/lit/ - Literature

>>19874713
>The great educational value of the war against Christendom lies in the absolute truthlessness of the priest. Such purity is rare enough. The 'man of God' is entirely incapable of honesty, and only arises at the point where truth is defaced beyond all legibility. Lies are his entire metabolism, the air he breathes, his bread and his wine. He cannot comment upon the weather without a secret agenda of deceit. No word, no gesture, or perception is slight enough to escape his extravagant reflex of falsification, and of the lies in circulation he will instinctively seize on the grossest, the most obscene and oppressive travesty. Any proposition passing the lips of a priest is necessarily totally false, excepting only insidiouses whose message is momentarily misunderstood. It is impossible to deny him without discovering some buried fragment of reality.
>There is no truth that is not a war against theology, and even the word 'truth' has been plastered by the spittle of priestcraft. It cannot be attachment to some alternative conviction that cuts here, but only relentless refusal of what has been told. The dangerous infidels bypass dialectics. It is the sceptic who assassinates the lie.

Time will only prove him right.

How am I supposed to accelerate? Do I have to LARP as a libertarian or something?

I've been thinking about it, and the belief that the highest moral duty is to reduce pain and suffering is about as anti-life as you can get.

Life is suffering, and everything that makes one successful in life is painful and causes suffering. Hard work, exercise, child birth, responsibility, etc, etc. They all cause pain and suffering because pain and suffering are the price of greatness.

Also the reduction (or elimination) of pain and suffering can't be an end but a means. What is the purpose of life without suffering? To be happy? Happiness is an emotion. You can choose to feel happy regardless of your circumstances, so if you're unhappy it's because you're choosing to be unhappy, and that's your own problem. Nobody has the power, let alone the duty, to make you happy.

Evolution/Darwinism/Natural Selection is not pretty, but it works. competition and creating winners and losers is how humanity rose above other animals, how empires shaped the world, and why you're reading this on discord instead of making cave-paintings with your feces.

Lastly, there are several alternatives that don't create moral duties on others if your goal is to reduce pain and suffering. These include:
- The "Brave New World" solution where you give people drugs to make them feel happy and not feel pain.
- Remove the parts of someone's brain that causes them to be sad or process suffering so they can be blissful idiots.
- Eliminate all lifeforms that are capable of feeling pain and suffering altogether, thus eliminating pain and suffering itself (especially humans)
- Develop a masochistic fetish where you train yourself to process pain as pleasure and get into the cock and ball torture scene.
- Kill yourself

Note that their solution seems to always be welfare though? Isn't that weird?

Serious question, what book do you recommend for overcoming social anxiety and introvertness?

>>15053222
Nick Land was right, these digits are sentient

>>14532081
release the anime

TFW you see that transhumanism is the only future worth fighting for and technocapitalistic deterritorializing Neoliberalism is the easiest way to accomplish that. Full fucking steam ahead, tear down every border, let capital leach it's tendrils into every aspect of society, kill and recycle the corpses of all who oppose. I *am* going to be an anime girl one day and I'll demolish anyone who gets in my way. Gnon bless my efforts

Making anime real

(Which I unironically support)

Our teacher is making us do a book report on some crusty, old, organic's book. Uuuuggghhhh

>>13404887
So what you are saying is we should get rid of humanity

>>13359544

>>13051600
Read Deleuze and Nick Land. No, you don't need to know about Spinoza, Kant, Hegel or Heidegger. Watch Cuck Philosophy videos and read some Mark Fisher. Create a twitter account and follow xenogothic, n1x, that balding bugman murphy something, and look at the people that they follow, look for bios with keywords such as "slimequeen", "xenofeminism", "gender nihilism", "g/acc", "l/acc". Honestly, if you're in a hurry just read a little bit of Nick Land (Fanged Noumena, boomer nick land is not retarded enough and pro-discord-tranny enough) and don't even read Deleuze

>>13044627
So basically cathedral control upgrades with capitalism. In Nick Land's words, "deregulation and the state arms-race eachother into cyberspace". I think Urbit addresses some of those problems too.
I'm tempted to say optimistically that the internet undermines state control and will never be wholly regulated. It might all depend on who wins the arms race. I don't hate stuff like social credit but want it in the hands of Singapore, not China.
At the moment at least I don't think government control of culture is expanding. It's easier to control culture with Maoist tactics than with media censorship. I think the future you envision is basically already here. Can't forget most people are borderline tech illiterate too, not exactly very many budding cyberguerillas.
Still, I think when things get bad enough replacement systems will spring up out of necessity, and democracy has an unstoppable deathspiral.

I used to be a faggot ancap and now that I woke up from my retardation I can't take Austrian Economics seriously and by extension NRx. That being said, I think Land is dead right about what he is saying but I come at it from a perspective of Idealism and Traditionalism. How do I resolve this cognitive dissonance? Should I kill myself?

>>12903595
>Malthusian crisis starts
>whites become minority
>US collapses
>climate is fucking awful, storms everywhere
>Balkanization
>neocameralist microstates crop up in most urban centers
>transhumanist genetically engineered elite take over
all according to kaeikaku

>>12861091

>>12819582
I don't believe you because you didn't give me any reason to

dude capitalism

>>11324270
kek Tertullian was such an unpleasant human being. I love him.

why is /lit/ obsessed with obscurantist pseudo-intellectuals?