/lit/ - Literature

>>21204989
Yes, at first glance.
At second glance neither the army nor the oligarches have replacements in their upper echelons, just a line of succession. That will eventually crash as organization age leads to a flat level in the ages of the line of succession.
This is also mirror in the economy, as you get your uni diploma, get your first real job, and realize that you have no actual future in the Russian sphere as they don't actually produce tech or weapons of war. So you have the option of lying to yourself, or let the Russian sphere suffer brain drain. This applies to everywhere else as well, and even to how the oligarches invest.
Which means
You get a damn coup, and then.... the economy collapses. Then you get another coup in a few decades, or another round of military junta.
Its a fucking bad idea.


Meanwhile NSS and Deep State is a spook of assuming organizations which can not directly interfere do interfere directly.
Maybe they do
Maybe they don't.
But at a fundamental level they are not interfering with succession, merely with structure. Often being used as a spook instead of a deterrent. Usually paired with how the legal system in most of the west is extremely weak the moment you can't document.

>>20973827
I partially subscribe to the idea, but there are 2 gaping flaws in the viewpoint:
1. I already read other forms of literature, such as newspapers, meaning I get my dose of bad poetry, prose and cohesiveness
2. There are bad books which are worth reading. So at some level you are feeding yourself the needed perspective if you read enough

But if your question is aimed at the second interpretation of your text?
Ratings are not meaningful without a fuller picture.
But there is a reason why most children's books fall off a cliff outside of their publishing decade, but Dr Seuss and Lindgren stays strong.

>>11080736

>>10239991
Blah blah do this blah blah do that. I reread what i write thank you

>>10111494
Hugo - Les miserables

>>10111627
Calvino - palomar

>>10112906
The pisan cantos

>>10112975
Les fleurs du mal

>>10115096
Gide - the counterfeiters

>>10113532
Tanizaki - the book of shadows

>>9550606
How did Les Mis fuck you up? Because it fucked me up too, but I want to know if you had a similar reaction. I read about how good a guy Valjean was and it made me feel really bad about every little thing I did wrong. It really fucked up my self esteem, now even to this day I try my damnedest to be the best person I can possibly be and just go into a panic whenever I accidentally do something mean.
Also, it made me feel like I wanted to go to church. Just for the sake of having a routine of struggle like Valjean. I don't even believe in God, but I just imagined myself being "the nonbeliever who went to church". I kind if liked that image.
Mostly though it just made me feel like I need to struggle more. So for like half a year I didn't do any sort of leisure or really anything unless it was productive. I didn't drink. I didn't game. I didn't use the internet. I didn't jerk off (this was hard at first, but it gets easier with time). I didn't do anything but go to work and do my own work in my free time. I was actually not unhappy with this, but it also alienated me from all my friends who just wanted to go out and party or game. Eventually, I gave this up just so I could keep my buds, but I still think about going back to it from time to time. I hate to say it, but my friends all just waste my time that I could be reading or writing or working. I love them, but they just interfere with the productive lifestyle that I've gotten a taste of.