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What books you re-read from time to time?
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>>24798595
Who cares they're both about to get absolutely rekt
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>>24798552
finance bros don't read pop finance books for tards, they all have mbas and are cfas and cpas.
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that has to be a troll image, "in search of excellence" has been highly criticized because most of the "excellent" companies from the 1980s that is covered aren't even around today or are stinking it up in a sad state of decline.
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>>24798490
>The Pickwick Papers
>Some Wodehouse and Chesterton
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>>24798625
No. The truth is more stupid than that. Finance bros are just like /lit/ bros. They love showing off shit they haven't actually read. Bro just googled good finance books and ordered them off of Amazon. Probably skimmed a couple and then a took a pic of his cool knowledge stack.

Name a bigger failure. Go on, I'll wait.
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>>24798609
>he didnt understand the book
lol
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>>24798613
No, I did not
...And that's a good thing!
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>>24798616
>its a good thing i dont understand books so that i can comment about them negatively
nah youre just a tard.
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>>24798621
> you're just a tard.
Sorry bro, my name isn't David Faggot Wallace
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>>24795542
They usually have great advice on how to kill themselves, at least give them that credit.

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Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
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>>24797912
Sooo random that a book that takes place in Wisconsin would mention a place in Wisconsin
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>>24798087
I love that Kenosha Kid is Kyles nickname now and not Pinecones shitty joke.
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>>24797419
Not as bad as the last two, still worse than everything before than
>except Vineland
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>>24798191
before than what?
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>Korbel mentioned in a work of high literature before E&J, Paul Masson, or Christian Brothers
Midwest bros... we won

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is it true that men read to impress women?
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>>24794826
I doubt women are going to be impressed about my knowledge of Schopenhauer and Kant.
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>>24795069
They write!
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>>24795094
They absolutely exist. See: the entire male population of India.
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>>24794826
men read to be better than others and to entertain themselves
you can argue that the only reason a straight man reads is to get laid because the core reason for self improvement for a straight guy tends to be to be better than their "competition" in the pussy market, it also tends to be the reason they work out, get lucrative careers and wear status symbols
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>>24794826
men read to impress me.

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Is Jane Austen the greatest English novelist?
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>>24797041
yeah, that’s in book 25. lost to time unfortunately.
strength is felt everywhere in the iliad, but it's the sweetness which fascinates us throughout the odyssey. rarely in the iliad does grandeur or force give way to allow domestic affection, in the odyssey the family life supplies the tissue into which is woven the thread of the poem.
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>>24798326
>Why read stylistically complex literature
Pseudpoints I guess. Real ones know the soul of good literature is clarity and compression
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>>24794861
Go back to youtube, lil zoomer
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>>24798326
You're the stupidest person this board currently and you are shitting up multiple threads and it's pathetic.
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>>24794540
Agreed.
Orwell was scarily prescient.
He was right about fascism, communism, England, tyrannical government overreach, hostile authoritarian takeovers, the cold war, nuclear bombs, the injustices of colonialism and poverty, and tea.
ALL HAIL
ERIC BLAIR/GEORGE ORWELL

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Who would be the 19th century equivalent to Jordan Peterson?
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>>24798568
LOL
Take your meds please.
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>too milquetoast to be a chud
>too sympathetic to traditional forms to be a tranny
probably Ruskin.
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>>24798579
Most people aren't chud or trans.
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>>24798574
>both psychologists
>belief in belief
>take religion seriously
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>>24798627
unfortunately.

the world would be a better place if there were 2 genders: chud and trans.

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Am i only one that is fan of this novel? It's so intimate with it's first-person narration, especially when it's in form of letter to a friend. Its full of wisdom that feels both and personal and deeply universal. Like main character struggle with sickness of his father, then his death and parallel with Sensei problems with his own father's inheritance - and i also got fucked out of my uncle inheritance and this theme felt very real almost prophetic while i was reading it. Novel gets pessimistic in it's view of interpersonal relationships in general. Personally i much prefer it to No Longer Human, i feel that Kokoro will remain long as one of my favourite novels, as i really dig this kind of "personal" style
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There's this weird take that Kokoro is too Japanese for westerners to get anything out of, as if westerners don't already consume all kinds of niche Japanese media, and as if reading about european aristocracy from 300 years ago is somehow more relatable to the average reader.
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>>24798225
arent there a bunch of people on this board who take the view that translations are essentially worthless
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>>24798225
Soseki studied in London and was heavily indebted Quincey so that's weird opinion
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>>24798213
that guy from the great ace attorney was a real person??
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>>24798213
Kokoro translates culturally much better to other cultures than Botchan. The way that I tend to refer to Soseki is essentially that he's one of the first Modernist Japanese writers. Mid-century Japanese modernists are some of my personal favorites, because reading something that resonated the first time was special in a way that was hard to describe. "Bone Meat" by Taeko Kono was a short story that made me feel very similar to reading Kokoro the first time.
>>24798216
I've only read the McClellan translation. It was really enjoyable.

What the fuck was every single one of Alexanders' companions' problems?
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>>24798271
They say he was probably into the BL themes since his time at Groton where he was doing a lot of that "boys will be boys" stuff.
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>>24798107
BL?
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>>24798314
Did Vidal know of Jack's proclivities you claim of?
Renault wrote more than just that.

>>24798374
Shorthand for Boy-Love, fujoshi.
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>>24796146
>be Alexander’s lifelong buddy
>he has one of your buddies executed on false charges because Alex doesn’t like his dad
>another time he gets drunk and murders another of your buddies
>forcibly married you off to a Persian woman despite you having a qt Macedonian girl waiting for you at home.

After 10 years of praying everyday that Alex wouldn’t crash out and murder me for no reason at all I wouldn’t be loyal to his legacy or family either.
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>>24798466
I dunno. Vidal went to Exeter but never wrote about his sexual experiences there. A Separate Peace does talk about the "butt room" but that was something different. Kids back then used to not only smoke but bring guns to school with them for sports shooting.

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Absolutely buried trannyism.

I've yet to see it be disproven.
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>>24798372
>85% of trannies are male but here's how we're the biggest victims
Women, everybody.
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>>24798528
>the real problem of young boys being targeted by troons,
Where does this happen?
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>>24798565
I think ftm outnumber mtf nowadays.
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>>24798569
Nearly everywhere
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>>24798569
Discord troons groom young boys online constantly, obviously because they're the ones who are in gaming circles. If girls were around there, I'm sure they'd go after them too. It's too late for you to feign ignorance everyone knows about this now thanks to X

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Unemployement: The book
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>>24785991
I dunno. Seems pretty relevant. I'm in university myself right now, and they're already pushing dumb shit.
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>>24798351
Not only that but Hegel takes the third foundational principle, the limitation of the I and not-I, as a sort of premise, when it’s actually a highly problematical starting point, and under analysis it turns into a Hegelian being-for-self. The not-I does not exist as such, if you read Fichte carefully and sympathetically. But Hegel wants to make Fichte and Kant into dualists.
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Another axis of difference between Fichte and Hegel would be prioritization of action and life, vs of thought. Fichte is all about the immediacy of living, the individual, and the will towards the good is prior to thought - he’s a voluntarist. In Hegel absolutely everything is intellectual.
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>>24798381
In a reciprocal fwiw no one can avoid the dialectic forever and still hope to progress in a philosophy related field, even if it isn't Hegel's version. For anyone who puts it off they only hinder their own self-recognition regardless.

Kojeve is arguably a high controversy historicist, his intensity was eery at times, likely due to his own internal arrangements. His notions on it are almost easier if you separate them by gradient, topic, and use. For instance Kojeve agreed with Hegel that history is a process and human consciousness evolves as dialectic is pursued. He conjectured the end of dialectic achievement was the Napoleonic Empire. He also noted a complete and total closure might not be possible until humans aren't possible. Despite his odd notions of the composite populations of a stateless society he also thought rational atheism was the pinnacle that could be achieved from the process. In light of what I just said he also speculated that this might never hamper religious resurgences and in light of his agreements with Marx also speculated that this pinnacle wouldn't resolve the closure paradox, which is to say history can reverse. He thought the Napoleonic Empire was the peak due to universal recognition. In theory even 2 people using Kojeve's philosophy could arrive at different points if they both opted for his highest and best. It's sort of telling how they split the agreements. Despite thinking rational atheism was a pinnacle achievement he also wasn't ignorant of certain religious aspects, something his detractors regretted forgetting.
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>>24798590
I finally understand. Thank you.

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Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.

It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
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>>24784714
i had many beautiful summers in the public library reading program as a kid. arguably the reason i came to love literature, since my english classes in elementary and middle school were mainly slop. had 3 different teachers assign ellie weisel. the librarians gave me aesop, owl at home, and the phantom tollbooth.
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>>24797779
The filter of 'slight inconvenience' is actually useful
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>>24784244
Banning people from places should be illegal.
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>>24798383
I wish we could ban homeless schizos.
I worked in a library and they couldnt do shit about them until they comitted a crime and then they would only be banned for a few months.
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>>24798109
Because the alternative is letting junkies rule society like they do in Philadelphia.

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Best books about partying and doing coke?
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>>24798550
is your dealer robbing you? uk it’s £30 a gram. it still sort of has the ‘poor man’s cocaine’ reputation.
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>>24798571
It took too long ITT for someone to bring this up. All of the most gruesome cartel videos you've ever been exposed to happened because Miguel and Chico were competing over the cocaine market. Stacies doing bumps are directly downstream of horrifying tortures and murders.
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>>24798571
>>24798585
the moralising anti-drug arguments come very close to sounding like vegan arguments about meat-eating
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>>24798594
>Its okay that a bunch of innocent Mexicans are being terrorised by drug lords so long as I can get my rocks off at the club
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>>24796289
mr nice

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Books that show how incelism leads to homosexuality?
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>>24798036
Why is that ape around those girls wtf
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>>24798518
Why would you attend a party?
Probably went their for the band
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>>24798208
Are you saying the idly comfortable doesnt predispose one to, ehem, "exploring".

I think its a pretty well recognized phenomena.
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>>24798518
Why are those basic white bitches around that king?
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>>24798558
The sexually repressed turn to porn, masturbation, and strange fetishes.
The Homosexual born to Catholicism joins the church in hopes of keeping pure but often turns to pederasty and is protected by the other pederasts (Or is this why he joined?)
It was rare for a homosexual to get so glum about society rejecting them that they lost their minds and turned to the spiritualist argument that they were born in the wrong body.
When the mind control project of MKultra moved into the hippie movement, some gays were pushed into this tranny operation and over the years the number has grown. Online "incel" spaces like 4chan were perfect places for them to prey on. It isn't just idle time.

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Was he right?
Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?
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>>24798254
That's cool. Go reread it, because you clearly didn't read it close enough. Here are vital excerpts:

>In the course of thinking through the many critiques of that original piece that had been put forward, it seemed to me that the only one that was not possible to refute was the argument that there could be no end of history unless there was an end of science. As I had de- scribed the mechanism of a progressive universal history in my subsequent book The End of History and the Last Man, the unfolding of modern natural science and the technology that it spawns emerges as one of its chief drivers. Much of late-twentieth-century technology, like the so-called Information Revolution, was quite conducive to the spread of liberal democracy. But we are nowhere near the end of science, and indeed seem to be in the midst of a monumental period of advance in the life sciences.

-Preface, pg. xii

>As the more perceptive critics of the concept of the “end of history’ have pointed out, there can be no end of history without an end of modern natural science and technology.!? Not only are we not at an end of science and technology; we appear to be poised at the
cusp of one of the most momentous periods of technological advance in history. Biotechnology and a greater scientific understanding of the human brain promise to have extremely significant political ramifications. Together, they reopen possibilities for social engineering on which societies, with their twentieth-century technologies, had given up.

-Pg. 15

In building upon the idea of Huxley's Brave New World, in which a genetically engineered caste system stratifying civilization, Fukuyama warns of the implication of designer children as one that would undermine entirely the foundation liberal precept of equality of all human individuals:
> If wealthy parents suddenly have open to them the opportunity to increase the intelligence of their children as well as that of all their subsequent descendants, then we have the makings not just of a moral dilemma but of a full-scale class war.


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>>24798254
>It's a decent book, but it's nothing to make schizophrenic image collages over.
Cope to downplay the very real and urgent developments that image is bring to the fore.

> A "biotech created caste system" as Fukuyama describes it would only be a modern version of the Nazi's eugenics program, and the Nazis lost to democracy.
Don't make me laugh. Is that why it was the totalitarian, Russian Communist Red Army that took Berlin? Is that why the imperial western nations, who were operating under Exceptional dictatorial powers at the time, waged total war to destroy the Third Reich? You're using bad history and paving over the extremely nasty contradiction inherent within the western liberal tradition via its imperial roots to handwave that the Nazi vision was within miles of taking the Kremlin and conquering Europe. Democracy had nothing do with it, democracy 9 out of 10 times is a euphemism used by western elites to cajole the public into accepting policy decisions already made behind closed doors.

>AI is a bubble that cannot be trusted to parse a sentence, let alone control warhead.
Irony of the grammar/typographical issues in this sentence. LLM are excellent at parsing sentences, and AI has already been integrated directly into military command and control systems, with Israel using AI systems for targeting of Gazan militants. Semi-autonomous drones have been fielding for years now and have been advanced by the war in Ukraine, with full autonomous slaughterbots slated to be field this around this time this year.

>The visual navigation technology trialed by KrattWorks is the next step and an innovation that has only reached the battlefield this year. Meier expects that by the end of 2025, firms including his own will introduce fully autonomous solutions encompassing visual navigation to overcome GPS jamming, as well as terminal guidance and smart target recognition.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-drones

Alex Karp, lead of Palantir, commented upon these very developments, specifically that:
>that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”

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>>24798388
And the wide use of drones by both sides in Ukraine demonstrate that they are a politically neutral tech, used by both authoritarian and "democratic" sides. Its simply of matter of who has the wider production capacity, which goes to China.
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>>24798324
None of this contradicts what I posted.
>>24798388
>Democracy had nothing to do with an alliance of democratic nations + Stalin (whose help was not needed) winning WW2
Retard.
>LLM are excellent at parsing sentences
Which is why they stumble when you ask them to analyze kindergarten-tier sentences, right?

And then you proceed to unironically link a Palantir press release as evidence of real technology. Frighteningly gullible.
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>>24798559
Massively unserious response.

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All of a sudden I'm seeing people overuse this new phrase. It entered the vocabulary of ziggers and there's no explanation for what it means or where it came from.

1. Where do these new phrases come from?

2. Why do zigs adopt these new phrases immediately without hesitation?
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>>24798531
Any word that becomes as big and widely used as based will be used by lots of morons. It's just supply and demand or occam's razor or E=Mc2 or whatever.
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>>24798525
lil bro crashed out so hard he self deleted fr fr ong
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You know what really pisses me off, the zoomies at work keep saying "6, 7" and when I asked directly for an explanation, they had none
They just repeat shit without even thinking
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>>24798549
Repeating meaningless phrases with no explanation isn't a zoomer invention. Millenials were already making "absurd" memes by 2014.
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>>24798549
Man. Just tell 'em to sit on it.


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