/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-jKmcNr_8&ab_channel=JurijFedorov

This video is a gold mine for autism. A slippery mobius strip of scientism.

1. Dawkins asks what consciousness is with the most self-satisfied tone
2. The crowd claps as if that's the first time the question has ever been asked
3. That useless pile of shit Lawrence Krauss tacks on an "I agree" the second applause starts
4. NDT tries to play the cool reddit scientist card and calls Dawkins Richie
5. NDT is obviously out of his wheelhouse as he tries to say anything about the limits of human knowledge while surrounded by people that actually believe they can become robots and that it will be good
6. Bill Nye makes fun of NDT for doing precisely this, calling him a stoner and thereby also playing a cool reddit scientist card even as he tears down the beginning of this conference's only interesting conversation

Somehow STEMfags have convinced everyone in my English department that Origin of Species has beautiful prose and is a wondrous read, etc. etc.

I've read it. 75% of the book is about pigeons. The only juicy part is when Darwin waxes philosophic about the struggle for existence for 2-3 pages, and a cool section on slaver ants.

STEM dilettantes just really REALLY want their literature to be interesting. You want true beauty for your tastes go read Ptolemy's Almagest and stop lying about Euclid, Apollonius, Kepler, etc. being interesting reads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-jKmcNr_8

>that audible 'oh yeah' after Dawkins asks a question that's been asked a million times
>that applause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-jKmcNr_8

>stage is dark except for the faint glow of the distant stars
>the audience murmurs softly
>suddenly a light shines on center stage
>a red velvet curtain depicting the missing link stuffing his face with tabs of LSD and smoking three joints at the same time is revealed
>the audience goes dead quiet
>a perfect harmonic scale, neither too passionate nor too exciting, fills the air as the curtain slowly rises
>Richard Dawkins steps out onto the stage
>the audience goes wild
>microscopes and graph paper are sent flying through the aisles
>Dawkins raises one finger
>the crowd hushes, vacuum of vacuums
>"What..."
>sweat weighs and glues labcoats to the floor
>"Is..."
>Higgs bosons begin bouncing so rapidly that they can be seen emitting firefly-like iridescence
>"...Consciousness?"
>a shockwave the likes of which the Manhattan Project never knew rips through the crowd
>tear filled safety goggles begin drowning the eyes of their wearers
>the entire audience roars in delight
>The Vatican, Mecca, and Jerusalem are destroyed by the catastrophic blast of a thousand concentrated autisms
>philosophy sections in bookstores are overturned and replaced with discount fedora displays
>Dawkins glows a deep purple as extra-terrestrial life finally makes contact with earth and abducts him in a totally scientific bodily ascension
>as humanities departments around the world shut down, Neil deGrasse Tyson looks at the camera
>"We. Are. Star stuff."
>He winks
>God is dead