Artificial intelligence and its implications only further vindicate him, and the "crisis without equal on earth" that he believed his name would eventually be associated with wasn't World War II, but the coming World War III, which will be brought about by artificial intelligence. He is without a doubt this millennium's philosopher and prophet.
We used to be hyped about BAP, Mishima and Junger, the promise of being warriors for a new Nietzschean caste that Curtis Yarvin said would be like the elves of LOTR. We read Nick Land and drew power from Evola. We were all, above all, based and redpilled.Now it seems as if those days are gone and the board culture is dying
>>25596950It goes without saying that liberal democracy is not surviving whatsoever in the coming crisis. An ideology for high-IQ educated whites has zero chance in an illiterate mongrel world ruled by megacorps
>>25595691This is really funny. Other than trump being a corrupt retard and tech oligarchs taking over politics, everything you wrote is the contrary of what's happening in reality.Tech bros can't fucking make a cent of profit with their super intelligence. Kikes and his puppets at the white house got BTFO by Iran and are desperate to hide that reality. Then there is the cuckservative economists that thought they could "fix" a fake economy by destroying the economy itself and the reputation of the US.China is winning by default, the USA is imploding, its culture is being destroyed by manipulative psychopaths and a bunch of nerds who have no clue how to actually produce anything of value other than surveillance technologies.The fake consoomerist "culture" created by western elites is finally coming to an end.
>>25596985The post was an estimation of current trajectories assuming that the iron laws of History and War don't disrupt this process which they surely will (every tech CEO already has a plan for fleeing to private land soon). It was already disrupted in the Middle East and so there's no reason to think the fire won't reach the West eventually. The primary threat is Elon Musk because he's most capable of convincing the cattle that he's on their side when in reality he shares the same goal of destroying the West and sacrificing Man to the Machine God. yes this is all genuinely necessary to understand if you want to know why /lit/ and intellectualism is dying
>>25596990You don't need to know any of that to understand why intellectualism is dying. You just need to know that the postwar canonized hitler as satan and the nazis as evil, so the opposite of everything they did must be good. Ergo, the modern world. All of this is just downstream of that.Even the things that look like inevitable outcomes of economic pressures etc., were choices that were deliberately made and could have been deliberately not made instead. When you see that e.g., centralizing the workplace destroys the home and thus families and results in negative population growth, you can instead simply NOT do that. It's not like this came as a surprise to anyone; cities have ALWAYS had negative population growth; everyone knew that urbanization would result in negative population growth. They chose to do it; the goal was negative population growth - it could not possibly NOT have been. You can say similar things about putting women into these centralized workplaces or sending children to school for 15-25 years before they're allowed to be economically productive; these are all things you would do if your goal was to destroy your population. And of course anti-intellectualism follows; again, the purpose of the modern school system is literally to destroy the population's intellectual capacity in order to make them obedient, barely-competent cogs in the machine. Or democracy; how can you look at universal suffrage and think it is anything other than absolutely fucking retarded? The king or the dictator may be a flip of the coin, but the democracy always hands on "get fucked." Or, more correctly, it lands on whichever side the people with the money and the megaphones wants.The outcome of all of this is not a surprise to anyone.
>>25596613Are the Pepe incels in the room with us rigth now?
The cope is unreal. You spend 6 hours a day on your ass looking at someone else's writing and call it a hobby. Hobbies produce something. Hobbies build skills. You're sitting in your room consuming someone else's thoughts and acting like it's the same as learning an instrument or building furniture. It's not.Every adult reader I know is behind in life. Behind on rent. Behind on career. Behind on relationships. Literature isn't the escape it's the reason. You're not unwinding you're avoiding. There's a difference between relaxing and disappearing.If you read books only two hours a day, within 5 years that would be 3650 hours. With only 3650 hours think of all the things you could do.>Become a classically trained musician>Achieve fluency in 2-3 new languages>Become proficient in a video game of your choice and compete for prize money>Learn multiple programming languages>Have a lucrative streaming career>Become a skilled athlete, or a marathon runner (exercise also greatly improves brain size and function, unlike vidya)>Earn a bachelor's or masters degree>Learn Chess to a high ELO and compete in local clubs>Do anything productive, creative, or fun that isn't staring a hole in a paperComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25596438>HE DOES NOT YET USE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF LETTERS TO STUDY AND ABSOLUTELY SUBDUE AND VANQUISH HIS ENEMIES IN VIDEOGAMES>HE DOES NOT YET USE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF VIDEOGAMES TO MAKE THE CHARACTERS HE'S ROOTING FOR WIN IN THE FICTION HE READSYOU HAVEN'T MADE IT YETBUT YOU CAN STILLTHE SKILLS ARE INTERLACED, ANON
>>25596438Couldn't even proofread your baitpost, OP?
>>25596438>read video gamesop is from reddit go back
>>25596438>become a classically trained musician in 3650 hoursWhat a reach lmao. 10,000 hours minimum, and even then there’s very little money in it. The majority of the rest of your alternatives are straight up retarded, like e-sports? Streaming? Really nigga
>>25596438>You're addictedYes. And?
>Norton Critical Edition of the Odyssey is Wilson's translation
and?
>>25596848Norton's Metamorphoses has rapping muses.
They're trying so hard to subvert Homer, it's quite sad desu
It is pretty stupid. The fact that Emily Wilson is currently retranslating The Odyssey because she was unsatisfied with her first attempt is enough to tell you not to read her version. But even disregarding the quality of the translation, the point of a critical edition should be to present the version most widely read by critics. What’s the point of including critical essays with the text when the essays were written decades before Wilson’s translation was even completed?
>the point of a critical edition should be to present the version most widely read by criticsShould it not be the most academically accepted by scholars? I mean, it its literary criticism at stake, the edition should at least be accurate translation wise
Dick edish>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Banned Authors:Joe AbercrombieA.A. AttanasioR. Scott BakkerC.J. CherryhGlen CookSteven EriksonR.A. LaffertyMark LawrenceGeorge R.R. MartinComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25596840I wouldn't have read to the end if I didn't enjoy it. It's pretty fun shlocky sci-fi action written by someone with delusions of having some profundity to his thinking and every time he tries to be deep it comes off as the MC being a pretentious moron which serves the narrative of Hadrian being overly dramatic Great action scenes and occasionally very impactful horror shit
>>25596626>Morgawr>Marlfox>maybe Light, I need to build up my immediate backlog
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>>25595427Sandman is pretty overrated too
>>25596626Sea of GlassNeuromancerCount Zero
Did the modern idea that men must be strong and emotionless exist before 1900?Most of the men in classic literature books that I've read would be considered sensitive, emotional, weak men by the standards of 2026 media but in classic books they are merely just presented as men. It is as if the whole concept of how men naturally are has completely shifted in modern times.
>>25595359Good point, I guess stoicism and other kinds of retarded emotional suppression ideologies have been pushed on people at least since the Greeks>>25595502>>25595504Nice quote, agree with the main points he's making here, especially about "tough guys" being mostly fragile and egotistical, actually weaker than someone is okay with seeing other men as equals.I liked this part as well: "which hardly anyone alive really matches, for human beings are always better than their culture">>25595834This would make a lot of sense. I do find it almost impossible to comprehend that WW1 and WW2 were fought by just average civilians of each country. Thinking about all the men I know today, both personally and public figures, I find it hard to think of any man who would be well suited to dealing with the horrors of war, either physically or emotionally. I don't know why the cultural trauma of the world wars isn't talked about more.
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>>25595502>IF YOU LIKE COMFY CHAIRS AND CIGARS YOU'RE GAYIgnored
>>25595336Recently I got into a conversation about writing and a thing I wrote came up, and this guy decided to quarrel with me about the main character I wrote, who is a hero in a fantasy novel, whose fault in his eyes was being a hero whose character traits are those of a classic hero, who is noble and brave, fierce but with a kindnes, and all that shit you' d want to see in a classic hero in a fantasy story. He got upset that I didn't give him some crippling mental problem which devoured him from within and provided tension in his character, although the story itself was full of tension and the hero moved within and had to struggle within that tension all along.I didn't understand what was so terrible about having a stable male character who progresses, but does so in relation to the environment and not within his own headspace. It's like being good is a crime now, some kind of insult to art.In the end I decided to drop the conversation and he said I could do great things but I was stuck on childish concepts and modes of writing, because writing yet another Game of Thrones filled with cynical and morally ambiguous grey retards is the only way one can conceive his characters.I didn't think much about it on the spot but I went back to thinking about how fucking insistent and lowkey insulting that guy'd been toward me for having written a male character who is genuinely heroic and admirable. It was like I had unwittingly broken some taboo.
Due to the success of the NY /lit/ meetup, we are starting a CT chapter. First meetup is Thursday evening.Sick of shallow book talk and blank looks when you bring up serious literature or philosophy? If you’re in or near Hartford CT, come to the CT /lit/ meetup on Thursday, October 15th. We’re here for raw, unfiltered discussion. Meet in person and say what you mean.If you're interested email CTlitmeeetup@proton.me and I'll give you the place and time
>>25595499too poor to afford a plane ticket to come hang out with some cool anons?
>>25595503>cool
>>25594998I drove an hour for this shit fuck yourseld
what a success!
Makes me want to hold a meetup. Any other anons near Lander WY?
>>25595220The wrongest poast I’ve seen on this board and I’ve seen some wrong posts
Goatse: My life, MuyAnus by Goatse
>>25594454huh
>>25595216>filtered
>>25594410Not in my area till next week; have tickets, looking forward to being.. I hope not disappointed
I'm trying too but my zoomer brain has a hard time comprehending the prose/poetry
>>25594631yeah, i got filtered too. try "the wallace" by blind henry. i wonder why writing epic poetry makes you go blind.
>>25594631I got through part of it and liked it very much, then stopped maybe halfway through? because it's repetitive. I will go back and finish it, maybe soon.
>>25596443Noted, other than the Wallace, I'll probably stick to lady Gregory for my Gaelic legend/mythology reading. I might return to Macpherson if I ever make a trip to the highlands.
can VN be on the same level as Literature?, anything you recommend here? what to watch /lit/?
>>25594464>Disco Elysium
>>25589925Phucker in the Ashes is an incredible literary experience.
>>25589925YES. THE FIRST ONE. THE FIRST ONE.
>>25591408Clearly you're not the intended consumer
>>25594464lol fuck no, it's commie garbage
What makes you have doubts or outright skip a book? My red flags are:> American woman author post 2000> lgbt tag> queer tag
>>25596152For me, it’s:>American>Post-2000>Jewish
>>25596152>author still livinginto the trash it goes
>>25596191you just know
>>25596152>lgbt tagWhat about Mishima or Wilde
>>25596892No? What
I read about this imageboard in Ella Dorn's article: "How 4chan became the home of the elite reader"Well, I'm here.Can you provide me with a classical education?
>>25596763Got a link for that? Forgot to cancel my audible sub and should have shitton of credits by now.
>>25596729Cool.
>>25596775a link for? the great courses series? https://www.audible.com/search?keywords=the+great+coursesi think audible credits might expire after 12 months, i forget mine all the time too. thankfully you can just use them and keep the courses indefinitely. the free ones might only be included in one of the different tiers though, i have plus whichever one that is. a solid third or more of the catalogue is included at any given time with that.
>>25596898Thanks, pal! :3
>>25596912they have a pretty good selection, especially in the humanities. i finished about 80 of them so far. the shorter audible originals tend to feel more like podcasts or youtube videos though, unless the (very niche) topic interests you in particular i would avoid them. they usually only last a few lectures anyway. the massive courses that last in the 40 hour range are fantastic.
>>25595437>I grasped it enough to see free will is at play.Alright. Explain how you came to this conclusion in a coherent line of argumentation then, without using gut feeling as a copout.
>>25590049What's a matterbany?
>>25596905IT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST
>>25589020>DEUS VULT
>>25593953So your actions are non deterministic? That's what you think?You think because of some abstract quantum uncertainty, your exact actions as a human aren't determined by reality.crazy
Which one is IT and why?
>>25592507Birthday Party, Harold Pinter.
>>25596731a deep shallowness, I see
>>25596760Maybe deep superficiality conveys it better.Sorry I'm ESL.
>>25596785profound superficiality
>>25596838Yes that's it. Thanks.
I don't really get evolution. I mean I read this book, very interesting, but I don't really understand why every animal isn't intelligent. It seems like the most useful trait by far and one that would be easily selected for since smarter creatures would have a better survival rate. Random mutations of things like air-breathing lungs and wings would be way harder to select for.Let's talk wings for a second. Birds come from reptiles, I can buy that. But an animal can only fly if it has a lot going for it, it needs to be light, small, and have full wings. It would take millions of years for a bird capable of flight to emerge from a lizard. Until that happens, what benefit is it for a lizard to have shitty half-formed wings? Why are these genes selected for early in order to make birds possible later?
>>25596263I don't mind if you admit you're not sapient, it's no skin off my back, really.
>>25596419>It's the perfect world for people interested in clarity, truth and understanding.Also>evolution isn't a cult, goy
>>25596766>>evolution isn't a cult, goyIt's not, it's just mundane truth. It's the best way to describe, in a single word, the history of life on planet earth.
>>25596834>It's the best way to describe, in a single word, the history of life on planet earth.You believe this because you're a cultist and believe today's creation myth will never be superseded by "further understanding".
>>25596893You can literally see it right in front of your eyes. Go breed some animals or whatever, you literally see it happening right in front of your eyes. Or, I dunno, get laid and have a kid; you see it right in front of your eyes. Heck, (You) might well notice that your kid looks nothing like you. Evolution in process right in front of yours eyes.
