/lit/ - Literature

1. Montaigne
2. Nietzsche
3.

>>7384013
American libertarianism is just another pragmatic, "common-sense" political philosophy with two concealed assumptions that count on optimism (#1 assumption: with laissez-faire capitalism, everything is fine). If you point to laissze-faire capitalism creating any type of problem they will immediately correct you and twist the facts and history to make it seem like government-intervention was the real culprit. Psychologically, it comes from an old-fashioned miserliness mixed with sentimental agrarian-cowboy nostalgia. "As long as I have my church and my gun and my crop, then the city folk should stay out of my damned business and quit giving all of my hard-earned tax dollars to the niggers." When they are really backed into a corner, they will reveal their faith in the goodness of the church and the community (#2 assumption).

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/wisdom/complete.html

>>7132658
>>7132658
Nah, I am only joking. I mean, I hate all of you but I don't feel annoyed or anything. Warm contempt. Just screwing around and HAVIN' SOME FUN. Well, found my flashlight and have my boots on.

Why should our life be in any respect provincial? If we will read newspapers, why not skip the gossip of Boston and take the best newspaper in the world at once? — not be sucking the pap of "neutral family" papers, or browsing "Olive Branches"(18) here in New England. Let the reports of all the learned societies come to us, and we will see if they know anything. Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co.(19) to select our reading? As the nobleman of cultivated taste surrounds himself with whatever conduces to his culture — genius — learning — wit — books — paintings — statuary — music — philosophical instruments, and the like; so let the village do — not stop short at a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish library, and three selectmen, because our Pilgrim forefathers got through a cold winter once on a bleak rock with these. To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions; and I am confident that, as our circumstances are more flourishing, our means are greater than the nobleman's. New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all. That is the uncommon school we want. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

18. publications that do not have editorial opinions
19. publishers in New York and Boston