/lit/ - Literature

Dear american /lit/izens, did you ever know that no one else ever heard of Ayn Rand outside the america?

>Kant originated the technique required to sell irrational notions to the men of a skeptical, cynical age who have formally rejected mysticism without grasping the rudiments of rationality. The technique is as follows: if you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea (based on traditionally accepted doctrines), your conclusion must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible. Your proof must be so tangled a mess that it will paralyze a reader’s critical faculty—a mess of evasions, equivocations, obfuscations, circumlocutions, non sequiturs, endless sentences leading nowhere, irrelevant side issues, clauses, sub-clauses and sub-sub-clauses, a meticulously lengthy proving of the obvious, and big chunks of the arbitrary thrown in as self-evident, erudite references to sciences, to pseudo-sciences, to the never-to-be-sciences, to the untraceable and the unprovable—all of it resting on a zero: the absence of definitions. I offer in evidence the Critique of Pure Reason.
Kant BTFO. Now read some real philosophy

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*Sniff sniiff*
whats that I smell
some shitty randion thinker, get teh fuck otta here

Why do neo-Nazis like this woman's books? Aren't nationalism and ethnocentrisism forms of collectivism?

this guy

holy shit

it's so good

why didn't nobody tell me about this before

of course it's full of mistakes and failures but in-between there's some real nice use of language for things i've always grasped/felt in some uncertain way