/lit/ - Literature

Been slacking really. I'm a major antiquityboo but I'm look for recs for something different or fiction
Polybius - The Histories
Plutarch - Roman Lives
Plato - Protagoras

Currently reading Polybius 'The Histories'
What about you anons?

What is the most captivating book you have ever read? One that took you on a real journey that you became lost in, and in doing so changed your outlook on the world?
Mine was the Iliad. Read it at 19 matured me beyond measure
In short I’m looking for red commendations in the style of epic tragedies

I'm just going to post my tentative plan for building a City-State in South America.
Imagine a Change.org meets Steemit.com.
>I propose a cause
>people vote
>those votes award me tokens
>I can then sell these tokens to crypto investors, and spend the money on funding the cause
An example cause would be a better traffic light system. Many traffic lights already feature cameras who's only purpose is surveillance. We could have these cameras + more work with computer vision to detect cars and change the lights accordingly.
Have you ever waited on a red with no cars coming either way? This would get rid of that. It could also work with driverless cars, to make them run fully autonomous.

The crypto voting platform would basically empower people to build their own world. It could be used for lobbying and building products (digital and physical). Now imagine how cheap it would be to do this in South America. You could bribe a low level politician and have the smart street lights up and running in a city in a matter of weeks.
What if we continued iterating, and building a very modern city with libertarian values? Ultimately we could buy a bunch of land from some South American government and make our own state.

>>14669351
Despite the 'um's which could be trained away, Moldbug is a great speaker. He just doesn't desire the following as much

>>14676576
>Fuentes is cringe and his fanbase is a borderline cult.
That's not a bad thing. A cult is how you affect change. Moldbug mentions this in the podcast. Pretty sure he says something to the effect of
>I don't want to a cult, I want to teach people how to make cults

I'm not a Fuentes fan, but at least he's in it for the cause rather than the grift.

>>14055380
Yeah it's great fun. Even before I started to write the epic, I did mess around with other meters. The traditional Greek meters like dactylic hexameter (the one the epics are in) are technically feasible in English, but inordinately harder due to English having fixed stresses on words, when Greek+Latin have flexible stress patterns, the same can be said for Sapphic meter.

Here's the sapphic I tried:
Birthed of loins Saturnus’; blood and foam-born,
Bubbled up Ourania cosmic – Oh Queen!

I didn't get far, but I managed to fit the opening of the epic to dactylic hexameter:
Poetry! Spectacle of Muse, quote hence these words-spill – now SING;
Battle rage ‘cross fields, a-cross fatherland’s tragedy’d spin,
How Turks besieged the year fifty-third - fourteenth century proper, -
Brought bright Byzantium doom.