/lit/ - Literature

>>8253507

here is the ultimate final list of video games that have surpassed literature

Here's the guy's list of favorite video games.

I'm sorry, but none of these are as aesthetically accomplished as the greatest works of art, music, literature, or even cinema. Great art makes your hair stand on end, gives you an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach, and leaves you wandering around in a daze contemplating what you just experienced. Can he say that about any of these games? As far as I'm concerned, they're just silly time-wasting entertainments, and they don't give you anywhere near the amount of pleasure that a genuine artistic masterpiece does, not even a Picasso.

>Preoccupation with happiness is a symptom of lack of goals, and lack of goals is a symptom of exhaustion. There is no cure for exhaustion besides the cure of cures: death. All the purported cures are narcotics: they do not reverse the process, they merely anesthetize the invalid so that he will no longer be a nuisance to others, and to himself, as he slowly, but inevitably, slides down into oblivion.

>Hatred of the rich is so wretched, it's such an obscenely malignant sentiment, that it is truly a masterstroke of deception that the rich-haters have managed to convince everyone (and even the poor rich people themselves!) that they hold the high moral ground! The low moral underground, more like! For what are riches? What does it mean to be rich? Examine the concept of money closely and you will see that all it means is that rich people are those to whom everyone else owes something; and in fact a great deal of things indeed! Otherwise they wouldn't be rich! Hatred of the rich is merely an attempt to get out of discharging a debt (and indeed a great number of debts!) that one has incurred, at one point or other, of one's own free will.

>The increased level of stress in the modern world is a reflection and direct consequence of the increase in the extent of the order of rank inside our culture (the Western one, that is). Instead of many little hierarchies, you have a gigantic one, in which everyone feels the weight of many more others on top of him than before. This is globalization. And globalization is efficiency (which is to say progress). You have two options then.