/lit/ - Literature

Tolkien>Salinger>Camus>Huxley>Nietzsche>The Greeks>The Bible>Indian mythology>Julius Evola and finally Guenon.

What is the essential pretentious hipster garbage books I can pretend to read to impress cute girls?

>>10518185
Like Dante to Beatrice our minds seek new horizons, yet to be dissapoined, like Alexander on the Hyphasis river. Lo! Despair not! For soon come the time of great rejoice, whence the brainlets shall be crushed as Hannibal was, under the steel tipped toes of the phalanx of the race war

>tfw to smart for pol and short term thinking

We need to increase aggregate demand through increased government spending and take advantage of the fiscal multiplier. Government debt barely matters. We need higher taxes.

We need a 100 % cashless society. We need to decriminalise most drugs and tax them.

The USA needs to have social services healthcare. They should give all undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship and fix the immigration process. The UK and EU countries should have 3 to 5 % immigration each year.

Both Clintons and Tony Blair were the best politicians of the modern era. Macron and David Cameron are both dangerously right wing.

We need sex education for all kids so they can make safe decisions. We need to intervene in Syria and depose Assad, a brutal dictator.

We need to engage thought leaders across academia, NGOs, politics, and the private sector to set a bold new agenda that will help society as automation, AI, and biotechnology become more powerful.

>>9492312

I started typing suggestions but it turned annoying really fast. Should I sign in from a throwaway email?

On the Google Drive, I think we should start by incorporating as much insight from this thread as possible, as well as brainstorming some models of our own. We should aim to: 1) formulate important questions; 2) use the answers to the questions to develop some sort of model; and 3) transform the model into something suitable for practical use, reference, etc. Hopefully, with enough people putting their heads together, we could summarize our findings into an interesting post and attract critics, helpers, testers, etc.

At first, not even joking, we're gonna have to start some basics. First we start with the subjective realm (thinking... i.e. the act of thinking, what do thoughts capture, what kind of thoughts we can have) before moving onto the objective realm (ideas... i.e. what thoughts aim to grasp, resemble, represent, etc., what types of ideas are out there, what logical structures can they form, etc.). We need to have a solid idea of what we should strive for, as well as what we shouldn't underestimate in terms of complexity, when developing a guide to thinking.

Once that occurs, we can start talking about common pitfalls, the best subjects, the best books (maybe even create sample curricula), the best habits, the psychological elements of arousal/bias/etc., and perhaps a myriad of "fine-tuning" tips and tricks. Hopefully, there won't be much overlap, and we'll be left with a systematic guide to accessing the full power of our cognitive potential.

>>9359546

See this list of books right here:

>>9359527

First, establish a routine where you 1) eat well; 2) exercise; 3) sleep well; 4) meditate; and 5) journal. Then you can begin learning productively.

Master these books, and then you'll be set to do anything you want. If you're struggling with one book, downgrade to something less complicated, and work your way to the final milestone.

>tfw too intelligent to post on /lit/

>>8919871
>not knowing what a liberal arts degree is but still trying to insult someone

5 to 10. I don't have enough time to read yet, I need to git gud at Dota 2, study for my physics major and work on my massive anime backlog. Think around 2019 or 2020 where I can start seriously reading

>tfw to intelligent to believe in the government and in the free market

Why isn't there a /lit/ bar exam? You know, like an exam that /lit/ users have to go through to gain access to the site?

I only want to shitpost amongst the literary élite.

What's a good website/forum where l can have intellectual conversations and discussions? (preferably on mic). l feel like l need to practice after reading of these books about rhetoric. l know the theory but it doesn't come off naturally on the few irl conversations l have