/lit/ - Literature

>>11981891
That's not OP, this is OP. You can trust me.

>>10350800
>affiliating with a culture entails behaving in a certain manner...
Sure, but this is a pretty complex issue. If I wear a hoodie, am I affiliating with black culture? What about when a black guy does it? Wearing a hoodie may be an action, but the extent to which it determines my cultural affiliation varies based on things out of my control.

>which has an impact on the surroundings of affiliate.
Is this impact always, or even usually, enough to deserve a violent response? Even if I were to grant you that cultural affiliation is voluntary enough to make a moral difference (I don't, but let's pretend that I do), you'd still have to show that the moral difference is drastic enough to warrant discrimination/2nd class citizenship/genocide.

>>10350822
>Antifa pick their enemies on the basis of Political affiliation.
This is true.
>just like Fascists and everybody else.
This is not true. Belonging to a culture isn't inherently political, nor is being female or a member of a minority group.

>>10295810
Well, since you asked. I'll tell you what's in my doki doki kokoro. This was a first try no edits. Pws no bully desu sugoi.

I remember, when at one point I felt as though everything was possible. My world was small but I was king of it, the halls I walked and the people I met, they where easily understood and always interesting.
It was once something that I felt so much pride for, such certainty for. My age has only made the world larger and harder. I was no longer king, no longer where easily understood. Now I live in a world of difficult people with harsh problems. A world I can not fix, a realm I am no master of. The only terrifying thing about the entire experience is not that it was once the case that I was so great, but that I realized that I was never great. I was always small, always weird, and weak. I knew nothing than and I know nothing now. Ignorance and idolence filled me with such disgust, but now it's all I see in myself. An ignorant lazy man. I try, I really do, but with every step forward I feel as though it only becomes your apperant of how ignorant I was and how much I am still. How lazy I was and how much I am now.
We are all sysphus, rolling the bolder to the top of the hill and watching it drop again. Only to it again faster this time and watch it drop faster again.
My only solace, the only thing that keeps me from losing hope, is the constant reminder that I am not alone. For even the greatest scholars and most active of men are too cursed to say they know nothing still after many papers written, and the proactive always cursed to see their inefficient ways.
Life is growth, forever we grow, forever we strive. At this point I know I can only do so much, so I must do what is right for me m life is judged not in years but in the life within those years.
Quality of life, what a silly little dream. So I crave only one thing now. To make an impact. I shall do my best.

>>10287734
Yes, the rejection of society as a whole and the fact that he has faded into history shows that his unpopular philosophy is not one that can be used for the foundations of any kind of government or serious mindset.

His rejection of pretty much anything that is outside of himself in the physical world allows for no room for things like trust, honor, or even kindness. Even though he claims humans tends towards kindness regardless.
In reality his philosophy of egoism would Lead to anarchy and would quickly destroyed by any Nation that didn't believe in anarchy.
His ideals require defenders of which there would be none because to defend his ideas is to go against the philosophy at its core. You are defending an abstraction an idea. Hence his philosophy is kind of self defeating. It could only apply to individuals who exist within a society, like a secret cult but could never be anything more than a niche.
Which is why I believe it's gone through cycles of obscurity to niche culture edginess.
It's a pipe dream, but he has good points but seems to shoot those points down in his writing down in his book.
Nothing matters except getting yours not even this philosophy.


I give his philosophy 4 popcorn shakes out of 5. If everything he did was intentional he's a genius or a master troll. If not, well it was a good try but you created something that to defend it would be to destroy it.

What are some good books that counter materialists? I was in a debate yesterday where my friend said that the self was composed exclusively of a) biological impulses and instincts and b) societal teachings, and that this proved the idea of a soul. He also believes dreams are random neural firings, and I can't disprove either of things rationally as much as they feel wrong to me. Thoughts, book/philosopher recommendations?

>>10203793
I never advocated for capitalism. I'm saying that Marxism is not the answer to capitalism because they're two sides of the same coin. Both are fundamentally modern, materialistic systems that destroy culture and turn society into a soulless hell hole. Neither system takes the human spirit or the importance of culture and tradition into account. It's all just material goods and profit to them.

>>9921641
There is something visually striking about his face. What are some more /fa/ writers like Beckett?

>>9919528
So if it were possible to travel back in time and observe this scenario multiple times, there would be some in which Jones chooses to shoot Smith, and some in which he chooses not to shoot him?

If it was always meant to be one outcome or the other then it sounds pretty determi istic.

>>9919798
>"weak" free will
Please explain.