/lit/ - Literature

>Frankly, I don't think most people can handle this book. It shocks the underdeveloped mind. If you are a liberal, it will shock you and make you realize there's a lot of different perspectives that exist and you only really know one. If you are a marxist, you will become very angry, and not be able to properly convey why. If you are a self-proclaimed "right winger", you probably will realize you are actually a liberal. If you have always been intellectually honest, you won't be surprised, you won't learn much, except a quicker and to the point rant about the anti-reality, pearl-clutching world's perspective. Whether someone should read it or not, I don't know. It might actually be too dangerous for a teenager, but especially dangerous for an arrested development, low impulse control, no emotional regulating, barely literate modern "adult" who is probably too retarded to understand what the book is saying. You probably shouldn't read it.

>>20995612

>Why would that not be attractive?
>I want to date a human, not a masturbatory aid.

>>20476875

>A lower literacy rate and collective IQ is a good thing for literature, writing and culture in general.

>If devolution is the inevitable course I say get on with it, the general quality of what humanity could produce in writing was much higher when fewer of us could produce at all.
>With a small, densely concentrated intellectual elite at the helm humanity might actually have a chance of progression before our inevitable self-caused extinction.

>The average simpleton is just not equipped for the vigor of intellectual pursuits, let him coast along in sublime ignorance, in honesty it is a gift given the turbulence of current year.

Is there anywhere that has an in-depth summary of the first two books of the Book of the New Sun? I've read them twice over but it's been 5 years and I just want a refresher before finishing the second half.

>Pic related unironically brought me back to reality after becoming one of those cringy religious fascists. God is a shout in the street.

>>19744127
>It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. War is god. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

>>19725500
I honestly can't see much difference between Nietzsche and picrel. But Neetch would probably say something like"That which is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to an ox"

>>19709564
>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

>The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos

> War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

>War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

>Well, yes. I love anime. How could you tell?

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>>19280066
>While you played outside, I studied the blade

>>18562085
>Is man fated to never make peace with the universe?
You see, I never asked to be brought into this world, so it is natural that I seek revenge against it.

>>18477945
>When I was in university and 2 gross "male" feminist-critical theorist marxists, or whatever the fuck they call themselves, were wailing nonsensical I and a few friends ambushed them and beat them to a pulp.

>"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."

>>17632661
>my teenage self would have challenged you to a duel

>there is a probability close to certainty that I would hate your guts irl

>ppl faking the pseudo-deep, happy-go-lucky, well-adjusted good guy make me think of murder

>nihilism makes me angry abt ppl who blindly go on and are obliviously happy

>"I utterly hate myself, thinking I'm better than everyone else at the same time."

>>17380789
>He was an egoistic asshole who overburdened his sister. He lacked self awareness. I was glad he died.

>>17369863
>I'm trying to learn to exploit people; I'd like to be able understand all of people's vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

>>16995653
>>16995642
>>16995629
Here's another nugget of truth. Why does the simp appear at every online discussion about women in order to sling mud at anyone who doesn't worship women but acknowledges the good and bad in women and seeks to understand them? The simp believes that women are objects that need to be protected. Because he has been brainwashed by feminism he suppresses this belief and unconsciously projects it onto others. Hence, any discussion of women by men is framed as the objectification of women by men. Meanwhile, the simp acts out his belief that women are objects by fighting a figurative battle to protect them from the male oppressors he finds online. Likewise, the male feminist believes that women are weak, and suffers from his perception of his own inferiority. Truly, the male feminist identifies with the weakness which he projects onto women, and as a defense mechanism against his own inferiority, he is compelled to protect women from imaginary oppressors.

Yes. You can count the number of people who aren't some form of cruel social darwinist on one hand, if they don't believe capitalism is good then they engage in some other sexuality-based horror like saying half of all men are genetic garbage or Othering animals so hard they put them in battery farms that make concentration camps look like Disney World (Houellebecq briefly examines this in Submission via a chicken farm, but being the hypocritical French pervert cigarette addict he is, there's no way he's a vegan so he engages in the same shit himself.)

Sex is a case of haves and have nots, and is exacerbated in developed countries who have rejected religion, which was basically a moratorium on our horrifying monke nature. That moratorium is over now, and now that we've returned to unabashed darwinism we are much more capable sadists with our nuclear weapons and technocracies and hyperreality than primitive peoples with their clubs and diseases ever could be.

For this reason I would literally liquidate Houellebecq into a fine Frenchoid paste and redistribute his assets for the greater good if I was an absolute monarch.

Meet me in the astral. I will show you The Way.

>>16605743
>scary angela merkel motif music video
>rick and morty picture
>social stagnation is somehow linked to obscenity
>thread quickly descending into /pol/ garbage
I regret dignifying this thread with my earlier post. If you were sincere at all, there is plenty of art that can be made without relying on exhausted forms of transgression.

>I believe that there's nothing wrong with murder and people who kill others to advance their own agenda have simply transcended slave morality. Books on that?