/lit/ - Literature

>>14346080
Legend. Maybe youll go totally mad and write something amazing.

>>14346080
as much as i love drugs, i find them to be a harmful crutch. i have begun to notice that depression is a cycle, it shocks our brain into realizing whats important. i always feel best on mornings after a night of wanting to kill myself. normally i would smoke weed till i pass out but i havent been able to get any recently so ive had to just sit with the sorrow, it teaches you things if you are open to it and dont block it out with intoxications.

that being said i still smoke a fuck ton of weed, just putting the idea out there, good luck anon.

shut the fuck up you subhuman dickhead OP
nobody wants to hear your gay ass stories
we're here for book discussion, not dicksucking

>>14347973
absolutely, unequivocally, categorically based

>>14349379
>i always feel best on mornings after a night of wanting to kill myself
This happens to me too. When I get absolutely miserable and the pain gets unbearable, the next few days I feel content and somewhat numb. Though I don't think it's necessarily the result of some realization. I've always thought this is your brain giving you a bump to give you a chance of fixing things.

>>14346083
'If a book is obscure then everyone who talks about it is the author and shilling', your opinion is shit and I've seen Animal Money if not discussed then at least acknowledged on /lit/ at least several times. Also there's no comic book in anon's post and being an asshole in general and calling people left and right 'basedboys' isn't better than being one

>>14346205
Serious question: were you crying when you wrote this?

>>14346157
Oh my, you've a spicy FetLife, xir

>>14346231
Holy schnikeys, this Anon is unstoppable!!

>>14346264
Here’s you.

>>14347913
Super dense, like an intense academic wikipedia on psychoanalysis for the first few chapters. Definitely something you dont read for enjoyment but rather to gain understanding which in turn is worth it in the end. No need for a companion with the internet available

>>14346034
>feminism
I'm sorry but if someone who pretends to be a philosopher and strives for truth has any ties with feminism I simply ignore. They already have a specific agenda that they want to affirm, they don't want truth and so I'm free to ignore their anti-intellectual writings.

>>14346034
bump

>>14348814
yea

>>14346034
Empire of the senseless

>>14347332

Agreed with the good points made above. Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNbnineUCI

>>14347369
That's like saying "we don't want to target blacks, we just want to target basketball playing Americans".

>>14347294
It's not. They embraced the Muslim bloc vote, and have huge numbers of Muslim members and councillors. The average Muslim is pretty anti-jew.
It's actually had other effects too, under the Labour government it was very hard to get funding for anti FGM stuff as they knew it would antagonise the Muslim vote in a lot of marginal constituencies

Imbeciles
This is an accelerationist victory

>>14345963
Genealogy of Morality is his most ‘systematic’ work and a decent introduction.

Read BGaE, then The Genealogy, then Zarathustra, those are the three absolute essentials.

The Gay Science, Birth of Tragedy, and Will to Power are also very interesting. In fact every single one of his books are interesting, just those especially so. Birth of Tragedy is wild, imaginative, but not yet his fully matured thought. The Gay Science is his maturation out of any kind of pessimism into a more optimistic tone, and WtP is an anthology and the most mature. Will to Power requires a very critical eye, though, considering they're notes that went through an editing/ordering process after his death.

>>14346341

leaving pessismism is not a true maturation, though. Cioran said as much when he critiqued Nietzsche's bombast in his proper work, preferring his frailty and admissions of weakness in his private correspondence. Here, the "dynamite" forgot itself, remembering its humanity.

Nope, where should I start? I'd prefer something that isn't just apologetics, and as I recall he wrote a variety of stuff. But I only know about him from a couple passing references

>>14345900
You could always start with his poetry. It's all free to find on Google and it's pretty good.

>>14345896
I tried, but I'm too much of a brainlet.

>>14345867
I'll do it in a sentence:
Nihilism, total and utter loss of feeling there is a purpose in life, is because we view life through the imagined lens of a camera that de-subjectivizes everything, and fills us with dead sensations, so we don't feel there is anything true, real, or dead, so we feel life's meaningless because of a trick in perspective.

>>14345867
Literally me.

>>14346872
Yep. And if you upload videos of said debates and use really clickbait titles, you give watchers the impression of who has won the debate already before its even started, making them biased while watching the debate itself

>>14346888
how

>>14346888
Oh
That pic
ok

Norm MacDonald is a comedic genius and a genuinely likeable person. Listen to this and tell me you don't like this man. https://youtu.be/ZzrfOy9pCq4

>>14347424
Noble old soul talking with some hedonistic chimps. It's funny how incomprehensible it is to them. I'd sit down with Norm to talk about life and God, no need for jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDUnHv_g70

>>14347159
Norm is the most obvious INTJ out there. He's a hermit and just reads the same few books over and over, so basically just like Uncle Ted.

In case some of you don't know, Norm McDonald voices pigeon in Mike Tyson Mysteries (and Tyson voices himself)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhL3nax-Zhs&list=PLieWdNjlmHjrCNpRp3dEqubRt-ZefCkLo

>>14347080
Just saw some of it. Very disappointing. He's just accepted at face value the dogmas of empiricism but just believes anyway. When ask ed how he would prove God he just says "I don't know I'm not a scientist" which just gives atheism all the ammunition

>>14345853
This

I recommend aging past 16, OP.

>>14345848
The easiest thing to manage at first is going to just be getting your body moving. Get out of the basement and take a walk. Keep at that for a while and move up to weights. Do some side work landscaping or painting. Your head will clear after a while and you can start working on the more difficult things. Priority one is stomping your boredom.

>>14345848
The coomer mindset is largely a result of social isolation. Your mind becomes so repressed and lonely that you descend into a chaotic, lustful nature. See: >>14345914

>>14345848
nice meme

>>14345848
>incel stays sexless for 10 years
>hates himself because his body is producing sex-wanting behaviors
>hatred was caused by a 4chan meme

Your reading list is shit. Let me write you a proper one (i.e. one that suits my tastes).
>Memories of Silk and Straw -- Saga
>The Setting Sun -- Dazai
>Snow Country -- Kawabata
>Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea -- Mishima
>The Tartar Steppe -- Buzatti
>The Centurions -- Laurteguy
>Pure Land Sutras
>Kyougyoushinshou
>Tao Te Ching
>Zhuangzi
>Timaeus and Critia -- Plato
>Consolation of Philosophy -- Boethius
>Cloud of Unknowing -- an anonymous monk
>Christus Victor -- Aulen
>Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum -- Ruddiman
>The Geographical Pivot of History -- Mackinder
>The Influence of Sea Power Upon History -- Mahan
>The Decline of the West -- Spengler
>Man and Technics -- Spengler

>>14346292
Yowza! You like your books, mister!

you want to buy two cocks to suck?

>>14345807
>Tao Te Ching
>Zhuangzi
These
Also some Baudrillard and Bataille

>>14352872
>authoritarian socialism
That’s redundant

>>14350164
They're the same, if you want to be consistent. All property is about limiting other's freedom and hence a form of slavery.

>>14352965
>All property is about limiting other's freedom and hence a form of slavery.

>>14352965
why are you talking about property?
you aware that liberalism is pro-property and that socialism is just against having private companies?
Do you come from /pol/ to believe that liberalism and socialism is the same thing?

>>14345801
>is this the peak of boomer intellectualism?
No, '1984' is.

>>14361203
Any thing Ahab is awesome, the main reason I read Moby Dick and Im glad I did.

>>14345798
Obsidian Gate's The Nightspectral Voyage has good lyrics:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Obsidian_Gate/The_Nightspectral_Voyage/25378

Read "When Death Unchains the Spectre" for a sample.

Absu

bump

>>14345798
Deathspell Omega

>>14345747
Nah, Plotinus btfos him. All other Philosophy is a footnote under Plato and Plotinus, there is nothing left after you read them

>>14345747
Meh. Plato was much more intelligent than Aristotle. And the greatest genius who has ever walked this earth is Dante.

>>14346449
>Plato
Dude, Plato flat out admitted that he was full of shit in Parmenides
>Plotinus
Lol no

*invents the empty set*

*makes all plato-less peripatetics too ashamed to exist*
nuttin personnel ariboble

>>14345752
Post insights.

>>14345800
I've been posting them and will continue to post them for at least as long as I have finals to procrastinate over. I do so as a volunteer night-watchman, unpaid, unseen, unthanked. But above all, I am not your lapdog to play tricks with!

>>14345672
whats the point of this thread

>>14345672
No, but the lack of realism in art cheapens the overall value and quality of the medium.

>>14345672
>Art should represent Reality
Fixed.

>>14345653
Jekyll and Hyde

idk read it you dum dum

>>14345653
Nabokov says a lot of shit.
Find out yourself.

>>14345653
I read it and I liked it. Mind you, I was like 16.

>>14345643
>Publish ebooks for free online and periodically insert my own writing in it changing key details.
>waiting for the day some idiot tells me how Humbert rapes Dolores like in my fan fiction

>>14345779
that’s a good idea

>>14345655
>big pharma good

>nationa bestseller
Nope. Why you reading pop polisci books from a decade ago anyways?

>>14345677
>polisci

>>14345777
Well I don't really care what it is, I just know it's gay

>the media that loved them
idk what American media they were consuming that loved the guys on the cover

>>14345727
uhhh so you figured out the solution?

>>14345727
>I could focus on anything, everything I read was interesting and I immediately “absorbed” it. I was outgoing, I wanted to actually see people for once in my life, I wanted to learn and meet new people. Then when the effects wore off and I went back to not being able to read I became insanely depressed, I felt like a defective human knowing what my brain was actually capable of.
That's the usual effect speed has on people

>>14345706
but i don't want to build a habit of buying books when i haven't read the ones i've got yet. there's something vital in buying a book only when you feel it calling to you - a kind of inertia that carries you forward even while reading. scarcity produces focus while abundance produces laziness.

>>14345740
>>14345727
no. not the solution. amphetamine usage amplifies confidence and attention span, not intelligence.

OP, your problem is probably attention. you're not able to "intake" complicated sentences because you can't focus on concepts and structures that you don't implicitly understand.

like >>14345663, I recommend reading to yourself if you're an "auditory" learner, or copying word by word difficult sentences or whole paragraphs, if you're a "visual" learner. as a visual learner, I find copying and summarizing difficult information really helps when my attention span is failing me.

drugs like adderall will make it so you never learn skills like these, and you will be unable to function without the drugs. and you will become addicted. you will experience the depressive comedown every time the drug wears off. not because the drug shows you what you are capable of, but because the drug opens neural paths for repetition of itself.

repeat good habits, not bad ones.

>>14345571
i sometimes also happen to have this. it's when i spend too much time on youtube/chans or twitch and then immedietely try to read a book which has little less to reality, like war and peace (not some sci-fi).

what you need to do is calm yourself down for few hours and do something not so enjoyable like working or learning. then when you finish, some classic piece of literature will be a relief for your brain

>>14346165
i don’t have that edition, just found the picture online, but i do have the burton translation which is beyond based

>>14346168
wow, i actually didn’t know he died. i took a break from /lit/ around august and only came back a couple days ago

>>14346170
you might enjoy John Barth, who is actually still alive, and who was greatly influenced by story cycles like the Arabian Nights

>>14346174
I quit /lit/ periodically but I found at that Bloom was dead the day he died, some friends informed me. I am still pissed that he wasn't listed under "recent deaths" on Wikipedia's homepage

>>14345743
Hi French Sephardi. I remember you.