I like reading cranks who actually believe their own words and live according to their beliefs, like Mishima or Evola. Doesn't matter if I agree with their worldview, just that it's genuine and interesting. Even Francis E Dec's collected letters, god help me.Can anyone suggest some other interesting and authentic crank authors, please?
>>25279429Tolkien, he hated the modern world.
>>25279429Just came across this book after watching a clip from Tor's Cabinet. Its not exactly what you're looking for but its a biography of a crank doctor who became a politician.
>>25279429Probably Mainländer. But he didn't quite live according to it. Rather the opposite. And De Sade. As far as I remember he raped and tortured a few women.
>>25279510Tolkien?Isn't that the guy that inspired the creation of AI surveillance company Palantir?
I've never read Mishima because he was draft dodger.
>>25279541>this guy who literally killed himself in the most painful way possible on purpose was a coward especially because his works are just so problematic>never mind the fact he really was medically excluded and hilariously sickly in his youthit's weird how people go out of their way and repeat blatant slander to try and ruin Mishima, no one even actually reads him there's no threat here so why do it?you aren't even ruining him for the few weirdos who do read Mishima because they know you're lying and some kind of especially weird loser shilling demented noise into the abyss
i think bataille but idk since i heard that he tried to kill someone for "transgression" but pussied out, but in every other way i think he fits the criteria
>>25279541Which was something he spent his entire life regretting.
Joseph George Caldwell
>>25279642West Cawdweww West CawdwewwIt's West. Caldwell.
Albert Caraco had an astonishingly incelmaxxed life.
>>25279429Julius Evola tried to "walk the walk" by wandering around outside during an air raid. He thought one should deliberately court death or something. He got paralyzed.His books are boring though, whatever /lit/ may tell you. I wouldn't bother with him.
>>25279642He looks like an interesting fellow.It's always funny when intelligent people with a background in some austere, clear-cut discipline branch out into politics. They often make startling pronouncements. They're not used to hedging and fudging; they just follow the consequences of their logic ruthlessly.Bobby Fischer (chess) is one example.Ted Kaczynski (maths) is another.J G Caldwell might be another such.
>>25280089You would think that OP had formed his own opinion on Evola rather than listening to yours after making this thread - why bother saying "despite what /lit/ said"? Contrarion faggot.
>>25280260*contrarian
>>25279429Pound.
>>25279541I've never read him because he was a fucking FAGGOT
>>25280333Thanks for the input, choronzon
>>25280063Now this man looks charmingly mad at a glance and the weirdest set of backgrounds imaginable. Thanks! Just what I was looking for.>>25280333This might be fun too, ta.>>25280260Part of the reason I like Evola is because of the paralysis thing. He went out to 'contemplate his mortality' and got a dose of it right in the spine. Apparently there's a letter to Guenon from him stating he wished he could understand why his soul chose to be born into a body to be paralysed but I couldn't find it. His meditations on the peaks has some clear indications that some was added after his paralysis too, because he very obviously misses that world. A little sad, but he stuck to his guns about his 'awakening' thanks to that line from the Pali canon and didn't top himself.Weird dude, and I think his books are best viewed as a sort of religious literature but he's quite engaging.
>>25279642Could you give me a first book title recommendation? I've found a few who could be the one you're discussing. And one modern porn 'author'.
>>25279429pastor steven anderson
>>25279429Nietzsche killed his academic career when he published The Birth of Tragedy, even though he was a prodigy academic wonderkid. He was close to Wagner, and still destined for greatness as Wagner, the most influential cultural personality of that era, had chosen him as his wingman of a cultural revolution.Nietzsche destroyed that, without any bitterness, but rather the sadness of necessity, when he published human all-too-human, which Wagner saw, and logically so, as a complete attack against his worldview. His lectures were empty because students didnt want to ruin their chances at the academic apparatus, his chance to influence german cultural life died when he left Wagner, who was a major contributor to Nietzsche being essentially blacklisted in Germany at the time.He destined himself to poverty and abandonment and stuck to it, creating one of the most influential bodies of work humanity has ever seen.Bukowski also comes to mind.
>>25279624Mishimas life-long trauma and shame was that during his medical examination he exaggerated his symptoms to dodge drafting.The guy more than made up for it, but come on dude. He literally writes it out in Confession of a Mask and is tormented by his own frailty and cowardice.Avoiding to read him because of it, is of course retarded. Mishima's story is a story of man conquering his weakness.
>>25280938This, Mishima is based beyond all modern basedboy comprehension. He wasn’t even gay. In comparison to his hyper masculinity everyone else was a woman.
>>25281421>He wasn’t even gayjerking off to this doesn't seem very heterosexual
>>25279541>because he was draft dodger.That would be based if he wasn't a guilt ridden cuck over it.>>25280333This. He's a servile, masochistic faggot who hides his self-hatred behind his warrior creed.
Tranny enabling authors like Mishitma are not worth reading.
>>25281421Did you read Confessions? The entire book is about him jerking of to men, he even makes a lustful comment about his schoolmates big dick
>>25280930>Bukowski also comes to mind.While I appreciate the recommendations, I've read them both. Bucky always struck me as self aware more than a crank, personally.
Mainländer
