/lit/ - Literature

>>4674382
Nothing 'works' about the examples he points out though. It's completely arbitrary aesthetic preference.

>>4415413
I don't like those at all, too frilly and precious. I guess I'm a fan of ugly brutalism.

>>4369755
It's literally too edgy for me. I like my minimalism stark, grey, square and symmetrical like some brutalist meets neoclassic totalitarian wet dream that hasn't quite been created yet.

>>4300621
>saying 'space ghetto' without succumbing to it's very awesomeness

>>4240101
>The concept of God allowed for a defined moral and value system.
When you look at religious times the only advantage of this is that it required people to be more creative to work around these values and justify their own desires, sharpening their sophism and general mental abilities.

But these nihilistic times also have their own advantage. The dull get lulled to sleep, the weak are allowed to weep, the strong take advantage and the wise reinvent themselves. As far as Nietzsche would be concerned, only the latter group counts. The whole value game has never been played by large groups anyway. It's always a vanguard endeavour.

I think we live in glorious times. I can live a Spartan life on welfare and dedicate myself to living well and thinking well. As long as this exists I'm happy to ignore the silly games of politics and economics and focus on greater things. In the first world, only dumb and weak people still need to work. For the rest of us, the playground is opened. We can talk shit in the agora again all day. Let's reinvent those values.

Giving up resistance and realising that life is shit and the best thing you can do is to get comfy and weather the storm as best as you can is the best thing I never did.

PS4 or XBOne guys? Fight Club should be played backwards to be profound.