/lit/ - Literature

>>22012817
>Even before I read him.
Same, it's a really amazing feeling when you independently come to the same conclusions as a great thinker in history, and then discover this fact. It's vindicating in the extreme.

>>19113433
Maybe he'll Rob Zombie himself into a hit horror movie like RZ did with Devil's Rejects. Can only hope...

The plot of The Canyons was pretty good, just the execution was botched. Smiley Face Killers was pretty bad all around but I could see what he was going for...

>>19114500
I think there's only one part in RoA where it switches to 2nd person for a while. I also like when the narrator gets called the wrong name, they just switch to 3rd person narration with that name.

Or are you thinking of Bright Lights, Big City by McInerney? That's a fun book.

>>18422981
post more neets

>>18000010
A moderate degree of skepticism is a prerequisite for critical thought. I agree though, that philosophy needs to become far more pragmatically oriented if it wants to be taken seriously.

>>17710580
I enjoy the war against myself, nothing could be more worthwhile than seeking ever greater mastery over oneself. Life is but that process or its frustration.

>>15235729
>Pic unrelated, why was Kierkegaard so shit bros?
Nice.

>>15207052
obligatory pic related

don't be a greedy wuss anon, you lucked into a decent existence so make the best of it and be grateful for what it is

things don't need to be eternal to be worthwhile

>>14051148

>>13987930
Cry more about it.

How come just about everyone who participates in discussions of topics like accelerationism uses unfathomably stupid definitions for concepts like humanity, nature, and technology? Did you all think "start with the Greeks" was just a meme? Plato wasn't a true Greek by the way.

I mean, for starters... to say anything like "humanity will die out soon" is just false. Rather, the only thing that will survive is humanity, and everything that will perish will be said to have been less than human. Technology will not wipe out the race, it will elevate it over the ashes of the decadents, and because we want it to, because technology is merely a tool that we employ to achieve our goals (and everyone who disagrees on that point, simply isn't aware of the zeitgeist of our time, i.e. who the elite classes consist of today).

ITT: /lit/ humor.

There was a dead American Catholic sf author widely recommended here who is famous for his allegedly crazy but gorgeous prose. I forgot his name, remind me? It's not Miller or Wolfe.

>>9246213

>>9238179

This thread just produced the profound realisation in me that what we call the short-lived 'analytic' movement was the modern equivalent of a scholastic period. Read Nietzsche and you'll find this uncanny. He explicitly singles-out the Anglo nations for their unrelenting clutching-at whatever remnants of Christianity remain, to compensate for their lack of philosophic spirit (pragmatism being a passivity in matters philosophical). And naturally, the Analytics would be the 20th century equivalent, in their secularised, unphilosophical society. >>9228759 thanks.

>>9225650
Look up the (probably homosexual, lel) reverend Giles Fraser's articles in the Guardian, any that contain the keyword 'Nietzsche', if you want to see a Grotesque recent specimen. I liked 'The fantasy of the beautiful nomad is morally bankrupt' one just because it makes you self-conscious of just how enjoyable the things he hates actually are compared to his preferences.


>>9228059
Isn't this just Pascal but with a historical-sense (so basically, less intense and therefore healthier *in a negative* way?)

>>9228747
IIRC he imagines him to be a Buddha-like figure (Christianity might have been as good as Buddhism if the Romans/church hadn't commandeered it), The Idiot being so selfless that he freed himself from ressentiment and therefore his only problematic elements are his original reaction to evade suffering and his idiocy. Possibly his rebellion against the Jewish laws too.

>>9226740
/thread

>>9226984
Heidegger is exactly the kind of obtuse German barrier to European enlightenment Nietzsche described past figures as being (right down to personal inclinations towards romantic nationalism nazi volk shit).
>Nietzsche is not actually the overcoming of nihilism, he's just the completion of it, ya gotta know Being first :^)
>will to power and overman are metaphysical/otherworldly
>the true Nietzsche is not found in the published works ;)
>the Being, not becoming!

>>9226752
>HOWEVER
HOWEVER

>>9131948

>This entire post