Why isn't this guy more famous? A lot of his stuff is seriously mind blowing, the type of ideas you'd expect PKD to have if he were born again.
>>24983250If it's endorsed by The Guardian, I'm not interested.
plebs don't make the connections
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"The normie scholar reads this as "limits of thought limit one's interpretations" and "my world is limited by a personalised language of interpretation". Wittgenstein makes a much deeper claim: "The world is a posteriori to a metaphysic more fundamental than the self". The world is but the current material configuration of facts. Whence come facts? The same place where the meaning of language comes from. Now this deeper fundament of the Self and every fact is utterly unknowable to us. Beyond reason, beyond logic, we can not philosophise our way to this place. The apparent arbitrariness of the meaning of words, of the origin of natural laws, and logic it self prove this to us. There is no point in trying to go into mysticism like some Guenonists think as this does not even touch the fundament of every-thing. All of philosophizing, natural, moral, religious, is a forlorn activity. So, what are we supposed to do? Quit. Just live your life. All meaning is hidden from us, only delusions are possible. We delude ourselves by interpretation. We always misinterpret sensory input, leading to delusions of knowing "the" patterns in natural phenomena. We delude ourselves into believing a set of facts like the position of the sun and moon has particular religious meaning. We delude ourselves into thinking the sounds of speech have a power of leading us to correct interpretation. You are Totally Estranged from Truth itself. Do not waste your time (if it is possible to waste) thinking you can uncover things beyond what is revealed to you through conjuring spells of interpretation. Give up. Walk away from the Perennialists and Platonists and prophets.
>pseud drivelTaoists solved philosophy over 2000 years agoMen of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.
>>249835232000 years of "alternative" philosophy just to wind up back at St. Augustine.Hell, back at St. Paul, really.
>>24983531Augustine didn't write about this, he only understood it shortly before his death after a mystical experience, he said 'all that i wrote is like straw'. St Paul did, Jesus obviously, Plato too. There is just 1 realisation and 1 thing to learn, the fruit of all the books.
>>24983514>formalized>theoremmeaingless, meaningless, utterly meaningless!
>>24983514>ultimate unknowability What does it mean? I thought it was Hilbert unknowability, as in failure of Hilbert's program. What's "ultimate" about it?
What's your favourite budget publisher? For me it's Arcturus. Their books are dirt cheap and often come with tasteful, bright designs, with a wide selection of classics.
>>24977842>he wrote with fingers trembling over his keyboardnever seen someone seethe this hard over being called "champ" kek
>>24978218No seething here, friend. A thread died because OP tried to shill a rando publisher.
>>24976810I have a couple of Arcturus books but their designs are hit or miss
I just pirate everything so this stuff doesn't matter.
I finished reading this yesterday and honestly it was kind of boring.The first few chapters detailing how the Spanish plundered the continent were great but then when it comes to the 20th century he gets bogged down into way too much detail and mentions a bunch of literally whos and corporations that make me lose interest.
>>24982331I honestly don't know much about India or its history. But I don't think so. Quantifying how much a place was 'raped' compared to some other is pointless anyway, unless you are engaging in the most asinine dick measuring competition imaginable. >>24982839Spic politicians famously just say things for the sake of talking. They say something, everyone clucks and warbles about it for a bit then something else is said or happens. And so on and so forth. By nature, latin American politics has very little sense of decorum. With some major exceptions (Romulo Gallegos, president of Venezuela, was also a prolific and excellent writer).
>>24979093I only know of this book because of third-worldists on Tumblr who love quoting it.
>>24982839When will Latinos go to Europe and take back what they are owed?
>>24983063Never, because no one cares. They usually just want Europe to stop moaning about some nonsense or another.
>>24983072I think a lot of them are going to Spain though. It seems to be full of immigrants these days.
Trying to put together a short list of 5-7 books that most comprehensively capture the character of America. All I have are Moby Dick and JR by Gaddis.I think this is a retarded exercise but my ocd wont allow me to not do it. What would /lit/ add or remove?
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855). The 1855 edition was the first of many published during and after Whitman’s lifetime. In the introduction to one edition he wrote: “I claim that in literature, I have judged and felt every thing from an American point of view which is no local standard, for America to me, includes humanity and is the universal. America (I have said to myself) demands one Song, at any rate, that is bold, modern, and all-surrounding as she is herself.”
>>24983409To Kill a Mockingbird is boring as all get out, replace it with Twelve Angry Men.
>>24983220Uncle Tom’s CabinChild of GodThe Sound and the FuryLolitaThe JungleEast of Eden
>>24983416>japanese novel>burgerpunk
>>24983492Yeah. The burgerpunk (capitalist commercialization) is ubiquitous. Much like cyberpunk wrapped around the world
Based or Cringe?
>>24983320To add:If you want something /lit/ (as in a novel) check out Bhai Vir Singh’s novel Sundri. Professor Puran Singh is another great British Raj era Sikh writer, and a very interesting one.
>>24983320For me Mahavira Singh from Khalsa Chronicle is the GOAT
>>24983093My only real issue with it is the non-shaving of hair. I couldn't bear falling in love with the woman of my dreams and then her growing a moustache or a huge pubic bush and then she's not allowed to shave them off.
>>24983396Women are generally exempt, it's not mandatory to be baptized and keep hair
>>24983093Hindu-Muslim jeet slop. The only way to make that more cringe would be to add Christianity into it.
Whats your resolution ed.Prev: >>24973915
Penis To my facePenis To my facePenis to my faceFin
Gonna do the A&S exam tomorrow bros, pray for me and wish me luck. I've consistently gotten 80%+ on the mock exams and I only need 60% to pass so I should be safe. Then I do the Segregated Funds & Annuities module and then I'm done.
Last night I read HPL's The Hound. Pretty damn good, it's been awhile since I got spooked by a Lovecraft story (somewhat). I absolutely loved the cheesy graveyard scenes. This album cover evinces what I mean.
>>24978375Get another job and continue to love and date my girlfriend despite her current medical problem(s?) If I have money and stability by the end of the year or perhaps prior, I will ask her to marry me. I would also like to get back to reading a few books a week like I did in school.
I genuinely have not felt anger in many years and deep sadness in as many. Peace and love really is the way to go about things
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>>24982188dostokek*
>>24980128Kek
>>24979139even xitters bait
>>24978973>>24978980it's so fucked up how dumb people are. i can't believe people are seeing this and thinking it's either unreadably pretentious or highbrow genius.the obvious and correct criticism of the list is that it's safe, too much space devoted to indisputably great, broadly recognized classics and not enough going out on a limb for something unique. this is just a consequence of the approval voting method.>>24981663it's approval voting, which favors works universally agreed to be "good" over works that are divisive but often considered "great"
>>24980085Because most burgers read things on social media, so only 3 sentences at a time.
Why have nonfiction authors recently started saturating their books with footnotes? I have noticed it in several books I have recently purchased. This is a particularly egregious example.
I guess to appease all the fetishists, too bad there's nothing for all of us non-footfags
>>24983187Academia trains you to reference every single thing you write, so you end up with that bad habit of having to explain everything.
Who cares. Where are my pitnotes?
>>24983187it's just proof that people are becoming dumb. footnotes are what you resort to when you can't write
I remember 2-3 years ago there was a journal essay on 4chan on the subject of South Korea being a social experiment subject of the US and the Western world. Do any of you guys recall the essay title. Im trying to do some research on the South Korea and its absence of unique arts culture and it obession of getting validated by the west. I am mainly interested on how this type of korean mindset will play out in the future. What should I read?
>>24978287South Korea was late to democratization which is the likeliest reason. Hegelian and Confucian influences are common. Master signifier is highly fluid, night of the world is default sceptic position. Elected assembly rejected martial law imposition quickly recently and the state boasts some of the highest suicide rates in the world. Consistent failure to bribe residents to procreate, not as intrusive as Taiwan. Political polarization is equitable or near equitable with western countries. Chosen period was the high point for cultural uniqueness.
>>24982673There's just something about south korea that screams fake, you never get the same level of seethe with north korea though, so that explains a lot.
>>24982673>japan and china do get mentioned, but rarely with so much seething>china
>>24981397Jew of the year award? They debase themselves more every year and this year it was a toss up between the worlds most subservient goy slaves.
>>24982644>south korea must be doing something rightthey do cults right. you have to hand it to them. you got everything from the moonies to the boat ferry cult and then kim jong un in the north.
>the greatest piece of literature ever made was never published and never shown to anyone until it was lost to time/destroyedwhat are the odds of this?
>>249834120%literature cannot be great until it has been readit is dead until made alive by the act of the non-author reading it
>>24983412Same with any art.
>>24983412Sorry man, I just really, really don't want anyone reading my diary.
>>24983421100%I will never publish and none of you are qualified to read my enlightening tome.
>>24983412Well there was that sensitive young man who wrote a beautiful magnum opus, uploaded it and then threw his laptop into a lake and killed himself. But within a few minutes the site that he uploaded it to automatically deleted it because it exceeded the file size limit. Anybody remember his name?
Hello.I'm the guy who had a few Guénon related servers sometime around 2021 and 2022, period in which I was also making a lot of Guénon threads on /lit/.Does anyone from that period still remember me from /lit/ or from my server? It would be nice if we could get in touch again. My current discord username is luke041654.Anyways, this can be another Guénon thread I guess so post something about his work. :)
Guenon poster is a Catholic
>>24982766Question for the Guenon fags (and Traditionalists as a whole): how does one reconcile the universal claims made by various metaphysical systems (Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Platonism, monistic Sufism, etc.) with the exclusive particularity of their respective religious traditions?
>>24982766Islam is fucken retarded.I have no respect for its followers.
they're herehttps://discord.gg/EMq43xYNxq
>>24983519Does everything non-4chan have to be on Discord these days? I don't trust Discord and I don't like it. I wish people would just start up new message boards like they used to, that was more enjoyable and I think more amenable to serious, uncorrupted discussion. What's wrong with starting up a forum and making people make accounts?
Is there a book you'd recommend if I wanted a comprehensive history of literature and literary movements?
The Horus Heresy by G. Workshop
>>24982086That's bullshit.It's just a book by a jewtuber for teenagers who don't read and don't realize he's talking nonsense.Deja de hacer propaganda a tu youtuber, ya aburres forzándolo en varios hilos.
>>24982421It's because Postmodernism has yet to actually be defined. Doing so would likely disqualify the decades onward from some point well before now.
>>24982110Where can I get an ebook version of this for offline safekeeping
>>24982421Well we had 'postpostmodernism' for a brief period which intersected with 'new optimism'. They never gained much serious traction because they're overly idealistic and simple. For all the criticism it receives, postmodernism is responding to fundamental shifts in society and the resulting effects on human behavior which makes it increasingly relevant.
the fourth blackfyre rebellion 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: >>24949686
Lmao what a hack
Can we all hold hands tonight by the fire?
>>24983379The Others are a magical bio-weapon created for us against the First Men that turned into a Frankenstein monster for the Children of the Forest, who had to then ally with humans to contain them.
>>24983157He got assmad the Daenerys got DORNE'd, the things with legitimazation and the sword was just Bittersteel looking to get back at Bloodraven
>>24983379Kek, GRRM redditism are so predictable that even his own reddit audience owned him>>24983474The Others are a big mystery box of nothing because GRRM didn't plan anything out. The Others are just child sacrificing ice people because Winds is never coming out.
Most people on this website constantly decry normalfags, see them as inferior and worthy only of contempt. Yet at the same time they're clearly bitter and envious of not being normalfags themselves. Any books that might shed light on this phenomenon?
>>24981880Thanks ChatGPT
>>24981777Checked for truth
>>24981777Then why is it universal, on every board on 4chan, to cry about not having a gf?
>>24982167Still waiting for an answer to this.
>>24983425Women are normies, therefore we die alone.
