/lit/ - Literature

I don't care about the book. But I am almost obsessed with the rationalist movement. I was on a board with (other) youngsters who were into LessWrong, and had exchanges with them. It was mixture of New Atheist views on religion, with millenarianism views on science, and emphasis on reason and debate that characterized them.

It seems to be a rather small group but they are intelligent and highly educated, so I think we will not hear the last of them. And yes, I find them autistic. I used to make embarrasing rants about "the culture of autism", which was also influenced by another disagreement on yet another board.

These experiences with them has shaped my own views, though many of them were already there before them, influenced by a lazy reading of Nietzsche, and by the psychology I had read - which by the way I shared with LessWrong, but I take a (more) fatalist view on cognitive biases while they take the view that you can overcome bias.

I no longer go there, and it is very fitting that I've come here on 4chan. The culture of /lit/ actually pushes me more into the direction of science, while at that board it pushed me more into philosophy.

>>9782892
Anon is correct, just because you don't like his ideas doesn't mean it isn't true
I think Moldbug brought some fresh ideas, even if some of it is rehashed

I think he and Nick Land would cringe however how the simpleton cancer that is the alt right is devouring and polluting their ideas, but I guess it doesn't matter - their child neoreaction is to be consumed by the rulers, the autright pawns can be thrown in the fire when necessary

>>9109431
Ha, but you are erroneous, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using words of your own pleasing. Why should one try to lower his manner of writing, which learned with great persistence, so that he or she is able to communicate with the lowbrow plebian cultural replicators?

You smell like a populist and an unfunny one I may say. Linguistic superiority does indeed exist my man, and blessed are those who do not lower their speak for such innoble deeds as to make it more comprehensible

To signal one is the ingroup of the higher cultural groups is something to be proud of, not something that should be hidden from the social reality of the world

I hope thy ironic brainletism will eventually kill thy desu, ugh to you

>>8743524
>Please list why you think Orwell is bad.
Bad is not the right word, I personally just don't like it.

And to be fair if there's anyone who is elitist it would be me. I'm such a flawed character that an important part of my identity is setting myself apart. But that is not a justification for disliking 1984.

What I will say is the following, and my only reason really for replying to you:
I feel that the popularity of 1984 has less to do with its quality, and more to do with a kind of confirmation bias first, and a bandwagon effect second.

The book is satisfying to people because it confirms their ideas of what the government tries to do.

Just a glance at the popularity of the book 1984 on Goodreads, makes me realize that this prestige it holds can only futher its spread.

I do wonder why you do not consider it a pleb book, clearly it is highly popular even among the potatoes of the world.