/lit/ - Literature

>>21418120
ass

Blocks your path.

Science/Jazz
>Music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at least six of our mental faculties.

>Now, if the intellectual faculties could identify the pleasure-giving patterns, purify them, and concentrate them, the brain could stimulate itself without the messiness of electrodes or drugs. It could give itself intense artificial doses of the sights and sounds and smells that ordinarily are given off by healthful environments. We enjoy strawberry cheesecake, but not because we evolved a taste for it. We evolved circuits that gave us trickles of enjoyment from the sweet taste of ripe fruit, the creamy mouth feel of fats and oils from nuts and meat, and the coolness of fresh water. Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which we concocted for the express purpose of pressing our pleasure buttons. Pornography is another pleasure technology. . . . [T]he arts are a third.

https://youtu.be/hausB9-lYFI

*proves Leibnitz right*

*DESTROYS pessimism*

>>12957692
>OP's friend

>>12878980
How do we clean the Pinker Discord out of this place?

>tries to critique Pinker's love for reason using reason.
Why are Pinker's critics so dumb?

>>12860470
>t.

>>12841804
Day by day.

Well-being is becoming better, wealth is making us merrier.

>>12738493
https://youtu.be/8qrriKcwvlY

What do you think about Steven Pinker?

>>12523311
>can't read
>thinks there is only one path
Fuck off, asselerationist.

Asselerationism is really just an edgy teenager version of shills like Pinker.

>>12493326
ASS

>>12420903
It's literally ASS: The Forum.

ass

Is it possible to support capitalism & be a good writer? I'm not suggesting you have to be a tankie to write a good novel. I just honestly can't think of a talented writer that staunchly supports capitalism

Stop reading Nietzsche