>>24863461
I lean right and would take Graeber over Harari no cap

>>24863168
My uncle recommended this book to me; he's an EU bureaucrat.
Suffice it to say, I haven't read it.

>>24863168
Have read the first couple of chapters where he shows he doesn't know anything about human evolution. Then didn't bother to read the rest of it. It seems he just writes down what he feels and then pretends that it's some sort of scientific status quo.
T. Paleoanthropologist

>>24864460
What books would you recommend in that field?

>>24864469
Depends what about the field you want to know. Trains and schools of thought can get outdated fairly quickly, so magazines like Evolutionary Anthropology are the best for updates. Understanding Human Evolution is a pretty good introduction of only around 200p. Dick Leaky's the sixth extinction is a golden oldie.
I'd say the best one to get a whole bunch of perspectives and get to know all the names is Humans, edited by Sergio Almecija. It's also fairly new.

>>24863317
Did I say I have?

>>24857017
You can't read even basic shit in German after finishing DNDNM though. Also the edition inside the link is cropped, there's a fuller one and even it seems to not be complete.
I really hoped I could learn German as effortlessly as I learned Latin but sadly it's not possible and you HAVE to grind Anki and conventional textbooks like the Assimil's.

>>24864344
Then don't say people are "NPCs" for only wanting to learn useful languages, considering that even you haven't learned endangered language #5271

Learning languages for reading in the 21st century is just completely retarded, like it's really THE most retarded thing you can do in reading, unless you want to find some really niche (like very very very fucking niche) untranslated things which is actually extremely rare.
People have always tried to minimise the amount of languages they have to know to be literate, besides a very short period during the early modern era when vernaculars proliferated for a while until English finally won, for a reason. You always grasp things better in your native language or at least in the more widely used medium language you know really well, it's absolutely foolish that you can possibly understand the nuances of a language employed in a book better than an entire fucking team of people who earn their living by translating things. And like wtf, even besides that, why the fuck would you spend time learning a new language to read a book if you can just simply, like, read that book itself?
The only situation where you actually, genuinely need to know a foreign language is when you live or want to live in a country where it's spoken. That's it. Otherwise just use your fucking mother tongue or your regional lingua franca or English (though nobody even really actually needs it, I'd honestly lose absolutely nothing if I didn't know it but I was already taught it in school so whatever).

And of course "classical" language are the most midwit thing ever. Shoo-shoo, retards, people used to learn them only when they were actually used as a communication medium for people with different backgrounds (exactly because they didn't fucking want to learn a shit tone of language you midwit) and a lot of writers were composing things first in their native languages and then *translating* them into a classical language for broader reach.
>but muh founding niggas in murica knew dem latin and dis was in 2008 or something
Just look it up faggot, Latin was an official language is some actual countries up to almost the 20th century. Everybody stopped to learn it immediately after it stopped to be actually used at least somewhere.

>>24864481
Banning nigger music won’t prevent normalfags from listening to shitty music. See: latrino music, country pop, etc. At this rate you may as well go full Wahhabi and ban all music.

Nobody knows how many Indians or Africans there are. Nobody knows how many are hiding out there.

"Brb, someone's knocking." Last Online 2,461 Days Ago.

"Well, see you later, man." He was later crushed by a heavy container that fell from a crane, when they moved it aside the pulp was spread so thin they could not scoop it up so they all just cleaned the sidewalk and filed a missing person report and everyone agreed to this

>>24844989
After holding it for what felt like hours it felt so good to piss. Then I woke up wet.

She stopped head tilted back, nostrils flared and her eye widened, lips pursed. The halo of my swamp ass had forever changed my reputation.

>>24862323
wow! thank you very much anon

>>24857951
Sertillanges - The Intellectual Life

>>24860777
It's a very old magical practice posited as a mnemonic technique. Many such cases.

I’m so pissed my thread got derailed by AI nonsense. Fuck all of you. Illiterate retards.

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>>24857951
I haven't read The Art of Memory but the mention of a mind palace makes me think it's the same technique as the one in Moonwalking With Einstein.

>>24864146
Stopping people taking a stand is incredibly easy. Read about what happened to Spartacus.

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>>24863885
I read up a lot on Luther and I truly do agree with most of his takes and the changes implemented after it, it just so happens his followers were mostly illiterate peasants who warped the Bible to their every whim, which was particularly the case in America where while they were puritans at the same time they could just warp the word to fit them whenever they needed to justify shit, it was somehow worst to drink alcohol than to skin a native alive
>>24863818
Not the reformation, it's modern followers mostly, specially evangelicals. Im not catholic im an atheist but I do fully believe the catholic church is the better institution when it comes to christianity. Anime website

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>>24862808
It's a shame she didn't stick around for the cobblestone.

it really is funny how everything started going downhill right after the german reich was defeated in ww2, isn't it?

>>24863802
>>24863807
>seething so hard
so your takeaway from 1984 is that newspeak is about literally using the words ungood and doubleplusgood, fantastic.

>>24862802
Don't you also hate most men, though?
Sometimes I have intrusive thoughts about hating women, but I realize I have those thoughts about men, too, and I realize I mostly just hate people.

>>24862664
Yes. The feminine is great.

>>24862664
Always has been. Were you not already aware of this?

>>24862802
The new one? Was it any good?

>>24864112
It's best not to think too much about mankind unless you have family and kids to counterbalance it. Mankind is inherently shit, there are no good people.

I'm reading his introductory lectures right now. Just finished up the chapter on the introduction to associations and that trains of associations lead to complexes based on certain stimuli. All of it seems very reasonable to me so far.

>>24863905
You're more like the social psychologist Erving Goffmann than a psychologist proper, or George Herbert Mead.

>>24863905
>C) That it is intrinsically personal, as opposed to an ever changing RAM drive where current thing in-group morality/taboos are stored and constantly being updated, something which can hardly be construed as "self".
Please do expand on this, as I do not understand it well enough to consider and contemplate.

>>24863941
Essentially correct, I suppose I’m wondering what justification there is for being a “psychologist proper” when social psychology is the obvious path you ought to go down in understanding a social animal.
Is there any proof that the subconscious is persistent, and not something which materializes anew in each case depending on social context?

>>24863905
>I have to date seen now proof that:
presumably this was a typo for 'seen no proof'?

>>24863442
Sneed feed seed

I have memorized the luo paradigm to the point that I can write it from memory on a piece of paper and now I am doing my best to memorize the athematics, I also just bought Smyth's Greek Grammar and I'm going to read and reread sections on basic grammar, I also know Latin so most of the basic concepts are familiar

What do you recommend I do after immersing myself in Smyth for a while? I just hate fake texts, I can't stand textbooks.

>>24864022
>I just hate fake texts, I can't stand textbooks.
start Loebmaxxing

What are the highlights of studying Latin?
I want to study Latin as a medievalist and francophile but I haven't actually read any Roman literature besides the Eclogues

>>24864022
> I just hate fake texts, I can't stand textbooks.
If you know German, Zuntz Griechischer Lehrgang is a textbook whose author shares your view and only contains authentic excerpts.

>>24864248
what am I supposed to do?

>>24864319
AI cover with big but modestly covered titties

>>24864319
The covers you hate work, it's why people use them.

>>24864333
one to two extremely dominant colors
soulless centered title text
cut print ship
hate it

>>24864426
speaking of, i was looking at my cover wondering how to make it more rr-optimized without actually making any substantial changes and thus compromising my vision
so i made the text a brighter shade of red

>breeding/impregnation
>Hunter S. thompson, Dostoevsky

>>24862787
Holy bvsed...

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>>24858474
>armpits/facesitting
>faulkner/REH

>>24858474
>femdom
>Alexander Theroux
You people really should read this guy's short stories, they're hilarious

>>24858474
Teratophilia and Dante

>>24863876
>don't want to be seen as out of touch elitists that only like dead white dudes.
Do young adults outside of the autists in that one general on /mu/ even listen to impressionist and romanticist composers? Listening to music like that seems more niche than reading philosophy.

>>24863744
Because I'm white. Don't worry though anon, it's fine if you say it of course

idk
selling out and hitting the margins for general audiences is a pretty smart move

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I an an unironic white nationalist, and I will still admit Good Kid Maad City is a pretty decent album
if art is good, its good
simple as
basing you tastes around gay ass political posturing is pretty reddit

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>>24861483
It was weird when Kendrick Lamar debuted. Despite the album being the worst rap music ever made, he was astroturfed everywhere - suddenly, he was everywhere at once, spanning the entire pop culture apparatus.

Sadly enough, his music has not improved, its still the worst of the worst. Considering how easy it is to make good rap music, that is quite damning.

>>24863250
Typical signs are if you harm a small animal, whether you feel good or bad about it. Or murder a person and wait for the guilt to kick in or not.

>>24861240
NTA
Can you quote that part? I was also u der the impression porfiry already got, and practically forced, Raskolnikov to confess

>>24859792
Why do all discussions of C&P invariably center on Nietzsche and Christian morality? I think there’s more to be said on the ineffectualness of the political process to whip Russia into a modernized state that drove young men to commit such acts as murder, including the murder of Alexander II, or turns them into misanthropes such as the Underground Man.

>>24863620
>[...] there was not only no clear evidence against the real criminal, but hardly even any suspicion (Porfiry Petrovich had fully kept his word)
In the epilogue, p. 565 of the P&V version. The anon accusing others of not reading the book is laughable. Maybe he just didn't read it to the end.

>>24863600
>Or murder a person and wait for the guilt to kick in or not.
that's too extreme
but i feel like harming a small animal wouldn't be enough, so idk
it'd have to be something that fucks over another human being somehow, just to test the waters to see if you have a conscience

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>book has dust cover
>book is hardcover

>>24864114
>>24864132
I just give them a good spray with some Endust and problem solved. Never tolerate a dustjacket.

There is an unresolved tension between the mainstream media's image of the average 4chan user as an authoritarian chud and the site's actual anarchistic and polyphonic (cacophonic?) qualities, and also between the mainstream media's image of lefty sites, like reddit, being lighttowers of freedom and free thought on the dark fascistic night of the present while being as heavy-handedly moderated by its mods but also its infamous hivemind as they are. Why do the "authoritarians" thrive the best in loosely regulated online environments, why are the friends of freedom and free thought a thousand times more anal about moderation and censorship than the "authoritarian" chuds?

Great works of art, literature chief among them, are the only things that makes life bearable in the oppressive, nightmarish hellscape that is the modern west. I cling to them and my love of all that is healthy and beautiful like others cling to their God of choice in times of great peril.

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>>24858790
The people who believe in a secret, super-powerful elite derive from it a sense of safety. Me, I think that's too much of a compliment for a faggot-loving group of people who are militarily incompetent and who have again and again shown that they are stupid and retarded. Our Western elites are an utter and complete failure on all levels, a parasite wallowing on achievements of a virile and handsome race of wich they are the degenerate mutt descendants.
Call me out, I am merely using my freedom of speech, if you call me anti-Western for it keep in mind if you are an anti-liberal. If I wrote a book about this and the retarded, stupid, faggot-loving, bbc-loving impotent elite seethes so much because of it, and puts me in jail for it, it would only make them anti-liberal. HA-HA-HA! ASS you can see, I can only win.

>>24863209
>I am curious to know what in their life caused it
Women are osmotic trendriders and love to decorate themselves. That's all it is. There's not much hidden meaning there. They're adapting to their environments; evolution, is all, simple as.

>>24858790
I always understood work in English butler. Like a Medieval house servant, during work time, I would sacrifice everything at the full service of my capitalist boss. Rather than respect for my services and person the only thing I earned in workplaces was the resent and despise of my co-workers and upper officials, perhaps due to my gentlemanly discretion, but it still has me wonder, is this just the way everyone is treated in capitalism, or is the virtuous manservant just no longer a beloved archetype in capitalist companies? That would be very unfortunate for me, because it is the only archetype I am able to embody in the state of servitude wich a work contract obviously is.