>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
>>24948669I wanna do my part.
>>24948669I like writing notes I think are important down. I don't actually care if someone else reads them.It's like, a grocery store is better at providing food, but I like to garden.
>>24948669Because I've written six and I don't need the approval of other people
>>24951847Did you gain any readership?Would you consider yourself a graphomaniac?
>>24948669Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
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I'm glad to see this. I was beginning to consider doing it myself. If I had done so, the anons who complain here would've been complaining much more with how I would've done it.
>>24951578I'm just going to wait for the truelit one.ours is basically that plus mein kampfs and the bible at the top
>>24953019Not sure if you called /lit/ reddit or reddit good. And if both of that but /lit/ bad.
>>24952378>>24952382kill yourselves
>>24952567>>24952581>>24952592>>24952696>>24952791>>24952903Added
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24952915This is either bait or mental retardation. A pure post hoc rationalization. Communism in practice fails to pass the Lindy Effect. It can’t survive in the long run or at large scale, and it won’t win the future, because it is top-down, fragile, and assumes that men wouldn’t abuse power when given the chance under a dictatorship of the proletariat.According to communists, the world works through historical materialism. Humanity passed through primitive communism, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society, and soon there would be a socialist and communist society. But even communists failed to achieve this idealized socialist society, so they cope by saying, “Umm, USSR was a state capitalism."It’s retarded. Marx himself never coined the term “state capitalism.” It was introduced by Lenin after the revolution because the USSR failed to abolish money. Remember, Marx wrote in Critique of the Gotha Programme, that one of the defining characteristics of socialism is the absence of money.Communism will never come.Hahahaha, you stupid nigger, never absent to give rationalization for an impotent ideology! Sad.
>>24950509>While middle class and intellectuals as well as gay people absolutely hate it.Frankfurt and Paris universities might as well be glavsvet central.
All communists deserve death.
>>24951911all this to glaze an idiot
>>24950477>doesn't know Web Dubois, Dorothy Day, Upton Sinclair, Smedly Butler, Pancho Villa, Harvey Bullfinch LovellGet back to books kiddo
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24939274This. Its really all about time. If I am bored or not doing anything important, ill do those "vices". When I am busy with work or have shit to do, stuff like it doesn't cross my mind. >>24943353Did you go through puberty at all? Tf you mean a 15-year-old is only beating off twice a week. Daily shit for most kids. I guess if you have zero test kek.
>>24950348I'm reading Fahrenheit 451 and it's pretty good so far, does that count as a "light book"?
I think it is over and we are heading towards societal collapse.
>>24937627only if you read what you enjoy
>>24944766TrueTemptations and suffering in the christian framework are not merely obstacles but opportunities. Everything you overcome, anger, desire for pleasure, social validation, lust, pride, has you growing closer to God and closer to seeing him. Our lives suck and life will on this earth will always suck, let's make it for the afterlife brothers.Read ascetical theology, keep a journal and try to better yourself everyday to be more like Christ and the saints.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24951910>>24951395>>24949476by the way this is what a heterosexual racist sounds like
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
>>24952886its by harold covington, heterosexual racist boomer
>>24952805difference betwen h. sapiens and h. sexualis Bible explains is h. sexualis is brute beasts i.e. lack souls, easiest way to determine that is the ability to recognize other souls, especially the heroism of our pally ally in the war forced on him by the Christ-killers, thus virtually all american pastors, who become pastor through acquisition of an outrageous master of divinity degree, and soulless vain light fellows who presumably would have been businessmen if they had any talent at all, like the pastor of salem at the time of the satanic witch trials. being an h. sexualis, pierce is incapable of understanding what its like to have a soul or write h. sapiens characters* pierce was known to his contemporaries in the rockwell group as a physical coward. to avoid being around men and have access to children instead, he ran the youth alliance* pierce wrote sex scenes in his novels for young adults, but he couldnt have expected Christ-killers to publish them, he simply wrote sex scenes for the thrill of teaching young adults what sex is like* pierces characters casually use contraceptives and engage in posslqdom, which at the time he wrote were both scandalous behavior that the actual right wing vehemently condemned* in the 90's, pierce explained in his podcast that marriage is an outmoded economic arrangement that is withering away, because piece was a pinko. in reality marriage is a spiritual arrangement that was under daemonic attack from pierce and his pinko friends
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
>>24952437Come to think of it, it's more like geopolitical symbiosis than "colonization".
>>24952400Maybe not exactly self-colonization, but this might just be a very intense way of becoming a vassall state, no?
>>24952660I literally don't have a word for it because I'm not sure it's ever happened. It can happen in my world, but my world is science fantasy and the laws of logic don't quite apply to it.
>>24952674Some nations like Tonga, Egypt, Liberia come to mind, and others to a lesser degree.
>>24942328The first Emperor of would be unified ChinaUnlike the real Qin Shi Huang, he actually did find the elixir of life.
I know it sounds corny but the consolation of philosophy has now saved me multiple times. It saved me from sadness and confusion and it invigorated my faith. It’s the most important book besides the holy scripture.
I read it and got nothing out of it. I found it mostly incomprehensible.
>>24953087I get that the poetic parts are quite difficult, with or without knowledge on Greek mythology. But the prose sections are pretty straightforward imo.Also the whole concept of the book is beautiful.
Anyone read picrel? It was unbelievably depressing.I hate thinking that the best times are past us and that we are doomed, but it is hard to reconcile this level of consumption of empty stimuli with a future worth living in.People were leveling the same arguments against the printing press and the radio, so I can't help but feel too alarmist. What do you think?
>People were leveling the same arguments against the printing press and the radioPeople didn't carry printing presses or radios or televisions around with them for sixteen hours a day.
>>24953038Gooning is revolutionary that’s why the zog-feminazi regime fears it. Heil the incoming thousand year goonreich.
Yeah. It started out feeling very pearl-clutchy but then I started to see what he was getting at, and at the end he blatantly stated it: gooners are simply ahead of the curve. The kind of behaviors they exhibit are only exaggerations of the current zeitgeist. Gooners obsessively consume short-form video content for several hours a day, they form parasocial relationships with internet celebrities, they waste even more time bragging about their favorite celebrities on social media as well as broadcasting their niche interests for fellow obsessives. This is basically how all of Gen Z behave on the internet, and a few Millennials as well. Gooners simply wedded these behaviors to porn so they could jack off while doing it, which in the author's own words, "simply makes them more honest".
What's /lit/'s opinion on banning or regulating all forms of fiction and music? Plato wanted poets banned from the Republic, Robert E. Lee distrusted fiction and novels in particular. Not an advocate for it. Rather, I'm just interested in knowing how people would even consider such a thing. As well as whether or not it would do people good in a time where we seem to be inundated with fiction.
Very wrong.Read Spinoza.
>>24953065lol
>>24952556Plato wanted to regulate fiction too. Pretty sure it is discussed even before music. He even goes into specifics, as to the sort of behaviors allowed for different characters.
>>24953072im sure you have a citation that disproves "divide and conquer"
>>24953108when you scratch under all the academic jargon all you get are cliches, you are a fraud
I regularly see threads on JP and Zizek but less commonly Jung and rarely Lacan.I have been reading Lacan on and off throughout the year and it has been pretty revelatory to me. If I were to try to take a stab at summarizing Lacan for anons that haven’t studied him, basically everything is fake and gay, anything not fake and gay is real, and >you are a subject beneath the fake and gay but not exactly a 1:1 product of the fake and gay. Your motif should be to recognize that to understand the real through anything fake and gay is impossible, therefore traverse the fake and gay knowing it’s fake and gay in accordance to your desire(TM). If anyone with more experience in Lacanian thought disagrees with my shit take, feel free to correct. Question: Why is Lacan not talked about as often as Freud and Jung are, or perhaps in general? Is his thought too subversive? Is it because he’s French? Pic related, worst mistake of my life
>>24952819Afaik there are some other forms of therapy with similar results like ACT.
>>24952955He told a bunch of rioting French people a superficial reading of Marx doesn't help. He also offered a new epistemology to critical ones.>1/4 chance to avoid le castration>the 1 option requires constant mutation>the other 3 are always wish fulfillment, hysterics, and constant castration circulationYou have 1 shot.
>>24952819My schizo theory is that CBT doesn't make you feel any better, it just trains you to say you feel better. Wouldn't want to report any negative "distorted" thoughts, after all.
>>24953016Yes indeed. ACT is classified as "3rd wave CBT".>>24953053Quite interesting schizo take, but my own experience tends to be more positive. I found real efficiency in methodically opposing rational, constructive thoughts and actions to forever looping self-harming ones. It actually felt like this is a big part of what mental health is about.And for me, working on changing behavior and automatic thoughts was far more efficient and helpful, even psychologically-wise, that looping endlessly about past events or traumas.
a lot of CBT talk in here
Do you guys ever check out little free libraries
>>24952635I tried to use these to redpill normies on why mutilating babies is evil and retarded.
>>24952635>find little free library>take book >leave book>???>profitnever pass one by without checking for rare copies and first editions
>>24952635There's apparently several near me, but I keep forgetting they exist and never keep an eye out for them.
>>24952635I haven't find yet a intresting book to read from these things
If you ever got a good book out of one in west philly it was probably me who put it in there
Apparently there’s a phenomenon in American high schools right now of not assigning full novels to students, but only having them read excerpts. I graduated a decade ago, and I distinctly remember us reading Gatsby and Slaughterhouse Five. What novels, if any, were you made to read in high school?
>>24952610I think 21st-century teenagers might struggle with Austen in particular because of near two-century time gap. Maybe you should see how well they do with someone like Stephen King or John Green, even though neither is very literary, just to see if they can finish any novel at all.
>>24951097Graduated a little over a decade ago and I can't remember most of the books we were assigned, but it was a mix of classics and more modern books.>Lord of the Flies>To Kill a Mockingbird>The Great Gatsby>Animal Farm>Fahrenheit 451>The Bluest Eye>The Giver>Tears of a Tiger/Forged by FireThey also let us choose books of our own to read and do reports on.
>>24952743imagine getting assigned shit like the joyluck club or the house on mango street as a teenage boy. that killed reading for me for years.
>>24951097graduated HS in 2010, small poor city in new england. I only recall getting assigned reading in middle school, stuff like "the giver", "my side of the mountain", "holes" etc. In high school you only got assigned reading if you took the level 3/4 classes but I was advised to sign up for 2s because there was less homework. Lotta drugs and violence at my school, they weren't bothering making kids read shit.
It's not just the US and it's because of AI. My friend's daughter has no books assigned for next year, because schools know that they will just open chatgpt and type "Give me a summary of X". You know which schools haven't done this? Private schools. In the future, the true distinction between marginals and the educated will not be degrees or works, but eloquence and literacy. >What books did you read?One Hundred Years of SolitudeHouse of Dolls Madame BovaryThe Tunel (Sabato) The Stranger These come to mind at least.
Overrated or deserving of praise?
>>24949764He questions the lineage of Jews today and insinuates that they, along with the rest of the inhabitants of the ME, are subhumans who can only kill each other and that the rest of the world needs to forget about them and stop trying to intervene.
>>24949750I actually quite liked Repent, Harlequin. It was a funny satirical story, it’s a pretty basic “authoritarianism mad mmkay?” kind of story but his writing style is entertaining.
He was a based, crotchety old man his entire life. An absolute legend.
>>24948906Is there some alternative iteration of planet Earth you are posting from?
>>24948849I think he was a better salesman than a writer—and what he was selling was himself.His writing was sometimes experimental, probably from a lack of a formal literary background, but that served him. Even his writing was frenetic and rambling, just like the way he spoke. Check out the origin of AM in IHNMAIMS, of the lyrical jellbybean part of "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. The rest of his body of work isn’t up to the quality of those two.I’m only sad that he didn’t have Twitter in his prime. He would have been legendary. I’m friends with Larry Correia, and he’s just not on Ellison’s level.
Article talking about what most of us already knew. DEI was designed to block out white millennial men from a range of institutions. Unfortunately the author bales Gen X men for the most part but it's important this stuff gets out there. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
>>24953008They're are major proponents of DEI but for Jews instead of POC
>>24952980Won’t someone think of the straight white men? Oy vey..it’s anudda kalergi plan..
>>24953010>They're are
>>24952980 day of the pillow is evidently needed not only for boomers but also gen x’ers
>waah I only got to be a mid level hollywood writer rather than a top tier one so i had to settle on becoming a crypto billionaire with my wife and two kids waaahh Now imagine being a zoomer. Millennials don’t know suffering.
Stop reading enemies of human liberty such as Helvétius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon and de Maistre
>>24952571>enemies of human liberty>HegelHegel is literally telling you to think for yourself and not let others to impose their truths and views on you. Something that Stirner pushed even further.
>>24952587U mad?
>>24952584Imagine believing this
>>24953083I believe it because it‘s true
>>24952881That's not Popper brainlet
