/lit/ - Literature

>>23494937
GOD DAMN

i 100% support the idea that jews today are ultra-successful is because the holocaust killed all the dumber and slower jews

>vengeance

>>14980312
Haha... haha...

>>14739047
>The simple fact of the matter is that the world, including poverty stricken developing countries, could not sustain even a fraction of their standard of living without modern agriculture and industrial manufacture
the average lifespan of a westerner without modern medicine is 35 years old

>female character is introduced
>author spends 3 paragraphs describing her feet

>"Why is Alone lenient on the judge who beats his daughter? Can he really believe Wall Street is blameless? He thinks the media is creating a straw man of a college kid angry at Paterno's firing?"

>You don't need me to point out the obvious bad guys, there is no point for me to decry scientific misconduct and pedophilia. But when I don't do it you think there's something wrong with me, that I'm blind. Why do you want me to say the things you already know are true? Because that's what you were trained to want.

>What you need me for is to untrain you, force you to realize that focusing on the obvious bad guys is a defense against looking at everything else, because that everything else is you. You were trained by media which labels hypocrisy as the worst sin imaginable; and individual instances of corruption-- hey, there's a welfare cheat, hey, there's Bernie Madoff-- as the appropriate target for your wrath. Bernie Madoff is not your problem, he is not your enemy, and unless you lost money to him he is nothing to you; and as long as you can be reminded to be angry at him you are not going to ask why the system needs Bernie Madoffs to survive. Stapel may have invented the data that no one will look at but Science didn't vet the conclusions that everyone will remember. Which is worse? "Keep your guns trained on the bullet proof straw man. Look over there, he's a jerk!" If they can drive you to rage, they've succeeded.

>Here's the synthesis: there's an argument against OccupyWallSt, and another about a beating your daughter, and another about raping some kid in a shower, and this, and etc-- all of these are the same thing. All of these represent the institutionalization, the mainstream acceptance, of self-serving behavior because that behavior allows everyone else to be equally self-serving. Or, in more basic yet precise language: individual narcissism is encouraged to permit the existence of societal narcissism, all of which is at the expense of your soul. Repent.

I miss him so much bros

>>9303868
Sounds awesome.

>>9228875

>>8784843
>>8784849
This turns me on. I kinda want a whole book of pure kinky plant BDSM now.

So I've just started reading real books the last couple of years (in my mid 20s) and the gist I am getting -- with respect to my perception of literature being generally a source of wisdom regarding the human condition -- is that life is (basically) universally shitty. That attempts to convince ourselves otherwise is a grand game we are all playing mostly unknowingly. And most books recount the usually tragic outcomes of buying into the reality of the game.

Is this a fair impression to have about the motivations for literature in general, or more revealing of my age/pessimism or other subjective characteristics?

>>8284859

>>6512723
Oh my, anon.

Nothing in this thread is edgy. In order for something the be considered edgy, it must go against established norms and ideologies that occupy a certain environment. Even then, edgy is more so synonymous with the avant-garde.

The constant spouting of "blacks are inherently unintelligent" and "Nazis weren't all that evil" are all familiar statements on this website. In real-life social circumstances, these statements would certainly raise eyebrows and perhaps incite anger, but within this environment it is inappropriate to purport them as "edgy" in any way.

>>5747434
i-i'm there

Where is this from?

>>5178322
>I have been having sexual fantasies about my future son masturbating to me.
I'm trying out no fap, so thats where I draw the line. Thread hidden.

Good luck though.

>>5104919
>thick enough to comfortably fill a man's hand
>and long enough to fill two hands

>>5106890
>thick enough to comfortably fill a man's hand
>and long enough to fill two hands

Simultaneous

I went to an alternative school, they didnt make us read anything at all

>mfw I actually didn't mind Johnny's chapters

Has OP abandoned us?