That it is common to conflate his ideas with:1) that of existential nihilism retards like sartre & camus.2) might makes right aristocratic bronze age fascism like mishima & BAP.It's hard for the no-reads to understand he's really just a guy who's obsessed with culture. And morality for some reason. To read him if you're not really into western high culture would be like watching anthony fantano without having listened to the /mu/core albums.I hope this helps some tards to stop basing their opinions about thinkers on poor pop culture caricatures.Peace.
>>25212650No discussion of Nietzsche is worth having without acknowledging Wagner.
>>25214204>So here he again seems to be implying that any mercy at all creates resentment and revengeYes. Which is not, however, an argument against helpfulness/mercy. It is an argument that any help is an unfortunate and potentially-hazardous necessity, so it must be treaded with caution, anonymity and obfuscation:"If I must be pitiful, I dislike to be called so; and if I be so, it is preferably at a distance.Preferably also do I shroud my head, and flee, before being recognised: and thus do I bid you do, my friends!"" “Be shy in accepting! Distinguish by accepting!”—thus do I advise those who have naught to bestow.I, however, am a bestower: willingly do I bestow as friend to friends. Strangers, however, and the poor, may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: thus doth it cause less shame.Beggars, however, one should entirely do away with! Verily, it annoyeth one to give unto them, and it annoyeth one not to give unto them.""And not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best.And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: “I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto thyself, however—how could I forgive that!”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25214204>why is a culture's merit defined by the ability of a few at the top of his imagined pyramid to ...what, sit about and philosophize all day?To give you meanings of life and redeem your lowly existence."The highest caste - which I call *the few* -, being the perfect caste, also has the privilege of the few: this includes representing happiness, beauty, goodness on earth. Only the most spiritual human beings are allowed to be beautiful: only among them is goodness not a weakness. *Pulchrum est paucorum hominum* [Beauty is for the few.]: goodness is a privilege. On the other hand, nothing can be tolerated less in this type than ugly manners or a pessimistic look, an eye that *makes things ugly* -, or even an indignation over the way of the world. Indignation is the privilege of the Chandala; pessimism too. '*The world is perfect*' - this is how the instinct of the most spiritual people speaks, the yes-saying instinct: 'imperfection, every type of being that is *beneath* us, distance, the pathos of distance, even the Chand ala belongs to his perfection' . The most spiritual people, being the *strongest*, find their happiness where other people would find their downfall: in labyrinths, in harshness towards themselves and towards others, in trials; they take pleasure in self-overcoming: asceticism is their nature, requirement, instinct. They see difficult tasks as a privilege, they *relax* by playing with burdens that would crush other people ... Knowledge - a form of asceticism. - They are the most admirable type of people: which does not prevent them from being the most cheerful, the kindest. They do not rule because they want to, but rather because they exist, they are not free to be second." (A #57)
>>25214204>Why does he have this cynical view where every humble behavior is necessarily an underhanded grab for power?Why do you have this cynical view where power is something bad?"And this secret spake Life herself unto me. “Behold,” said she, “I am that which must ever surpass itself.To be sure, ye call it will to procreation, or impulse towards a goal, towards the higher, remoter, more manifold: but all that is one and the same secret.Rather would I succumb than disown this one thing; and verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself—for power!That I have to be struggle, and becoming, and purpose, and cross-purpose—ah, he who divineth my will, divineth well also on what crooked paths it hath to tread!Whatever I create, and however much I love it,—soon must I be adverse to it, and to my love: so willeth my will.And even thou, discerning one, art only a path and footstep of my will: verily, my Will to Power walketh even on the feet of thy Will to Truth!He certainly did not hit the truth who shot at it the formula: ‘Will to existence’: that will—doth not exist!For what is not, cannot will; that, however, which is in existence—how could it still strive for existence!Only where there is life, is there also will: not, however, Will to Life, but—so teach I thee—Will to Power!Much is reckoned higher than life itself by the living one; but out of the very reckoning speaketh—the Will to Power!” "Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25213796>For one thing is needfuluhh saar?
How does one study with rigor without the structure of school?
>>25214462scheduling
>>25214462You can't I tried escaping my castle walls and did you know its illegal in 2016 to not attend high school in my State but it doesn't matter people are boring. I should have been a child prodigy but I was too autistic to "be myself desu". So I planted some seeds on the internet and now the whole world hates 4chan :D
>>25214462Is coffee good for you?
Choose
>>25214462Good lord what a hottie
Has anyone ever actually completed the Reddit Meme Trilogy? I got through a few pages of Ready Player One and couldn't stomach any more. And I know there's no way I could get through books described as "Ready Player One but in World War 2" and "Ready Player One but in space" so I was just curious if anyone's actually gotten through them all.
>>25210210They’re sentimental sure but I think Joyce pulls it off well enough. Circe is mostly just hilariously absurd until the moments with Stephen and his mother, and what you quoted there.
>>25211173wdym?
>>25197720Hijacking this thread to complain about Ernest Cline. Listened to the audiobook for Ready Player One, Ready Player Two, and currently trudging through Armada. The pop culture references in every other sentence are one thing, but then he has this other habit of summarizing what's happening in the story every so often, something he only has to do because his constant references keep dragging the reader out of the story. To add on, he only really has three things he writes about:>Vibeo gaymes>Daddy issues>Teenage girlsAnd the third one I would normally take no issue with, but they're always "girl power manic pixie dream gamer girls" and he tries to justify any and all potential attraction to them by acting like it's their stunning personalities that captivate him, when he should just come out and say "preteen titties, amirite?". And his main characters, always chosen one every mans. He never earns any of the emotional beats he tries to portray because the only thing he does to try and help the reader relate to the MC is saying >'member the 90's?Shit author and the fact he's a more prolific writer than me makes me suicidal.
Maybe everyone should just leave him alone.
>>25214245they think they can overpower anime. it's not my fault some people want to take gaddis and pynchon down. maybe they deserve it :^)
What's all the hub bub about this one?
>>25214870I plan to pair Sot-Weed Factor with son & xon, read them back-to-back.
>>25214916Why not add Vollmann's Argall to the mix?
>>25214921>3rd book in a seriesMaybe if it can be read standalone. It'd also be my first Vollmann.
>>25214928Yes, every book in that "series" is completely standalone. The only thing that connects them is the topic: encounters between European settlers and Native Americans.
>>25214916>son & xoni can't imagine reading that garbage, but you do you
300 pages in…. When does it get good?
>>25206909When it becomes clear that Gately is actually the main character. You should be around there.
>>25211911Checked.
>>25211406All these people are pretty awful. Isn’t Toby Fox the undertale faggot? That’s as bottom of the barrel as one can get
>>25210447"wombnigger" is a new one
>>25214930Newfag
>obliterates theologians with one of the most popular books in existence
>>25213182I guess I'll ask chatgpt
>>25208890>thiefpostingIf you read the Voyage of the Beagle you will be pretty shocked to find basically zero evidence of antecedents of evolution except a few throwaway racist lines about abos. I have never seen a thinking with a more discontinuous train of thought supposedly leading to their magnum opus.For me, its all the evidence I need to convince me the accusation of plagiarism from Mathew is correct, though that evidence is considerable in its own right.
>>25208914Pagan aryan Europeans always knew this, it was your poisonous jewish god that turned the world into a sewer.
>>25212828based occultist
>>25213878you know you can google things without asking an AI, right?or at least you could... I guess that's out the window now
>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author literally translated ancient chinese slang into modern day english, its just difficult for me to read. Anybody else experience this?
>>25206947>English prose is usually bloatedThis anon knows...
>>25205476Sounds based, I wish more novels were like that.
>>25196196Lotm is clunky even in Chinese.
>>25194386The thing to keep in mind is the first third or so of it is pretty directly a parody of popular chinese fantasy fiction c. 2010. As it goes on it starts leaning less on that but if you don't know chinese fiction tropes you'll probably be lost well before that.
>>25213754What tropes?
I enjoy reading VNs more than books. What is your opinion on this matter?
>>25214523Is it moege?
>>25214898I’m gonna guess NTR nukige.
>>25214523I think you should kill yourself OP. You are retarded.
Miki thinks it's okay to like different things!
>>25214923
best books on biotechnology?
Why is it so hard to get good book discussions on dedicated book sites? I’ve tried Goodreads, subreddits, book forums, wikis, booktube, Facebook groups, discord servers, you name it. But the level of discussion seems to be low. People can’t read between the lines and often need you to spoon feed your analysis to them. You can’t just assume your interlocutor can follow a general argument, they want you to prove beyond reasonable doubt your interpretation makes sense to them, because you have to basically appease the other person and make them feel like they haven’t missed the point of whatever book you’re discussing. It’s particularly bad with readers who don’t read poetry.
>>25214435Maybe you’ll learn something.
normalfags only read the most megapopular bestselling trash then treat it like their religious belief and behave psychotically toward anybody who does not worship their favorite book series
>>25214435What does you being new to 4chan have to do with literature?
>>25214440>>25214807>thinly veiled seetheI tip my fedora, gentle johns.
>>25213259Oh wow… what a shelf haha.You show this to the girls you bring over? Just kidding lol, you’ve never talked to a woman in your life that isn’t your mother.
>Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines>Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/hampshire-college-closing-amherst-massachusetts-enrollment.html>By Mark Arsenault>April 14, 2026>Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts, has succumbed to years of financial struggle and will close permanently after the fall semester.>A multiyear effort to refinance debt, raise funds, pursue land development and increase enrollment failed to produce a viable path to saving the 56-year-old college. On Sunday, its board of trustees voted to shut down, according to the school’s president.
>>25214466I think what they'll do with the SUNYs is just merge them if it gets too bad.
>>25214616suny is free for anyone who lives in ny state for like a year, i doubt they'll have a shortage of students any time soon
>>25212977People have been predicting mass closures of colleges in the US since the financial crisis of 2008, but it never happens. Only a tiny handful of the 4,000+ post-secondary institutions have shut down, and others have opened.
>>25211738I went to public uni in Europe and then did a PhD in the US and got paid, so not only I am not in debt but I made money out of this.Finding job afterwards is tough but at least I don't owe anything to anyone.
>>25210741in university news this happened recently:https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/03/ohio-state-investigating-epstein-payments-to-gynecologist/
Foid simulator
Essential leftist literature?
>>25213674People will suggest anything but Capital by Marx himself. It's not really a critique of capitalism by the way it's more of an analysis
>Essential leftist literature?>Mostly Marxist bullshit and a sprinkling of socdem and CIA psyop pressYour thread stinks.
Dialectic reading group>>25214473
>>25204296Nobody has read Capital.If anyone tells you they've read Capital, they're lying.
>>25214888They might not have read every volume but plenty have read volume one, which was all that was published in Marx's lifetime
Ἔαρος νέον ἱσταμένοιο edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25151591>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25212516>Turning now from the Hindu teaching to the more familiar field of the Bible, we find ample evidence therein that Moses and the priests of Israel knew about the Great Life-Breath. Egypt, of course, was the great source of their knowledge, as the Bible tells us. "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds. " (Acts, 7:22). "Words", in Greek, is Logoi, and this is a technical term referring to the power of sound-forms, in the use of which the Egyptians excelled. The Logoi are the same as the mantra of the Hindus. No great penetration is required to read between the lines of many Old Testament passages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8B_BLtpxQM
changed a couple based on the digits from the past threads to keep it fresherComposition challenge:write a 50 words(minimum) paragraph, roll last digit for theme:0 - talk about a hobby you have1 - describe a country of choice2 - describe one of your favorite books' theme3 - go on wikipedia, click on random article and describe what it is about4 - comment on a recent political event5 - describe a trip you took or would like to take6 - talk about the plot of a movie you like7 - write about one of your favorite historical figures8 - describe one of your favorite meals/dishes9 - whatever you wantComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25209995poetry makes it worth it
Why am I so uninterested in Shakespeare and company and Chaucer and company but some anonymous guy writing in anglo saxon is so captivatingI wonder what my brain is picking up on there. Maybe I'm just stupid
Did Hesiod write in the same greek as Homer or what
Anna's Archive lost.It's over.
>>25214750But getting into a pt is annoying and I don't want to put in the effort
>>25214092The good news is that the Second Great Depression is steam rolling its way to everyone. Wall Street is already starting the smash and grab. Don't be left out!Keyhole all the little scribblers that would impose their laws against ye, mates!
>>25214750Fuck gatekeepers. Elitist snot.I want Libgen back
>>25214092Why did they do it? Sounds impossibly dumb
>>25214092There's an infinitely better site, that allows you to download directly from your kindle, and has even more content than anna's archive. Just saying.
