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12570523 No.12570523 [Reply] [Original]

>The goal of the society where you live is to destroy you. You have the same goal with regard to society. The weapon that it will use is indifference. You cannot allow yourself to have the same attitude. Attack! All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard.
Do you agree with this? He's addressing writers and artists in general btw.

>> No.12570535

>>12570523
So what is the wound of modern American society that you should press down hard on?

>> No.12570546

>>12570535
Inceldom and female manipulation of the sexual market

>> No.12570579
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12570579

>>12570523
>The weapon that it will use is indifference
Fight fire with fire, I say.

>> No.12570588

>>12570579
Will your indifference really hurt society though?

>> No.12570630

>>12570588
who gives a fuck?

>> No.12570634

>>12570588
I don't know anon, what's the sound of one hand clapping?

>> No.12570665

>>12570630
I do. I want to see society burn to the ground and I have felt this way for a long time, because I'm in the middle of a decade-long pathetic, impotent, beta chimpout directed at work, women, hipocrisy, social standards and other things I've personally struggled with.

My frustrations are powerless and inconsequential, and I have no outlet or expression for them except art, so I have to believe in its corrosive power if I don't want to blow my brains out of hopelessness. Please help me anon.

>> No.12570683

>>12570665
Just stop giving a fuck and smoke some weed for a while bro
Just chill out and listen to music than when you feel ready form a coherent plan for your future actions.
Just stop whining we all hate existence

>> No.12570690
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12570690

>We live in a society!
Whoa...holy...

>> No.12570711
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>>12570523
Just finished reading the first part of Atomized and seriously got anxious and insecure from reading it. Im not even close to being a /r9k/ robot, but the book's centralisation about the sex society mixed with the degradation of innocent characters really fucked with my mind.
Still cant believe annabelle cucked michel and had to do an abortion, jesus crist, why does it have to be like this. Are the rest of his books also like this?

>> No.12570778

>>12570690
>I'll dismiss one of the most recurring topics in literature because that's what adjusting my personality to the latest meme requires

>> No.12570791

>>12570778
Bitchwhining about society is indeed a recurring theme in literature, one must say fucking irritating at this point. Yeah we get it - society bad, anarchy good or something. It's intellectual laziness at it's finest. What does it even mean to say that society wants to "destroy you with indifference"? Either something got lost in traslation, or this guy is just a bitter retard.

>> No.12570802

>>12570791
>Yeah we get it - society bad, anarchy good or something.
The fact that your little sarcastic summary is this off the mark means you should stop parroting memes like a retard and pay more attention.

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>>12570802
>u-u-u dum!
Whatever faggotrino~

>> No.12570810

>>12570791
Holy....if I would like more of this I would go to Reddit. But I don’t. Holy.....

>> No.12570815

>>12570791
>Bitchwhining about society is indeed a recurring theme in literature, one must say fucking irritating at this point. Yeah we get it - society bad, anarchy good or something.
A-anon, you need to stop incorporating reddit memes into your personality, this is embarassing.

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>>12570535
The "me" generation thinking they are special, that they should be handed they keys on a silver platter, and when everything doesn't go according to plan, they whine, bitch, and curl up into a ball.

Pic related, but it happens on all ends of the political spectrum.

>> No.12570955

>>12570535
>modern American society
Fuck off you cringe boy, /lit/ is an European board. Nobody gives a fuck about America.

>> No.12571293

>>12570579
That house should be comfy but somehow it isn't

>> No.12571341

>>12570856
>This meme
This is a delusional class, anon. A subsection of the class that encompasses your delusions as well.
Both continents

>> No.12571535

>>12570535
Capitalism.
Houellebecq is also a fundamentally anti-capitalist author. His works are all about liberalism and how it destroys meaningful relationships.

>> No.12571542

>>12570523
holding cig between 3rd & 4th fingers - poseur

>> No.12571976
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>>12570535
The belief in equality.