why don't men read books anymore?
>>535259536Why dont books read men any more?
>>535259536There aren't any substance in it"Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew." - A Song of Ice and FireAnd we're supposed to take this shit seriously
>>535259730sometimes the books you read, end up reading you.
I read probably 15-20 per year. Used to be a lot more but that was stupid. I think public education, saturation of women in publishing, and the awful stores have turned men off from books.
>>535259536>why don't men read books anymore?Men still read books. I read two at a time, one is study material, usually a philosophy book, or social critique, and the other is light-reading, usually fiction. I do the light-reading in bed, helps me fall asleep. The last two I read:"Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard and"20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules VerneBoth books are worth your while. Leagues is way better than I thought it'd be, especially if you have a map to reference, tracking the journey. >picrelCurrently reading:"Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy" by Simon Blackburnand"Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" by JRR Tolkien
>>535260582>tree huggerhow do you cope about the poor trees that were shredded to make your books?
>>535259536>why don't men read books anymore?what kind of books tho
>>535259536>average litrpg enjoyer
>>535259536SAGE(ALL FIELDS) OFF-TOPIC TOOFalseKYS
I’ve been reading the Aubrey / Maturin series, it’s phenomenal. The series was written in the 70’s and 80’s but the language is captivating, you get lost in the pages and think you’re on a 36 gun frigate off La Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
>>535259536You need curiosity and between school, high school and university, people's curiosity gets destroyed
>>535260745I don't. Trees are a renewable resource, it's the Giant Sequoia that the niggers need to keep their hands off. I'm more upset about what the retards did to The Great Lakes. By connecting them, and then connecting that chain to the ocean, and allowing ships to empty their dog shit ocean water into the Great Lakes has introduced over 180 non-native species into the Great Lakes and have altered its natural ecology. If you want to know more, read the book, "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes" by Dan Egan>picrel
>>535259536Learn Korean u dumb ass nigger… they learning seius… it’s fucked up… Brad Pitt bottom… bro… these mofos just copying old mythology… in a better setting wtf? He can smoke in the house…? wtf…?
>>535261011>canadian brings up black dick unpromptedyeah no, we're talking about books bro.
>>535259536>reading
>>535259536>implyingI'm working through a pushcart collection right now. It's been nice inspiration for my own writing, because some of the stories very much feel like things I could have done.Probably going to go back through the pile and work on editing my own stuff tonight.
>>535261265baldlaserbeamingmyeyes.jpg
R the boomers like making fun of young people for being poorer than their rendering of being broken and destitute…? They just give seius a phone… iPhone pro max 14… right now 17… it’s fucked up…
I read furry fantasy books. Gotta be careful though and make sure people don’t ask what I am reading
>>535259791Martin is a kabbalist, one single glance at the rune system and world creation lore of Elden Ring reveals this. It is imoossible fir him to not be a degenerate beast. If he has kids he definitely fucked them since they were toddlers.
Kids… if you are dumb, u will get yelled at for sacrificing your life and stuff… ok?
>>535259536What's the point of polluting your brain with some retarded faggot's thoughts?
>>535259536Because books are a stupid way to contain information in the age of the internet. The only people writing books anymore are pseudointellectual grifters.
>>535261265Lol mossad retard states only fiction books exist
>>535261265>Says he's too smart to read>Goes on to explain how he's too stupid to readThe fact that this thing tricked a ton of people into paying attention to it baffles me.
>>535261628>The only people writing books anymore are pseudointellectual grifters.That was actually more true when we only had traditional publishing. Now anyone can publish on Amazon KDP, the field has been totally democratized and gatekeepers obliterated.
>>535261832More gatekeepers than a 4chan post
>>535259536Because they became boring. I don't need to read Dostoevsky shit talking Germans for being greedy and saving the money for their offspring until they're 35 with saggy tits and only then marry them off, while he himself prefers the russian way of handling money by pissing it out of the window for booze and gambling. Then falls into depression and keeps writing some shitFuck all of dat, tell me something about the future, quantum physics, a possible Herald system out of it. Or talk to me about war, strategy, mil. technology and conquest, historyHow many people do you know, that ever heard of the Fabian strategy. Half of the books try to appease to emotions and empathy while nowadays babies are being starved to death, the other shoves you into a spiral of self pity, empathy, improvement until the next break downAgain, fuck all of that, science books and stuff like that are ok, philosophers as well some of them are quite funny, geometryBut to be fair I do wanna order and read silence of the lambs and I hope it's less vulgar than Psycho, I don't need to read the protagonist/antagonist/psycho cutting ones head off and then fucking it
>>535262180>I do wanna order and read silence of the lambs and I hope it's less vulgar than PsychoThomas Harris is fantastic. Red Dragon is one of my favorite thrillers ever written. It does get very graphic, but not quite American Psycho tier.
because they have vidya, porn, gambling, and tiktok
>>535262344I love when it gets graphic but not too vulgar, ok you convinced me, im gonna start with the silence of lambs and may work my way up
>>535260582>"Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean BaudrillardWhen it was published it was a reveal but it's rather obvious now; in fact we worked out every single (((published))) author was a mason, even Herbert Hesse
>>535261428>Martin is a kabbalistEveryone called martin is a martinist; discordians
>>535259536Too tedious, still reading all the time bpol is much more kurzweilig than buddenbrooks
>>535263082Doesn't surprise me, seems to be the case, the Masons are running the show, which is fine by me, someone has to do it. I read that Orson Scott Card, author of one of my favorite books, "Ender's Game", is also. My favorite show, "Stargate" is probably also, given that picrel is their logo.
>>535259536I think it’s because like all other media there aren’t many books being written with men in mind.
>>535263581The publishing industry has been completely taken over by w*men and they want nothing but psychopath porn. Sometimes monster porn.
Houellebecq stopped writing.Maybe I should try to learn French to have an excuse to read him again.
Probably everyone here reads a liberry's worth of shit online every day. I do both. I hone my mental faculties and refine my countersemitism online and with ink on paper.
At one point in time the only way to acquire information at all was to read a book. Now there are tons of other forms of ways to acquire the information you want without having to spend hours of your life (or money) devoted to one specific person's outlook.Like take the Holocaust. At one point you would have had to read a book but we all have a preliminary understanding of it and don't need to sit and read an entire set of books on it. If there is something specific we want to fill in on our knowledge we can just find a Youtube video, or a wiki article or listen to part of an audiobook or podcast.Personally I used to read a lot but then I felt like I learned enough for what I need or want to know. If theres something I want to know now I ask AI.
well i read a book the other day so your premise is flawed to start with
>>535263450You might enjoy Tragedy and Hope, though I preferred Quigley's other essays on Georgetown and universities. He foresaw the neet philosopher kings rejecting the universities: T&H kinda ties in with Tolkien's place of birth. I enjoyed Enders movie but it's kinda sad watching autists used by satans
>>535264181What did you read, Okonkwo?
>>535259536For non-fiction, most topics can be learned more effectively outside of books.For fiction, most new stuff is written for women as they're a much larger audience. However, men tend to severely underestimate how many great works of literature already exist.What makes the most sense to read in books is philosophy, which you ought to read cover to cover.
>>535264181I always read for about an hour before sleeping, often several hours during the day as well. 50/50 in terms of fiction and nonfiction. Some red kratom and dark ambient music on quality headphones makes the literary experience heavenly.I sincerely believe reading is the single most beneficial hobby you can possibly pick up. It's not mere acquisition of information, but also proper exercise of cognitive function as well as broadening of horizons.
>>535264428I feel like fiction peaked in the 80s in film. Everything feels recycled.
>>535259536"men"You mean the subhumans that make up 99% of this board. I read every day.
>>535260582Performative post
>>535264593What do you read, Aisha? 50 Shades of Gray and what else?
>>535264422i read scrooge mcduck life and times
>>535264116>without having to spend hours of your life (or money) devoted to one specific person's outlook>he trusts a youtuber or a podcaster or LLM that scrapes reddit opinionsbooks are far more worthy of your time. you could learn more from one of Shakespeare's plays than from an ocean of podcast slop.
>>535259536Nothing interesting. I've read everything I've ever been curious about or interested in. There's nothing left. Reading for the sake of reading feels like a waste of energy.
>>535264668based
>>535259536Because they're shit now.
>>535264591Even if that's the case, there are more good to great works of fiction already written than you can read in a lifetime. And the great thing about books is that they age much slower than film.
>>535264756Probably true. But these alternative forms of learning things evolved over time to learn how to increase the entertainment value. They throw in just enough knowledge and entertainment to keep you hooked and coming away thinking you learned something. Books are dry. I think the ultimate form of media would be an interactive experience built around a book by the author. That way you get an authentic experience and you have the bells and whistles to keep you engaged to maximize how much you retain from it. Books just can't compete with film or video games or shortform media like tiktok clips. You can have a book with tons of great information and knowledge in it but if no one wants to actually read it or its just a bunch of words on paper and thus hard for people to retain then its not as valuable as something more engaging. I don't have the patience to read Lovecraft but some of my favorite movies are based on his work. And I tried a really basic but engaging interactive VR experience of Dagon.
Become syntopical
>>535264831Post everything you've ever been curious about or interested in
>>535264188>Tragedy and HopeThanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it. > He foresaw the neet philosopher kings rejecting the universitiesThis is particularly interesting. >I enjoyed Enders movieI saw the trailer for the movie, but I refuse to watch it. I don't want the movie in my mind to be influenced by the interpretation of another.>it's kinda sad watching autists used by satansWhat do you mean?>>535264649How? Can't someone genuinely enjoy reading?
>>535259536Speak for yourself
>>535259536because they are woke trash? I would read REALLY OLD editions of OLD, very known books, but most of them are totally unavailable since new, woke revisions are thing these days.
90% of books are unironically worthless information. Especially fiction. It’s just goy slop.
>>535265050engagement is a matter of choice and habit. you can choose to let the iphone youtube dopamine suck you in, but ultimately you come away unfulfilled. a great book is actually far more engaging and enriching, but it starts with forming the habit of opening the book rather than opening youtube.
>>535264831There's "reading" and there's reading. "Reading" is indeed a waste of energy.
>>535259536why don't faggot spammers have any original threads anymore, are you all brown jewish retards now?
>>535265722just a humble German boy trying to peddle my self-pub masterpiece ;)
>>535265706>]what book is this?
>>535259536women don't like smart men
I read every day>nooo I mean you have to read about Roman history or some shit that doesn't matter!!!>>>/r/eddit/
>>535266005are you esl? reading in native language is cringe
>>535265400>What do you mean?In the film, Ender the empath is tricked into destroying the formants by the military
>>535259536Men are the only group still reading books.This is now a book thread. Post books.
>>535259536
>>535265534Imagine the smell.
>>535266005this is the male version of reading about jerking off minotaurs
>>535266083Ohh, hmm.. I read the book like a decade ago, seems like I'll have to revisit it. I thought Ender was trained to kill the space bugs?
>>535266115it was mid
>>535259730Why don't any more book more men?
Anyone that still reads books is likely also huffing their own farts regularly. Anyone who thinks that reading books is something that indicates intelligence or wealth or status or anything at all really, is just a loser with no personality and a pile of books.Everything is digital now. You're READING this comment right now. Engaging in a discussion with other people is an active use of your ability to communicate and comprehend the things you read. Luddite.
>>535259536what about philosophical discourses
>>535266361The difference is that I can select a book in advance knowing it's going to be well-written, challenging, instructive, etc. Meanwhile I can't say the same for your comments. Read a book and maybe you wouldn't be such a bitter, no personality bitch boy
>>535266239He thought he was playing a shmup but everything was real. Like the plot of Donpachi
in one of these threads someone mentioned the serpent and the rainbow and this shit is awesome
>>535266361>muh image board readingnothing produced in the digital age can compete with great literature (except for my self-pub books ofc).
>>535266452Passive entertainment. Valueless.
>>535265890Foundation by Isaac Asimov, but that's not why I posted it, it's because it illustrates how reading can be done the wrong way, the way they teach in school, just programming, or it can be done the right way, like in the image, which requires study of the Trivium. Reading without actual literacy is a waste of time, and hardly anyone is actually literate today. You shouldn't just read random shit, you should be working on acquiring a classical education, the seven liberal arts, the Trivium, that's when reading actually does something for the ascent of your soul as opposed to just wastes your time. Here's something good to read, Completely Parsed Classics. Use google lens to explain the footnotes.https://archive.org/details/CommentariesOnTheGallicWarCaesarCompletelyParsedBookIhttps://archive.org/details/completely-parsed-cicero-oration-1https://archive.org/details/fully-parsed-horace-odes-translation-pub-cohttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822003632080https://archive.org/details/progressivegerma00adlehttps://archive.org/details/easyfrenchreadin00fish
>>535266618Lolita was kino
>>535266299>it was midRussell or Spengler? And why did you think so?
>>535266519Ohhhhh. Yeah, I'll have to re-read and refresh my memory. Thanks for the heads up, fren
>>535259536I just finished the Han Shu you absolute nigger
>>535266814in praise of idleness by russel. maybe his take was high IQ for its time but it felt extremely dated. it came off as a naive person pushing socialism without seeing what it would devolve into. His points about leisure etc were based and I agree with
>>535266981It's Bertrand Russell, literally a naive person pushing socialism
>>535266239Watch the film. It's very well made. Don't think it will ruin the book. I have found books to be ruined on rereading anyway as we grow in wisdom. When I first read Siddhartha I thought it the best book ever. Then reread it 20 years later and it was trash - though the film is shockingly bad like catch 22
>>535267054You gotta watch the golem of venice, Webster Tarpley on the larouche YouTube to know just how evil Russel was; if his friendship with Wittgenstein didn't tip you off
>>535261108That's it's purpose >>535261207>wah wah not native, ecosystems have to remain static or else it's le badshut up midwit>>535266189fucking based
>>535259536Why would I read books when there is so much quality content to parse on 4chan?
>>535267283>>535267054Was he naive or evil?
>>535266981Haven't read In Praise of Idleness but working has absolutely becoming a scam. The vilification of "idleness" is also a scam.
>>535266618>Use google lens to explain the footnotes.This is what it looks like. It's one of the best uses of AI in my opinion. I use it for Euclid's Elements etc.https://archive.org/details/euclid_heath_2nd_ed/1_euclid_heath_2nd_ed/page/n253
>>535267467We've unpacked Hanlon's razor so many times! He was the original atheist but also secret society
>>535267589Work is a scam but people buy into it because they are hylic NPCs terrified of the idea of being alone with their thoughts and having free time. System we have now is ideal because if you're not an NPC there's enough options for you to not be a slave. Old system like greeks etc was crude but ineffective because a lot of slaves had spark of god and a lot of leisure guys were hylics that were simply born into it. Now wheat and chaff separates itself
>>535259536I have a weird relationship with books and probably learning in general. Unless it interest me it has no use. For that reason my teachers up till 4th grade said I might be retarded because I "couldn't read". In reality I just didn't want to read boring books. Moment I got into 4th my teacher went with me to the library and I picked out a series of unfortunate events book, finished it easily in about two weeks in 4th grade. Suffice to say its probably just based on interest and ease; you can pirate text on the internet for free compared to 20-30$ for physical copy.
I stopped reading a long time ago. I used to read all the time, everything.But since the world slipped into full-blown Idiocracy, it stopped making sense wasting time on books, when it's noisy normies that run the show. Or rich trust-fund kids that never needed to read.Reading now is done very performatively by people who feel the need to show/say they "read". It now has a sign value, as they used to call it back in the 70s. Conspicuous consumption.
>>535266981>in praise of idlenessYou might enjoy some og Keynes . Contemporary to Russell, spills some beans
>>535266586only a genuine brainlet would believe challenging yourself, learning and meditation are valueless entertainment lol
>>535266618hmmmh seems very recomplicated....
>>535259536>why don't men read books anymore?I am a man and all I do is read. Do not project your failures unto others, fed.
>>535265534It seems comfortable, but you should clean your room, if it was mine, my mind would feel cluttered.
>>535267917I wanted it but couldnt get it in Chyna. Now I'm just reading japanese smut in japanese and gook books about trends
>>535267976Shop spends his time ranting about normies and foids. 38 strategems is reddit killer; but read it from the back cause we are there now
>>535267751>Work is a scam but people buy into it because they are hylic NPCs terrified of the idea of being alone with their thoughts and having free time.This is something I find so interesting about Spengler. People didn't always think this way, only Western or "Faustian" man. The Greeks and Romans would have found the idea of "needing to work" or the "dignity of work" crazy. The ideal aristocrat or gentleman was someone whose lands and household (usually through slaves) could produce everything he needed without effort on his part. Not needing to work was proof of superiority. In contrast, our aristocrats have to pretend that working 18 hours a day, because work is seen as something positive.
>>535267976Absolutely based
>>535260582read lost world anon, that one is also good.
>>535267961No, see >>535267730.Here's the page in the screenshot.https://archive.org/details/CommentariesOnTheGallicWarCaesarCompletelyParsedBookI/page/n13>right click>search this tab with google lensOr alternatively go to lens.google.com and drag-and-drop, upload or paste an image, for example when you're inside a book on archive.org you can right-click on any page, copy image and paste into lens.google.com.Just use the select tool to select a few lines of text, ask it to explain, and any part of what it says that you don't understand you can then ask about. You can go down any rabbit hole you want with this. Click the link above and try it.
>>535268188It has to do with democracy and the tyranny of the lowest common denominator
>>535267467>Was he naive or evil?You still distinguish the two? It's 2026, do catch up
>>535259536When books were invented, do you think people were asking, "why don't men read clay tablets anymore?"Digital publishing on the internet is simply a far more efficient method of disseminating information than books.
>>535267730There is no reason in 2026 other than laziness not to acquire a classical education.
watchable videos exists
>>535269539This is the main reason for the maintenance of fake work. People slaving away for 8-12 hours a day don't have time to study the thousands of years of free accumulated knowledge and realize how they're leaders are conning them. Study takes time, energy, and mental peace. Work drains all three.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11937/11937-h/11937-h.htm#ch26https://youtu.be/IvYaOtciyfk&t=18430
>>535269904This guy's breakdowns of occult symbolism are excellent https://www.youtube.com/@MarkPassio
>>535269866Maybe, but I work full time and I still work on acquiring a classical education in my spare time. Lay off fapping.
>>535270053You're still under satanic programming. I criticized pointless toiling and your reflex was to lash out at "fapping". Yeah, that's the problem and not the fact people have to spend the majority of each day effectively digging holes and filling them back in.
>>535270012I just posted it because it's about the legend of the winding stairs, which is taught in the second degree of Freemasonry, and is about the seven liberal arts, a classical education. There's not that much occult about it, other than the fact they have occulted the knowledge of a classical education, suppressed it. see pic here >>535266618
>>535270298>here's not that much occult about it, other than the fact they have occulted the knowledge of a classical education, suppressed itYeah pretty much what all all Passio's videos are about. That and de-occulting them.
>>535270264You're still making excuses and blaming the world, thinking the world owes you something. You will never begin ascending until you stop thinking the world owes you something and take responsibility. Nobody in this world is here to teach you anything. If you want to learn anything at all you do it on your own. Like George Carlin said>there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that.
>>535259536I read older books the new slop i wouldn't dare to call a book.
>>535270053>I work full timeNPC
For fiction I'm reading this at the moment.>“A wretched people!” I said to the staff captain, pointing to our dirty hosts, who were looking at us silently, sort of dumbfounded.>“Such dim-witted folk!” he replied. “Can you believe it? They can’t do anything, aren’t capable of any kind of learning!
>>535270551>You're still making excuses and blaming the world, thinking the world owes you something.>there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixedin other words,>Don't blame the world, blame yourself>Uh, except that the world's the way it is because because evil elites are to blameRecognizing you're under attack isn't shunning responsibility it's recognizing an objective fact. Change starts from within, but you must contend with enemies from without.The entire con of the elites is to get your to take responsibility for their actions. "The vax wasn't forced, you did that to yourself! We aren't liable!" etc.
>>535268667>complains about media literacy>say the solution is to have ai to simplify the text for youyou buffoon!
>>535265808>germanyou look like a poopskinalso>love triangleits chicklit then?
>>535270781It's better than stroking your cock full time.
>>535270839>Everyone who isn't a wageslave is a degenerate masturbatorHey I have an idea let's circumcise our sons! If we flay their penis as infants they'll be less distracted and focus more on studying!As Kellogg said:"A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision... The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases."Can't have people jerking off when they could be providing value for shareholders.
>>535270811Learning aid, but you're free to read those footnotes without any aid. In reality you're reading cartoons, while I'm acquiring a classical education.
>>535265534I want to vacuum that carpet so bad
>>535262180You might like the Flashman novels
>>535271065the only thing youe acquiring is more swedish tax euros for nafri drug dealersmeanwhile ill be free of burden of thought
>>535271099>No point acquiring knowledge when you have no power.You got that backwards, shill. Liberation is not a political struggle.>For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
>>535259536i only read books with a lot of pictures in them :-)
>>535265534>Figurines in front of booksAnd how do you propose getting to those books, anon? You would have to take those figurines down in order to read them. You use that library to impress the homosexual men you meet on grinder, don't you?
>>535271434>free of burden of thoughtkekhttps://archive.org/details/TheSecretTeachingsOfAllAgesManlyHall/page/n42>>535270298
>>535271065A lot of those "cartoons" have more wisdom embedded in them than 99% literature.Imagine believing that not a single manmgaka across decades had no intellectual depth whatsoever. One Piece is an occult masterwork. Made it popular with kids too. Easily one of the best blows against the Prussian education system.
>>535259536chicks read
>>535259536I read all tge goid onesby the time I was 30, and some bad ones too.Most people are fucking retards, and just xan't read anything more complex than hairy pooper for longer than 20 minutes.In 200 years we'll be living in ruins and using books as fuel; importing browns has destroyed civilization, we cooked.
>>535271864Get fucked fag, he reads Scrooge McDuck comics and is deriding an actually legitimate use of AI, you're all coombrained fucking retards. Go stroke your cock faggot.
>>535271864Reposting because typosA lot of those "cartoons" have more wisdom embedded in them than 99% of literature.Imagine believing that not a single mangaka across decades had any intellectual depth whatsoever. One Piece is an occult masterwork. Made it popular with kids too. Easily one of the best blows against the Prussian education system.
>>535272394Looks like I'm hitting a nerve. If 4chan is a bunch of retarded degenerates why are you posting here.Keep up the liberal education (seriously). Eventually you might realize that name calling isn't a refutation.As to your pic, the fact that you're elevating those who advocate genital mutilation over those who masturbate says it all. And if you're truly schooled in classical education and the occult, you'd know that religion is just a scam to keep people enslaved.Another thing: why don't you just buy a set of Euclid's Elements? Why fight with AI and crappy PDF scans.
>>535259536People read books cause they had no net, TV or radio and they were going to say theater like once a year.When you read a book the brain struggles/effort to put everything into place, to draw the scenery and at the same time to empathize with the characters for understanding while also learning new words.A lot of time is like dreaming, poor imagery, biased approach to the narrative and characters, basically living in your own mind mental masturbation, like a man in a prison cell.People are in fact hungry for the real, practical, tangible, I think it's instinctive.
>>535259730In Russia...
>>535272394lmao nice meltdownso much of that intellectual literacy, idiot!
>>535259536>why don't men read books anymore?I enjoyed the Bobiverse trilogy.>brain implanted into a neumann probe>conquer the galaxyRecommended.
>>535272691you have zero classical education, kys faggot
>>535272822Yeah, keep reading comics, stroking your cock and deriding a legitimate use of AI, while I read The Gallic War, we're not the same.
>>535272781Shut up faggot
Reading something someone else wrote is pretty gay when you think about it
>>535259536I sold thousands of books recently in bulk. A lot of rare comic books and hard to find rare ultra "right wing radical" (their words not mine) original books for 30k to a gen z guy who runs an eBay store. I'm like- I'm not going to read them again. They're just taking up space in my shop.
>>535259791You refuse to cultivate your intellect, you heretic?!
>>535259864Plenty of classical titles to keep you busy till you die.
>>535260582High school level slop.
We are good at connecting dot by ourselves. And there is infinity data in the air.Books are just projectors to npcs. or for those with no access to information at all, like inmates.
>>535273103scrooges tale is one of resilience, ingenuity and hard workit being displayed in comic format doesnt retract from its message you reading some old emperors war tales doenst make you a some kind of intellectual
>>535261628Yea, even in the research world it's all about articles, at some point you'd gather a bunch of articles and make a book and some other nerd would cherry pick some stuff and add to to manuals so it gets standardized in the education system but that means years.
>>535262180Military strategy from 50 years or more is completely irrelevant.
>>535271350They suck ass you boomer shithead.
>>535264668>i read scrooge mcduck>I read a book for 5 year olds, look at me
>>535272981To the contrary, my erudition is such that I can see the symbolism and esoteric meaning of works you dismiss out of hand, as I've already demonstrated. This is what it means to actually be literate.
>>535271659Can you really not imagine moving an object that weights a few ounces to the side?
I tried to be an interesting unique person like Tyler Durden but when I went into the city wearing my super cool unique outfit I felt like such an attention seeking faggot and then I went home.
>>535266189>women say they want men with X>but they don't know the secret only I know that X implies a very terrible thing to women called Y, Y is incompatible with women>silly women not knowing the secret only I know that X implies Y, and that in fact they are asking for their destruction>I'll save women from their own destruction by never doing X=Y/reading books, I'll NEVER READ BOOKS AND FUCK THEIR CUNTS AND SAVE THEM! OH YEA! They should thank me, OH YEA!
>>535266361Yea, most fiction and philosophy is that way.
>>535267419This post just makes me wanna read books.
>>535267910You used to be on reddit a lot too.
>>535268253I don't need a master pessimist to ruin my life even more.
>>535274286Did you actually? You missed the point of the film, which is completely dismissing society value's and pursuing your own.
>>535273261Yea, like smelling someone else's masturbation steams.
>>535273646It's kid's shit, grow up you simple retard!
>>535273891>esotericIs madness. All magic and obscure and witchcraft and most of the other religious stuff is pure madness.
>>535274540Yea being insane, destroying your face and being an absolute night vermin.
>>535259536Faggots point to LGB shit being "banned" but would freak out over Hunter, The Turner Diaries, or The Camp of Saints in a high school library.
>>535274711>>535273103/lit/ spergs are upset lmao
>>535274767Esoteric and occult just mean internal and hidden.Most "occultism" is just psychology and trivium education wrapped in mystical buzzwords and the "nonscientific" language of the day. Actual "magic" doesn't exist. If it did, it would immediately be set upon by the same epistemological processes we use for scientific discovery, and thus immediately recategorized under the categories of "science" and "nature".
>>535259536I'm going to die someday. Why do I want to waste time reading when I can have fun
>>535259801Book covers. But do you have grand style? Let me doubt it.>Now, if our science, where physis is concerned, in its ever purer mathematization, retains from that kitchen only so faint a whiff that one may legitimately wonder whether there has not been a substitution of persons, the same cannot be said where antiphysis is concerned — that is, the living apparatus presumed capable of taking the measure of the said physis. There, the smell of frying grease unmistakably betrays the centuries-old practice, in that same kitchen, of preparing brains.
>>535263711This>Have sister>Sister's dream is to become a novelist>Mentions in her own Bio that writing is her way of expressing her deepest feelings>Writes dark romance
>>535274540I did. I tried being 'myself'. It's retarded. It's attention seeking behaviour.
>>535275649Nah, people have just been inculcated into the dronelike uniformity demanded by corporations. Look at the color of cars today vs a few decades a ago. Corporations decided color was bad and now a brightly colored car is remarkable. Any negative attention this garners you is others' self loathing at the fact they don't have the balls not to be conformist. Fuck other people's normie opinions.
>>535275995Ultimately you're choosing a different colour because you want other people to notice it. Nobody does anything just for themselves.
>>535275163reading shit like this makes me so happy I dont have a sister. I couldnt take it and would crash her minecraft server.
>>535259536Like Brad Pitt would read that incel self help shit lmao
>>535270818>you look like a poopskinuhhh i have blonde hair and blue eyes? is the water in Mexico making you blind?
>>535274884negatory your argument seems to be incorrect in its premise
>>535276105I have a sister and she's dating a non. I won't say where he's from. It doesn't anger me, but I've accepted that I'll never voluntarily speak to her again.
>>535276164>incel self help shit lmaoit's a thriller novel.
>>535276094Did it ever occur to you that you might choose a color just because you like it more? You're completely outsourcing your thinking through a consensus filter like a woman.
>>535259536I love to read when I was in prison but after I got out fuck dem books and shit
>>535274413and yet, here we are anon
>>535276313Did it ever occur to you to think past step 1?
>>535259801The triangle looks like an low effort vagina
>>535275146>a stylish franc you will love The Dark Triad, it is born out of noir.
>>535262180>Dostoevsky shit talking Germans for being greedy and saving the money for their offspring until they're 35 with saggy tits and only then marry them off, while he himself prefers the russian way of handling money by pissing it out of the window for booze and gambling.Retarded characters doing retarded shit can be great point of reflection. Its the oldschool version of police bodycam videos.
>>535259536Prevalence of short form content + other forms of spending time. It's difficult for the average person to sit down for 3 hours reading a book even once or twice a week. I do have the time because I live alone and don't have a lot of friends so I have at least weekend mornings free.
Old books can be good, I'm reading War and Peace now. Its always refreshing to find some casual racism, sexism and antisemitism in there.
>>535275163>Writes dark romanceDoes the German language help with the dark romance vibe?
>>535259536they do tho just not modern slop
>>535276857Alright, I'll give it a try!I've been exploring old school french alienists lately. Found this on a page about Clérembault.>Anyone who has not spent time at the Special Infirmary remains ignorant of the virgin forest of psychiatry: the observation of the patient fresh off the streets, apprehended at home in the wake of a neighborly dispute, or transferred straight from prison. Here, there is nothing of the greenhouse patient, whose ailments are cultivated or distorted by interrogations and treatments. Still less of the herbarium patient, withered by a long confinement within the walls of a provincial asylum. While the dilapidated, somewhat carceral premises of the Quai de l'Horloge never see a ray of sunlight, this damp cellar is illuminated by the raw light of facts—leaving no room for the twilight where mirages lurk and dogmas are born, just as ghosts and fairies emerge from the mist.>[Prof. Léon Michaux, Inaugural Lecture, offprint, Paris Faculty of Medicine]
>>535259536They do but it's only "men" doing it.5'6 losers in those boxy fit clothes with painted nails
Since I realized that reading has no actual use as the full-blown AI-powered social media Idiocracy is coming to every democratic country as >>535267910 pointed out, I've started treating reading as videogame or simulation of sorts, when I read philosophy for example, I pretend to debate with the author with no pretense whatsoever that it will lead me anywhere. A brain workout, if you will.
>>535259801yup.
>>535259801>pic unrelatedYeah, definitely not popsci slop for edgy faggots. Are you 16?>>535276531Curiously, I think about fucking IRL women a lot more when I don't watch porn. Almost as if the entire point of quitting porn is to release the innate sexual energy of any man who is not suffering from low testosterone.
>>535278539That passage is eerily reminiscent of Dark Triad's plot. you basically described the backstory of the psychopath character. Enjoy it!
>>535278977>popsci slop>>535276299
>>535259791Why would you read this trash
I read. The people saying books are obsolete or there are more efficient ways to learn neglect the fact that 95% of the information in modern internet media originated in a book somewhere, or exists because the field was shaped by what was published in a book at some point. That's what's wrong with modern society, and all societies really, they learn to enjoy the fruit without considering the importance of the tree
>>535259536currently reading infinite jest. Its by turns very fun and rewarding, and then very annoying.I am also obsessed by the mutiny on the bounty saga and will read any thing on that.
