He's literally me
He's literally me.
>>24829262>>24829267>im such a le doomer loomer boomer incel amirite guys? do i fit in yet?
I dont understand the sense in becoming the ubermensch. What is the point of creating great art if some whiny left liberal is going to vandalize it 200 years later. What is the point of creating great buildings and castles if some niggers and refugees are going to live their as parasites. What is the point of shaping the world to your will if some jew is going subvert all of that to his vision and take the final credit?Women will keep woming. Niggers will keeping nigging. Jews will keep jewing.
>>24825935think beyond: where people don't even question the validity of your values anymore.2+2=4 proof
>>24825935everything decays and there's beauty in that
>>24826471billions must die
within a century all of that soi scholarship will be buried in oblivion while the Work they were crying against will continue to stand
To btfo libs while you’re alive of course! Every era needs an ubermench to keep the rabble in line
He still filters normies from the grave…
>>24828458It's worth mentioning that culture in France changed significantly while these guys were alive. The country was known for high academic rigor, take Baudrillard for instance, he spoke German, read several of the most famous German philosopher and even translated some of them. At some point society said all this is worthless. The result was that this group of thinkers were deemed annoying, obfuscatory, and in need of more effort to decipher. For someone like Baudrillard who already had the premier thinkers who went through the same thing it's easy to just say fuck it I have my material and you can always go look around and see what the other obscurantists have to say. This also creates a dependency loop, so as any given culture experiences the same phenomenon then they inevitably have to return to the one who can at least answer, even if that answer is we have to continue looking. Maybe times have changed, but for some reason these guys don't go away. I agree, and would even say a global darkening is likely approaching. As long as something is growing, you have something to harvest.
Can someone be so kind as to clarify this sentence for me?>Capital accumulates until it becomes image. TV, football matches, art galleries, traffic...The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relationship among people, mediated by images.I don't understand the connection with capital. I can only conceptualize the spectacle as the mechanisms of propaganda. Can I think of the spectacle as an inversion of those mechanisms where instead of serving the political needs of those in power, it serves capital itself?
>>24828936haven't read M. Baudrillard so can't give you a comprehensive answer, but this section from early in Capital vol. 1, which he is surely alluding to, might be illuminating
>>24828658great point, anon. I thimk that it is even possible that a few of these contemporary "obscurantists" can become quite famous and influential because of the internet.
>>24821167So basically Plato but with more unnecessary fluff added to it.
So in a couple of weeks I'll have to spend 6 hours in a bus and 4 hours in a train.I've got these three classic books that I never read yet:which one should I bring ?
Le Mur by SartreMiss Harriet et autres nouvelles by MaupassantLe passe-muraille by Marcel Aymé
>>24829314They're all good. Brothers K is best for a 10 hour reading marathon: I read the first few hundred pages in an all-nighter in college, great time.
>>24829316but jacket only have two pockets :(
>>24829314Gonna second ficciones, especially if you're bringing two. You'd blow through Borges like one of his dusky barmaids blows Argentine cowboys in the back of a cantina if you've got six hours uninterrupted with it.
>>24829535Just cram it. Anyways can fit if you believe hard enough
Recommend the best audiobooks to listen to while playing video games and lurking image boards. -The war of art by Steven Pressfield-The protocols of zion-The way of the superior man by David Deida-Iron John by Robert Bly-Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard-As a man thinketh by James Allen-Book of five rings by Miyamoto Musashi
>>24825653Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoSGHy6eibgit's librivox but the reader is good and has a cute voice. she reads too fast, though, so i recommend setting it to 0.75x speed.in total it's tens of hours of miserable tales. it's perfect.
>>248256531984, Brave New World, Alice in Wonderland - Steve Parker Audiobooks
>>24825653Ray Porter narrating "The Power of the Dog" and "The Cartel." He does unique voices for each character -- there are dozens -- and is an engaging listen.Michael Kramer narrating any book.
Empires of the SeaThe Exorcist, narrated by the authorDark PlacesThe Monkey's Paw, narrated by Simon Prebble
>>24825653The hyperion audiobook is very good as is dune because they have voice actors
where is the evidence that after Kali Yuga we return to golden age?How can cancer turn into healthy cells?How can rotten becomes fresh?Kali yuga is a very interesting concept, the parts of the Gita are amazing, amazing literature, even more detailed than Apocalypse.
I won’t be verbose, sentimental, circular, or emotionally cluttered.I’ll only lay down the core axis here.I’ll drop a single link — a "turning point". Leading to a place (obviously not spam or meaningless promotion).Whether you enter or not is up to you. Or more accurately — up to your essence, your cognitive limits, your biases, your beliefs.But if you still have the capacity to recognize these words — for what they are. Without reacting through unconscious emotional-social reflexes…Then you’ve already glimpsed a part of what that link contains.(If you "have nowhere else left for your core system to go", then that link may well be the last road of hope.)https://test05-veiled-under-the-shell-of-the-common-system.vercel.app/
Are these worth reading. Currently reading a lot of "canonical literature" and wanting something light-hearted from time to time.
>>24828146Cultural Marxists desperate to pretend those pesky Christians are the moral guardians, and not themselves.
>>24828122Read Harry Potter and Spellbook of Desires instead.
>>24828122>>24828132>>24828179Good replies and I think it is worth it for several reasons. It is a well enough constructed world that you can buy most of the events and it is a pretty important cultural phenomenon that is still relevant.I will remind you that these are kids books and this woman had the pulse on exactly what you need to make a world whimsical for children. Just enough adult stuff for kids to make a connection with surface level shit they might know about. As an adult, it has many, many inconsistencies and plot holes that can ruin the whole world.Like how all evil wizards are always Slytherin and how there's just one ministry of magic, how the quidditch world cup is basically one single game and how harry seems to still be so unaware of so many things in the wizard world, how the Weaslies are so fucking poor and a long list of etc. If you can look past those then you'll enjoy them.
>>24828684sun and steel
When I reread the series as an adult the only one I really enjoyed is the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Where should a westerner looking to follow the tenets of Confucianism start? Should I just dive right in and read the Analects?
You wouldn’t understand if you started from there. Begin with Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by van Norden. Then Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by the same guy.
>>24829655Why?
No one on /tv/ has seen or wants to discuss Naked Lunch (1991), so I figured I’d come here to talk about the unfathomably based heroin-using homosexual wife-killer William S Burroughs. Junky was such a good read and all of his spoken word tracks especially the ones set to music are fantastic. I particularly love Dub Spencer and Trance Hill’s ‘In Dub’ ive also started listening to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who are also fantastic.
>>24826583My brother
>>24826594>Good thing WSB got tired of that pseud shit in the 70s.I'm glad as well. Been reading Cities of the Red Night and really enjoying it. The only worthwhile cut-up novel is Naked Lunch and even then I'm dubious to the claims over how much of it was actually cut-up.
>>24810570junky is just poverty porn for boring squares who never led an underground lifestyle before. it's nothing special. the rest is schizo garbage. overrated af
bump
>>24810570Tell me guys, was Islam Inc. just the child exploitation Burroughs saw (and definitely partook in) in Morocco?
Previous: >>24822016
>>24824925>Write Your ThoughtsI don't want to work anymore for the little bit of goy wageEverything gets more expensive and progressively shittier while wages shrink thanks to inflation
>randomly have to wait 2 minutes to post>captcha just got more annoying>quality of discussion is in the toilet anywayGoodbye /lit/
>>24824939>What needs to be done?
>>24829568I do agree, you make the fire and I slaughter the cow. We just need an Aaronite to officiate.
>>24829556you onlyget countdownswen the systemdetects reddit cookiesin ur browser& if that ever happoonsit flags ur ipas a REDDITORso even if udelete cookiesit knows
I did not fall for the Stoner psyop. I will not fall for the Stoner psyop.
>>24828980It reached the peak of popularity in 2012-2013 though it already gained exceptional traction right when it came out in NYRB in 2006. So, /lit/fags can only get hipster points if they raved about it before 2010.
>>24829105I remember when the clogwogs were fawning over the Dutch translation on tv
Julian Barnes wrote a pretty convincing article on how and why Stoner got so big in 2013. It was organic and something of a fluke, helped along, of course, by its being a great novel. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/13/stoner-john-williams-julian-barnesIf you consider the fact that NYRB had published it in the US in 2006, and Vintage in the UK in 2003, but it did not rocket in popularity and attention until several years later -- all the while, the publishers were putting out other books -- it makes no sense at all why either publisher would go back and expend tremendous effort on marketing a book several years in the past by a dead author with no trendy angle to aim for.
>>24828634I read it but didn't pay for it. Extremely mediocre.
>>24828634He rapes his wife, Edith.
>want to pick up a copy of ol ozzy's decline of the west>every copy on amazon is just a weird reprint of a photocopy with people saying it's low quality, a print on demand garbage book, or a $300 used hardcoverIt's like this with half the books I want to read, is this just an amazon sorting issue or are older public domain books just impossible to get good copies of? It's the same with trying to find good editions of wodehouse.
>>24826047A Caesar delivers spectacular victories and captures the public consciousness with them. Musk does this. This inspires something very different than what trump inspires in his base.Trump is merely extremely (almost unbelievably I grant you) resilient, which has allowed various political have-not groups to accrete in his orbit that were hitherto successfully repressed. This is not a Caesar.A Caesar has no need of people who say “that guy! Finally a guy who advocates for people like me!”, he has no need of people who say “that guy… at least he’s not the other guy!”, nor does he need the “well he’ll make things easier for our sort later on…” types. These are things a politician needs.A Caesar needs only one thing: Belief.
>>24829370I'm sorry but modern West is well past the age Caesarism can occur. We have to keep in mind Caesar was born during the times the Roman Republic was still a thing, the Roman Republic I say, this marvellous government created by ancient Latin genius. This was a time in wich things were still kind of in order. A time in wich the Latin people, if not completely homogenous, still pretended like they were. If the old Republican form was, after so many Centuries, abolished, it was done either in favour or in reaction to a growing movement of progressivism; a movement wich, however, during the days of Caesar, had yet not even managed to rip the traditional Roman government apart, the best government Rome has ever had and wich, under Caesar, had to go in order to suit the needs of plebs and foreign immigrants (or in order to prevent them from usurping too much power).Us, the modern Westerners, we no longer live in the last days of stable, traditional government. We live in the unhappy Late Imperial Age, the times in wich governmental form has already changed many times, the time where everything has been abolished and in wich the immigrants have become an integral part of it.Caesarism has already happened; at best, Napoleon may be called Europe's Napoleon, he usurped power right after the abolition of traditional feudal government.
>>24829405Why bother engaging with a thread about spengler if you've never read him?
>>24829564Is that all your peanut brain could cum up with? Then my reply is correct.
>>24829564Not the op but I'll bite.It's because I read the novel about it playing a major part in a coup in a fictional African country in the 60s and I'm desperately trying to get other people to read it so they can agree with my opinions about it.It's a wild read though it's about a French fascist in the 60s who gets betrayed by the cowardly ideologues who tricked him into Africa in the first place. He has a couple cool rants about bugmen in Asia and he drags his thick ass copy of spengler all through the bush with him. It's like a much more political Dogs Of War by Forsythe. It's by David Caute.
swords from the big chair editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24804485
>>24829242The ass on the throne changed, the monarchy didn't go away.
never read fire and blood or the dunk and egg novellas mejust the main series
>>24829249the iron throne has an ass on it, that doesn't make it a monarchy
>>24829294Yes it does, even if the borders changed.
>>24826251In Germany you'll also notice that a lot of places have hilariously "bland" names like that once you learn the language
I’ve been on an antiquity fix for the last year. I’ve been reading both history and historical fiction set in the Roman and Greek world. Recommendations>Masters of Rome by Colleen McCollough Grand epic about the historical power players in the Roman Republic in the years leading up to its fall. Very grand in scope with a huge cast of characters >Marcus Didius Falco by Lindsey DavisLower class Roman detective does dirty work for the Emperor and romances a senators daughter. Lots of humor>SPQR by John Maddox Robert’sSenators son Roman detective works behind the scenes to resolve threats to the republic. >Gordianus the Finder by Steven SaylorDark and gritty, very historically accurate. Roman detective brushes shoulders with and barely survives encounters with the great figures of late Roman republic history I have the first book in the Cicero trilogy and I have heard good things about Marius’ Mules.Has anyone read those or any others that they would recommend?
>>24829480I haven't read them myself but Conn Iggulden has a series that focus on Caesar and Octavian, a standalone novel focusing on the story of the 10 thousand, and two duologies also focusing on Greece. He is also writing a trilogy about Nero. You should check him out and see if he fits your style. I really liked his books about Genghis Khan.There's also Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire that focus on the battle of thermopylae.
