/lit/ - Literature

>>14514521
Nice fresh take. Sadly It's a symptom of a much larger disease, so an analysis of it would take awhile.

>>13321668
I concur, these posts were top notch, almost Jünger-esque.

Bump

There will be a reckoning for our arrogance, and we will wonder how we ever managed to delude ourselves into believing this golden age is sustainable.

I hope that when this does occur, people like "Cliff" and his agent suffer enormously. Even if they do, though, no agony could be sufficient punishment for the unthinking capriciousness with which they allowed all that we have achieved so far to be thrown away.

>The idea of a society of nations, as an overarching world organization, belongs to the nineteenth century conception of society. The classification and control of a hierarchical distribution of planned landscapes are in fact reserved for a state plan of imperial magnitude... We see that the nations are at work, and we welcome this work, whenever it is carried out. The real contest is to discover a new and unknown world - a discovery more annihilating and richer in consequences than the discovery of the Americas. We can only be profoundly moved when we behold man in the midst of zones of chaos, occupied with the forging of weapons and hearts, and knowingly forsaking the expedient of happiness. To take part and serve: that is the task expected of us.”

>>8103342
>unhealthy fixation on Dude Weed LMAO.

No, everything in the book becomes incredibly sad by the end and you'll see that his main thesis is that drugs totally ruin the potential of great people.

The tennis prodigy hal is numbed and dumbed into mediocrity by his cannabis use, and then finished off by a fictional psychedelic (chapter 1).