/lit/ - Literature

>>16818013
I unironically respect him for sticking to what he thinks despite the pressure. like when not kneeling to the BLM protest.
His bottomless despair helped me greatly to appreciate Decline of the West. If he went bald he could do a good cosplay of Oswald.

>>16728928
>Elitist
>Ended up as R*ddit's philosopher
Colour me shocked. All you haven't put together is how our modern society is made of women, specifically gold-digging women. Even the men in our society are often women, because everyone worships wealth and status. So in our society there are few men, just women, and the metaphorically womanish.

What does a female society love to hear about most? "Bad boys," such as bank-robbers, tyrants, criminals, spies, cowboys, soldiers, mafiosi, and immoral men in general. All of TV is porn for the female mind. Similarly, Nietzsche, writes about the supposed virtues of criminal types of men, so called "great men" by which Napoleon, Goethe and Alexander are meant.

So Nietzsche gives our whole society one giant clitoral erection; he can conjure up the image of immoral men with his prose, but it's at a safe distance.

Peter Hitchens

>>16202965
Salons would be incredibly awful
>100s of bourgeois pseuds, memeing liberty and equality
>They equate their own sophisms with philosophy all day
>All their philosophical positions are self-serving and relate to their business interests; slaves? Oh of course!
>Hate the king, no loyalty, many homosexuals
>Hate religion, only deists and heretics
Overall a whorehouse would be less ruinous to the soul.

>>16094804
Two false assumptions:

1. Humankind can be improved intellectually, morally and physically.
2. Society is meritocratic, people who work hard succeed.

The reality:

- Success doesn’t always go to the wise, victory doesn’t always go to the strong, the innocent are wrongly accused and the wicked prosper.

- Because we imagine that intelligence, strength and moral goodness are going to have positive results, we read self-help books and go wrong in choosing what is best for us in general.
- We need to take a step back from our own ideas, and learn to be skeptical of successful people. It’s convenient of them to tell us that their success is a result of their virtues, but it probably isn’t true; they probably stole along the way.

- It is important to note that it is deeply cruel to the world’s poor, imprisoned, weak, and needy to suggest that their failures are deserved and lie with a lack of morals, intellect, or physical fitness. Even if that were true, they didn’t ask to be born like they are, or born any other way.

- Political talking heads reinforce assumptions 1 and 2 because it makes their paymasters in the political system look like they are doing a good job. Case in point is how the Chinese Communists make everyone in China undergo a standardized test, which if students pass with a high enough grade, the Communist Party will pay for their education anywhere in the world. The reason the Chinese do this is simply to discredit malcontents; if you say that the reason you didn’t get ahead is because the Chinese Communist Party is corrupt, they can retort that the real reason is because you’re lazy or stupid or both.

- In reality this narrative of meritocracy and self-help encourages active or passive cruelty; it allows the middle class, the Outer Party for all practical purposes, to discriminate against Proles and think of them as less human. This allows middle class people to think uncritically about the orders given to them by the Inner Party elites. It’s a tactic similar to that used by plantation owners of old; by promoting certain slaves and giving them greater autonomy and privileges, they become lapdogs of established authority. Tell those slaves that they are better than the others, and they will ruthlessly defend you.

- The truth of the matter however, is that middle class people are, in the grand scheme, nearly as poor as the people they help oppress. Their lives are made more tenuous than the lives of the poor, simply because they have a carrot of hope dangled before them.

>>13525591