/lit/ - Literature

genuinely awful OP even by this generals standards

>>19814631
how sheltered are you? do you even actually read yourself? you make it sound like your entire perception of literature is hyper-romanticized and fetishised and is entirely based on people you agree with snarkily telling others to "read a book" as an insult, as if you have a monopoly on literature, and platitudes about how "omg anyone who reads books will totally come to the same conclusions about everything as me!"

what a bizarre and deranged show of your own weird brand of ignorance and narcissism

>>19778115
>Work is work and it is better than watching TV all day.

>>19094043
>pages of pseudo-philosophical rambling by mentally ill/drunk characters
>bad thing
how do you manage to get filtered by kino characters like kirilov?

>>18935952
>Two anons already demolished your rant. Nothing else need be said
didn't happen
which posts are you referring to? the one that claimed china is a successful example of a stateless classless society? or the one that simply said "you are wrong" while proving not a single piece of information on the topic? is that what you consider "demolishing" arguments?

lmao why cant you exercise an absolute shred of dignity and self respect and just set aside this childish deflecting and simple ADDRESS THE TOPIC AT HAND or ADMIT YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF DOING SO

arent you supposed to be 50 years old or something? how the fuck yo you accumulate that much life experience and still end up acting this way?

>not just buying books

>>17668446
wew you just couldn't resist shitting up this thread and making it about how quirky and unique you are for being a dyke lmao. so predictable. heres some of that attention you clearly desperately wanted when you made this post

>>16657477
>is he just incapable of writing an ending that's good?

No

>scanner darkly
>three stigmata

>>16256930
Oxford grad detected.

>>16123279
2 Reasons:

The type of people who tend to criticize Timothy Leary are the Reddit "OMG I LOVE SCIENCE" kind of people. They claim that Leary ruined psychedelic research by being too much of a hippie, and that he should have behaved more like a clinical researcher. I completely disagree, I think Timothy Leary did great work in the 60's, and he's a big part of the reason why any of us even know about acid or psychedelic drugs.

Secondarily, Ram Dass is the most base kind of degenerate loser. Terence McKenna cracked a few jokes about how he thought Ram Dass was completely full of shit as well, Terence is another bright mind and his criticisms of Ram Dass should be taken seriously.

At the end of the day, it's always plebs and idiots who end up hating on McKenna and Leary, because they lived really meaningful lives committed to the psychedelic movement in a way that put their own persons at risk. It's a kind of bravery and honor that Reddit-fags and meditating hipsters will never be able to understand.

>>15893920
Yes

>>15885134
>Spoonfeed me

Nah, read books faggot.

>>13206248
#TywinDidNothingWrong
>>13210933
#CaoCaoDidNothingWrong

>>12600830
platofags need kant

>>12463269
Definitely degenerates, I would have to agree. However, I'd imagine subhumans would have to be dumb, or callous, or illiterate. I am none of those.

>>12463294
Are you implying signalling sexual success is bait? Bait for whom? Incels? It seems like an odd thing to pick out from the bazillion posts I made in this thread

>>11361649
Very few folio books are worth getting. Shakespeare letterpress folios are nice and a few of the older designs of misc books are fine. But a lot of it is pretty over the top and overpriced

>>11084748
>hating communism means you support capitalism
It's not either or.
Take the monarchy pill

>>10736354

There's been a swarm of people lately mentioning this book here not realizing why it sucks. Protip, it has NOTHING to do with it being an authoritarian civilization, nor does it have to do with the soma-induced state of welfare and blissful ignorance.

The true problem with Huxley's BNW civilization is that not only they are immensely idealized (something we can ignore for the sake of arguing in principles), they are absolutely impervious to change and utterly incapable of adapting to external pressure. Just look at the damage and scarring a single savage (a refugee?) has done from "infiltrating" into their society and blending among their ranks.

A society like that would fade away and/or go into a state of crisis during the first period of resource drought, during the first contact with any other civilization. Engineering highly specialized humans is a recipe for disaster, or rather, a recipe for failing to stand up to disasters.

Furthermore, this is a safe and happy world for the ignorant, the deltas and gammas and betas. However, for the high castes (as Huxley painfully makes clear in the last chapters' exposition) this world is a management nightmare they can't ever wake up from. In maintaining order for their society they must contain any and all external stimuli and even contain internal attempts at revolution (realistically, even things like counter-intuitively repressing technological advancement must be done). This leads to the sad "dystopian" state of this brave new world: at once, if you are the one who is responsible to think about the situation of that society, you are also the miserable one responsible to heroically fight back entropy (literally and socially) from eroding the order you have established.

TL;DR goddamnit you pleb, even a Taleb-tier fag can see why a society that is so fragile to change and external forces would ultimately suck your dad's sweaty balls.

>enjoying minimalism beyond Carver

>>10707002

>Someone greentexts a complex feeling

>>10698307
literally no one dislikes him. sometimes the genre memer faggots may technically be trash talking him but thats not direct

>>10650923

>Hume's guillotine

>>10639460

>has never read "My diary desu" by Marcus Aurelius

>>10633440

>"Most Likely"