/lit/ - Literature

>>14793275
It's not poison necessarily, but there are some ideas that will forever taint your thought once imbibed.
The preeminent of these must be Hegel. Once history is seen as a inevitable developmental process of human spirit with an inherent teleology, the idea is difficult to escape. The very ideas that there is a direction to history, an arc of moral progress, a "right side of history" all come from this. It's very difficult to even see history in other than such terms once exposed to the idea. Can you even picture history as circular? Hegel takes the cycles and turns them into an upward spiral. Can you really even imagine a history without this upward motion, purely marching around the same point forever? You really can't even imagine such a thing, reasonable as it is. Hegel's idea is too subversive.
It of course need not be said that the NRx redpill is exactly what you describe. You can't unsee the Cathedral once you see it.
Those are the two "stickiest" ideas I know of. For me, I think Lasch/The Last Psychiatrist's ideas about narcissism are quite sticky and hard to avoid, but I think that's more me (and many others on this board) and less the stickiness of the idea in general.

>he didn’t study Maths at Cambridge while reading widely in literature and philosophy
Must suck not to be an intellectual

>>12726244
I think I found a picture of the author

Am I retarded for not understanding Notes From Underground? It seems like a lot of words he uses he never actually defines, or just antiquatedly uses, like consciousness. I’m gonna have to start over and start taking notes. Am I just a brainlet? I’ve never read any philosophy before. Also, are his other works like this (extremely philosophical)? (TBK and C&P)

This thread is pretty much a testament to discussions on the LTV: Strawmans getting destroyed

Can somebody please help me? Reading the book is like trying to read in a foreign language.Can someone please spoonfeed me the things he talks about? What is the spirit and how is it's existance proved?