/lit/ - Literature

>>11888412

Why has transrealism not really caught on as much as it’s predecessors?
http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/transrealistmanifesto.pdf

>>11775069
>Planescape Torment is not an intriguing story

>>11775055
He’s an npc so of course

Lit, wouldn’t it be smarter to pretend to be an npc rather than be outwardly not? Is this why you only talk about literature and discuss Nietzsche and Deleuze on here and Patterson in the outside world?

Isn’t it best to pretend to be the fool instead of the most outstanding person in a room filled with opportunists?

>>11767399
Ok, and?

>>11766418
Besides his greatest follower, my lord, Mr Patterson, I think Nietzsche was the best mind of the last 100 years :)

>>11765681
This.
>>11765562
Take a part time course in something you enjoy and do all the reading for that. You’ll get a degree or some shit out of it in the end and will be much wiser with the lectures telling you best places to look.

Don’t listen to lit, they’re all npcs

>>11765068
Incel has replaced retard as a socially acceptable word to describe the socially inept

But if you’d ask me, incels are pretty retarded

Lets derail this chat with an npc meme too :)

>>11765914
I really feel sorry for some of these npcs who are trying to pretend they’re actually sentient. They try so hard.
OP, you’ve done great with this post! I’m very proud of you! Keep up the good work

It's cultural terraforming.

The platonic bugman isn't simply a fully assimilated workerdrone for globohomocorp... He is a man who never had the need to change in order to assimilate to globohomocorp.

C-sectioned into a sterile environment by credentialised alien medical personnel and raised by strivers who had incubated what they intended to be a narcissistic clone of themselves. Rather than the mirror of self affirmation his parents intended to create, they inadvertently brought something far worse into this world. Something... Empty. Something with the smallest possible soul, which occupies the smallest possible corner of the cavernous soul-space inherent to a man with his inherited high IQ that was intended to be tempered by an ethnocultural heritage of altruistic romanticism.

His caretakers' empty loveless platitudes, persistent physical and emotional absences, and fanatical striver dedication to relentless "inclusiveness" and "efficiency" resulted in the utter starvation of the child's solitary soul fragment.

An unclaimed heritage makes its presence felt through a haunting melancholy that propels a fully-souled individual to seek it out, at any price. A weaker-souled individual still feels the call, but weakly... It is easy to drown out with drugs, drink, and other forms of desensitization.

The platonic bugman hears none of this. His soul has been shrunken to a tiny characterless bead that serves only as a mechanically animating force- and nothing more.

The fullest soul sings like wind through the veins of heroes. But the bugman's blood is naught but iron, plasma, and carbon dioxide. Simple elements. Physical blood pumped rhythmically through tissue that is warm, yet remains lifeless.

Completely bereft of emotional, sociocultural and memetic antibodies, his body and mind are fully colonized by the roaming metabacterial influences of the managerialist mileu. There is an Amazon Alexa in his soul cavern.

Inverted panopticon: A ring of corpogovernmentally programmed thought police surrounding a lone man in a cell. But there is no cell, because the man is incapable of considering any alternative.
He is tweeting, and nomming on organic granola.
He am become globohomo, monocultural fagger of worlds.

ok

>>11762873
>fundamentally misunderstanding philosophy is the same as being 'uncool'

t. NPC

>A classics degree?
>how is that going to get you a job?

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.

The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.

By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.

Retro-disease.

Nanospasm.

I've caught myself blanking out quite often today, and i'm actually afraid that i might be an NPC

>>11757184

I like to keep my reading light haha

>>11756036
Just finished reading the Gamification chapter, and for slightly unrelated reasons, it has got me thinking about the new NPC meme. It's a new addition to the "life as a game" of memes. First, there was the "dude, we are living in a simulation/The Matrix lmao," and then there was the "life hack" as a term for a shortcut or workaround for daily and commonplace rituals. What these terms are really saying is life is less than itself and less real than it is, and life is something to be "won" (and I just remembered the phrase "winning at life"), but it ultimately doesn't matter because it's a game. But really, life is all there is, and to think otherwise is deluding yourself: escapism. That's what Gamification is, escapisim. Now, there is an uglier term of gamified life: the NPC. The term signifies two things, you are the "player" or hero/protagonist of not just your life, but life itself, and the only one who has any agency. The second signifier is it dehumanizes the Other as the NPC, the mouthbreather, the meatbag, the prole, the sheeple. To think of people as NPCs is not only escapist, but also solipsistic and dehumanizing.

NPC here, ask me anything