/lit/ - Literature

>>10343510
>ywn get to watch them be crucified

>>8187370
>Modernism and postmodernism are pretty incompatible.
Both are just as intellectually barren and detrimental to works of fantasy. As for your criticism of western civilization I don't think it can be cracked up to anything else than an application of modernist sensibilities to history and the detachment from reality that leftists usually have.

I didn't bother to respond to the rest of your "points" since I simply don't have the time. I don't agree with much of it however.

>>7853953
You should be trying for based transatlantic, fuck midwestern, its boring.

can /lit/ recommend any such works?

I'm 24 years old, about to receive my Master of Accountancy degree, and I just don't feel as sophisticated, eloquent, articulate, etc. as someone with my sort of credentials should.

pic possibly related. He seems like an interesting character and I've enjoyed watching Firing Line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned William F Buckley Jr yet. I'd recommend reading God and Man at Yale even if you are not conservative. He is really one of the most articulate and impressive rhetoricians in American history

>>6903573
What started with Nixon gained traction with Reagan.

>>6903540
>Also poor Barry, he must be rolling in his grave with Trump trying to run for president.
Nowhere near as fast as William F. Buckley.

OP is an idiot. Buckley said that because he believed Harvard to be a cesspool of liberalism, not because Harvard is a university.

Buckley went to Yale. He spent most of his life finding the greatest conservative intellectuals of the post-war era and picking their brains on Firing Line. Buckley was probably the last intellectual conservative and argued for intellectual conservatism to coincide with a right-wing populist base. This is literally how Reagan was elected.

and then Reagan blew it all up with his neo-liberalism

>>6363939

Smartphones are like movable bubbles. You keep your circle around you at all times and can easily escape from the outside world anywhere. Moreover you can just pop in headphones and tune out from the whole world.

The paper was practically an invitation for discussion. I still borrow certain sections of the paper from people on the train and discuss the headlines as well. Phones and print are totally different.

>mfw nobody has mentioned this individual
>mfw some idiot mispeled his name on his blog

Go to bookstores
Read
Write
Classic films
Library
Exploring all types of music

However I haven't had fun in close to 5 months. I got diagnosed with a few conditions late last year and now I spend most of my time fighting thoughts of impending death due to disease. Also my friends live pretty far away now and my family has been rapidly dieing off this past year so I'm very lonely.

>>6275286

>yfw you will never know how it feels to be a free American.

I was born too late to experience this feel.

>>6261907

You do realize that there are plenty of people on the right who find Rand's writing to be repulsive, right?

William Buckley was one of her biggest critics. He green-lit the most negative review of Atlas Shrugged the week it was released:

”I find it a remarkably silly book. It is certainly a bumptious one. Its story is preposterous...Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal.”

He pretty much thought that Rand was a talentless and godless fool. I'm a conservative myself and I can't stand her.