/lit/ - Literature

>>17038776
Based.

>>17017079
t. based department, redpilled unit

>>16682333
>book appears to be unfinished
>author actually thought of the ending
>author gives subtle hints of how the story ends throughout the book

Communism means just Waging for some peasant Commune, usually in terrible conditions

Social democracy is thousand times better
I’m living a very comfy neet life in a based western eu country and get everything I need
Why would I want to wagekek like a peasant for some filthy commune lmao
NOTHING BEATS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

>>16518460
Westerners have an idea of the separation of form and essence that isn't really present in Japanese culture.
To allow me to go on for TWO FUCKING SECONDS, what I mean is that a Westerner might recognise that someone has been deeply influenced by Chinese or Arabic culture on a deep, intellectual level and has internalised many cultural ideas that are exactly that - ideas.
But Japanese culture is unique in that it doesn't have a strong separation between form and essence. Their spiritual ideals are perfect rituals that don't really carry a hidden meaning (afaik). I'm badly versed in much of Japanese culture, so IDK about shinto, but their Buddhism's most iconic thing is maybe the zen ideal of just sitting. I could go on, but I will not. My point is that to be influenced by Japan means precisely to start doing tea ceremony and wearing kimonos. Things that Westerners regard as "superficial" but are really what it means to be Japanese, and it's ignorant waitu piggus not getting that Japanese culture doesn't have this division between form and essence. So the Weeb has actually correctly grasped Japan's culture and the naysayer mocking someone for wearing black lipstick and making bizarre gestures is actually ignorant.
Another way of saying this would be that Japan is a nation of weebs.
To be Japanese is to be an incel weeb creep with no deeper understanding of the culture and an obsession with the outside trappings.
This clashes with the Western view of the world wherein to understand something you need to understand it "deeply" by getting at the "real" "essence" and "ideas" of the culture behind the obvious superficialities. Japanese culture doesn't work like that. A man is the room they're standing in. A policeman is a policeman because of his uniform. The highest ideal of meditation is literally sitting down and that's it. There's not a second, hidden meaning like we assume and look for as Westerners. In this sense, the Weeb more directly becomes Japanese than the analyst.

>Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents

>>16475460
Based.

>>16466779
>*ahem* take a sit anon.

>>16388767
Nah Thales was based and got rich to flex on the normies.

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>>16295973
BASED.

>>16243294
Holy based.

>>16239240
>several people came up to me and told me I was very "deep". Well, yes, I am, but this got me thinking about what makes people seem deep.

>>16107022
what music do you listen to? listening to chopins ballade no 1 during the death of prince andrews father (cant remember the name rn) in war and peace makes it even more powerful. i mean the song already regularly brings me to tears but the book in addition.
also nothing is cooler than listening to the meistersinger von nurmberg as nietzsche is giving his opinion on the opera in beyond good and evil or listening to john fields nocturne after tolstoy references them, and especially nothing as cozy as putting on some of mozarts chamber music after kierkegaard mentions him at his modern symposiam the stages in lifes way

>>16037559
>What is/are the only true way/s to get out of the rat race?
I'm not telling you.

>If so, why aren't you on this beautiful path of freedom?
pic related

my fellow NEETs, please do not underestimate the value of sleeping and waking up early. It is good for the mind and body. Promise me you'll try it yourselves. I speak of this for your well being

as for me
>wake up 5am
>make coffee
>use toilet every other day --- this has to around the same time. always followed with a shower
>shower
>spray myself with a perfume. (delightful practice)
>browse lit, listen to radio/podcasts
>...
>mass at 18h
>small dinner
>sleep right after

it is also good for every catholic to pray the angelus at 6am, 12pm and 6pm

>>15795189
a man of culture

>>15792381

Communism means just Waging for some peasant Commune, usually in terrible conditions

Social democracy is thousand times better
I’m living a very comfy neet life in a based western eu country and get everything I need
Why would I want to wagekek like a peasant for some filthy commune lmao
NOTHING BEATS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

Whats with all this communista crap here?
Communism means just Waging for some peasant Commune, usually in terrible conditions

Social democracy is thousand times better
I’m living a very comfy neet life in a based western eu country and get everything I need
Why would I want to wagekek like a peasant for some filthy commune lmao
NOTHING BEATS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

Whats with all this communista crap here?
Communism means just Waging for some peasant Commune, usually in terrible conditions

Social democracy is thousand times better
I’m living a very comfy neet life in a based western eu country and get everything I need
Why would I want to wagekek like a peasant for some filthy commune lmao
NOTHING BEATS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

>>15613307
yeah I'm a NEET and I really don't get how communism or anything can get better than this

literally living like a king right now. i feel like we're the bourgeoisie of the modern day

>>15580488
>fhj
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>>15514634
the truly /lit/ lifestyle is living a youth of decadence and excess and then repenting and turning to asceticism and contemplation

>>15480000
Based