This is unreadable.
>>25306830>anime fag doubts that people can read books
>>25308952you haven't been paying attention, jamal
>>25307250I tried reading it when I was 17 and worked up with a lot of other stuff in my life. I felt a lot of sensations reading that book but I couldnt piece them all together coeherently into explaining what was generally happening and what the author meant by it but it smelled weirdly like my grandma's home, plush toys and scented candlesI dropped it roughly 100 pages in, I was busy with more stuff in life and thought I was perhaps too immature to understand it. I sure had never seen anyone under the age of 25 talk much about this book as a magnum opus, maybe I just needed some reading experience
>>25301576>>25301631I found it to be the perfect distillation of Christian pathology. A pathetic man drilled as a child to believe in the fires of hell awaiting him, not even for moral weakness, but for having the impulses themselves. That he was created sick, condemned, and the only remedy is to constantly be begging and groveling for mercy. It is self hatred instantiated in doctrine. But because it is so ineffectual at actually affecting a better mode of behavior, it drives the victim to the very degeneracy it condemns. It made me revolted, but also produced in me a great pity for those poor deluded souls who actually believe the manifest nonsense preached in every Christian church and school across the world.
>>25309739>distillation
Why is 80% of medieval european literature cuck fantasies?
>>25309509I‘m struggling to think of more than a handful of examples. Even in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing where it forms major plot points it is only falsely presumed.
>>25309518>it is only falsely presumedoh well it changed everything then>it didnt actually happen, he was just thinking about it all the time
>>25309552and here is another english classic, part of european curriculum
all im saying is no wonder that modern europeans are such beta cucks when this is their cultural background
>>25309721Was it fault of Eleanor of Aquitânia and the romântism movimentOr even before thatOne must wonder.Which is why i prefer the far in between bronze ageIts a free for all and 80% chance you are missing somethings And i don't mean only greece
What books will get me a girl like this?
The Mystery Method
>>25300455Scarf, several rings on fingers, Euro in the background and typical French presentation, latte, messy hair, no piercings. You need to read textbooks on how to speak French, a book about French culture, then you need an exercise manual on how to not be a gargantuan lardass, and you would probably do well to read a book on how to play an instrument too. You strictly don't need a book on intro philosophy, but she almost certainly cares about ethics, so you should probably get yourself books on that too.
>>25300461>No more mr nice guy, robert glover
>>25300455Unironically DSM-5Hoes love self-diagnosing
>>25309771>glover sucksalso that book is not about getting laid or initiating relationships. it's more for soi cuck types who end up "yes ma'am..."ing their way through unfulfilling shitty marriages. the guy was married a bunch of times and finally passport broed out and married some mexican chick who didn't even speak english. that book is for reddit "just be a decent human being" types not 4chan nutjobs.
Have you read the Bible? If so, what did you think?
>>25309710Protestants, I love many of you, but you need to stop and think why demoniacs like this fellow take your side.
>>25309593I do
>>25309601Compared to what exactly
>>25309710>tldr; It doesn't fit MY style of idolatryyou can't make this shit up
>>25308816>Whatever the case, the bible should absolutely not be read on your own from cover to cover.Whoops
ITT we give prompts for short stories and write them! Anyone can suggest a prompt, anyone can write a prompt! Be sure to clarify which one you're writing about.Opening Prompts: Write me a story about...>Being stuck up a tree>Inventing the fork>Fighting off a pack of wild ducks>A eulogy by someone who sucks at eulogies>Finding a mysterious object in space>Winning/losing a lawsuitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25309013Turns out we're all posers.
I finished reading this and was impressed. It’s just as relevant today as when it was written.
>>25308355He gets more accepting of it after a while.
>>25307223>just as relevant today as when it was writtenIt was written in response to Vietnam and the pointlessness of it all. It's relevant today only because zero lessons were learned from Vietnam and the US has been fighting nothing but the same pointless lie filled bullshit wars since. What surprises me is that people review this book and say nothing about the 70s free love bullshit being a central part of the plot. Likewise boomer paranoia about overpopulation have aged really fucking poorly when they've now switched the script to begging for more kids so they can find the day of the pillow without ever having touched a consequence of the way they steered the world.
>>25308808and is that a good thing or a bad thing?
>>25308838It is very 70s. But the war stuff and the struggles of soldiers coming back and not fitting in is very real even today.>>25308842Neither. It’s just a thing that happened.
>>25309314>humans no longer have the free will to procreate>entirely controlled by soulless technocracy>neitherbrilliant!anyway homosexuality is disgusting
>I am Julia Bernard, and you are watching or listening to Madrugada Literária. Today, we welcome someone who is controversial, prolific, and whom some even call innovative: Anon. Anon is an author of chronicles, essays, aphorisms, and social and cultural criticism. Straight from the underground, his main works are: Chronicles of Masturbation and Death, I Am Afraid of Women, Non-Work as an Affirmation of the Spirit, Malaise and Existence, and his most recent: Tears of the Aristocrat.
>>25305694I would read these books.
>>25305694>>25305708It's like I'm a kid and sitting in the car on a road trip while my parents listen to NPR again.
>>25305694>prolificNot bad for someone practicing Non-Work.>>25305708>sex with bureaucracy>
bump
>>25305708>The answer is quite simple, foid. The only mechanism that prevents Jessica from hooking up with Chad without protection is her unstoppable fear of losing her chance to lead a childless career as head of the HR department at Boomer, Inc. Next Question.
Fisher took Marxism to its natural conclusion
>>25308432I wrote a giant piece which mentions a dialectical relationship between Right Trotskyism and Maoism. I'm not linking it because last time I did the guy pissed and moaned about it. I also hate Mark Fisher with a burning passion.
>>25308165>Attacking Iran is not more extreme than attacking Iraq or AfghanistanI'm not the guy you're arguing with, but I think it's quite a different thing to attack a medium-sized military power than a small power. Iran's military is in a separate tier to Iraq or Afghanistan (demonstrated well when Iran wiped Iraq's ass in the 1980-88 war) and is specialized to fight an asymmetric campaign against America specifically. In principle, I'd say not more extreme but entirely different practically
>>25301871This
>>25309015>>25309019Nationalism is demonstrably much weaker to the temptations of liberalism than other ideologies. A huge part of Donald Trump's voters voted for him on the basis of a nationalist appeal, and he sold out nationalism to wage a war on Iran, who are doing a much better job of resisting liberalism than arguably any other nation. Makes you think.
Trump cultists on suicide watch ITT. I'm sure if you keep shilling he will pump your $Trump and $Melania coin bags on Truth Social.
Has any literary character been cucked harder than Joji from Naomi? I think he might actually be the ultimate cuck.
>>25307080>ideal>westernizedgood god...
>>25305978The psychology of male permissiveness about a girl's stupidity and deceit was good. From what I gathered the author was not actually scathing on the type of girl though, more a comical tale about the man and men in general in Japan.
>>25307213Inm
>>25306995I finished. Holy shit, what a cuck.
>>25306849I especially don't read Japanese cuck literature.
Is Power of Now the only decent self help book?
What now
>>25299667
>>25299667Itsa good npc awakener, its shows them they are more than their thoughts and feelings. But in it doesnt go much beyond that.
>>25299667This super hot chick I knew loved the book I got very close to having her come over to my place and talk about the book but couldn't close the dealAlso, she's dumb as a rock
it's the needle at the end why?
If you haven't read all of the books on this list, stop posting. Read them and then come back. You are not an intellectual, you are not literate, you are a video game playing, anime watching retard.
>>25306474Is this bait?
>>25305611You don't need both East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath in there. One or the other will suffice. I prefer Grapes.
>>25308048>Lying on the internet
>>25307415I was reading much better YA than Harry Potter such as Animorphs because I was and am a true reader.
>>25306474Proof?
>"She had legs for days. But those days were numbered."
What do noir anons think of Sam Lake's emulation of this style in Max Payne 1+2?
>>25307673Has some good lines. Obviously exaggerated to the point it's kind of comedic but that's obviously intentional. Although by the time Alan Wake 2 did it again with the character of Alex Casey, it's gotten kinda old.
>>25299240>I found the prostitute on the john, the rare type where she dumped waste rather than having it dumped into her. She looked tired and worn like hand-me-down shoes. Her leather skin wrinkled and sagging with overuse. Her soul worn through. "Care to give a lady some modesty?", she said, voice like a bar ashtray, eyes like cigar butts. I stomped my boot down between her legs, clattering on the porcelain. Glossy patent leather beside the void. She didn't flinch. I doubt much could make her flinch. "Lady? I was just going to ask where I could find one.", I said.
>>25307673Don't answer this.Rhetorical question.
>>25296096>>25296423>>25296419>>25296862>I could see the glint of rage light up in his eyes the second he heard the fella's accent, like pavlov's mutts hearing the bell. This was the place where he came for refuge, where they met every night to vent. Rubbing shoulders with like-minded individuals to froth at the mouth yelling about the niggers and the trannies, the dykes and the kikes flooding the streets, as impotent and furious as a rat in a cage. The quite frankly most disposable minds of my generation were lost to madness, thrown like crumpled bills to a junk dealer, even straightened out they'll forever carry the mark of misuse. Still, I was addicted to the short moments of genius that arose from this crowd, coming like they do from broken minds, like a golden wedding ring floating down a river of shit. I realized he was balling white knuckle fists and ready to put the beat on the brown fella and that was my cue to leave. This craptrap was about to become a shitstorm.
thoughts on Being and Event? written by a commie and hates by contextualists
Has anyone here read gadamer? What did you think of him? Is he just developing heideggers concepts or is he doing something separate?
Martin Heidegger’s existential philosophy, particularly the concepts of Dasein and Zuhandenheit (readiness-to-hand), offers a framework for understanding Internet memes as digital tools for navigating shared reality, according to Wikipedia. Memes function as "ready-to-hand" instruments for instant communication, while surreal or "deep-fried" memes exemplify Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand) by breaking down communication to expose the artificiality of digital existence, as described in Wikipedia. Furthermore, memes embody Heidegger’s concept of Das Man ("the They") through conformist repetition while allowing for ironic subversion of that conformity. Ultimately, these digital artifacts serve as a coping mechanism for the alienation and "standing reserve" of a technologically mediated world, notes Wikipedia. More information on Heidegger and memes can be found at Wikipedia.
>metaliptic shitposting to escape the human security system through verminoided intersticesOr some shit.
>>25309569>surreal or "deep-fried" memes exemplify Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand) by breaking down communication to expose the artificiality of digital existencei see the argument but i'm not sure anyone actually experiences any memes in this way, no matter how surreal. the internet isn't a world in a heideggerian sense imo, it brings things onto our screens but it doesn't 'disclose' them, it doesn't create a 'clearing' where those things can stand in a meaningful light; and because it's not a world, it's not possible for any meme to destabilise it in the way, e.g., modernist art did the world of the 1920s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_(predicate_logic)
>>25309594surely the hope expressed in the word 'escape' refers to something nobler than dissolving ourselves into swarms of meaningless data and replacing our culture with memes. constructing a line of flight is a very delicate operation, deleuze and guattari constantly emphasise - but land hated all their words of caution and restraint.people have to remember that when land was getting all giddy about the intensities set loose by cyberculture, he was a highly educated guy who had the opportunity to cultivate his sensibility in pre-internet days; for people actually raised in cyberculture - people with no imagination, with very little capacity for deep affective response - the internet is deadly boring. but tragically they don't realise how bored they are, how paltry their substitute culture is, because they can't imagine anything different.
