/lit/ - Literature

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>>15675104
That podcast seems to have quite a few episodes including one with Nick Land.
Also, you might like some of the streams the distributist has though I can't think of one in particular.

>>15567438
>23
>Undergrad Physics at McGill (first choice, only choice, love-hate it, mostly hate)
>The Samuel Butler / T.E. Lawrence translations of Homer

What do we think about Thomas Hobbes?
Cringe? Based? Spook? Gay?

>>15306033
Start with Hobbes

>>15275318

Yet to be refuted properly, the successor to Plato. However I think the powers of the Monarch are to stringent in his prescription. I think he would have seen this differently if he hadn't seen his best friend die violently in the civil war. Also his conception of the state of nature was in every way more accurate than Rousseau's.

May someone explain this to an uninitiated half-wit like myself?

>>15124970

Hobbes

>>15024884
>This is because no era lives without form, regardless of the extent to which it comports itself in an economic fashion.
>tfw you realize Schmitt is just Hobbes 2.0

>>15024884
BASED
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>>15021405
It really explores the Hobbes-Rousseau dialectic

>>15017050
How indeed

Maybe Machiavelli would be more suitable to read first, if your interest is politics.

>>14899102
Wagner.

>>14895755
Fuck you leviathan >:(

Not a day goes by without me saying society at least once. This kungflu virus crisis is the perfect example of how our liberal democratic governments have failed.

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>>14850906
Yah, seems we have a local gifanon. Is same guy who did this?

John B. Calhoun described in his experiments on population density a "behavioral sink", in which rats would loose many of the natural instincts which regulate rat society and increasingly display behavior which is anti-social, neurotic, and self-isolating.

People in general are judgemental sociopaths, they have been since the dawn of time, and them picking on incels is just a matter of finding the weakest and most vulnerable targets (lonely men without social support networks). This violent gut instinct to find weakest man you can and 'make an example of him' is post-hoc justified with a moral veneer per >>14844328 and >>14844376.

Young women in particular I think have jumped onto the 'incel' bandwagon because they get most of their value from being sexually desirable (not even saying this as a misogynist, it's very obvious if you spend time around women how much time and effort they put into being pretty or cute or whatever and how viciously they establish their pecking-orders like broody hens the moment one of them manages to get knocked up), so the idea that somebody would just declare them not worth the effort strikes deep into the psyche.

Humanity has always been a dog pit, but the internet has made it particularly easy to dog-pile on undesirables.