Could he have saved the modern left and prevented them from turning into what they've become if he lived?
>>24719861What’s the headband hiding
big nope
No one can do that, the DNC and GOP will eventually made into containment boards and considering almost everyone, regardless of affiliation, missing his rather blunt point regarding peoplee and their politics, there is no hope for people who see the world in such myopic terms.
>>24719863A second, smaller headband.
>>24719861Wow hes a genuis... thank you for this rabbit hole tonight.
>>24719861What would he do? Advocate for a lower age of consent? Fucking retard
>>24719861Intelligence...Is...Le Curse...
>>24719861more this guy desu but i also love DFW
>>24719861This pseud couldn’t even save himself.
>>24719861He was a republican and conservative
>>24721510Nah, he was not much for partisan politics and absolutely against such terms being applied to people and found people who identified themselves through such terms to be lacking in everything important in life. Have you ever even read him?
>>24719863A receding hairline
>>24719861No. The left is not a think tank, it’s a dogma closely related to feelings and updated every 10 years or so
>>24719861No he would've gotten cancelled for fucking too much arthoe pussy. Probably would've started a substack complaining endlessly about the woke mob.
Its the lack of sincerity that turns people away from the left, they find that kind of thing to be banal and empathy to be too much for them
>>24723129If you dehumanize poor people in Mississippi, then you were never about empathy. I find most leftists just take their anger out on lower class White people. It's the safest target and in their minds it's justified. When it's Whites/Europeans , suddenly no one is an individual and not everyone is capable. It stops being about equality. Leftists have a lot of anger which they take out on Whites. The average angry leftists larps as an empathetic person. They don't believe that everyone is equal. If they did, they wouldn't treat White people like that. They fight racism with more racism. Leftists are terrible people. They're obsessed with themselves and their own supposed intelligence. The people they hate on, if actually less than, have a reason for being ignorant. What is the leftist excuse? Why are these supposed empathetic educated leftists such assholes? Leftists are just hateful, but their ego is so massive that they have no ability to self reflect.
the problem of the left is one of technology, you see the left dominated when the paradigm was based on television, academia, and magazines. But then the internet was invented, and smart phones, and podcasts. and with this new technology the liberal gatekeepers were removed. The problem with the liberals, left, democrats, is they are still thinking in a 20th century way, while the right is playing ball in the 21st centuryno one cares about cnn, they care about some random podcaster you talk to for 3 hours, another thing is soundbites dont work anymore, you have to be willing and able to be and interesting person for a 3 hour podcast. no one cares about magazines, they care about tik tok, no one cares about academia, you can steal books and teach yourself online now.on the other hand the biggest flaw of the right is its anti intellectualism and how they want everyone to be a christ tard who believes in witch craft
>>24723790being opposed to the cathedral isn't anti-intellectualism. if anything, it's the opposite.
>>24723810come on, even trump admits his followers are knuckle draggers.right wingers have no interest in poetry, literature, philosophy, etc. they dont go to college, encourage people to go to the trades, want the factories to come back >cathedraleven yarvin knows you guys are mouth breathers
>>24723842a leftist literally just shot a rightist on on a university for discussing ideas, and leftists celebrate it. this after over a decade of leftists organizing into huge mobs and beating up rightist speakers on universities. the contemporary left is explicitly anti-intellectual. don't fall for the low-iq trap of confusing its dogmatic embrace of superficial social signals, like loving the heckin' science, for them actually caring about it when all their actions (not their words) contradict them. look at what people do, not what they say.the people shooting speakers on universities for disagreeing with them are not in favour of intellectualism, and I honestly have a hard time believing that you're so stupid that you need this pointed out to you, and that you aren't just engaging in sophistry. because sophistry is my more charitable interpretation of your takes at this point.
>>24723895oh please, you know full well if a leftist was shot you would be making wojaks of it.Dont act like you are the moral side.there are flaws on the left too, like its slave morality and political correctness.but in general right wingers are very stupid
>>24723039*deboonks*
>>24723842>right wingers have no interest in poetry, literature, philosophy, etc. they dont go to college, encourage people to go to the trades, want the factories to come back
>>24723842
>>24719861too white, too male, and too skinny
>>24723914yeah, I didn't say the right wouldn't be making fun of some guy getting shot, I said the left is anti-intellectualism, and used the celebration of the shooting of a guy on a university campus as an example of that. that this was a natural extension of the decades of anti-intellectualism on the left as represented by them beating up people on universities for disagreeing with them and basically calling everyone who argues against them slurs instead of engaging with their arguments. arguments that are very stupid and so should be easy to deboonk, but which leftists are unable to respond to effectively in any way other than with slurs and violence, because they are so anti-intellectual, and have been so for so long, that the people who represent them them are now too retarded to respond to disagreements in any other way.
>>24719863Excessive sweat.
>>24723914A leftist wasn't shot.
>>24724099it's scary to think that people that are 20 right now basically came of age during trump derangement syndrome so they think a guy like kirk is literally a fascist.
>>24724160Check out the big brains on Brad!
>>24724099>I said the left is anti-intellectualismAmerica is anti-intellectual. It has a grip on both parties. If you can’t see that I don’t know what else to tell you.
>>24723914Nah. The flaws are just its meaninglessness and mindless hedonism. There really is nothing to any of their opinions once you scrutinize them or read varied philosophical texts.Once you realize that everyone is just trying to vainly satisfy their base and meaningless cravings, all their ideological ramblings and debates start to just lose their luster.
>>24724160How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?
>>24724099>leftists are anti-intellectual>because I've seen videos where they yell at provocateurs who come to campuses for the sole point of ragebaiting 19 year olds >this proves that leftists are anti-intellectual You can't be serious
>>24723120Yeah he definitely would have been cancelled for his antics during the IJ book tour alone, not to mention the Mary Karr situation.He knew he had a problem and that's what Brief Interviews is about.
>>24719861Based on the accusations that have come out about him after his death, he probably would have been #MeToo'd into oblivion.
>>24719861He would have been canceled for his rapey/abusive behavior after "Me too" and become a more reactionary/RW figure.
>>24719861He would stop racism.
>>24728473
>>24728523Lenz was one of my favs.
>>24727687He wasn't big enough to bother with canceling, his fame came with death and that movie.
>>24728585The lighting the cat on fire and it chasing after him and the segment where Bruce Green is following behind Lenz, while he, Bruce, relives the childhood trauma of pranking his mom to death are both great, yes
>>24721764Yeah, I read IJ, he was a republican
>>24728642>I read IJThen how did you miss all of his very blunt commentary on this stuff?
>>24723914you can tell the holding the left accountable for their gravedancing works, because now they retreat to>well imagine if things were the other way aroundwhich is always a poor tool and what the right has tried to use and failed with for years.
>>24725320It's more than just yelling.It's life ruination. It's violence. And now also assassination.
>>24723842>smart people don't like meLeftists still not getting jokes.
>>24728668Probably had something to do with DFW being a republican? Why do you think having nuanced thoughts means you get to opt out of a label that still fits?
>>24719861>ould he have saved the modern left and prevented them from turning into what they've become if he lived?Read Althusser on "Mature Marx" until you understand.
>>24731582Has nothing to do with nuanced thoughts, more to do with writing a 1200 page book which puts a fair amount of the blame for the problems of society on such labels. That and all of the other related writings on the topic. Explain what makes him a republican so I can humiliate you in front of everyone.
>>24723790The left is trying all that new stuff the problem is not the technology, it's that they are insane liars with nothing interesting to say, so if they don't hold the only microphone then nobody is going to listen.>>24723842The only people engaging in any interesting thought right now are on the right, or at least, not on the left. Being a pretentious mandarin with a wall of degrees doesn't make you an intellectual, and ignoring said mandarin doesn't make you anti intellectual.
>>24731986Why are you getting so mad, lmao. Why would I explain what makes him republican if you announce you plan to humiliate me? Doesn't seem very smart on my end. Enjoy your republican writer lol. I like him too.
>>24723842>Smart people don't like meSeems obvious that he means people who like to think of themselves as "smart people", someone who reacts against any sort of social conservatism because they think only dumb hicks hold those beliefs, while they themselves live conservative lives in practice (getting married, having two kids, living in a majority white suburb, etc)