Where the hell can I read HIGH QUALITY, LONG FORM, and actually clever social commentary about CURRENT stuff that's going on: culture, politics, whatever.I saw a video essay on the rise of Nick Fuentes by ReasonTV (libertarian magazine, not saying it's good) but having followed him for like 10 years, it was one of the few videos that seemed like they actually knew what they were talking about, unlike everyone else who's just trying to push their agenda. It was pretty cool and made me nostalgic for the 2016 days.I know most of the good shit is on Substack but all I read are fat feminists. Can you guys just drop the best politics/culture/philosophy Substacks?Philosophy ≠ "Intersection of Hegel's footnotes with sexism and HR synergy" (and it's just retarded forced connections that make no sense)
fuck off nazi
>>25118299I just want to follow along with a thread and be like "yeah facts, his is true, this is exactly what's going on," like when I read Ortega y Gasset. I've been chasing that high but all I find, as I said, are people making frameworks within frameworks, which is ironic because that's what Ortega warned us about all along. People major in philosophy but they don't learn philosophy, they learn philosophers. So all they do is say "hmmm, what would [insert philosopher] say about [insert political topic]" and they just say retarded shit and title it "A Baudrillardian Analysis of the Trumpian Simulacrum" and they think they're clever but they're not saying anything at all. It's all lobotomized.>>25118302I don't even like that faggot
TLDR: just post your favorite substacks
>>25118315>>25118307>>>>25118299and if it's not substack just anything: magazines, X accounts, newspapers, whatever. As long as it's LONG FORM and not bite size.99.9% of what I read is lobotomized.
By the way, and sorry that I keep bumping my own thread all the time.There's 4.2 million people graduating, which means there's at least 500,000 papers being written, from PhD, Master's and undergraduate level. There's no way there's not a single one worth reading.
>>25118299Only substack I've ever read multiple articles on was Seymor Hersh's fwiw
https://benthams.substack.com/
Is there any audience for Onion-style satire comedy? I just started doing that I think they're pretty funny
>>25118328Do you actually want to read academic papers if they’re not trash? I’m sitting on a ton of stuff but nothing is posted, but that might change soon.
>>25118299>I know most of the good shit is on Substack but all I read are fat feminists. >fat feministswhere are these fat feminists you speak of? I see none on there.anyways, here's mine (ready to get slammed for it to which I'll have the proper come backs wiped your mom's chin for you): https://adolfstalin.substack.com/
>>25118400>effective altruism>jewish physiognomyyep, I'm thinkin' psyop. why does this philosophy so many shills?
>>25118668*Have so many shills>>25118666*off your mom's
London Review of Books, fell in love with it when I read Meeks' overview of a UK reform takeover in a post-industrial small town
>>25118307I understand what you are talking about. People learn all those philosophers and instead of coming up with their own thoughts, they keep recycling the old world views. I did enjoy reading Jared Henderson articles on stoicism, I do dislike this whole internet stoicism fever, it sounds like some retarded corporate bullshit for people who didn't had parents to educate them, because honestly, most of stoicism was already incorporated into christianity, and the article was basically that stoicism without providence is mostly bullshit that people treat like it is something crazy that will work wonders in your life. Check him out, he wrote two it in two parts.
>>25118299https://hwfo.substack.com/
anyone who can't run their own website/blog isn't worth reading
>>25120945Running a blog is easy as fuck. Everyone could do it. Substack has far, FAR better discoverability.
>>25118299>Where the hell can I read HIGH QUALITY, LONG FORM, and actually clever social commentary about CURRENT stuff that's going on: culture, politics, whatever.Letters from an American.
>>25118299Biggest cunt on Substack.
>>25121069..post moar
>>25118299If you want some pretty indepth takes on Catholic doctrine and some stuff that happens regarding Catholicism in America, check Christian Wagner.https://open.substack.com/pub/scholasticanswersHe has a youtube channel too.https://youtube.com/shorts/BDHL2Y0Te9w
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>>25120969>discoverabilityI thought it was literally the opposite, that it's rather hard to find individual Substacks if you search on Google or Bing.
>>25121610Not really. I started one and it is easier to get people to read your stuff. You don't have to write that SEO bullshit, you can just write your stuff without worrying about shit like that.
>that substack from the /lit/izen who died as a foreign volunteer in ukraine>only one post, and it's about neolithic feminism being bad or somethingI miss the guy and thats why its my favourite substack. I don't read the site.
Just saw that Q is posting on Substack:https://substack.com/@quentinscobie
>>25121617So you can start with 0 subscribers and still find readers by just posting stuff?
Numb at the lodge is pretty good.
>>25121822Yes, I kinda managed to get 12 people to view my last article (wrote 4 until now). Got one like, I didn't really got anyone to comment and talk about it, but it is a series of 6 articles, so it is not 100% complete. Still, I had some decent talk with some dudes about my first one.
>>25121866post it so we can check it out
>>25121877https://open.substack.com/pub/umlouco/p/o-fim-da-escassez-e-o-abismo-dasIt is all in Portuguese, but this will be a cool series of articles.
>>25118299"The New Jerusalem" -- Andrew & Spencer Klavan (the only reason to go on Substack)
>>25121906This is the first of a series of 6 that I'm planning. The other ones are completely unrelated to this.
should I start a substagg?
>>25119608Honestly I can't stand the whole greek statues and christcuck quotes thing. It's so tiresome. We get it, you're "stoic", you go to the gym, you say "deus vult" and you listen to phonk. But it always comes down to two extremes: either a dull simplification of classical greek and hellenistic philosophy, of which stoicism is merely a subset, or post-constructivism / post-structuralism a la Foucault and critical theory. Everyone uses these frameworks to push political agendas but no one actually says anything worthwhile. It's frankly exhausting in its repetitiveness. Maybe there's a third archetype, which is the "enlightened" /lit/ /x/ crossover that talks about platonic idealism or gnosticism and fractals as though they've stumbled upon ancient esoteric knowledge, when anyone reasonably well read knows none of this is revelatory. And they're like "GUYS MATERIALISM IS REDDIT, IT'S CRINGE" insert CIA studies about mind control and MKUltra. Wow, congratulations on catching up to what everyone else already knew.
>>25119608>>25122031FWIW, I went through that exact phase myself when I was 15.I remember making a chess.com account with Marcus Aurelius as my profile picture. But if you're pushing 30 and that's still the extent of your intellectual engagement, you're NGMI.
>>25122023It is better than starting a blog. I thought about making a blog. I had one before, but no one would read it, and I would have to promote or get into that SEO faggotry. If you just want to write, it is better, and if you want to make money out of what you are writing, it is probably better too, but I'm not sure if it is better than medium.
the best substack is my journal which you won't get to read
>>25118299>Denounces political agendas>Follows political media
The overabundance of worthless American micro-blogging is the symptom of an entire people who has been told they're unique special individuals but whose natural place would be in the coal mines or in the tomato fields.
>anon said, doing the exact same thing he decries
BONUS POST: this post was always going to exist I just wanted to tickle your parasocial pleasure centers.
>>25122073Writing fiction used to be the traditional path for escaping the navel-gazing personalism of biographical writing. I don't think "Blood Meridian" had much to do at all with McCarthy himself as man.
>>25122073Not really, people who write usually think while they write, so they were going to think those things anyway. The difference is that they are sharing those things.
>>25121906So, what do you guys think of it?
>>25123569I don't read Portuguese... so I can't read it.
>>25123599Alright, mate, I've got you. This is a fascinating piece—very "evolutionary psychology meets modern malaise." I’ve kept the tone grounded but intellectual, making sure the transition from the Savannah to the digital age feels as jarring as the author intended.Here is the translation:From Scarcity to Surplus: The Evolutionary MismatchHominids emerged in the African savannas within a hostile environment, kicked out of the trees and forced to live in groups to defend themselves against predators. Scarcity was always the rule; everything was in short supply, and even the slightest advantage could guarantee survival. During a drought, consuming an extra 100 calories could be the difference between life and death. This is why we have such an intense craving for sugar and fat (the two together are even better—I’ve quit sugar myself, but I won’t lie, ice cream is amazing). The instinct to hoard likely originated here as well (perhaps even earlier, but that’s a topic for another text). The Venus of Willendorf: Portrayed as obese with ample breasts, likely used in fertility rites.This constant state endured from the emergence of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago throughout our time as hunter-gatherers. Even through the transition to farming and sedentary life 12,000 years ago, and up until the mid-20th century, there was no way to solve this problem. The global organization defined by "lack" shaped human physiology to deal with scarcity, never with abundance.Haber-Bosch and the Green RevolutionThe shift began with the discovery of the ammonia synthesis process in the early 20th century, which decoupled agriculture from animal manure. Before the ammonia reaction, humanity mined bat and bird guano, depending on it for fertilizer and even gunpowder (there were even conflicts over access to "bird poop islands"). With this discovery, we learned how to pull "bread from thin air."The Green Revolution brought forth all the technology associated with fertilizers, and calories shifted from a scarce resource to a cheap commodity. (Strictly speaking, we have had enough food for everyone on Earth since 1970).Until that point, humanity prospered in an environment of scarcity; our entire physiology and subsequent ethological behavior were selected and molded by that context. But the flood of resources didn't just stay on our dinner plates—it overflowed into our senses.What are the big differences, after all?
>>25123611We have enough music to last more than a lifetime; the same goes for movies, books, and every type of media. Even our circadian rhythm has been disrupted; we traded sunlight and fire for LED lights and blue-spectrum screens that hijack our melatonin all day long. We receive real-time news about 8 billion people when our brains are evolutionarily wired to function harmoniously with about 200 people (Dunbar’s Number).What prevents those immersed in this from seeing what they’re caught in is the nature of technology itself. It infiltrates society so rapidly that, from one generation to the next, it becomes fundamental. Once it becomes infrastructure, it acquires an air of permanence—as if it always existed. Children growing up with it can’t truly imagine a world without it (the other side of the abyss).The Calm Before the StormThose born around the 1960s lived in a world completely different from today’s—one much closer to what had existed since the dawn of humanity. My mother (who grew up in São Paulo) used to buy meat from a horse-drawn cart that passed down her street, which was still unpaved. Her home was lit by gas lamps; the food she ate was mostly whole foods with very little industrial processing. Antibiotics were only just appearing in hospitals (it was common for children to catch scarlet fever and either die or go deaf).The Generational Abyss: Developing in a New EnvironmentThe challenge of modernity is learning to handle this immensity of resources without suffering from overconsumption, while still enjoying their availability. However, there are differences in how we interact with this environment: older generations had already fully developed before being gradually exposed to this new world; their children’s generation grew up and developed within it.This is why I believe it is impossible (or perhaps just extremely difficult) for the older generation to understand what happens to those who grew up in this medium. There is a massive difference between learning to live in a certain world versus growing up in it; the needs of a developing mind are different. (Indeed, research shows that first-generation immigrants often commit fewer crimes than the second generation, who have already been assimilated).This inability to understand is evident in the claims the older generation makes about the youth. When they say they could hold a job and handle responsibilities at 14 while helping at home, yet complain that their children can’t even do well in school, they are seeing a reflection of a problem that likely has material roots, but which they perceive as purely psychological or behavioral. They view it as a simple matter of "wanting it enough" and "making it happen."
>>25123612They try to measure the performance of new generations with a yardstick that no longer makes sense. They fail to realize that a materially saturated world produces psychic challenges that the world of scarcity couldn't even imagine. In the end, the abyss is twofold: on one side are those who don’t understand that excess is just as damaging as lack; on the other are those who have never known silence or boredom, and don't even realize that something has been stolen from them.This is article one out of probably six.
>>25121067I'm subbed to that. Doesn't a foid write that one?
>>25118299Astral Codex Ten and Thing of Things are pretty good.
>>25118668Suffering is bad and happiness is good, it really is that simple.
>>25123632If the writing and the ideas are good who cares what the writer has between their legs?
>>25123686Utilitarians will actually believe this is a sound foundational worldview
>>25121822You can be a commenter on others’ postsIt’s just like THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET circa 2003 but corporate and somehow not gay
Lance S. Bush.
https://artchad.substack.com/
>>25122073I wish I was working in the tomato fields.
>>25123611>>25123612>>25123613>>25123599So, what do you think of it?
I realized that starting a substack is a better idea than starting a blog, but I already made a kewl website...
>>25121672Post link
>>25121929i don't read gays
How about you read books instead you fucking FAGGOT?
>>25123686This>>25124183Do you have any actual arguments for why it isn't?
>>25125225>evolutionary psychology meets modern malaisestopped reading here. Your drivel is obviously not worth my time. Stop trying to be quirky and write something interesting baka baka
>>25126500No, there is no malaise, it is our bodies working as intended. If anything the world is sick and turned into a hostile place and that affects people since ancient times. It is not a 'malaise' that is gemini's take after translating only the first article. It is about how people work, and maybe even how to circumvent that problem.
>>25118299Mine but I have my full name on it so I don’t wanna get doxxed. Maybe there’s a lesson there about the wisdom of a pseudonym.
>>25126245>goodspook>badspookhope that clears things up
