>>25125061Wtf is reactionary about Pessoa? But yes, OP, Americans do really be retarded. Unironically the world would be a much better place if Columbus did in fact find his way to India.
>>25125073He's an incel.
>>25125073To be fair he said contrarian not reactionary. But he was only so contrarian because he had to deal with mouth-breathing retards who were his day’s intellectual equivalents to the redditor in the op
>>25125061>not the type of literature people need to be reading in this political climateWhat did he mean by this?
I don't crack spines on my paperbacks, why would I do that
>>25125081And he produced some of the best Portuguese literature ever so thank god he was a celibate instead of wasting his time chasing after women
>>25125093>he produced some of the best Portuguese literature everfirst place in the special olympics
>>25125061>in this political climatelmao
>>25125089He means that unless every expression of his enemies' ideology is suppressed, his has no chance of winning and he knows this perfectly well. In a fully controlled society reading reactionary views might be accepted because they have no possibility of implementation, but until his side are able to fully control all parts of the political process, dissent even in thought must be suppressed.Neat how Orwell was a socialist himself and still saw it coming, huh?
>>25125061How does he know if he hasn't read him
>>25125061The vast majority Americans, be they republicans, democrats, far left or right, etc. don't view literature as independent from politics. It's just another arena of the culture war struggle for them. You can even see this on /lit/ itself
>>25125491The idea is that you derive your ideology from being educated by reading as many books as possible, not that you only read books confirming your existing ideology.You should try to read the most convincing arguments for the opposite of what you already believe so that you can confirm that you're correct or realize that you're incorrect and adapt accordingly
>>25125088>not reactionaryPessoa was a hardcore monarchist.
>>25125638Can you read? I said that the guy in OP’s image said Pessoa was a contrarian and didn’t say he was a reactionary, which nobody was either affirming or denying.
>>25125636Nobody in the history of ever has actually cared about arguments against their ideology
>>25125646>Can you read?I obviously cannot, RETARD.
>>25125655You never know these days. About half of zoomers aren’t able to and just use TTS
>>25125092Because you want them to lay flat on your lap or a table
>>25125651Except me
>>25125107thats not what he means and you are either extremely bad faith or extremely stupid
>>25125073*Responds to a literal reddit post lolFuck off, redditor
Make posting reddit screencaps a permabannable offense already for fuck sakes...
>>25125073He was a nationalist mystic.
>>25125061>>25125073Obsessed
>>25125073Why are you faggots so obsessed with the US? What faggot ass country do you have to live in where you obsess over another one you don't even live in?
>>25125962Reddit screenshots with the usernames redacted at that, which means OP is reading some kind of meta snark subreddit and crossposting things here
>>25126000La gente de España saben toda la historia de los EEUU y los estadounidenses solo saben Columbus.
>>25125061Marxism is a prosthetic intelligence. Idiots keep repeating these platitudes because it's their only opportunity to appear clever.
>>25126355y estámos trabajando no saber columbus también
>>25126000Probably some third world shit hole where feces contaminates the water
>>25125073This that new gen soi-fed cattle. Check them out on goodreads too.
>>25126355y todos los dicks de los EEUU fucken tua mama o algo asi
>>25126355What? This is an english speaking board, brownie
>>25126355>My countrynobsesses over another country's history!What exactly is this supposed to prove Don Quixote? That your history is irrelevant to your own people?
Mutts got really butthurt, huh?
>>25127688Yanks whining about nothing, in other news grass is green and the sky is blue.
>>25125073>Wtf is reactionary about Pessoa?You guys don't know because you don't read his poetry (for which he is MUCH more known about in Portugal than for the Book of Disquiet), but he made a book with epic poems about the Portuguese discoveries and nationalistic concepts like Quinto Império
>>25125638>Pessoa was a hardcore monarchist.No, he wasn't. That was Ricardo Reis.I think Pessoa at first welcomed the Republic, because he was anti-clerical, but he eventually grew disappointed and recognised that the monarchy was better than the Republic. Or Salazar.
>>25127741>he made a book with epic poems about the Portuguese discoveries and nationalistic concepts like Quinto ImpérioBased. Might give the little incel a read.
