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Does Houellebecq provide an effective critique of Islam as found within western society? Does he say anything about the psychology of the convert?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_SSjIQ-NpI&ab_channel=KDBooks

>>22965159
I liked Atomised and Whatever, what should i read next ? does every other books have this depressing/comical atmosphere ?

>"Honestly, the most godless country I know is England. England is the most depressive country and the most depressive literature I know, and the most godless country."

Is he right?

>French Writer Michel Houellebecq Says Great Replacement Theory is a “Fact”

>"Michel Houellebecq—one of France’s preeminent writers known mainly for his novels, poems, and essays, but who is also an occasional actor, filmmaker, singer, and rapper—has said that the Great Replacement, a term used to describe the gradual replacement of people native to France by foreign populations, is a fact."

>"“The Great Replacement, I was shocked it is called a theory. It is not a theory, it is a fact,” Houellebecq began. “When it comes to immigration, nobody controls anything—that is the whole problem. Europe will be swept away by this cataclysm.” Michel Onfray then added: “This is objectively what the numbers say.” The two thinkers agree that the demographic decline of the West—and the West’s cultural, economic, and spiritual decline—is inevitable. Houllebecq, who has been hailed as France’s greatest living writer for his keen observations and incisive insights on modern society, mentioned that although France is not declining at a faster rate than other European countries, it does, unlike other European countries, have “an exceptionally high awareness of its own decline.”"

>"Houellebecq, however, believes that “when entire territories are under Islamist control, acts of resistance will take place… There will be attacks and shootings in the mosques… Bataclan in reverse,” referencing the 2015 attacks at Paris’s Bataclan theatre which saw 130 people murdered and 416 injured by Islamists. The attacks were the deadliest to take place in France since World War II. In his statements, Houellebecq seems to be suggesting that ethnic tensions may reach a boiling point where native French will take up arms and begin carrying out attacks against Muslims, as was witnessed in Christchurch, New Zealand."

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/french-writer-michel-houellebecq-says-great-replacement-theory-is-a-fact/

Houellebecq bros, did we create a monster?

Is he the last writer?
Will there be any non-niche literature after him?

>"I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke."

What was his problem desu?

Which books could be described as being hostile to life / existence?

David Benatar's stuff is an example, as is Houellebecq's work. Thomas Ligotti is another example.

Are there any contemporary writers / thinkers who are similar to Houellebecq?

Mark Fisher is similar in his willingness to attack both left-wing and right-wing ideology, but otherwise all controversial writers now seem to be entirely focused on racial issues. I'm not sure how likely it is that we will ever see someone as pessimistic, bitter, angry but articulate as Houellebecq again.

>>15282719
Well he used to be younger, you know

>>8699451
>>8699460
What the fuck happened to him? Drugs?

>>5000650
http://web.archive.org/web/20120227083719/http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

>Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two years ago. Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men.

>I think this difference is the single most underappreciated fact about gender. To get that kind of difference, you had to have something like, throughout the entire history of the human race, maybe 80% of women but only 40% of men reproduced.

Even though, of course i don't think 70% of men are virgins, or that society who enforced monogamy were actually exclusively monogamous. That image is just a playful ilustration of my concept, which is the rise of inequality in the sexual market after the sexual revolution and the bitterness and anger it promotes on the "losers".

Michel Houellebecq tackles the same questions in his first books.

>It's a fact, I mused to myself, that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It's what's known as " the law of the market". In an economic system where unfair dismissal is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their place. In a sexual system where adultery is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their bed mate. In a totally liberal economic system certain people accumulate considerable fortunes; others stagnate in unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

And in the end the narrator advises his loser friend to just kill normies.