/lit/ - Literature

That does seem like the perfect brainwashing factory to destroy your mind and turn you into a slave, so maybe those who skipped school were the high IQ geniuses all along...

I was wondering if a "realistic" story means going all the way with edginess. Can anybody answer?

>>19586452

It was a genius move, indeed: people supporting tyranny thinking it is "for their own good".

>>17257398
You have to stop thinking in terms of "man" first of all. There are plenty of decent men and plenty of not so decent, but most of them are mediocre and lack any "supreme center" to push themselves towards anything (this is arguably the "meaningful" aspect of "humanity" if there is one). All of them lean back into just doing what works for them (essentially pushing the pleasure button so to speak), yet this isn't to say they are necessarily formless and selfish. I think pic related actually describes the situation reasonably well in the modern context, yet it is slightly too pessimistic on the materialism of "man." Anyway, these types are those that are "born to follow" because they have no "supreme center" in themselves, they have to find it outside of themselves (which only exists in capital accumulation in the present world, or mundane hobbies which are relatively easy and riskless). This is kinda related to what Ted Kaczynski called surrogate activities.

What we need is a sudden upset to shake the petrification of the current environment up, which will allow the cream that is trapped to coagulate at the top using the old analogy. This is what happened in Weimar, but due to the quick and chaotic nature there is no guarantee of the upset going any particular way, and it relies on certain types being both extant and capable of directed action when the time arises. Nietzsche stated that the world of the last man might be too barren for the generation and actualisation of the Übermensch, which is the potential problem we face. I am capable of fighting and serving, but I am not much of a leader, so there is little I can do personally.

>>14890807
Some of us care about more than "getting rich" you degenerate insect, you will get the rope too.