The West needs you. These are troubled times. Stop "having fun"."Fun" is not for men.Stop smiling.Always wear a suit.Grow a beard.Be cold.Be serious.Be stoic.Grind for 21 hours a day.Gym for 4 hours (while manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational audiobooks/videos/podcast play on the background).Take a 2min cold shower.Read manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational books for an hour.Sleep for 3 hours (at most).Monetize a hobby.Get a passive income.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24842365Pre- the shifting of the Overton window academia was so insanely left-leaning that Peterson legitimetely came across as a radical. I don't think people even remember what life was before Trump's first campaign.
>>24840620i was under the impression this guy has some decent advice he just has a very eccentric way of conveying it to others. i thought that was why people laugh at him and his lobsters
>>24840632The west or the world for that matter really never had a peak or whatever. People just look with rose tinted goggles at whatever came before. The old timers will tell you about and highlight the good because they're old and don't fit into societies mold. It's just more apparent now due to flow of information.Postmodernism is in a way a catalyst for this "fall" but not really. Postmodernism at its core is a very useful and beautiful thing. It's what stands in the way of authoritarianism. Jordan himself is a postmodernist (really, he is, stop kidding yourselves). But postmodernism is just highlighting problems without providing paths forwardin solving them. Thus you end up with a lot of conflict and no resolution. But at the same time a society that doesn't stand up to scrutiny isn't a good thing either.The core of the issue is the consequences of globalist capitalism. When you let the people with the highest stakes in the economy control the world (you may scream conspiracy, but really they do) then nothing will ever change in favor of everyday man. It's all in the interests of filling the pockets of the elite. We're still in an authoritarian society.. It's just not 1984, it's Huxley's brave new world, all subdued by comfort rather than beaten down. So I mean sure we're fucked but, we always were, it's just apparent now. I don't really see a future where anything resolves, the world is too complex, too many layers of control. If you think transpeople are the issue you are midwit core... They're a non issue, just a distraction to keep you from thinking about the actual destruction taking place beneath the surface.
>>24849416Resource extraction peaked around 15 years ago and trannies like you subverting sincere discussions with your vapid horseshit is a major contributing factor to the collapse.
>>24840620Can't tell if this is satire anymore.
Most overrated book of all time.
i like the part where the retard eats poop lol
>>24849811>t.
>>24849860It's insane how dull these guys' channel and podcast are. The videos are like an hour and a half long and it seems like they somehow seem to talk about absolutely nothing for the entirety.
he's just like me fr fr
>>24848799just read it and it everything about him makes more sense when you realize he was just the first xitterfag
>>24848790I think people confused (and continue to confuse) his passion for insight. He had a great, almost delirious energy for life and philosophy and art, but it never amounted to much of substance. Mostly just unshaped manic ravings, only slightly more sophisticated than the kind you might find from the local schizophrenic bellowing at the top of his lungs on your nearby street corner.
for a moment I thought this was some modern "poetry"
>>24848743this translation is ass
>>24848743do people not relate to this?
Why does the "anti-woke" crowd hate female smut books even when they have every problematic trope that the woke movement hates?
>>24849826>tranny hates romantasycan't escape the male brain
>>24849826Conservatives are anti sex. It's probably as simple as that.
What am I in for?
>>24849629>its pretty obvious why the song that topped the charts did so, its got a catchy little hook or something.But the question is why the jewish man who actually wrote the song and his record label chose that specific pop whore
>>24847887>Is that Kyle Ron and Ray from the new Star Wars movies?It unironically was a fanfic of this
>>24847802Can we band together and create a romance-for-men literary renaissance. Writing romance books that piss off female readers; stories where inkwell losers get chased by stacy and naomi and get lots of head. Oh wait that's Murakami.
>>24847802The most intellectually exciting book of all time. A woman struggling with the enigmas of energy conversion in mitochondrias in the hope of finding clues to stop aging is paired reluctantly with a microbiologist who spends all time trying to reverse engineer the original bacteria that became the mitochondria. The woman's discomfort grows and grows till she snaps an esoteric insult that is a reference to Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit. The man, however, quips back by quoting Abhinavagupta, Spinoza and Joachim de Floris in one line.The woman is annoyed, but her cunt moistens and opens. The rest of the book is about the passive aggressive sexual tension that grows amidst biology and talks referencing such matters as postmodernism and Egyptian alchemy, cytology and astrology, hemifusomes and the relations between Onmyodo and analytic philosophy, until they finally fuck. The love hypothesis is a kinda cheesy attempt to answer the symbiotic enigma of mitochondria within cells.It will make your dick hard and your brain tumesce. 10/10.
>>24849798You're talking about two different things, impressing the crowd and impressing a couple of people at a job interview.I would agree that getting through the door is largely governed by chance. But whether the public likes you or not is not just dumb luck.
Which is the best? The most profound? The most literary? The most fun?
>>24849746Anon, you're getting your opinions about literature from /lit/ memes. That's far more embarrassing. Try to be more original.
>>24849646Dante does a ton of interesting technical things too, and interesting numerological things, etc. People reading him on translation really don't know what they're missing and I think that one of the main reasons people will rank Milton up with him, whereas I think there is an obvious gap, as great as Milton is (and I say this as someone whose first language is English).Milton does all sorts of clever things like having Satan speak through chains of self-referential similes, while God never uses similes, some neat numerological introductions (Sin enters on line 666, the fall occurs in line 999 of the respective books). But Dante does this sort of thing at a much greater level of complexity and virtuosity. The way themes reccur at the same point in the ascending spiral arc of the narrative and how the character's movements mimic this is really something else, all the patterns within patterns which of course goes with his theology of creation as theophany.But I'm also a philosopher by training so this probably biases me because I think Dante is more obviously the most philosophical of all the great poets. And while he is in many areas derivative, he brings his sources to life in a brilliant fusion and I think he is more novel than people give him credit for on politics and history.
I find the idea that one's favorite part of the Commedia reveals something about the reader. I have slowly gone from preferring the Inferno to the Purgatorio to the Paradiso. The guys who do the Teaching Company Lectures on it (which are quite good) say they've taught it to secular university kids, prisoners on the road to redemption, and monks, and the pattern is that the undergrads prefer the Inferno, the prisoners the Purgatorio, and the monks the Paradiso.
>>24849635Shitalian in the building
>>24849534>>24849746>>24849780Why are zoomers so braindead and anti-intellectual?
This guy seems smart, stable and credible.
>>24849868His book was..interesting.
>writes a juvenile book with simple black and white morality for children>filled with plotholes>bad guys are all cartoonishly evil and have no redeeming features>80 years later manchildren still think he's a geniusIs he the biggest hack to ever hack? Being an adult fan of Tolkien is the easiest way to tell someone is low IQ.
>>24849312>because this is a very aesthetic preoccupation without any reason that it is negative. Homer quite literally has magic equipment, mythical beasts and random gods roaming around.Context, both historical and narrative, is key towards the difference. Homer's epics weren't too far off for the standars of his time and mythology seeped naturally into the flow of a lot of the greeks' art world. Tolkien is attempting to inorganically capture a sentiment in a way more crude and childish way, he wrote kids books for most of his life after all, than what was expected from serious literature at his time. If all the musical numbers, funny names and anecdotes and so on didn't give it away the tone is completely different from that of a traditional epic and THAT'S FINE, the giant eagles and hobbits with hairy toes only adding to a overall more whimsical and lighthearted tone as opposed to a grandiose one. I believe retards trying to equate or elevate it to that level are absolutely acidic. I enjoy LOTR, I think it's the best written fantasy story after all and it's themes are definitly something I would want my kids or whatever learning from a young age, but I personally think people exagerate the weight it has and how big of a deal it is. I usually equate these things to people not reading better things or being poorly read but I can't claim that for LOTR fans, maybe a sense of nostalgia or something. Either way it's a personal thing I always struggled to take genre fiction seriously and specially fantasy but it ain't like the genre is doing itself any favors
Shut up, bitch.
>>24846292I agree that the fanbase is terrible. Tolkien isn't a hack writer and LotR is not a bad book, but it's a good book for children and adults enjoying it is a red flag.I read LotR at age 8 and I liked it at the time. That's probably the appropriate age for it.Adult fans of LotR, more broadly high fantasy in general, are something I'll never understand.
>>24849844you sound like an insecure faggot. go read the silmarillion and then tell me if it's supposed to be read by grade schoolers.
>>24849376/lit/ (and 4chan as a whole) is full of pseudo-intellectuals who think hating popular things makes them cool. GRRM isn't a hack, but you can't see the real genius of his work unless you have 160+ IQ and high-functioning autism like Preston Jacobs. he tells a parallel story in the history of the noble houses, and their relation to the story requires reading between the lines and careful study, which the pseuds of /lit/ can't pick up on, so they call GRRM a "hack"
What are some good lewd/zesty authors? I'm thinking about reading a Stephen King sex scenes compilation - I remember being quite impressed by those as a kid, but nothing else really comes to mind behind it
>>24848951Oh, that's unfortunate
>>24848953Should I check out something in particular?
>>24848901CrashStory Of The Eye
>>24849024kinoadaptaion for it looks interesting, gonna check it out, thanks
Women's romance
I need an electornic word processor that>cannot EVER connect to the internet>can manage, import, and export text files via usb>has little to no other functionThere's too much shit on my laptop to distract me from writing. I realize there's pen and paper but I don't want to have to rewrite everything I've already written. Any recommendations?
Use ed on openbsd. Ed is a line editor so it works just like a typewriter. Openbsd won't connect to the internet without your concent. Don't use USB for file transfers because they have integrated network chips on them that send your files to the Korea, but use CD drives instead. With text you don't need the awesome storage capability of USB or the much less impressive but also slower and more annoying to manage and cloud storage. Openbsd is essentially functionless, it doesn't even come with a web browser.
>>24849390speak when spoken to
>>24841594Emacs
Don't use emacs or vim on a device that can't connect to the internet because you will open a portal which gets embedded into network chips in your machine to stream all input data to the internet. Openbsd ships with mg, and if you must use Linux for some reason just use standard vi or nano. But for your purposes (non programmer) ed is the best option by far.
>>24844689>>24849292>>24849566I hate how all of these have tiny screens. Seems extremely uncomfortable.
>studied literature in uni>got a job at a publication reviewing novels>the whole market is dominated by YA novels with girl protagonists>my whole days are spent reading these mindless romantasy novels>can feel my testosterone dropping and viewing myself more as the protagonists each new book i readAm I being brainwashed by my job
Oedipa Maas > Sarah J. Maas
>>24849785wait actually im really interested in this-why do they want you reviewing these books you clearly hate? are you pushed to writting positive reviews for these books?
>>24849830Nigger finding a job in this economy is already hard as it is. OP just needs to suck it up and stop whining, some people break their backs for a living.
>>24849785You should go back to school and become a nurse
>>24849840he writes book reviews dumbass. its not a golden opportunity he could never replace. if you hate your job and its not hard to replace just replace it
>read 30 chapters>still sucks ballsWhen does it get good?
>>24849500forgot pic
>>24849505kek
>>24835782Listening to Preston, Glidus and Alt Shit X is unironocally more enjoyable than actually reading ASOIAF. And yes, I've read all the books.
>>24848471"Ser? My lady?" said Podrick. "Is a broken man an outlaw?""More or less," Brienne answered.Septon Meribald disagreed. "More less than more. There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts of birds. A sandpiper and a sea eagle both have wings, but they are not the same. The singers love to sing of good men forced to go outside the law to fight some wicked lord, but most outlaws are more like this ravening Hound than they are the lightning lord. They are evil men, driven by greed, soured by malice, despising the gods and caring only for themselves. Broken men are more deserving of our pity, though they may be just as dangerous. Almost all are common-born, simple folk who had never been more than a mile from the house where they were born until the day some lord came round to take them off to war. Poorly shod and poorly clad, they march away beneath his banners, ofttimes with no better arms than a sickle or a sharpened hoe, or a maul they made themselves by lashing a stone to a stick with strips of hide. Brothers march with brothers, sons with fathers, friends with friends. They've heard the songs and stories, so they go off with eager hearts, dreaming of the wonders they will see, of the wealth and glory they will win. War seems a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know."Then they get a taste of battle."For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they've been gutted by an axe."They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now. They take a wound, and when that's still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from the marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.(1/2)
>>24848471(2/2)"If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron halfhelm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the smallfolk whose lands they're fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it's just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don't know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they're fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad all in steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world . . ."And the man breaks."He turns and runs, or crawls off afterward over the corpses of the slain, or steals away in the black of night, and he finds someplace to hide. All thought of home is gone by then, and kings and lords and gods mean less to him than a haunch of spoiled meat that will let him live another day, or a skin of bad wine that might drown his fear for a few hours. The broken man lives from day to day, from meal to meal, more beast than man. Lady Brienne is not wrong. In times like these, the traveler must beware of broken men, and fear them . . . but he should pity them as well."When Meribald was finished a profound silence fell upon their little band. Brienne could hear the wind rustling through a clump of pussywillows, and farther off the faint cry of a loon. She could hear Dog panting softly as he loped along beside the septon and his donkey, tongue lolling from his mouth. The quiet stretched and stretched, until finally she said, "How old were you when they marched you off to war?""Why, no older than your boy," Meribald replied. "Too young for such, in truth, but my brothers were all going, and I would not be left behind. Willam said I could be his squire, though Will was no knight, only a potboy armed with a kitchen knife he'd stolen from the inn. He died upon the Stepstones, and never struck a blow. It was fever did for him, and for my brother Robin. Owen died from a mace that split his head apart, and his friend Jon Pox was hanged for rape.""The War of the Ninepenny Kings?" asked Hyle Hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The freemasons and the powers behind them lied to you about literally everything. Either half-truths, false concepts, or blatant lies to confuse you and give you a false understanding of the world, mankind, time, history, and your place in it so that you dedicate your life, soul, and energy to their doctrines in which they have full authority over every aspect. They control Science™, they are the priests that ex-plain and ex-plane the earth for you, they wield that trademark, and that means they control our space in life (if we give them authority over the earth).Right from the start this world lied to you about the very ground you stand on, the 3 dimensional reality you live in. A fundamental lie, and everything people derive from this false reality will consequently be some kind of falsehood. We are now at the point where mankind believes they are mutated animals, and they are spinning around themselves on a perfectly spherical rock in random space that exploded once. A psy-op, mental conditioning. Do not underestimate the spiritual life-guiding implications of this godless concept. Most people are not level-headed, they are not stationary, they are not based, they are incapable to see physical truth at this point. Common sense isn't really all that common anymore. They rather believe in jewish mysticism like space-time and relativity, which leads to everything being "relative". No distinct up and down, which leads to good and evil being "relative", male and female being "relative", all empty space and imaginations in our mind. Let that sink in, the majority of people ultimately don't even know what is UP and what is DOWN. In other words, there is no absolute truth in this universe.
>>24849608It is better this wayOtherwise they start leading people to do stupid stuff
>>24849641The only difference between masonkikes and christians is which rabbi they want you to worship as god
>>24849604Are dinossaurs realIs the space real?
>>24849745>lmao kysI've never read herr Nietzsche, how much of his material do I need to BTFO you and prove you don't know anything?
>>24849832>no argument>more aimless kvetchingYou dont read at all, faggot
I'm reading my entire backlog before buying another single book. Got about 100 to get through. Should take a year or so...
>>24849841I have about 70? backs I haven't read, and no sanderson slop, i'm talking the real deal meat and muscle of western canon thought so I'm good on new books for another 4? years ? or so.
should i read picrel or is it infinite reddit?
>>24846467After reading 300 pages of blood meridian (which Harold Bloom considered the greatest aesthetic achievement over anything by delillo, Roth or Pynchon) I realized that DFW is a much better writer than McCarthy. It's in the stylization which is so unnatural and really an excuse to say nothing. The key of DFW and the reason why he is so lovable and yet so repulsive to many people (and perhaps to the same people) is he actually tries to say something, out of his weak, pathetic heart. He is so American--he's absolutely pathetic and he didn't hide it. I think that's why people like Bloom hated him. Wallace was a sentimental slob and its scary to see yourself in him, especially when you're a Jew and yeah, Wallace was in many ways a JewHis best piece of writing:https://sdavidmiller.com/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pdf
>>24849092Sure, it's silly and extremely digressive, but I find the prose gorgeous, especially when it gets all SoC in some poetic and usually tragic scene. The dialogue is among the best I've read, and I love how it tackles especially addiction and the (insert here a defense for being pretentious that DFW's works sort of explicitly argue against) the postmodern struggle for earnest communication and connection. There's just so much in it that's meaningful... but I know that the mindset you enter a work with is crucial to how you receive it, so YMMV. It's showing off, but it's part of why I like it. It's inventive.
I wasn't able to read it past the age of 24 because it's written like YA. I would say skip it if you've aged out of it.
>>24846482>He killed himself, what do you think?so yes then
>>24849173>what I'm getting from this is Reddit has always been super high IQ, and 4chan is the REAL midwit site.4chan is truly a bell curve because the relative lack of moderation attracts both the best and the worst society has to offer. Reddit's moderation, which includes its power hungry pedo mods, its tranny crazed staff, and its upvote system that acts as a filter to control and silence unwanted commentary, only attracts the middle of the curve. There are maybe some subs worth visiting, but they're likely private and good luck spending enough time on reddit to get noticed and invited. If there is a place like 4chan that somehow filters out the lower end of the spectrum, someone invite me please. I'm not very smart, but I'll be quiet.
