/lit/ - Literature

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I'm not going to expose myself like that. I may still have a reputation to protect, after all; I've gotten poetry and short stories published at "respectable" publications. I actually wouldn't mind revealing some day that I post on 4chan--but the time isn't right yet. I predict that it will be at some point in the future.

But I will tell you why I left. Actually, it's pretty funny: it's not so much that I left as that they left me. Thermidor shut down, after all. Social Matter's running on fumes these days. I remember when Carlo announced this in the old Thermidor Slack: that he was stepping away from everything, that he'd become disillusioned with neoreaction and frogtwitter. He wasn't sure we could accomplish anything any more, just writing essays and critiques.

The one thing Carlo said to me that I keep in mind these days is: do something positive, not negative. What that means is: critique is, inherently, a negative art, a regressive art. It's about pulling things down. And there's a lot in the current Liberal order that needed to be pulled down, and that still needs to be pulled down. But that destructive element--that pulling-down--has advanced incredibly far.

And what Carlo was so worried about was that, if we were so focused on pulling down, we would miss that what was just as important for the end of Liberalism and Modernity was a building-up. In other words: okay, we're going to destroy Liberalism and Modernity, but what's going to happen when and if we reduce all these things to rubble? What will we do in the ashes of the current world? What will we build?

That was Carlo's concern. And so he exhorted us all to start making "positive" contributions to the world. To create, rather than destroy. I, particularly, have taken this to heart. I was taking it to heart even before Thermidor shut down, but it's something that has weighed more heavily on my mind since that site went extinct. To create, rather than destroy. Liberalism, after all, is the arch-destroyer of the last 200 years. It's chewed up everything: kingdom, nation, folk, state, church, people, myth. If it, itself, is chewed up, what's left? What is there for the people of the future to build on, if Liberalism finally rolls over, vomits, and dies? Carlo seemed to be concerned with this, in his last message to us all before he went dark.

So: I'd love to still be writing for Social Matter and Thermidor. But they're a bit defunct, these days. I didn't leave them behind, but they left me behind. But that's probably for the best. Instead I've begun to establish myself as a poet and storyteller. Maybe I can do my part to build, rather than tear down. I would be doing this even if Carlo hadn't said anything, but I confess his last words weigh on my mind more than a little. They make me think.

Has /lit/ taken any uni writing courses focused on creative writing? What are they like?

What are some books about degenerates, perverts, sex & alcohol addicts, etc?