/lit/ - Literature

>>22848559
I used to think this way about my own writing too, but now I try not to have an opinion. People will eat up anything. I sent this story to a guy once - I thought it was awful - he loved it. Showed it to other people without my permission, and they loved it too. Sent me a picture of himself crying to my story. Since then I try to just write and not think too much about whether something is good or bad. Even if it is one or the other, it's not like I'd be able to figure out which it is anyway.

>>22728344
I am going to donate to a sperm bank just to fuck with people like you.

>>22439260
IDK why but your text crashed my brain. Felt like 50% of my brainpower just stopped working as soon as I started reading. Anyway, looks good to me.

I think it's genuinely funny that whenever you mention Dugin a horde of shit flinging morons crawl out of the woodworks. It's kind of like when you try to talk about Marx, Hitler, and other major figures. Except Dugin is just a former sociology professor. But because he's a designated boogeyman any conversation about him is likely to draw in at least ~30% angry bad faith illiterates. And I say this without having any special love for Dugin, who seems to me to be a garden variety 90s Russia schizo, if a particularly smart one.

>>21646922
is wheelock's the best textbook for latin, bros?

how does one get discovered on Royal Road?

I think the direction the thread went is interesting and good but I also think it's worth clarifying what I initially meant. I don't believe Nietzsche was literally (necessarily) talking about combat, violence and bloodshed in that passage, but about disagreeable instincts, tangible demonstrations of a will to power as >>20113960 mentioned. I think much of the modern process of earning high paying careers, and the process of "moving up the ranks" once you're there involve a lot of activities or attitudes that could be considered feminine, passive, or receptive ("be in this place at this time doing this task in this specific way for this amount of time"; this is especially true for careers that require a university education, and probably less true - but still true to an extent - if you're a businessman or entrepreneur).
Now that I'm thinking about it, success probably requires a unique combination of a strong primal drive towards domination - an "instinct to victory" as Neetcheese put it - and the ability to temper that intensity for inevitable, necessary periods of tedium and receptiveness as you're moving up, as >>20112250 mentioned.
Intelligence, discipline, a deep, intense competitiveness, and the ability to selectively demonstrate temperance; in some order of importance. It's probably been that way forever.
The question that remains is whether the reward is still worth the effort in the 21st century. That's subjective. I definitely think so.

>>19915847
Didn't that nigga get fucked over by his crazy autistic ex? Don't laugh, but apparently he "did some experiments" on her. And being a test subject for his experiments left her mentally broken.

I wish i was joking
https://youtu.be/CqIujvFf1rs