/lit/ - Literature

>>17197747
>The only thing that truly worked for me was exercising, meeting girls/having sex and focusing on my careers. The more you try to move away from the basic primal things that make us human, the more you'll get close to the point of becoming like Nietszche
I guess I'm destined to go mad because I sure as hell won't end up a disgusting normal fag.

>translating polytropon to "complicated"

>>9934639
>The only reasons everybody isn't abusing the system is ignorance, fear of stigma, and muh morals.

>>9867033
>accepting your mediocrity

>wahh, all my problems are capitalism's fault

>>9781520

Overcome yourself.

What non-poetry books have you read in the last 365 days?

I think I can make a list:

>One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
>The Ego and His own, Stirner (didn't finish it though)
>Capitán Alatriste, Arturo Pérez Reverte
>Don Quijote de la Mancha (re-read it for the 3rd time)
>Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
>The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoievski
>Memoirs of a Beatnik, Diane di Prima
>We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
>The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai

I might be forgetting one or two but so far I remember those.

-One hundred ye

Consider the following two sentences:

1) Wondercow didn't like the woman standing in front of him at the concert
2) Wondercow didn't like the woman's standing in front of him at the concert


Which sentence would be correct here?
>inb4 prescriptivism

>>9527101

>Conservatives would benefit from an understanding of Marx, who was a big fan of Balzac. Conservatives should also read more Rousseau, specifically his First Discourse and his Letter to D'Alembert. Thomas Carlyle, Henry Adams, and T.S. Eliot should also be read more by conservatives.

Apart from Balzac, all of these recommendations are absolutely fucking terrible.

Last Man stuff on steroids.

>>9450208

>Up to this very day there is no alternative to it.

Aaaaahahahaha.

>>9441367

>JSM

I'm a Nietzschean, and increasingly so.

Most of my life is like that XKCD comic which goes something like "at least you found a way to feel superior to both."

>>9423620
>post-modernism can be useful to anti-communists of a reactionary bent

I'm not an "anti-communist of a reactionary bent".

My point of that statement was to say that the insistence that grand narratives don't exist, or are axiomatically wrong because they are open to infinite interpretation, applies to every single ideology and narrative.

But this seems to be completely ignored by literature professors who spend their time perusing through classical literature checking off racism, sexism or classism as if the same kind of deconstruction can't be applied to their own worldview.

Egalitarianism for example is clearly just the psychological projection of a specific kind of bourgeois and affluent elite that basically hasn't experienced a single day of struggle in their life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco

>>9295694

Because people:

1) Read snippets of him, rather than the whole body of his work. Lots of his quotes are put into meme form (wallpapers/etc) and make him sound like much more of a "peace and love" egalitarian free-thinker than he actually was.

2) Fail to read him chronologically. One of his main criticisms of Schopenhauer's philosophy, for example, is that it is the philosophy of a 20-something man. The "plebby" interpretations of Nietzsche are invariably derived from his early work. Few people meaningfully acquaint themselves with his later work.

Nietzsche, by his own admission, was a "radical aristocrat." Late Nietzsche is basically /pol/, but intelligent and bereft of anti-semitism. Like most 19th century thinkers, he had a little racism - but far less than was the norm, and of a very different kind. Racialism would probably be closer to the truth. He believed that the cream of the European crop/races should interbreed, and with Jews as well.

>>9290558

Just fuck my shit up why don't you. Church was finally headed in the right way, too.

>>9260720
>"What do you think the next philosophy/political movement I get into should be?"

>>9251821
>Nationalism

>>9235673
>Narnia
I don't want to raise a Christfag.

What are some good, wholesome, Hyperborean children's books?

>>9227405

It's just the same old shit that's been growing since christianity became dominant in the west.

>>9217116

>This entire thread

All wrong. The real quotation is:

>"What doesn't kill ME, makes ME stronger."

Emphasis on the 'Me.' He was referring to himself.

It's quite possible that for a pleb like you, what doesn't kill you will make you weaker.

Nietzsche, however, was referring to himself. Moreover, his definition of 'strength' is nuanced here. Nietzsche himself was a physically rather weak/frail man, plagued with illness - although he took very long walks/marches around the Swiss mountains à la Caesar to keep himself fit (inactivity is death).

He was referring to his drive/strength of will/etc, which was undeniably very great because he managed to leave so many lasting legacies even in spite of his shit health. I doubt many ITT can say the same tbqh.

>>9207312
>>9206765
>>9207305
Whoever doesn't love his job yet continues to do it is a criminal, a thief, just as much as actual criminals and thieves, and many of them even more. That they are lawfully defrauding their fellow citizens doesn't make them better people, only harder to be discovered and punished, as they deserve to be. Theft, after all, existed long before the invention of laws that criminalized it, and perhaps the day will yet come — in a future society of Overmen — when it will be illegal to work on something that you don't love.

>>9200397

>JSM

Utilitarians GTFO.

>>9190099