/lit/ - Literature

>>7298563

>favourite part of historical account is when hundreds of thousands of people are killed by horrible disease

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>great works
>conservatism

Pick one.

>>7249658
>Unfortunately, unless you are willing to accept Social Democracy as a valid extension of Marxism, you will always end up with degrees of stalinism

You're going to have to explain that...

It looks as if you're trying to parrot something you've read in one of Pinker's books without fully understanding the point he was making (as unconvincing as the original argument was likely to be).

To use a phrase I know your new intellectual hero is fond of: a little knowledge can be dangerous.

>>7230488

>Burke for example would have supported Gahndi, while le epin Paine and Hitch would just send in the jacobin or some sort of neo-liberals/cons to take full control

>>7230497

Read Paine. Don't take Rousseau too seriously.

>>7212264

>>7135066

>y doesn't every1 follow muh new religious movement

>>7122517

>This is like the Christian argument that without God everyone would just kill eachother because "why not?"

>>7110563

Here you see the spaz (Latin: spaza) in its natural habitat. We've been advised against getting too close this particular creature given its propensity to fling shit at unassuming passersby.

Hm, quite fascinating.

>>7102593

>They chose to have children in a war zone

>>7097729

>so edgy

>>7087631

Here you can see the idiot (Latin: idiota) in its natural habitat. On top of its head sits the obligatory "dunce hat" (Latin: dunce hat), badly damaged following a fall down the stairs of its den. We are told not to go too close to this particular creature, as it's prone to throwing feces at unassuming passersby.

Hm, quite fascinating.

>>7085504

Expand and explain.

>>7075714

Here you can see the idiot (Latin: idiota) at work. Having been rattled, rather than flee to his den, he spews more and more idiocies as a way of shielding himself from accepting his obvious inferiority - and, indeed, from reality itself.

Hm. Quite fascinating.

>>7063756

Fuck off, m8.

>>7043150

Hm. Yes, yes, I see that now.

>>7023795

Here...

You're a biological automaton. Get used to it.