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>>24717105seemed excessive at first but I guess it can be quite useful, is it automatic?
>>24717105Wouldn't it be autismus? It's ecce homo, not ecce hominem.
>>24717105Anything to avoid reading smoothly.>>24717425Aint dat da vocative or sum shiet? Agreed.
>>24715647there's more ON poetry than skaldic such>>24711564>>24712136worst fucking approach imagineable
>>24717628ESL detected.
does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan circles a decade ago then vaguely recall falling off for being a junk science charlatan but I still see him pop up in mainstream interviews about cog-sci culture matters.
Happiness Hypothesis is also very good. It covers the various components (genetics, environment, actions) for achieving the state.
>>24716985he is threatening to pseuds who overvalue their metaphysics masturbation
>>24716985He just applies Hume to political psychology honestly
>>24717396>Would YOU have taken the empty seat in Yes, city buses are astonishingly safe compared to cars. Much, much, much more likely I'm killed in a car crash while driving alone than killed in a bus crash, and a bus crash is much, much, much more likely than someone stabbing me on the bus>factor in all that and the probability of being stabbed to death skyrocketsIf you vividly imagine someone stabbing you on the bus, it's more likely you'll be scared of it happening, yes
>>24717411Guessing you thought Haidt's book was really good
Books on the future of society and remedies ?
>>24710088>ProfHe's an ex-high school teacher who probably got fired for being crazy.
>>24710231>namely that Israel would start a war with Iran and drag the US in it.dude. everyone predicted that.
>>24710023He has some incredibly interesting takes on the modern political/social/economic plight of the West, and makes some really thought provoking explanations, theories, and analogies about them that at first might seem very kooky but eventually click in your mind, get stuck in there for a while, and influence your way of looking at things. He’s /ourschizo/, God bless Professor Jiang.
>>24710860>Also that there's too many retirees, but also that old people aren't relinquishing their jobs? He just blames too many things on the aging populationSounds paradoxical but they both could simultaneously be real issues. Just think of it as a large number of Boomers who can fall into either category, hence making things harder for the younger generations in either way.Since the Boomer generation is so big (that’s why they’re called Boomers, there was a “baby boom” after WW2, or a huge increase in births), you could have a lot of them retiring and hence being difficult/making demands on the economy and Social Security system propping them up, and, if disabled or becoming disabled, on their younger children, or on the nursing homes they’re put into. And, conversely, on the other hand, since it’s such a big generation, there could also be a bunch of them not retiring, whether in fields like middle and upper management at corporations, or as tenured professors at universities not giving up their posts and contributing to the brutal job market for new professors, etc. Hence also harming the younger generations by making the job market more difficult for them, not freeing up as much space for new talent. If you assume they also tend towards filling the positions of authority in various of these jobs, we can also talk about their hiring practices, perhaps how they make things harder for younger gen’s in that way too. (For instance, seemingly petty small stuff like requiring a bachelor’s degree even for their basic shit office job, when they didn’t necessarily need it, or when in their day college wasn’t as prohibitively expensive and the loans/debt incurred wasn’t so much of a possible fatal albatross around one’s neck.) You don’t have to view this strictly as a moral criticism of Boomers. According to conventional logic, they can basically either retire, or they can choose to keep working, they have to do one or the other, so it’s hard to blame them for choosing one. But it could still be true that both of these can cause issues, and it’s part of a larger demographic crisis the West is facing. Look at it apart from moral judgment, and just as a description of the state of affairs.
>>24711505He's just rehashing Spenglers history of religion then. Dawson and Voegelin are better in that regard
The most tragic figure of the 21st century
>>24714573>>24714648>>24714738>>24714895>>24714977Please check out https://byzantinus.net/ some time, it's a textboard centered around the humanities and you two have an spirit that would very fitting for the site's purpose. It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.
>>24716741>It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.who do you do this and who owns/runs it?
>>24716705That’s not it. His thesis, even if it is just restating Hegel, is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.
>>24717174>is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.no its not. thats the low IQ think tank take. history ended in the first half of the 19th century. accept it.
What am I in for?
>>24716302girls of all races love it
>>24715836A snoozefest, tbqh. Xi is a vastly less interesting thinker than the big-name commies of the past and his system is basically just "im gonna be numba 1 in china and everyone will suck my dikk" but phrased as "the four pillars of society and the three great statements and the seven great political columns of the chinese people will uphold the system of xi jinping thought with chinese characteristics" or some shit.
>>24715836Read Wang Huning if you want a real insight into the CCP leadership.
Xi is a great guy, but I desperately hope he will not be corrupted by Putin's garbage that will be pouring in his ears considering they will be closer now>" Xi, my friend, if you want to create communism, you must help me bomb random eastern European countries and not accomplish anything. Also don't be mean to Israel :)"
>>24715836This bitch gets mogged by Mao. Hardest thing he had to do was do some farm work for a little bit because his dad got dabbed on and then just bureaucrat-maxxed his way to the top. If he loses all his power and somehow gains it back then I will start being impressed by him
Have you ever read a book that was simply too hard for you? I remember reading The Killer Angels when I was in elementary school and it being just a bit over my head. I think having trouble with that book is part of the reason I never developed an interest in the Civil War.
>>24717568don't forget that the people who made this site and are submitting posts to it laughed at trans people committing suicide and harassed other trans people INTO committing suicide
>>24717643Every last one of them? Are you sure?I’d never do that and don’t support that, but I’d probably be a moralfag and submit some tip to that site if someone was glorifying his death openly.>b-but you guys are supposed to be for free speech and against cancel culture!I’m not a right winger, I’m not “supposed to be” anything. I just see it’s immoral and nasty to mock his death, and the people mocking it (when they’re not edgy /pol/ chuds) seem like the exact same type of people who’d glorify someone losing their job over the last many years over things like, say, questioning or skepticism of modern transgender ideology, for instance.The Internet and social media today seems like a cesspool of increasing radicalization, hatred, binary poltical thinking, increasing caricaturization and stereotyping of “the other side”, and hardcore psychological warfare tearing apart Western civilization at the seams. I don’t like edgy /pol/ chuds either, or the type who’d laugh at trans people killing themselves or would want to bully them to death. I think it’s all repulsive.
>>24717545Mein KampfThe thing is that to really understand where Hitler and Germans are coming from, you need an understanding of the history of Germany and Austria in the 19th century. I quit reading it about halfway thru and side quested the history of the region and just never made it back to the book. Pity, I suppose I should get back to it. Spoiler...it's not really that good
>>24717568>>24717575>>24717637>>24717643>>24717659Have any of you lads ever read a book that was simply too hard for you?
>>24717675it was a bad idea to start a thread with charlie kirk if you didn't want people discussing charlie kirkblood meridian
I read the first 60 pages of A Brave New World. It's creepy and disjointed.
>>24716703I haven't read many classics. I assumed the disjointed dialogue was meant to make the reader feel confused since these characters live in a fucked up world. I'm enjoying it. Feels like a fever dream.
>>24716698>t. Beta-minus
>>24716967Based on the descriptions of Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilon-minuses, Betas do not have that difficult of a life. They are still able to have frivolous activities and be with Alphas.
>>24716703>meme rand
>>24716698It’s supposed to be creepy and unsettling you blithering fool.
If Plato's and Hegel's philosophies have been used (and argably funded and written) by elites to build and structure their world, what are some of the plebeian philosophies (in the good meaning)?
>>24717116that's a naked child
You've got it backwards; philosophy itself is by its very nature plebeian, doubly so when it concerns itself with ethics. It has always been the weapon of the oppressed against the elite much more than the other way around, even if it doesn't seem like it. Read Homer side-by-side with Plato and tell me with a straight face that Plato isn't plebeian. There's a reason that Christianity borrowed so heavily from him.
>>24717116>If Plato's and Hegel's philosophies have been used (and argably funded and written) by elites to build and structure their world,Big claim. Could you elaborate?
>>24717177plebs LOVE mass mobilization though.
>>24717483What is with this boards obsessive hatred of Christianity?
Books to teach leftists to use their words?
>>24717501gazans are chuds who deserve to die for being bigots
>>24717543They‘ve got a ways to go until reaching the Iranaryan position of legally forcefemming anyone a little fruity until it‘s unquestionably straight to put your dick in there, but it‘s a work in progress.
>>24717342You sperged out because someone reminded you that you cheer when kids die lmao>you deserve to be heckin eradicated!!1!!You'll do nothing
>>24717335>missed the point entirelyI'd almost prefer it if you went back to pretending to be smart. Let me explain it to you as if you were a small child. I can be your daddy -- sorry, I mean teacher, sorry -- and you can be the student. If I built a career out of traveling around the country and telling people "car crashes are the price we pay for having cars, there is nothing at all we can do about cars crashing, nothing whatsoever, nothing at all, and if you think there is something we can do then you're an idiot," and I dismissed car crash victims' families who suggested things like 'speed limits' or 'stop signs' or 'merge lanes' as libtards trying to emotionally manipulate carchads, and then I died in a car accident because a speeder blew through an intersection without a stop sign, then yes, it would be valid to mock me. This is exactly what happened to Charlie Kirk with guns. You are going to read this, realize I'm right, and get very, very upset. Please select your next response from the following options>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a TRANNY>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a JOO>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a BROWNOID>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a WOMAN>oh yeah? oh yeah? well I'm gonna KILL YOU
>>24717539nta but I'll give you a genuine answer. some scientists did a study where they tried to figure out where different people placed their outermost sphere of moral concern -- ie, what's the furthest thing from them that they cared about. they found a bunch of correlations, and one of them they found was that left-wingers cared about things very distant from themselves, like wild animals, and right-wingers mostly cared about their families, ie the things closest to them. the scientists made a heat map of concentric circles to visualize the data, with "myself" at the center and some shit like "space rocks in another galaxy" at the very rim. /pol/tards seized on this and went "ha! this proves leftoids don't care about their own families" but that isn't what the study said. (A /pol/tard will read that and get very upset, watch.) The rings are inclusive, not exclusive, meaning that the left-wingers in the study cared about everything from wild animals down to domesticated animals down to pets down to strangers down to you get the picture, while right-wingers cared about their families and themselves and not much else. (can't recall what the actual rings were but just giving you the general thrust.)
>Thou therefore take my brand Excalibur,>Which was my pride: for thou rememberest how>In those old days, one summer noon, an arm>Rose up from out the bosom of the lake,>Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,>Holding the sword—and how I row'd across>And took it, and have worn it, like a king;>And, wheresoever I am sung or told>In aftertime, this also shall be known:>But now delay not: take Excalibur,>And fling him far into the middle mere:>Watch what thou seëst, and lightly bring me word." Is there any better narrative poem of the Arthurian cycle? No one talks about it here, but Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" is epic in scale and proportions, poetic and witty in the infinitesimal, as well as evocative and filled with imagery that tickles the senses.
>>24717644Yes, Tennyson is a great poet, but at the end of the day people want an AUTHENTIC medieval view of Arthurian legends and Tennyson is a product of the Victorian imagination. There is certainly more spiritual depth in Wolfram von Eschenbach than Tennyson.
>commence to read the preface by literally who>immediately spoils the ending
>>24717622The phrase “commence to x” would only be familiar to native English speakers since it is seldom written
>>24717634ESL
vatnik or chinesecall it
>>24717640>>24717649>being unfamiliar with colloquialismshttps://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYUNeither of you is a native English speaker
>>24717671*neither one of you
What periodicals do you subscribe to? I use to subscribe to Tin House, back when that was still a thing. I miss looking forward to a new, physical thing I could read.
>>24716818Fuck off chud
>Not a single good magazine recommended Just accept it already, newspaper and magazines are dead and books will follow soon since we're heading towards a post-literate society
>>24717030>doesn't recommend a magazine
>>24715238At the moment, only First Things.
>>24717030>post-literate society I think you mean return to pre-literate society where you are a serf for your feudal (read: corporate) lord.
the oxford history of the united states only starts at the american revolution, is there a recommended book that covers everything before this?
>>24717412I like Foucault a bit so that doesn't bother me too much, its more that a writer like this wouldn't respect me for leaning towards chud-dom.
>>24713082Calm down - it’s set to be published in 2026. Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.1000–1680
>>24713082If you don't mind waiting 6 months they're actually publishing a volume that covers 1000-1680.https://global.oup.com/academic/product/contested-continent-9780195372786
>>24717544>>24717549God DAMN IT, this is what I get for not reading the whole thread carefully
>>24717544Nice that this is finally getting published but I’m still more excited for the Imperial America volume covering from then to the end of the Seven Years War. I guess the only consolation is that it’s being written by the preeminent living expert on the Seven Years War in America. I do think the 60 or so years preceding it are also seriously underexplored and am curious to see what the author can unearth and interpret about it. Must be a bitch to research though because it is still early modern history which infamously people don’t give a shit about. The fact that the author writing the book on the Progressive Era though still hasn’t finished after almost 2 decades now is criminal. Unlike Anderson I think his problem is that he has an abundance of sources because arguably in that period print media in America reached its absolute apogee without competitors from any other mass media source so the amount of material to sift must be immense. Also he’s honestly covering at least 3 different eras, the “Progressive” era proper from 1896-1914, the WWI and after era from 1914-1920, and the roaring 20s, all of which had a different zeitgeist and could honestly have merited different books on their own. Must be strange for him to see that in the time it took to write that one book since 2006 America had again gone through at least 2 major cultural shifts
>>24715873(You) insist upon it.
>>24715878(You)’re using it wrong …
>>24715905(You) forgot to impose your own significance upon that most common and fundamental word, retard.
>>24715793If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... is far superior.
>>24716781>You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice--they won't hear you otherwise--"I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything; just hope they'll leave you alone.>Find the most comfortable position: seated, stretched out, curled up, or lying flat. Flat on your back, on your side, on your stomach. In an easy chair, on the sofa, in the rocker, the deck chair, on the hassock. In the hammock, if you have a hammock. On top of your bed, of course, or in the bed. You can even stand on your hands, head down, in the yoga position. With the book upside down, naturally.>Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find. In the old days they used to read standing up, at a lectern. People were accustomed to standing on their feet, without moving. They rested like that when they were tired of horseback riding. Nobody ever thought of reading on horseback; and yet now, the idea of sitting in the saddle, the book propped against the horse's mane, or maybe tied to the horse's ear with a special harness, seems attractive to you. With your feet in the stirrups, you should feel quite comfortable for reading; having your feet up is the first condition for enjoying a read.>Well, what are you waiting for? Stretch your legs, go ahead and put your feet on a cushion. on two cushions, on the arms of the sofa, on the wings of the chair, on the coffee table, on the desk, on the piano, on the globe. Take your shoes off first. If you want to , put your feet up; if not, put them back. Now don't stand there with your shoes in one hand and the book in the other.Somehow I doubt that
How do you achieve enlightenment and reach Nirvana?
>>24717238Brahmajāla is a good one
>>24717277Walking meditation is quite good. You pick a place where you won't be distracted. Find a path thats about say 10 to 20 steps in a straight line. As you walk pay attention to 3 things. When your feet leave the ground, when their in the air and when they touch the ground. Notice the feeling and be aware of which foot it is (right or left). Reach the end of your path, turn around and walk back. that's one. Start with something like 10 "trips" down and back. 3 times a day. Increase slowly. Once it's "working" you'll know it. It's unmistakable
Also, I like to combine walking meditation with mala beads. Each trip...go to the next bead to keep track
>>24712788>>24712788How do you know its not already the case?You are not your thoughts.Adding to what has been already posted here -Advaita Vendetta, but don't spiritually bypass your humanity (bodymind), You may look to YT-Simply Always Awake Rupert SpiraFrancis LucilleComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24713399Pure land Buddhism is heretical
