/lit/ - Literature

>>22683220
>Using mammalian races

The real blackpill of antinatalism that people seem to have the hardest time swallowing is simply that all living things (those that appear to be functioning normally anyway i.e. the majority) have a sort of in built biological Stockholm syndrome.
It's not simply that suffering is good or bad but rather that regardless you have literal chemicals in your brain that allow you to endure it and thus you will. Because all life appears to exist towards only one clear purpose and that is survival. There is nothing as far as we know that is beneath or beyond that. Survival is the ultimate axiom of life. There is no clear start point or end goal of survival and thus there is no clear end goal of suffering either. You accept it merely because your body was built to do so for a purpose that you have no understanding of.

>>21346233
first worlders be like
>I ate a copious amount of tasty food. My life is a tragedy.

>>10350256
I have a 60k unfinished fantasy novel I temp-shelved about a year back, and a 60k unfinished contemporary comedy novel I shelved about a year back. I've been writing a bunch of short stories instead lately. Much more satisfying, desu. I feel you OP.

>>10281523
Don't remember if I'm spelling the names right:
Soldier > Priest > Poet > Scholar > Captain > Consul > Detective
imho

>>10250658
It's cruel/selfish under specific circumstances.

Namely those circumstances where you don't have the means to provide the child with ample opportunity.

Nonetheless if only rich people have kids, they'll consolidate their power and drive out the poor. And poor people are often less educated in consequences and so will inevitably end up having more children than the careful egoists among the middle and upper classes.

It is what it is.

I think when and how and why to have children is one of the most intractable political problems, along with mechanisms for enforcing laws, and the nature of money.

>>9439041
Are you an African American studies? Not trolling, I just don't see Everett on anyone's list outside MFA programs.

Great list though. No one on lit acknowledges Morrison too

>read the entire book
>could have simply just read the jacket