I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
>>24953192>clever illustration>special attention to the rough edges>scifi>sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.You're looking for Red Star
>>24953192Honestly most thing Cyberpunk shows what space communism actually becomes.
Was Hilter left?
>>24955305No. Fascism is a rightwing controlling form of government. They were bankrolled by wall street to eliminate the socialists who were gaining popularity because the wrecked economy. Also pressed everything they had into the USSR. Hitler himself was part Jewish but not just any jew, a Rothschild. >>24955257The cyberpunk is a right-libertarian dystopia. Free markets with tech trillionaires owning everything and everyone.
>>24955684look at china big dawg
Is this book really as racist as people make it out to be?
And the end it gets pretty retarded and Jim is a sort of black clown, but otherwise it isn't racist it's just characters say nigger a lot and racism is the norm, but it's not necessarily being endorsed since both Huck and Jim are fugitives and Jim is a runaway slave. Huck is smart, white trash, and Jim is caring but also an idiot.
>>24954363Yeah Injun Joe was also le nobel savage
>be me>first day working for Racism Inc.>CEO invites me to his office, gives me a quick rundown on the company>notice his bookshelf, Huck Finn has a prominent place>he sees me eyeballing the book and offers to lend it to me>I gratefully accept, as a book so infamously racist must be hard to come by>start reading that evening>it's okay, mostly just a kid's adventure story>like it says in the title I guess>kind of confused by how sympathetically Jim is portrayed>a few days later, finish the book, absolutely baffled>why would the CEO of racism keep a book with such a clearly anti-racist message?>give him the book back and ask him>he gives me a kind smile>"Anon, many people believe this book is racist because it has the word nigger on every other page."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24954330It's "anti-racist", leftists just fart and shit and piss their pants because it says nigger.
>>24955880Well done
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Thanks be to Mariah Carey, saving Christmas one boner at a time!
https://youtu.be/lKPNyaqMB9s
I'm discovering that the sexual frustration of a sexless relationship is somehow both more upsetting and yet more tolerable than being an incel.
>>24955939>>24955947Oh and incase I spooked you, remember, if you ask here for help I'm here forever, and I will literally do it for you to make sure you succeed. You got this bro.
He blocked me again and I'm honestly losing the will to try and get his attention again. I guess that's my fault for becoming obsessed with an avoidant. Still, it hurts pretty bad. I hate it so fucking much.Anyhow. I didn't read much at all today. This is becoming a worrying habit (unless, of course, you count reading VNs as reading literature). Interacting with my family is heartbreaking because they all seem poisoned by modern technology in their own ways. My mother (back to pretending I'm het) wants so bad to have a regular family again. it hurts
New meme book is here
>>24955864And a completely useless one at that. Who needs Aristotle? The ultimate truth that Plato and Aristotle never found (because they never really wanted it) with all their philosophy and its methods and terminologies is found by a Catholic child. A Catholic child knows all the truth about the basic dogmas that he needs to be saved. These most important of all truths that a Catholic child has were never found by Aristotle and Plato with all their brains, intellect, knowledge, philosophy, logic, dialectics, and grammar.
>>24955899Retard fight. Plato and Aristotle missed the mark the same way Catholics missed the mark. Philosophical failures, the lot of you
>>24955864What makes it a meme book?
>there are still "people" in this board who don't like Johnny Truant's storyline
>Is that... an abnormally large house? AAAAAAAAAAAAAH OH MY GOD I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE SAVE ME HOOKERS
>>24955968>My mom is...le fucking INSANE, and now IM going INSANE
what are your thoughts/opinions on Kafka.
>>24954317trippy shit mang
>>24954317Pretty pretty good
nice picrel. found a bigger one on reddit and saved it.
>>24954317I have only read The Trial and I really hated it. I thought I would like it, but the book was genuinely difficult to finish due to how boring it was.
>>24954317He was kind of a whiny fag
Nominate science fiction and fantasy books for this brand new top 100. Only 10 nominations per voter, so choose wisely. Nominations will close on Friday, and voting will begin.For Series: Use your best judgement on whether to nominate an individual work or the series itself.https://forms.gle/prDdNXyrgtXnTVeD7FAQs>What qualifies as science fiction? / What qualifies as fantasy?>Why did the poll dictator disqualify my nomination?>Why no no horror?>What format will voting take?
Why has nobody nominated Malazan it’s literally the greatest series of all time.
I can't wait until we have 100 arbitrary books, almost all of which are the random faves of a single anon, due to lack of voting. 100 is far too many.
>>24954224Never heard anybody accuse Vonnegut of being boring or having dull prose before.
Even after removing all the dupes, at a glance it looks like it should still be at least 100.
The list so far:https://pastebin.com/E29fqS6N
>>24954639Euclidhttps://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/1.1https://youtu.be/XLlThlqCFeghttps://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/1.2https://youtu.be/UHZO2dviZfUhttps://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/1.3https://youtu.be/_ZwcobIExtohttps://www.desmos.com/geometry
LatinFamilia Romanahttps://archive.org/details/familia-romanaaudiohttps://archive.org/details/familia-romana-and-colloquia-personarum-audio-files>>>/t/1344565exercitia latinahttps://dn721508.ca.archive.org/0/items/lingua-latina-per-se-illustrata_202506/Lingua%20Lat%C4%ABna%20per%20s%C4%93%20ill%C5%ABstr%C4%81ta/Pars%20I/Exercitia%20Lat%C4%ABna%20I.pdfcolloquia personarumhttps://dn721508.ca.archive.org/0/items/lingua-latina-per-se-illustrata_202506/Lingua%20Lat%C4%ABna%20per%20s%C4%93%20ill%C5%ABstr%C4%81ta/Pars%20I/Suppl%C4%93menta/%C3%98rberg%2C%20Colloquia%20pers%C5%8Dn%C4%81rum.pdfComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNnqqvK2yDEFVdM_5wV4Od8kV2GaSo7jzhttps://youtu.be/AOcy6RHw7A8
Elements of Rhetoricby Richard Whatelyhttps://archive.org/details/elementsofrheto00whatPrinciples of general grammar. Comp. and arranged for the use of colleges and schools by Roemer, Jeanhttps://archive.org/details/principlesgener00roemgoogPrinciples of general grammar : adapted to the capacity of youth, and proper to serve as an introduction to the study of languages by Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac)https://archive.org/details/principlesgener00sacygoog
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>Harry Potter's mom fell in love with the school bullyWhat did Rowling mean by this?
>>24955879despite what you may read on /pol/, it is still considered bad form to play videogame music at full volume while walking down the hallway, and still relatively unimportant to social popularity whether or not you are an avid BLM supporter anon.and ass kicking or two might have saved you from being given a life sentance on the incel website ranting about the joos because no ones sucked you peen in 5 yrs.
>>24955885>ranting about the joosNot that anon, but the left is also doing this. In fact they're even more publicly vocal about it lately. Try to keep up, you're starting to sound like a confused boomer.
Harry Potter reads differently when you realize James & Lily were only 21 when they died.
>>24955804Lol, are you living in a gentler reality than the rest of us?>2025>Say some weird shit>Get bullied on social media at the very least, your ass jumped at the worst>Try to tell the teacher but the bully "comes from a troubled home, please understand.">Bullied kid fights back>SUDDENLY violence is a problem and he's suspended/expelled>Come back to school playing pumped up kicks and shoot it up
>>24955951I have never not one (1) time seen a zoomer shove, push, kick the shin of, punch, headlock, slap, even flick another zoomer in public. Not a SINGLE time. Its literally never happened.In millennial (ancient, legendary) times, you would see this happen all the time at the bus stops, outside the mall, by the ice cream shack in summer, the parking lot of the movie theater, and so on, etc. It was still far less common and much more strongly punished than in boomer days, but it happened among normal suburban children enough that you could recall a couple examples without much trouble.I do not believe that, outside of some literal slum in the inner city, this happens at all today.
>Yes, such has been my lot since childhood. Everyone read signs of non-existent evil traits in my features. But since they were expected to be there, they did make their appearance. Because I was reserved, they said I was sly, so I grew reticent. I was keenly aware of good and evil, but instead of being indulged I was insulted and so I became spiteful. I was sulky while other children were merry and talkative, but though I felt superior to them I was considered inferior. So I grew envious. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate. My cheerless youth passed in conflict with myself and society, and fearing ridicule I buried my finest feelings deep in my heart, and there they died. I spoke the truth, but nobody believed me, so I began to practice duplicity. Having come to know society and its mainsprings, I became versed in the art of living and saw how others were happy without that proficiency, enjoying for free the favors I had so painfully striven for. It was then that despair was born in my heart--not the despair that is cured with a pistol, but a cold, impotent desperation, concealed under a polite exterior and a good-natured smile. I became a moral cripple; I had lost one half of my soul, for it had shriveled, dried up and died, and I had cut it off and cast it away, while the other half stirred and lived, adapted to serve every comer. No one noticed this, because no one suspected there had been another half. Now, however, you have awakened memories of it in me, and what I have just done is to read its epitaph to you. Many regard all epitaphs as ridiculous, but I do not, particularly when I remember what rests beneath them.Who’s your favorite Byronic hero, /lit/?
>I'm... le SAD and BROODING... but also SENSITIVE and HOT...female goonbait
Pechorin is by far my favourite
>>24955422Myself
I decided to pursue Christ 90 days ago and among other things gave up masturbation. It seems to make me profoundly frustrated and depressed. I don’t know what to do.
>>24955901aka saying that modern culture is the problem?
>>24955891Finding God its probably our primary goal in life and any other human activities you could think of nothing but sidequests. That said, please don't become one of those noFap faggots who thinks holding his seed is going to turn him into a super saiyan. "Look mommy I'm better than everybody else because I'm not touching my penis anymore! I'm a ubersmensch!"
>>24955922>That said, please don't become one of those noFap faggots who thinks holding his seed is going to turn him into a super saiyan. "Look mommy I'm better than everybody else because I'm not touching my penis anymore! I'm a ubersmensch!"my understanding is it's a core Christian tenet that masturbation is unforgivable and sinful.
>>24955925Oh you're walking the Christian path specifically. It's ok to hold your seed if you want to do things as right as possible for religious reasons, just don't be smug about it. Be humble. Don't be the guy that feels superior to everybody else just because you don't touch a specific part of your body. The guy who count his days of abstinence and make sure all his friends know about it. The guy thinks he'll become Spiderman just for not fapping a couple of days
>>24955944nah man I think I'm a total and utter piece of shit who can't get a woman. nothing about this is elevating, I'm coming to terms with how miserable and alone I am. but also, that was numbed by masturbation. I didn't have to worry about all those feelings when I had it as a release valve.
Could you beat Nabokov at chess?
i can barely even solve the captchas dog
>>24953669>his dick doesn't come with a sleeveI'd hate to be circumcised
>>24952699Back then only weirdos and psychos shaved their heads.
>>24953663I lol’d out loud.
>>24953663Kek
Apologize.
>>24951681Read Big Sur, The Town and The City, and Lonesome Traveler.
>>24951133The ending is especially important but why would one be disillusioned by it?
>>24953946Kerouac himself was disillusioned by the prior events of the book, and by Dean especially. He figures it was all for naught.
>>24954102NTA, but pretty much sums up his feelings about his entire life desu.
>>24955733Damn you're right.
>tfw i could genuinely be the next great american writer but my thoughts are to complex to adequately transcribe.i wonder how many great thinkers throughout history have been lost due to this... plato was right, "writing" is gay
>>24954827MASSIVE Dunning-Kruger on display. No one is ever 'too' intelligent to express their thoughts, they're just not intelligent enough to articulate themselves, or too afraid to see the triteness and unoriginality of their thoughts laid bare in the reality of words. It is much easier to seek comfort in the fantasies of a Puer aeternus complex. God knows how few people possess true literary cultivation in the world today, there's no excuse for downplaying its merit.
>>24954827big bait, appreciate it
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>>24954827Do some cocaine or mushrooms and you will write like a god
>>24955929You will *think* you're writing like a god.
>ctrl+f stretch>only one instance of someone stretching their legsCritics are subhumans. And so are you for blindly spamming that copypasta for years without checking.
what?
>>24955584Is that quote from Harold Bloom even a real quote? It kind of has the feel of something somebody just made up.
>>24955900it's real and it wouldn't be interesting if it wasn't wrong
>>24955584>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneI'll never forget how disdainful I felt when I learned they'd changed the title to "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US edition, because they assumed the average American wouldn't know anything about the lore of the Philosopher's Stone and the history of alchemy.The worst part is that they were probably right.
>>24955584You have to use the British spelling.
