/lit/ - Literature

>>16417987
close. it's more that the resources for self-production that developed around the time of the renaissance (according to burkhardt, for instance) have now run dry.

so, yes, it's about the lack of a valuable existential principle, but more the fallout viz. the ability of individuals to realize "ambition" as an aspect of self-creation. other aspects of hegelian mutual recognition/sacrifice i think collapse in wake, though i don't fully explore that there.

i do not think that neoliberalism enables individuals to actually explore the capacity to become an individual--that it does this by way of eliminating "civilization-conserving immateriality" i think is definitely fair but maybe a little reductionist.

>>12176291

what is it that you want to know?

believe it or not, i'm one of the principal architects of modern trumpism (and am recognized as such). depending on what it is that you are searching for, i can potentially direct you toward some serious material.

>>12160488

do you actually live in DC etc., or are you just mocking me?

>>12103578
>>12103584

>asks for argument
>gets this again

ok guys, troll time has been fun. keep living the dream. i'm out.

truly this is why i run campaigns and you gentlemen are doing, well, whatever it is you're doing. i'd say: "re-evaluate; step back; there is another way"--but i'm pretty sure you suffer from the dunning-kreuger effect, or some form of cognitive dissonance, or something of similar like--i dunno, it's just no longer worth my time interacting with someone who is incapable of stepping up to the invitation of a real argument.

good luck.

>>12042424

>giving keynote address on political theory
>asks 4chan for advice on how to start


>job interview


good luck mate you're gonna nail it

>>12006268

do you have good reasons for thinking so? are you capable of articulating them?

i used to post in these threads, pretending that it was merely for the aesthetics; but then i actually started reading the books i only showed off and sorta became ashamed at the whole conspicuousness of it

so basically i replaced one form of self-righteousness for another. it's odd to me: the more educated i actually become, the more i both leap to judge and hesitate to judge, all the matter convinced that my "transcendence" from posting in vainglorious bookshelf threads is really a matter of moral improvement, and that this entitles me to certain forms of scrutinizing others that they are not privy to viz. me.

but this all bores me, the deepening of my own narcissism, the endless cycle, etc. the great irony is that the further i distance myself from forms of vanity (like showing off books), the more i encounter a strengthened narcissism, where i feel that i'm finally "getting it right" and therefore am better than anyone else on that front, etc.--and can on those grounds write judgmental posts in otherwise innocuous and harmless threads, signalling only a lingering desire for attention. like i'm aware of it all (kierkegaard might say: i live in sin, not ignorance), but it doesn't even matter...

is anyone else similarly bored of their own sanctimonious nature? what do i look to/read to finally expunge this type of self-burden?

i used to post in these threads, pretending that it was merely for the aesthetics; but then i actually started reading the books i only showed off and sorta became ashamed at that the whole conspicuousness of it

so basically i replaced one form of self-righteousness for another. it's odd to me: the more educated i actually become, the more i both leap to judge and hesitate to judge, all the matter convinced that my "transcendence" from posting in vainglorious bookshelf threads was really a matter of moral improvement, and that this entitled to certain forms of scrutiny.

but this all bores me, the deepening of my own narcissism, the endless cycle, etc. the great irony is that the further i distance myself from forms of vanity (like showing off books), the more i encounter a strengthened narcissism, where i feel that i'm finally "getting it right" and therefore am better on that front, etc.

is anyone else similarly bored? what do i look to/read to finally expunge this type of self-burden?

How can you be a patrician if you're not descended from the 100 men appointed to senate by Romulus?

>>7344951
>>7344943

provocative suggestions: how do you muster any traffic whatsoever for a newly-minted philosophy blog, then?

there really aren't more structured forums than 4chan, but less formal requirements than academia, to own and shoot around philosophical ideas?

>>7317084
>tfw realising the translation isn't done by Pevear and Volokhnosky

Into the trash it it goes....

Has anyone on /lit/ written a screenplay or a pilot script lately?

I'm trying to determine how to tackle this project. I don't know if it's going to turn into a screenplay, but I want it to be a pilot, as I don't want to spend the--obviously egregious--time to work on a screenplay.

I'm just looking for input on writing in a professional sense.

>Picture somewhat related.