Was Engels coping here? How can there be class abolition and female emancipation at the same time, if women sexually select for men with more surplus value?
Monogamy requires societal pressure.
>>25473137Obviously? Without it hypergamy happens.
>>25473137supposing that is true, what exactly is wrong with that?
>>25473099wrong, the prophet(SAW) said that you can have four wives but most men are truthfully not able to support them all and love them,>>25473116This would not happen under Shari'a young women in their teens would be married off by their wali starting at 15-19 and start having kids soon after, not going to the jewish brothel that is university
>>25473154Most ooga booga religion out there
Don't judge a book by its cover or a thread by its OP
Wise words, faggot.
>Owning William Blake's work as it was intended to be experienced is prohibitively expensiveWhy do you university presses let these editions go out of print? I can only find two illuminated editions (currently in print) from Oxford University Press. Princeton University Press has a complete six-volume set that is out of print and people are selling copies at exorbitant hundred to thousand dollar prices. Why must one necessarily be rich in order to be literate?
>>25472903Steal them, scan them, give them to the people.
>>25472903"The Complete Illuminated Books" published by Thames & Hudson can be had new for $50 and used for around $30
>>25472968I don't trust that because it says it's a paperback while the listed hardback is $400
>>25473028nvm it's legitTANK YOU SAARI AM INDIAN VILLAGE BOY HAPPY
>>25473028>>25473032Glad to help / sorry you were too stupid to find it on your own
What are your thoughts on this book? I’ve been debating picking it up, but have heard mixed things about the translation.
My thoughts are that lawton is a nepo baby hack with shitty taste in literature who owns everything celine wrote yet calls us evil nazis for criticising him
>>25473094Every notable person in Jew York, Los Angeles, or Washington is a trust fund nigger.Remember that the next time you're impressed by something they do. They put the cart before the horse: because of nepotism, it was always a foregone conclusion that they were going to do SOMETHING because they can make something terrible and have it promoted through their (dad's) connections or their own connections which they only have because of a lifetime of dadmoney paying for them to live in hip areas and go to hip parties and attend hip schools without having to worry about real life, or by simply using dadmoney to pay for social media signal boosting and knowing people who know how to manipulate the strings of the relevant scene/industry. Then, once they get something "recognized" (they also have enough dadmoney to keep pathetically throwing shit at the wall until it sticks, which often takes them years even despite all the dadmoney greasing the wheels), they are an established name in whatever scene/industry it is, and now all future projects have immediate credibility.98% of people who get published or have their art shown somewhere are doing something any random aspiring writer or art major could do, but skipping the crucial first step of "actually getting organically noticed," which is 98% of the difficulty of going from aspiring writer/artist to writer/artist. The remaining 2% is just continuing to churn shit out, that's the easy part because now when you go to a publisher or gallery you already have a portfolio and they will shrug and say "I presume this is fine, sure, we'll publish you."Layer this on itself for a few years and you have a portfolio. This is the backstory of nearly all major writers and artists in the last century. New York Jews originally used the technique for themselves, in the early century, but then it caught on generally and is now the only way to do anything in America. American culture is made entirely out of nepotism networks.Date a rich Jewish girl from New York some time, if you randomly mention you have an invention for an automatic ass-scratcher she'll tell you she can introduce you to another Jew she knows through another Jew who could finance it, and you can bypass the usual channels that normalplebs have to go through to get a meeting with him because she'll just get you an informal in person one. Jews live and breathe this kind of behavior so much they don't even notice they do it, so they are kind of being honest when you criticize them for it and they go "What? I'm not doing anything everybody else doesn't do." They really mean it, they are serious.
>>25473097He translates from Russian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish. He has published one or two French translations of Jonathan Littell. He has mostly published Russian translation of Vladimir Sorokin. He has a German translation of Schattenfroh coming out this year. He has an Italian translation coming out soon, and he famously got into a twitter spat over the translation quality of an unpublished translation of Turkish novel and said the translation was so bad that he and was going to write a new and get it published. He says French is his best language, and he said on reddit that for all the other languages he needs extensive help in understanding context, idiom, deeper meaning, etc. beyond a literal translation. So he literally follows the P&V method for most of his works where he shits out a literal translation, re-edits it for "readability" in English, and then consults with an expert on whether or not he missed anything in his translation. I wouldn't be surprised if Max has shit on P&V translations, yet his process is more convoluted than theirs!
>Project Panama is a data harvesting, digital piracy and destructive book scanning operation, by American artificial intelligence corporation Anthropic>Anthropic began by obtaining millions of previously digitized works through digital piracy. According to court documents, Anthropic used Books3, LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror for this purpose, and may have acquired up to 7 million books this way.>Anthropic purchased millions of used and rare books from online retailers such as Better World Books, and World of Books, and Zoom Books, sliced off their spines, and scanned their pages in order to train Claude. This process involved the use of hydraulic cutters for spine removal and high-speed scanner.What the fuck is their problem?
>>25468858the biggest proponents of ai are the people in office, all around the world
>>25466980>millions of used and rare booksMillions? Really? Sounds too absurd desu
>>25466987>wave hello to the machine godUnbelievably cringe
>>25469378True dat. I just got a new job working with AI. A senior guy, close to retirement, said he'd never seen something so transformative, that it now takes one guy to do the work of ~15 others in a fraction of the time. It feels somewhat surreal to simply type in prompts and see hundreds of lines of codes being written in front of you to generate something that would have taken weeks were a human typing it by hand.
>>25466987>wave hello to the machine godI HATE THE ANTICHRIST. GOD SHALL STRIKE YOU DOWN AT YOUR MOMENT OF TRIUMPH WITH A GALAXY STERILIZING SUPERNOVA
/lit/cels btfo
>>25472678No, that's just stupid. Writing is a craft and creativity is only one small part of what it takes to write a great novel. It also requires going through a lot of early drafts, working on strong outlines, doing research, countless rewriting and corrections etc. Tolstoy didn't just one day start daydreaming and then the final draft of Anna Karenina magically appeared in his head.
>>25469475Listening to Oasis sounds like waste of time to me
>>25469475>*finishes reading the Bible* >fookin’ biblical m8 SOME MIGHT SAY
>>254712593.3 gpa is bad if you're white or asian, but if you're brown, you get the red carpet treatment.Wouldn't surprise me at all if high schools intentionally boost brown kid gpas as well. A black kid with a 3.3 would probably be a 2.0 if he was white or asian.
>>25472678Given the quality of Oasis' lyrics, he definitely should've paid more attention to other peoples' creative output because most of them are better at writing than him.
>Glorious Odysseus: don’t try to reconcile me to my dying. I’d rather serve as another man’s labourer, as a poor peasant without land, and be alive on Earth, than be lord of all the lifeless dead. What the fuck was the actual point of this sequence? I never understood it. I was unironically filtered. Is it a war bad thing? Is it an existential, nothing-matters-when-you're-dead thing? Why is Achilles even there to begin with? It seems to undermine everything he was about in the Iliad in one sentence, which could be character development, but I don't buy that that's what Homer was going for.
>>25472601Ancient Greek cultural thing, living is good, being the best is great, being dead is bad and scary
>>25472606So death bad? That's it? They unironically brought Achilles back just to give a death bad message? Complete cape slop
>>25472610No, Homer brought Achilles back so we could see he spent all his time in the afterlife with his "friend" Patroclus.And also their ashes ended up in the same urn, because they were such good friends.
>>25472601>It seems to undermine everything he was about in the Iliad in one sentenceYes, that's the point. The glory of war and in general is completely worthless, it's a pointless dream. The Odyssey is wisdom after the stupidity of the events in the Illiad.
>>25472601Akhileus was overemotional in the Iliad and in the Odyssee. He did not break character. The point of it wasn't so much about Akhileus himself but about giving a message from beyond the grave which is storywise quite a strong device if you think about it. The question is who would you chose to talk to Odysseus and one of the first choices would be Akhileus
I'm downsizing my personal library, I want my shelves to feel less cluttered. Which books would /lit/ consider must keeps and what should be gotten rid of immediately?
>>25463702If you're over 18 I'd be very surprised to find out you're not a troon
>>25469917I am a twenty-three year old bisexual male. I am dating a transgender man though
>>25470029what the fuck is a transgender man? isn't that just a dyke?
>>25463702Get rid of all the gay comic books.
>>25470029You're mentally ill.
Did Aragorn use a progressive income based tax system, or was it mainly based on goods and services consumed?
>>25470713Only Aragon I know, sorry.
>>25472991>women ar the future of ManFuck this woke-ass nigga.
>>25470803Uuh anon, him being a good guy is EXACTLY why he didn’t support democracy.
>>25471148>>25471170This is that Russia book where (as expected for Russians) they need to fan fiction the story to make the objectively evil industrial empire that destroys beauty and community for the sake of a tyrannical despot look like the good guys.
>>25472371sad little tradlarper
>She looked at me like I set her up for the worst turn in Jenga
>>25470584nothing really its just that she looked at me with frustration because i did something shitty like in jenga is what i meant
She looked at me like she had just shit her pants, because somehow she knew I had just shit my pants.
>>25470590You're fruity like a fresh strawberry in the dew of a spring morning, gay nigga.
>>25467741This thread is gay as fuck
>Dangling her body like a dockside whore
Which collections are absolute essentials?
>>25472202>spine-in shelvingThis person doesn't read anything they collect.
>>25472904It's in a museum. Still kind of a poor choice.
>>25472925
>>25472881makes it less about reading and more about idol worship, no?
>>25472717It's called Bauhaus, lowborn.
>Why does turning away from elite rule and institutions so often lead to corruption, instability, illiberalism, and economic decline? In Kakistocracy, Richard Hanania dissects the dominant political story of our era: the global rise of populism. The United States is one among many nations shifting from a political spectrum of conservatives versus liberals to populists versus institutionalists, opening the door for the least honest and competent figures to take power—and often be rewarded for failure.>Hanania is a legal scholar and political scientist by training, contributor to Project 2025, and repentant Trump voter. He argues that modern democracies suffer from inefficiency, special-interest domination, and incompetence. Left unchecked, he warns, these trends create dysfunction in housing, energy, health, and the economy, paving the way for corruption and creeping authoritarianism.>Despite this, populist movements, fueled by prejudice and misinformation, rarely solve these problems and instead elevate leaders who are profoundly unqualified to govern. The result is a kakistocracy, where corruption and ineptitude become routine. Hanania’s exploration spans the globe, examining the leadership of figures including Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Viktor Orbán, as well as events in countries such as Sri Lanka, Romania, South Korea, and Argentina. He discusses the ways in which the rise of populism is related to resurgent authoritarianism and why alliances between populists in the West and authoritarians abroad are based in shared values and interests.
>he thinks im gonna read all this
>>25472819>repentant Trump voter>Gets tricked by a confidence man>Instead of taking responsibility decides everything needs to burn to the ground and replaced by a strong man to tell him what to doMany such cases
Rate my stack amateurs
>>25463886>Which façade of Big Gluebinding do you like best?Some of the hardcover Modern Library books are now sewn or at least glued in signatures, so the books theoretically could be sewn if the glue starts failing.
>>25458454Post your vintage hardcover of The Bell Jar.
>>25465649Lol
>>25449796This is nothing, you should see the dyel threads on /fit/. Nerds really love to pretend they never started somewhere and then make fun of beginners.
>>25463800faggot pseud
You're about to set of on an 1800s British military adventure. Which bloke do you join up with for your military campaigns and adventures?
>>25472456Since I'm not Flashman I obviously wouldn't pick Flashman. The social company is not worth the risk of dying.
I'd go to France and rescue Eponine from Les Miserables.
>>25472485Flash is lucky for himself. Lots of people that get close to him have horrible fates
>>25472478Sharpe is military infantry Master and Commander is navyI haven't read Hornblower
>>25472751Hornblower is also navy
What are your thoughts on Bernardo Kastrup?
>>25468182Idealist monism isn't dualism, you philosophically illiterate imbecile.
>>25468134His book on Jung is excellent, its the best secondary source work on him for anyone who wants better understanding Jung but find his direct works confusing at first.
>>25468180>>Analytic idealism is a modern philosophical view stating that consciousness, not physical matter, is the fundamental substance of reality. Why is this controversial, its so flagrantly obvious, its literally impossible to have a frame of reference or perspective beyond conscious awareness. Platos cave pointed this out 2000 years ago and yet moderns are so up their own asses they're mistaking their turds for the ground of reality.
>>25471146I have only read Man and his Symbols from Jung before reading Kastrups work. I could imagine Kastrups work being confusing, because he mostly only explains what is absolutely necessary to understand the metaphysics. But yeah, at least some very basic knowledge regarding Jung would be good. I have to agree that the book is excellent. Synchronicity always seemed like an absolute schizo topic to me, but Kastrup actually offers a very interesting perspective. I didn't even know that Jung "developed" this concept in collaboration with a Nobel price winner in physics. Definitely motivated me to look more into Jung.
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