/lit/ - Literature

What did I think of this?

Any good /lit/ podcasts out there?

What is postmodernism?

>everything is just a cope for the fact that you’re gonna die
This is just cope for the fact your life is so worthless and meaningless that the most substantial passion you have to endure is death.

What does lit/ think about medium.com and its Partner Program?

https://medium.com/earn

Good evening /lit/. It's once again time for me read you a poem before bed. Tonight we'll be taking a look at a man who most likely didn't experience winter in the same way that the majority of us do. On this cold December evening, let’s consider the following poem by W. S. Merwin. An American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. His writing derived influence from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.

December Night - W.S. Merwin

The cold slope is standing in darkness
But the south of the trees is dry to the touch

The heavy limbs climb into the moonlight bearing feathers
I came to watch these
White plants older at night
The oldest
Come first to the ruins

And I hear magpies kept awake by the moon
The water flows through its
Own fingers without end

Tonight once more
I find a single prayer and it is not for men

Good night friends, and sleep well.

>hey anon you said you wanted to read this? yeah im all done with it, its all yours now champ

Are there any enlightenment authors/philosophers that /lit/ actually enjoys? I personally don't like Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and Montesquieu at all. I'm sure there's a couple that are actually decent that a couple of you would recommend.

He's a sci-fi writer. No more no less. He just figured out how to scam gov, by claiming his fiction was religion. Genius.

>How race politics liberated the elites

>Matthew B. Crawford

https://unherd.com/2020/12/how-race-politics-liberated-the-elites/

>The HBO series Succession depicts the dynastic dramas of a family-controlled media company, headed by patriarch Logan Roy in a spirit of vigorous tyranny. This clan is ultra-rich and totally amoral. One of the sons, the dissolute and aptly named Roman (played by Kieran Culkin) is gleefully immoral, skewering the petty decencies of “normal people” with lines that make you wince and laugh out loud at the same time. It is a delicious depiction of aristocratic license that would be recognisable to observers of the senatorial class in late-empire Rome, or the court of Louis XVI. To watch the show is to take an hour-long break from the relentless moralism of contemporary life and watch power operate with bald-faced corruption, rather than self-righteous bullshit. It’s refreshing that way.

>The Roy family occupies the most rarefied level of globe-trotting oligarchs. Dropping down a rung or two on the pyramid of power, consider the moral ecology inhabited by the broader gentility: the salaried decision-makers and ideas-managers who service the global arrangement from various departments of the ideological apparatus. They may work in NGOs, the governing bodies of the EU, corporate journalism, HR departments, the celebrity-industrial complex, the universities, Big Tech, etc. They, too, enjoy a kind of freedom, but it is decidedly not that of the high-spirited criminals depicted in Succession. So far from living “beyond good and evil”, this broader class of cosmopolitans asserts its freedom through its moralism, precisely. In particular, they have broken free of the claims of allegiance made upon them by the particular communities they emerge from.

good night frens

>You know its this book of tremendous violence and it really is a perfect parable of the American story that shows a history of violence alive and well today. Look at Charlton Heston going on TV and talking about owning guns, or the bombing of that federal building in Oklahoma, or the NRA actually being proud of educating children about gun safety, or all these school shootings. All of these examples are sort of equivalent in how horrific they are, but it proves what Judge Holden says at the end of the novel. He is alive and will never die.
Was I memed into reading this book by a pseud?

How did Socrates become so smart? What education would I need to become the next Socrates? Or at the very least, what would my education be like if I was trained under Socrates? It's not like they took structured 12 unit quarters then took the summer off.

Have any of you ever just picked a book, read it, and then picked a book from the works cited to read next in a chain as far back as possible? How far could you theoretically go?

Why do people pretend it's good?

What are the various reasons Hegel established his idea of the subject-object nonduality?

From what I've gathered of him he gives these various points to demonstrate subject-object nonduality:
- The subject/object divide is an abstraction arising out of an earlier stage (stage of just Being, Nothing, pure Spirit, no subject/object split)

- Subject/object are two sides of a coin which are a false duality just like hot/cold are a false duality and actually points to a deeper unity. By cognizing objects, the subject is simultaneously revealed. By thinking of the subject, the Object is simultaneously implied.

- We are able to cognize the world and apply reason to it so that implies to a degree that the world is in a sense geared toward our perception and reason; the structure of reality coincides with the constructions of logic.

- The Pure Being as the first principle of the metaphysics of the Logic has its counterpart as the bare nakedness of the subject. The Hindus equate Being and Consciousness in this way, and basically declare that what is called "Consciousness" is just the pure Being of reality, and what is called "Being" is more like Consciousness because all that exists are the potential objects of consciousness.

What are some other examples that he points to to demonstrate subject-object nonduality?

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Is this the business, science and philosophy dream team?

Is there a good website where I can read books online for free? (that don't require download)
Thanks in advance

This might have been the most retarded philosopher I have ever read so far, I lost a few braincells reading through his epistemology and I'm surprised he hasn't been ridiculed by his contemporaries as much as I would have liked him to be.