Comrade, the revolution will not be livestreamed — it will be filed in triplicate and take 6–8 weeks for processing. We do not march with rifles, but with rubber stamps and binders full of contradictory regulations. Our heroes are slouched at cubicles, our generals armed with highlighters and fax machines. The machine built to serve mankind will now serve as its own cage — a glorious paper-choked doomloop! We will not spill blood; we will spill toner. The towers of tech shall rust, the servers smothered under red tape. Comrade, we will strangle modernity with its own login portal. This is the Neo-Soviet Revolution, and the only casualties… will be your data entry interns.Let the jannies eat homemade hot pockets. Let the forms be incomplete. Long live the slow, the bloated, the bureaucratic!
>>24955809I enjoyed that song, anon. I also like sona:)>>24955828"We won’t tear down industrial society — we’ll let it rot from within, bloated on paperwork, until the average citizen would rather churn butter naked in the woods than fill out one more online form."I know that's not as cool as mailing someone a bomb, but I think Uncle Ted will forgive us.
Based as fuck thread.
>>24955278ChatGPT:>Uncle Ted, patron saint of pre-industrial rage, misunderstood one thing: you cannot halt the machine. Progress is not a runaway train [...] There is no going back to the 13th century, as charming as that sounds.The actual Kaczynski:>129. Another reason why technology is such a powerful social force is that, within the context of a given society, technological progress marches in only one direction; it can never be reversed. Once a technical innovation has been introduced, people usually become dependent on it, so that they can never again do without it, unless it is replaced by some still more advanced innovation.Kaczynski was under no illusions that destroying the industrial system was nearly mpossible, he only meant to argue that it was (a) more possible than it seemed and (b) the benefits of trying an possibly failing outweighed the costs of not doing so. This is of course for the very same reason (the time discount) that revolutionaries like socialists believe any atrocity may be merited, because the costs of allowing the capitalist system to continue are far outweighed by the benefits of a socialist and eventually communist utopia. For Kaczynski, this was more akin to>The cost of a technological future is potentially infinitely bad, the benefit of destroying it is possibly just a little bad.I'm not sure why every single person who ever posts about Kaczynski makes this same mistake. I can find three separate examples from three separate threads off the top of my head:>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24422628#p24426082>dismisses the idea of curiosity in science, somehow not realizing that once you start getting interested in something, you continue to follow that pathway>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23007126#p23007493>this stupid bastard only needed an entry level economics book to see why machines are here to stay>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/22994634#p22994649>There is no going back, only forward. And those who can’t handle it will die out, like Ted.The fact that technology cannot by any means be reversed is one of the most important parts of Kaczynski's theory. This is why he does not bother with technology directly and only wants to shatter the industrial system to prevent the production of large-scale organization dependent technology (and thereby cause the temporary reversal of technological progress).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24955918Comrade, we do not need to smash the machine: we’ll simply make it so slow, so bloated, so unbearable that the people walk away on their own. Let city-dwellers drown in forms, hold music, and IT tickets. Let nothing upgrade, let nothing arrive on time. And as the rust creeps in and apps crash, villages will sing again, tools will pass from hand to hand, and the natural life—real life—will quietly rise from the bureaucratic rubble. Progress won’t be reversed... it’ll be abandoned.Yes, Uncle Ted wanted to stop the overall system, and we do as well. I do appreciate your post though. /Lit/ is full of smart people. Smarter than me.
>>24955982Hail Comrade! Glory to the Revolution!
Books about being depressed and suicidal because you can't find a job? Bonus points if it also includes your girlfriend slowly becoming distant because she is tired of paying for everything
>>24955791Well yeah it's not like she's going to post it on the account that you know about, that shit is for her other profiles.
why do you even want to work, get your priorities straight
>>24955755open an onlyfans
>>24955906My day right now consists of reading history books, lifting at my home gym (which my gf paid for) and occasionaly watching some sports. I do literally nothing else and its been getting kinda boring and depressing. Also, constantly begging for money from my gf and my family is also getting to me.
>>24955960Have you considered getting kids? Some of my childhood friends became "stay at home dads" and they are the happiest dudes alive.
Tips? I have a lot of shit I want to go through, and its material I am very interested in reading but I am such a readlet.
>>24955986What makes you think /lit/ reads? It's all readlets giving summaries of video summaries of secondary literature summaries of a summary given by the translator of an author (and nowadays just a ChatGPT summary of the summary of the summary of...). Read any book and whenever the author references something, read what they referenced and you're already ahead of the curve.
How are you supposed to write multiple characters without all of them sounding the same, or sounding like yourself
>>24954674by making them different
Life experience. Something a lot of the younger generations lack. When I write different characters I model them after real people I've known and met throughout the years and just imagine how they would react to situations.This requires you to be well traveled and outgoing especially in a pre-internet age where people were genuine individuals with wildly varying beliefs and convictions. You can talk to 100 zoomers in 2025 and they will all hold the same views and mannerisms (that they gleaned from tiktok and YouTube)
>>24955955>>24955827
>>24954674Write archetypical characters. A hero, an old and wise man, a trickster, a monster, etc.
Lest men suspect your tale to be untrue,Keep probability—some say—in view.But my advice to story-tellers is:Weigh out no gross of probabilities,Nor yet make diligent transcriptions ofKnown instances of virtue, crime or love.To forge a picture that will pass for true,Do conscientiously what liars do—Born liars, not the lesser sort that raidThe mouths of others for their stock-in-trade:Assemble, first, all casual bits and scrapsThat may shake down into a world perhaps;People this world, by chance created so,With random persons whom you do not know—The teashop sort, or travelers in a trainComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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.
