/lit/ - Literature

>>13427867
>Bezmenov
remember the entire /pol/tard worldview is based on a proven lying traitor scum

>>13148769
You better, bucko. I'll be checking in on your progress.

>>12492243
>Influenced by
Yup, that's trash

>>12009911
>counter-currents.com
saged

>>11617915
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/06/the-us-natural-gas-industry-leaking-way-more-methane-than-ever-before.html

https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/11/climate-change-two-degree-warming-fracking-natural-gas-rush-ingraffea

Hope you factored in the costs of destruction of all seaside property

>>11465697
Who's citing him? Sam Harris?

You know Foucault is like the most cited academic of all time, right? Academic praise doesn't not make you a hack.

A = A

>>9896900
Why did civilization emerge in the lower IQ areas while Europe was filled with illiterate barbarian morons? Maybe after functional institutions were built up the barbarians began to be enculturated into different practices that rose their intelligence?

All the time I grow wiser and wiser, but people around me are still as dumb as a retard. I don't know why it is that some people remeain at the neanderthal level.

>>9398372
That's probably the result of pure social conditioning... homosexuality being rare and that sort of incest being rarer means the issue probably doesn't arise in nature that often but perhaps some cultures say fucking your son in the ass is necessary for him to become a man, who knows?

>>9281982
>my theory literally covers everything
>also it can't be falsified, sorry
into le garbage can, how bout you read karl popper kid and grow up

>>8855673
Also by the early 1900s most businesses in America had already been transformed into limited liability corporations, a legal form of business Adam Smith heavily criticized in the Wealth of Nations.
Also right around the corner was the creation of the Federal Reserve and the permanent warfare economy which had to be created to actually save the economy.

>>8795865
with money issued by governments that somehow magically came into possession of land

>>8374923
I disagree.
Shame can only exist when actions are being judged by a community or people whose opinion is respected by society.
Sexual "freedom" is not a matter of negative judgment for most people whose opinion are taken seriously, it is instead encouraged, because we live in the XXI century and we are no longer held by archaic ideals of purity. But this can be misleading, because morality is not uniform throughout society, and there are some gaps between people's moral that is established both by culture and social class; people find themselves in social classes that approve such behaviour, therefore it is good, and there is no shame to feel, but being happy and even proud.
Being in a different place can lead to being judgmental towards others that do not think under the same principles. This reminds us of the kings that upon arriving to the city of Utopia they were judged by the citizens because of their ways.
It is hard to say who is in the right, because the most likely situation is that both are wrong in several aspects. (1) Moral Progress is an idea quite hard to hold, and claiming that the underground man considerations are wrong because this is the XXI century and now we are "morally advanced" makes nearly no sense - progress is always a mess, and we need to learn from history to discover what we are doing wrong in the present; (2) The very idea of being judgmental towards someone who calls someone else a slut fail by means of the very same principle: both are telling the other what they should think, and both should realize that both mindsets can coexist, this is, people have as much right to do whatever they want with their body (which is in fact a set of moral principles involving sexual behaviour) as another can feel disgusted by it and not being willing to relate to that person; (3) Sexual repression and sexual liberty seems to faces of the same coin, or a thesis-antithesis duple, still waiting for a Hegelian synthesis to occur.

There is another thing that is interesting: people relying on the r9k meme to refer to the underground man. This is something that happens often, this is, associating a particular mindset or moral principles with a social group that we believe we can dismiss (or laugh at, or not take seriously, etc) so we can also dismiss some of the principles that belong to the group. There is certainly a relation between morality and subculture, but it is a twisted thing to do to reject a moral principle because it belongs to a subculture which we don't want to feel associated. I think this is happening here when people talk of the underground man as the "/r9k/ man", and to take it further, we see it happening when people talk about religion (the fedora meme) or even general philosophy.

>>8334625
>after reading John Glubb's Fate of Empires
Except he's empirically wrong and is very liberal with the dates of empires to fit the narrative he's trying to craft. If you're falling into a cyclical interpretation of history you're completely ignoring the radical uniqueness of epochs. You can look for all kinds of pseudo-parallels and craft tales about the similarities between Rome and America but history isn't just repeating itself something very different is always happening.

>>8259411
>I drank the kool-aid

uncritically believing everything a textbook and university (i.e. propaganda institution) tells you is the worst thing you can do desu

>>8236440
I think international trade and easier global movement is super cool. I like the fact I can buy cheap Chinese electronics and take vacations pretty much anywhere in the world. Anyone that finds this problematic is probably really stupid.

>>8206621
wtf are you talking about, US hegemony is as strong as ever and they structure order and creorder... the only difference in a year is either Clinton or Trump (look at who's actually advising Trump on foreign policy, they're all neocons) will have a more aggressive foreign policy to forward their interests.
Britain has no weight to throw around, US decides what happens and they're looking out for themselves which might mean weakening the EU with Trump but that can't lead to anything but a massive decline in global profitability and towards much bigger troubles and a global melt down worse than 1929.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtqtMU2vgI

https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mikhail-lifshitz-the-philosophy-of-art-of-karl-marx.pdf

all you really need senpai

>>8133907
interesting fact: Mises literally called himself an "entrepreneurial Marxist" at the 10th anniversary meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society

It seems most self proclaimed "libertarians" are just straight up boring liberals but don't want to call themselves so!


The economic basis of politics by Charles A. Beard [short history on various theories on property]
https://archive.org/details/economicbasisofp00bearrich

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill [Mill despite his flaws is still essential]

"Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital" by Thomas Hodgskin [this is a very interesting article from 1825 that attacked the wage-fund theory that was prevalent at the time and had a very idiocentric capital formation theory. it was getting at the notion of "free market socialism", kinda in the sense of Proudhon but way better. I think Engels in a footnote somewhere called Hodgskin the most important economist pre-Marx]
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/hodgskin/labour-defended.htm

Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko [interesting revisionist history on the progressive era]

The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s by Martin J. Sklar

>>7956579
See here the thing is morality is a purely subjective system people only ever resort to to forward their own ideological goals. Morality doesn't really exist but is a pure social construct. Noting would be moral or immoral if people were isolated.

>>7952122
>Are these people unable to understand math? Because resources aren't infinite, even if we are wealthier than the countries they come from, we can't fucking support millions of refugees and illegals if we just open the borders.

The idea of "limits to growth" is bullshit Rockefeller "lower your expectations" shit from the 70s. There are essentially no limits to growth thanks to late capitalism. Increased population just means more GDP growth and higher living standards.

Most people who are against immigration think their exists a fixed amount of jobs or something and everything isn't paid for with instantaneous credit creation on a computer. Literally any criticism of free movement just boils down to not understanding how modern capitalism functions.

>>7889938
>Wow, way to pin the problems of north korea on the fact that it's a monarchy instead on its extreme isolationist policy and agressive behavior caused by historical and political events.
There might be a connect between the two, absolutism will lead to that
>>7889934
I think that's exactly what fedora sperglords are aiming for, otherwise you just degenerate into contemporary Britain