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Satanic panic edition.
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>>24821917
I concede the world building has flaws but I liked the catalogue of horrors that is the industrial meat process applied to humans. Also, the ending is based.
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>>24812560
Which one is your least favorite?
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>>24819176
Fuck off AI
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Reading The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath now!!
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>>24822084
>Le based ending
Yes going from puppy loving, bird enthusiast, father loving son to a cartel executioner in the span of 5 seconds made a lot of sense and it's totally not dog shit writting.

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/ourgirl/ finds out about Dark Academia :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUnNXq5xZ4
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>>24818595
Our? I never liked this walling goonette
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>>24822423
?
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>>24822214
>Honestly, I'm more socialist than 97% of 4chan, but I don't understand how a thinking person in 2025 would complain about "white supramacy" in every fucking video.
>Academia loves to take apart everything - why has nobody stepped forward to criticize the pathological self-hate being taught?
>Like even if I'd agree with it, I'd still want to analyze how that thought I agree with came to become such a dominating mantra.
i'm pretty sure almost everybody in the left-wing in the US academia is redpilled about the zionist pill by now. that girl is just in the Netherlands, so she didn't get yet the system update from america and it's still living in 2022
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>>24822214
>>24822255
Adorno and Horkheimer were defending Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War. critical theory was always a tool to attack a certain people in a certain direction, it was never supposed to be a neutral tool of analysis
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>>24822278
>What is it now?
nothing, the left had a system breakdown after October 7th when they realized what attacking actual power looks like, plus some other things like the tranny project breaking down. they may come back into power because Trump is an economic disaster, but they don't really have a theory of progress anymore, and they can't go back to Marxism because all the actual proletariats are in Cambodia or are chuds driving trucks

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I think Žižek does have a slight reactionary element to him that I can't quite place my finger on and that's why he appeals to me. Fundamentally I like Marx and Hegel. But I strongly dislike identity politics, woke culture, cancel culture. I'm irony poisoned. I will use the words nigger, retard, faggot whenever I want and however I want. I want to be able to openly make fun of retarded and ugly trannies without facing any repercussions for it. Apart from that, I'm a regular standard communist.
Post more of them.
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>>24821360
Can someone tell me what makes Zizek a communist? I have never seen him defend socialist countries, he was even a dissident against Jugoslavia as far as I know. I have never heard him propose any policy that was socialist/communist. I guess this is why he's the only "Marxist" you see interviewed on mainstream channels
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>>24821360
It's good to be reminded there are still some communists left who actually wants people to flourish rather than having them retreat into dysgenic hedonism. It feels like everyone's lost their fucking mind lately.
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>>24821360
Im on the exact same boat as you even though im personally a little bit less edgy. I think the alienation from your identity, gender, race and so on into a political and specially a marketing too is absolutely dystopic, as if you're just not allowed to be black anymore without having to be part of some wider american centric concept of black culture or that as a woman I should stand for every last woman ever no matter how shitty they are. Personally I can easily reconcile my gripes with the modern left by rightfully claiming the CIA steered it into this position to try and disable socialism from happening again. Socialism is easily one of the most historically persecuted ideologies of all time and I just believe the elite figured out the ideal way to counter it wouldn't be by the use of violence (as they were doing up until the 70s) but by blending into them and destroying it from the inside. Now big Hollywood movies preach this oversimplified version of class war with superheros and moral righteousness while most modern leftists are really just looking to have a moral high horse on others rather than bringing about real change. Zizek himself claims this is the defining trait of the modern left, endless moralising without worrying about real issues beyond the idea of looking pretty by worrying about them. Socialism was never explicitly about empathy or being morally right and those things can activly stand in the way of it working, as seen with idk those retarded anti gun activists who claim to be revolutionaries at the same time
I don't really have historical backing for this beyond the fact the people who spread this type of drivel are usually american or very in favor of them so it's probably some CIA shit, just coincidences and noooticing
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>>24821360
It's a rhetorical absurdity that we've let liberals steal the word "progressive" when the only thing they progress towards is either emotionless autocracy based on stealing the soul out of everyone to make them the same grey meat, or to the base state of nature I.E. anarchy; making them the ultimate reactionaries.
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Reminder: the average 'socialist' in 2025 will literally exclude any (theoretical) contribution from anyone who doesn't love trannies because that kind of ideological """purity""" is more important to them.

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It's all about women isn't it? Everything else is just pointless distraction.
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>>24821806
If you're a cumbrained low IQ retarded Muslim Jeet, then yes.
If you're a true intellectual, then no.
There's a reason why almost all people of intellectual worth turned out gay or asexual or monk (socially sanctioned asexual).
If you're driven by sex, you're worse than an animal, who usually rut in a season and then don't care about sex at all.
No wonder /lit/ can't write. You haven't even risen beyond sexual and basic and instinctual attraction to femalia. How can you want to write great novels when you aren't introspective enough to see that your reaction to a female body in an instinctual and bestial one? it's just a body designed to get a certain feelinga out of you. All your feelings are just glandular reactions to visual cues. There's nothing of higher emotions, of love, in it. Your fucking poetry is just aestheticizing this vicious visual animal trick. You'll never be writers.
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>>24823079
>you can't be an intellectual unless you suck cock
ok bruh
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>>24821835
Needs a bit more of a tummy, a massive bush and huge tits that hang to her bellybutton.
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>>24822029
This vexes me

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I also ride a pony.
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>>24822079
I prefer The Bad Sleep Well to both
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>>24822132
Listen. Just because I know who Rainbow Dash is, and I know what Equestria is, and Princess Celestia is, and I- I know uh, other things about the thing too probably I- probably I think about it, I don't know - Just because I know that stuff - Pinkie Pie, yeah, the- I don't- Look, it- I- I'm not- no, sounds like you know the story- of course, LISTEN, what do they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer guys, t- remember- remember how they say that? Wh-what do you- wait, there's nothing wrong with this, it's- it's- that's, SEE? Look guys, yeah, TRUE, TRUE, yep, and absolutely not, nope we're downvoting this one, no, nope nope nope, that's not true, sus-
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>>24822079
You are either gay or have extremely low testosterone.
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>>24822079
Lion king is not hamlet. It's Henry IV
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>>24822543
Why do they open their mouths like that? This has to be a millennial thing, zoomers are way too conscious about themselves.

Is God the thing-in-itself?
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>>24821182
>astrophysicists don't believe that space and time are a priori
What are you talking about?
>is so esoteric that it holds no real value.
Ironically there are astrophysicists who at least superficially believe something quite similar. Take John A. Wheeler's participatory anthropic principal for example.
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>>24820701
No, you are.
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>>24821182
We care because he burned virtually all Western metaphysics prior to him to the ground and no one has really managed to build something new that everyone accepts. If you don't care about that kind of thing then just don't read him.
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>>24820701
that's the Forms
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>>24822637
>the Highest is so transcendent we can't know it
The knowing subject transcends space and time, and the Good transcends the subject. Makes sense that the supreme transcendence of the Good isn't knowable.

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>Reading a book until the end
Why ?
>Reading a book written by a woman
Huh ?
>Reading a book written by someone who isn't dead
What do you mean ?
>Reading for the story
What ???
Why is the modern reader so pathetic ?
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>>24822144
Sorry for what. Our Daddy taught us not to be ashamed of our cocks, 'specially given they're such good size and all.
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Why are frogposters so pathetic?
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>>24822201
It comes with their cultural heritage. They're the ones who gave us de Sade and Bataille.
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The Fountainhead is good
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>>24822122
>>Reading for the story
>What ???
>blocks your path

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Hi, I'm newbie here.
Recently I was collecting my thoughts and sometimes I discussed it with some people and AIs. Problem is, I'm not sure if they're cool or nah. Firstly I thought of myself as a shyzo fool, now just a fool. I even wrote some of it in a dokie dokie. Some liked it, some not, some called it Manifesto even.
I just want to post it on 4chan. As a .doc maybe, or Google dokie. To have an opportunity to be slaughtered by people opinions. Can I?
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>>24820911
>Transcendence. It's overcoming your boundaries, overcoming the limitations of reality, becoming more than you are.
Becoming more YOU that you were. Think it a bit differently: you are becoming more yourself shedding false skins. When you overstep your insecurities and decide to create something you literally help the divine to self-purify and to come to awareness.

>By discovering myself I create myself, give myself a form, make it clear to myself, gain an understanding of myself, and understanding of myself gives me the ability of self-control. I can accept and integrate my contradictions and become one with myself.
That's good. An alchemical process of purification, intensification, of becoming more IT than on the previous cycle.

Overall, I think your thoughts are pretty spot on. One must create and develop imagination, which the greatest gift.
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>>24820813
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUbfCNpgkK66AbjsqznOoBJz1whFBavwTBjPJC3hPZc/edit?usp=drivesdk

This is not a manifesto, it feels like the philosophical musings of someone really stoned, you must rewrite this with the urgency of someone trying convince us that death is imminent and you are the life and the way.
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You have to convert it into fiction like the Underground Man
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How unfortunate.
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Well, good enough. I'll continue further with help of my gf. Thanks everyone.

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Are there any instances of an audiobook being a better experience than reading the actual book?
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A lot of the autobiographical stuff that is narrated by the authors
And plenty are really well done
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>>24823377
Sirens (Joyce)
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Yeah, when you add music to the audiobook. It's kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQbcAkUYmI
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No

Is there anything worse than a movie cover for a book?
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>>24822981
I'll disagree with you here
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>>24820884
Only correct answer in this thread
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>>24819064
I would rather have just the title or nothing at all. The spine alone can suffice for the title of a book and its author.
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>>24820913
On some books it isn't even a sticker. It's printed on but still looks like a sticker. Why are customers punished so?
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>>24822774
W-why are they looking at me?

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Books like Don Quixote?
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>>24818954
The Saragossa Manuscript
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>>24820719
its either a russian (and better) don quixote or teen lit in the form of dostoevsky and child lit like de sade
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>>24818954
Pierre Menard has a novel with the same title. I find it far more meaningful given the circumstances of his work.
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Don Quixote
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>>24819013
>Hoetay
Yaaassss

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Who is the Chinese Dostoevsky?
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>>24822803
Would technical papers from the Eastern Bloc generally be in Russian rather than Polish, Hungarian, etc even if they were from those countries?
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>>24821792
German and French will be dead languages in a few decades.
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>>24822816
Yes, they were basically all written in Russian. The Soviet Union hosted all the aerospace shit and military technology, so all the research that was on the periphery for STEM was being written in Russian. I think East Germany may of been somewhat of an exception.

NASA used to host Russian language learning courses for their engineers. Although by the time the 80s rolled around it was becoming rarer as Russia was just that far behind. But you could find Engineers fluent in Russian well up into the 00s.

I do seriously think that studying STEM in a Chinese university will become a bit of a flex in a decade or two, and I think the diaspora Chinese have such a massive advantage over other westerners. Getting access to both technical information on western forums and eastern forums.
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>>24821779
France and Germany are politically irrelevant
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>>24822420
Japanese literature pales in comparison with, say, French literature, and as for Chinese literature, let’s not even talk about it.

>Schopenhauer wrote The World As Will and Representation when he was 26 and people assume he wrote it while looking old and grumpy

It kinda baffles me how he wrote that masterpiece while looking like this and not that old
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ok Costin
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>>24822349
Pessimism is the philosophy of the youthful, compassionate man.

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Didn't see a poetry general. What do you guys think of this poem I wrote?

A skeleton arrived in robes of white,
a crown of thorns, and sandals made of light.
His eyes observed the ashy landscape view
of blackened corpses, where the vultures flew.
Around the dead, the scattered casings laid
in circles. Overhead, the sunlight made
reflections on the shells – the mushroom clouds.
“A shame,” the skeleton remarked aloud,
“to see the shape the Kingdom’s taken now.”
– And, nodding slow, departed with a bow.
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>>24820362
Bump for OP
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>>24820362
Then why not make a poetry general and post your poem in it? Why do you think your dogshit work deserves its own thread?
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>>24821630
Nothing is stopping you from posting your own work in this thread. Stop being a little bitch.
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>>24820629
Chinese, here’s an essay I wrote on the topic of Japanese aesthetics and verse and its reliance on Chinese.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fraterasemlen/p/waka-and-general-japanese-aestheics
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>>24820362
I like it. It's a strong image.

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Comfy Halloween short fiction?
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>Movies
One of the V/H/S collections

>Manga
Junji ito

>Short stories
Thomas Ligotti
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>>24823246
>V/H/S
They all suck
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>>24823311
Disagree. Siren is a classic
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>>24823246
>>24823311
>>24823341
For me it's Viral.
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>>24820573
Shadow Out of Time
Shadow Over Innsmouth
Colour Out of Space


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