/lit/ - Literature

>>13546319

>b-but evil imperialism!

Conrad's point was that it doesn't matter how civilized we think ourselves because man's true nature is unalterable.

>he's not writing his story on paper so it can't be shared online

>>10336995
>wahhh dont show me scary pictures they hurt my feeeeelings!!

>>10253819
>implying your voice is interesting because you say 'fuck' every sentence

>not just downloading a free copy online and putting it on your Kindle

>IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America’s founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds.