Unemployement: The book
>>24785991I dunno. Seems pretty relevant. I'm in university myself right now, and they're already pushing dumb shit.
>>24798351Not 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.
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.
>>24798381In 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.
>>24798590I finally understand. Thank you.
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?
>>24784714i 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.
>>24797779The filter of 'slight inconvenience' is actually useful
>>24784244Banning people from places should be illegal.
>>24798383I 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.
>>24798109Because the alternative is letting junkies rule society like they do in Philadelphia.
Can /lit/ recommend me books or authors about complete female domination, extreme salvery/bdsm, and the deep rooted desire of all men to go back to a foetus-like existence by burying their face between the associated cheeks of a plump woman?
>I've been a bad boy and need to be face-sat on!>Give me book for!>(No skinny bitches)
>>24798262Gulliver's Travels unironically
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>>24798262Two broken necks in this image
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>> 24779834>Thread Question: Did you forget that the next Black Company novel starring the raped witches and Croaker’s son will be out November 4th?
>>24798071>Hyperion 5/5>Neuromancer 2/5thanks for the many contributions but I will punch you for that desu
>>24798239Nigga he's reviewed most of the classics at this point. Yev's read and reviewed like 100 books a year for a decade, so you run out of the classics.Still tho, fuck anything published after 2015.
>if someone online claims something that means it's trueUh I thought /lit/ was supposed to be smart?
>>24798578That's the correct rating, or maybe overrating neuromancer.
William Gibson is a retarded racist hack that unironically printed the phrase "three megabytes of hot RAM"
Best books about partying and doing coke?
>>24798550is your dealer robbing you? uk it’s £30 a gram. it still sort of has the ‘poor man’s cocaine’ reputation.
>>24798571It 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.
>>24798571>>24798585the moralising anti-drug arguments come very close to sounding like vegan arguments about meat-eating
>>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
>>24796289mr nice
Why do women love dark romance?
>>24795937I didn’t throttle her, she just didn’t realize it actually hurts to be slapped in the face by callused man hands.
>>24798055>I quit masturbating entirely. I don't get as horny as I used to since I'm 32 now.I never got that much into porn and I am orders of magnitude hornier than I was when I was a teenager now that I'm pushing 40, and I was horny and fucked a lot when I was a teen. I am literally, always, ravenously horny, clinically obsessed with ass, and I have no idea how I manage to keep my demonic cravings hidden in my daily life because I have deranged sexual fantasies running through my head at all times, and my thirst for pussy is the stuff that haunts the building where you die, and my lecherous old man spirit will steal girls panties until finally exorcised as sent to horny hell for several kalpas
>>24798177Kino
>>24798177>my thirst for pussy is the stuff that haunts the building where you diekek
>>24794093>>24794167>women post their unfiltered opinions>somehow this is le inkels faultWomen defenders will never run out of copes
Books that show how incelism leads to homosexuality?
>>24798036Why is that ape around those girls wtf
>>24798518Why would you attend a party?Probably went their for the band
>>24798208Are you saying the idly comfortable doesnt predispose one to, ehem, "exploring".I think its a pretty well recognized phenomena.
>>24798518Why are those basic white bitches around that king?
>>24798558The 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.
Was he right?Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?
>>24798254That'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. 15In 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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>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-dronesAlex 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.”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24798388And 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.
>>24798324None 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 WW2Retard.>LLM are excellent at parsing sentencesWhich 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.
>>24798559Massively unserious response.
I've been trying to get into Jules Verne because he's supposed to be the greatest fiction author of all time, everyone references him and loves him, but I'm having a really hard timeI finished Journey to the Centre of the Earth which was decent, even if nothing really happened and they never actually got to the centre.But then I started reading 20,000 Leagues and it's just so utterly dry, ironically for a story about the ocean, and just hyper autistic and detailed with fish descriptions and fish facts. What am I missing with the Vernester?
>>24798544The appeal is understandable only if you loved Verne between the ages of eight and ten.
>>24798544He's grandfathered in as a great. just like video games, some authors just do not age wells while others are eternally botoxed.
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?
>>24798531Any 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.
>>24798525lil bro crashed out so hard he self deleted fr fr ong
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 noneThey just repeat shit without even thinking
>>24798549Repeating meaningless phrases with no explanation isn't a zoomer invention. Millenials were already making "absurd" memes by 2014.
>>24798549Man. Just tell 'em to sit on it.
The more I read, the more I realize I know nothing at all. By no means am I stupid but there's so much classic literature that I'm never going to get to read and I read really, really fast. I'm upset that I'm going to go out of this world just as bewildered as I came into it. I've read philosophy, religion, nonfiction so much and yet I've pulled very little practical knowledge from it. I can't even read for pleasure anymore because genre fiction is so dreary and boring. I've read some wonderful books this year, and none of it is sticking.. I'm still the same wasted brainlet I was last year. Everything is going to rot and ruin and all I can do is die calmly. I'm fifty-four. My kids are grown. My friends have flown. My family is distant. I have nothing left but words and now, they are failing me too. What can I do? I feel like a rabbit is a trap, ready to gnaw my paws off for just a smidgen of meaning. I've read thousands of books and absolutely none of it can help me, ever? What is the fucking POINT
>>24796354all philosophy is just masturbatory. there is nothing to know.
>>24796620Reddit but also reasonable post
>>24796620sounds like fascist apologia but decent prose
Who cares? Just enjoy your life and read what you want.
>>24796354I feel the same way but at 32, nothing sticks
This was like two days ago and zero threads. Any thoughts?
>>24795201https://warosu.org/lit/
>>24797316The other anon was right people only know this overwrought hack thanks to another overwrought hack in an inferior medium.
>>24798305thisWe've had good Krasznahorkai threads over the years but current /lit/ couldn't give less of a shit
>>24798474>weI doubt youve ever contributed shit to /lit/ besides crying about the current state if /lit/.
>>24797124>being an oxygenfag
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24796961My condolences on the molestation
>>24797208I'd agree that at least Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are essential short fiction, but are there any specific novels you're referring to? Rage is one of the first 5, and there's no way that's an essential novel.
>>24797208I'm a big fan of Brian Keene, he writes great pulp horror slop. Joshi eviscerated him in an article and I just remember being shocked at how MEAN it was. Like, it was personal. Joshi is an asshole.
>>24797778Sorry first five minus the Bachman stuff (I sort of see those books are there own thing) I think Carrie, salems lot, the shining, the stand (it’s too long but it’s good) and the dead zone are readings. After that it’s mixed, pet semetary, Christine and misery are good. I also like the talisman, tho I think it’s more Straub’s book than kings.
>>24798274I wanted to like the Dead Zone but found it lacking.
Controversy aside, it's not even a good readMost of it is just drawn out rambling and boring stories from Hitler's life
>>24798189>the political left was just some tepid liberal shit looking for a constitutional monarchy. *less* centralized control.That's so cool. So what happened to that beautiful movement when they got to power?
>>24798325Lame comparison. Ted was MKultra'ed by the elites that Hitler was from and served their purposes. Ted wasn't at all successful with all these banks backing him like Hitler was.
>>24798472They were resisted by the royals who used to kill them. Are you gonna try and make us cry for the poor innocent aristocrats? "Some of them lost their lives!" And?
>>24798503But treated the general population well, correct? Only pushed for more freedoms?
>>24798512As the middle merchant class they had always thought of themselves as the superiors (some of them scheming Freemasons) and did as they do now, they used the lower classes to secure their power. As Napoleon would also do. He just played a different tune and got even more people killed. It was around this time that the "lower class" Frenchman Proudhon came to a mostly logical conclusion about all those bastards.
>>24797710>>24797713>Calvinism for browns
>>24797677>Mexican christianYou mean Catholic, who aren't Christian since they worship Mary and saintsEspecially the ones from Mexico where they worship a literal propaganda piece (Guadalupe) and an old pre-hispanic goddess of death painted as a saint to not arouse suspicion (Santa Muerte)
>>24797678This is why I don't care for jeets
>>24797615>like the psychedelic experienceProtestant issue
hinduism is cringe
