/lit/ - Literature

>>12585169

i can say categorically that this isnt true

behind the layers of pluralism and interest politics--which are significant and many--there really is a cadre of incredibly intelligent people at least TRYING to run things. i don't think they succeed, in large part because there are a lot of really mediocre people at just as high levels of power, but they are there.

i want to know what they know. i want to know how it is that they see the world. i'll be honest with you: i have seen them, and i want to be them.

>>9962578

yas this one is spooky and weird and makes my skin crawl

>>9893179

dis - denial of self

>>9346791
>>9346792

fuck it. war of attrition and you've won. i'm too tired to pursue any of this further.

i'll post again in another 3 years or so.

i apologize to anyone who wanted more. i am unwilling to participate in such inhuman contexts.

it's been real, gentlemen.

>>9337802

i cannot have children. chemotherapy sterilized me permanently.

>>9337895

absolutely not. baudrillard's idea of the simulacrum is just a minor modern trill to the overall socratic notion of the eidos: it was the greeks who first posited the "otherworldliness" of things--that this world is an illusion, that something real lies behind it. baudrillard's "lights and sounds" merely pushes this into a registrar of jargon, and cuts the notion of the reigning eidos that would make any form of transcendental "out" possible. follow baudrillard and you arrive at the type of immature nihilism nietzsche found utterly decadent (and i agree).

>>9338199

i went through a silly militant atheist phase when i was 14. at 27, and having survived cancer, im catholic--simpy because i see suffering as a way to truth

>>9338333

i got you--i have everything but the la cruz. will scan when i can.

>>9079393

i teach plato, and i gotta say, i don't think you're reading him very accurately, given the things you've written. what do you take him to be saying, exactly? what of his materials have you covered?

i'm not convinced that plato is being consumed on the subway, as you suggest--but, even if this were true, why would a work's popular reception denigrate its inherent value?

i'll engage you on a substantive level if you're willing to do so.

>>9038411
>>9038416

i'm a university professor, and i can see why you were mocked--your ideas are super incoherent and hardly hang together. your view of "human nature" is especially juvenile.

but i'll throw you a bone and save you some time, you weird autistic moron: you're ALMOST there, but others have done this, far better and far more poetically than you, e.g. nietzsche's conclusion, which is essentially that 1. life is meaningless; 2. man must therefore lie; 3. insofar as man lies, there are two attitudes toward this: nihilism and the ubermensch. nihilism is the last man, the "they-self" that heidegger referred to: the mindless, souless automatons that sail through life on the tide of their age, hardly thinking, only accepting, consuming "culture" that neither challenges nor helps grow--nietzsche calls these the "last men," who stare into the void, and blink. conversely, however, there are those--the overmen--who see in the inherent void the opportunity for dance and joy, for storytelling and narrative-making, for lying--but in the most poetic, the most human, the most transcendental sense, the sort of lie that one builds for oneself and can live out fully and without reservation. the last men--those that succumb to nihilism--are destined to ruled by the aristocracy of the ubermensch--those that overcome nihilism. see how much more sophisticated this philosophical-political project is than yours? see how much deeper?--and that is not to say a thing about nietzsche's ethics, his view of history, his idea of art, his critique of socrates, etc etc.

it's like, as yourcernir describes hadrian, you're almost someone smart--but i'm sorry to say there is nothing of much original import or value in your incredibly overflated and self-congratulatory musings. i would highly recommend you stop bothering professors who actually have shit to do and go about reading through the western cannon, as everything you wrote has been covered by people far smarter than you. it'll save you a lot of time, and a lot of loss of social capital.

>>9038411
>>9038416

i'm a university professor, and i can see why you were mocked--you're ideas are super incoherent and hardly hang together. your view of "human nature" is especially juvenile.

but i'll throw you a bone and save you some time, you weird autistic moron: you're ALMOST there, but others have done this, far better and far more poetically than you, e.g. nietzssche's conclusion, which is essentially that 1. life is meaningless; 2. man must therefore lie; insofar as man lies, there are two attitudes toward this: nihilism and the ubermensch. nihilism is the last man, the "they-self" that heidegger referred to: the mindless, souless automatons that sail through life on the tide of their age--nietzsche calls these the "last men," who stare into the void, and blink. conversely, however, there are those--the overmen--who see in the inherent void the opportunity for dance and joy, for storytelling and narrative-making, for lying--but in the most poetic, the most human, the most transcendental sense, the sort of lie that one builds for oneself and can live out fully and without reservation.

it's like, as yourcernir describes hadrian, you're almost someone smart--but i'm sorry to say there is nothing of much original import or value in your incredibly overflated and self-congratulatory musings. i would highly recommend you stop bothering professors who actually have shit to do and go about reading through the western cannon, as everything you wrote has been covered by people far smarter than you. it'll save you a lot of time, and a lot of loss of social capital.

>>9007829

fucking foreign books and your stupid fucking bottom to top side-titles

wtf is that shit, you realize that if you ever want to stack your books face-up, then you have to read the goddamn titles upside down?

i would have so many more french and german books if it werent for this fucking bullshit of a standard, you stupid european assholes

>>8981917

why do people get on others who buy books "anyone at all could have bought"? why is the conformity you seem to condemn in and of itself a bad thing? you assume that he hasn't read them--but if he has, then i'd imagine he'd be more educated than a considerable amount of the living human race. besides, it's not like pynchon, eco, etc are necessarily terrible authors, despite their meme status.

where is your wonderfully read, deep collection--oh you who profess against others? so far you strike me as nothing more than a paean to human uselessness.

>>8938108

i actually didnt realize there was a board for that, thanks...