/lit/ - Literature

>>22841580
i thought it was pretty good, what's your problem with it?

>>20796700
Do Mormons have any philosophers? Surely you'd think a religion that insular and obsessive which has been around for almost 200 years would have at least one philosopher.

>>20273980
I don't see the problem, the world could use more people who forge their own identities.

I find the unironic monarchists on the "dissident right" more interesting than the guys who just want to win elections and affect culture. Yarvin's main interest for me is precisely that. Those guys really ARE profoundly anti-American, and that intrigues me. They want to see the United States governed in a different way. They're not just another flavor of Republican.

The Integralists are interesting to me for that reason as well, though they're usually not lumped in with this crowd.

some things that come to mind, probably not quite what you're looking for but at least tangentially related
>The Collapse of Complex Societies - Tainter
>'A Theory of the Origin of the State' - Carneiro
>Sources of Social Power, Vol.1 (chapters 2-5) - Mann
>Against the Grain - Scott
>The Muqaddimah - Khaldun
>Origins of Political Order (chapters 1-5) - Fukuyama

I am working on my magnum opus as we speak.

I have written the first two books, and a short story. I am working on the third book as we speak.

I don't know how many books, short stories, and narrative poems will be required to tell the story in full. I have no idea how many thousands of words it will take to finish the story. I know where it's going--I know what I want to tell--but the way to get there is uncertain to me. Or, rather, the way to get there is known, but what I DON'T know is how LONG the way is.

I always say that it'll be done when it's done. I have also told God that He is not allowed to kill me until I finish it. He can take me when it's finished, but not before.

Thinking about it, it's not surprising so many people are fat, drug-addicted, and chronic porn consumers. With the average person, if you give them the opportunity to overindulge on pleasure, they will take it. Self-discipline in such circumstances only belongs to a rare few.

>>19852664
He definitely does seem like a guy that dove into /pol/ and couldn't handle it. Not everyone can handle this site, and even some people who can handle the blue boards can't handle the red boards.

>>19602317
So basically Marx himself was exactly the same as every single idiot Marxist you meet on the internet. How very apt.

>>19244527
So if you are a writer and you have aspirations of writing something truly great, on the scale of Moby-Dick or War & Peace, what should you do with it when it's done?

I think it's fair to call TradCaths inherently reactionary, not because of this or that policy issue, but because they fall on the right-hand side of really big political questions, because that's where the Church falls.

For example, take the idea of separation of Church and State. The Church is vehemently opposed to it, and not even Vatican 2 reversed this stance. The Church has always believed it has a role to play in the running of the State. Yet this idea is very far to the right of most of the modern West, which has internalized the American idea of the "wall of separation" between Church and State. So, if one truly followed Catholic teaching on this issue, one would indeed be reactionary.

There's also the Church's inherent preference for monarchy and aristocracy as forms of government, it's suspicion of both communism and capitalism, its suspicion of democracy, that sort of thing. You'd absolutely be a reactionary if you followed all of the Church's political teachings and tried to put them into practice.

>>19138888
>Want y'all to recommend a starter book for me that has philosophy, horror and mystery as a genre
Maybe Ligotti? unlikely cluster for a philosophy text (especially mystery) so it's hard to think of anything that fits well. Haven't read it myself, but A Phenomenology of Horror by Trigg might be of interest.

>OP is literally a newfag to Catholicism
>doesn't know the long, long history of shitty Popes in the Church

OP do yourself a favor and go look up Alexander VI. Or John XII. Or a whole bunch of others.

Really, the more you look into the history of the leadership of the Church, the more you become convinced that it actually IS protected by God. Any inistitution that suffered such a propensity of bad leadership would probably have collapsed within decades of its founding if it weren't protected by God Himself.

Is there any place you can serialize fiction that isn't, you know, memey? Because when I look at all the standard options out there--Amazon, Royal Road, Wattpad, etc.--it's pretty clear, as these threads have said before, that only certain genres of fiction do well on them, and these tend to be largely unserious genres, without much literary merit.

If you wanted to serialize a larger story, but you had a certain idea of being actually, you know, good, what are your options?

>>18932442
Christianity truly is the religion of cope....

>>18901474
>serious writers or thinkers would self host, with a humble, subtly placed crypto donation button at the bottom of their page.

So I just build my own fucking website, then? What, do I use Wix or Squarespace? I don't know if you are aware, Anon, but a lot of people whose talents lie in creative writing are not the most adept at computer programming.

How many years do reckon we are away from pro-fascist takes starting to come back in vogue? I mean that very sincerely. With all ideas the pendulum has a tendency of swinging from one extreme to the other. Fascism has been The Ultimate Evil since 1945. That's almost 80 years. How many more years to go, do you reckon, before we start seeing someone say, "Actually, fascism's not so bad"?

If i'm recalling Weber correctly, he suggested the corporation emerged in Italy as joint-ventures (initially between family members) for insurance on precarious and expensive merchant shipping and banking as a way of mitigating risk on such large investments. The charter and joint-stock companies which emerged in England and the Dutch Republic imitated this model, but extended their dealings beyond familial ties to an impersonal model. This was the emergence of the first modern corporation, at least economically speaking.
But i wouldn't suggest reading Weber for a history of the corporation.

OP I have to applaud you for the brevity of your manifesto. Most people will spend pages and pages, hundreds and hundreds of words, writing these things out, but you managed to condense it to a single 4chan post.

>tfw in addition to writing original fiction and original poetry, I also write fanfiction
>someone approached me today and wanted to ask my permission to write an unofficial sequel to one of my fanfics

It's wild that this has happened more than once. I guess I just write really memorable stories? This isn't the first time someone has wanted to write a fanfic that is, in turn, a sequel to one of my fanfics. Like a fanfic of a fanfic. It's kind of nuts when you think about it.

To restart philosophy, much like restarting history, we need chaos and upheaval. So much of philsophy is built on the mass destruction of the nature of things.

Basically: if you want to restart philosophy, you need to do the same thing you'd have to do to restart history: kill a whole lot of people.

Are any Anons in this thread prepared to do that? To spill thousands, or even millions, of gallons of blood? To see people die by the thousands, the tens of thousands, or even the millions?

So what is the answer to the free-riding problem in the provision of pure public goods under the self-interested utility maximising model without a coercive authority to force compliance? And beyond idealised models, how do you deal with the deadweight losses caused by asymmetries in information, externalities, and the development of monopolies and other inefficient market conditions?

>>18374976
This is why I have honestly started to consider releasing my novel online in a serialized format, one chapter at a time.

Think about it. What's one thing people DO read these days? They read fanfiction. Fanfiction, light novels, and manga. And one thing these all have in common is that they're generally released a chapter at a time, or a section at a time, over several weeks or months. This means that the direct time sink of reading the whole thing is broken up, and at any given time you don't have to read a whole lot at once. This makes it more easily digestible, which is good for people with short attention spans.

At the same time, if you time the release of the chapters/sections right, you can build up hype and draw in more attention. It generally seems like an approach that actively draws readers into the story and keeps them engaged. It works for fanfics, it works for manga, it works for light novels. What if it would work for real literature, too?

Honestly every single bit of his sperging over Stirner has discredited Marx for me. How the fuck am I supposed to take this asshole seriously if he seethed so hard over some nobody? THIS is the guy who's supposed to predict the future of the human race, and the destiny of the working class? A man who spergs hard just because he gets a little needled by some random weirdo? Marx is a fucking joke. At least when Plato encountered failures in his philosophy he took them like a man.