/lit/ - Literature

>>17437639
>fiction improves empathy

>>12930561
>muh empirical data

>muh data shows dingz r guud

>>12537903
Guénon reads like a well constructed encyclopedia. Never compromised, always logical, always strict to the point no-nonsense type of writer. Most traditional authors spent pages explaining topics which Guénon covers in few passages.

His book "Reign of Quantity" released in 1945 is perhaps the most prophetic book in terms of how accurate his portrayal of coming modern (or post-modern) societal, spiritual and physic of our time was back then. Even a simple topic like "Degeneration of Coinage" is extremely prophetic in a sense that most our money, today, is becoming digital. Guénon is right in a sense that he is absolutely certain that money will cease to exist (in the material world so to speak) as we are beginning to see now. This is just one of the topics in which that book is highly prophetic.

The problem with him is that people mislabel him as a " oriental metaphysician", a term he even himself disliked, but he was actually a "perennial" philosopher.

Unlike many other traditionalist authors, he refused to have “students” or disciples. He went so far as to say that “René Guénon does not exist” or that “René Guénon is a symbol.”

>>12537943
Nah, I rarely even post in Guénon threads or discuss Guénon here, but he gets dicussed a lot. The original Guénonfag is an insufferable poster.

ITT post books that left you scar(r)ed, noided, spooked, etc. after having read them.

Pic related made me realize that Satan is everywhere. I've been pretty much immobile since reading it a couple weeks back.