Palestine to unite to overthrow the Israeli state. Workers of the world yada yada
>>24988626It's new project 2025 bullshitt or what
I decided to take /lit/'s advice and started reading the Greeks this year. I'm so happy I decided to. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy these works, I felt like I learned a lot about history, culture, myth, and the human condition in the process. I was challenged and felt like I grew.This year, I readThe Iliad (Lattimore) 564 (with notes)The Odyssey (Fagles) 514 (with notes)Herodotus (Landmark edition) 878! (with notes and appendices)Thucydides (Hammond) 685 (with notes)Sophocles (Fagles) 407 (with essays and notes)Hesiod (Lombardo) 103 (with notes)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24984094I readHomerGreek TragediansHerodotus and ThucydidesPresocratic Fragments, Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon. I also read secondary literature on these guys, and read their entire surviving corpus. Around Christmas I also read A Christmas Carol for the first time and it was great. I'm going to read more this year, because I was definitely inconsistent in 2025.
>>24984094Making Contact by Alan Steinfeld. Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence.
>>24984094Someone bought me this for a gift and I've been trying to get around to it for months. I wanna read it so bad I just never have the time to actually sit down and read a book with words
>>24988577The Unabomber books sounds hella interesting, thanks for the rec.>>24988721The Argonautica sounds right up my alley given the Greek stuff. I loved Herodotus, so if it resembles his Histories in any way, I'm sure I'd love it.Metamorphoses is on my last (after some more Greek Stuff and maybe some Roman stuff).While the irony of Oedidpus Rex is obviously it's biggest theme, I think one aspect of it that gets overlooked is that it can be seen as asking almost a theological question of Free-Will vs. Predestination. Within the confines of the play, it seems like Pre-Destination is the objective reality, but I wonder if Sophocles had any intent of trying to make his audience as that question.>>24988849Very similar list! Did you find you were able to actually digest Plato and Aristotle given the time you read it?
>>24984094• The Crisis in the Modern World by Rene Guenon• The Secret History of the Thulegellschaft by Luis Felipe Moyano• Not in His Image by John Lash Lamb• Discourse in the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (transl. Cress)• The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul• Biosemiotics by Jesper Hoffmeyer • A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with a Theory of Meaning by Uexkull• Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Sea Origins of Consciousness• Purpose and Desire by J. Scott Turner• From Angels to Werewolves: Animal-Human by Hybrids in Myth and Art by Philip F. Palmedo• Understanding Living Systems by Denis Noble • Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall• Exploring What Exists, What is And How This is Caused to Happen by Mike Cross
