/lit/ - Literature

Foucault is laughably stupid

They were great thinkers, yes, but "ever lived" is quite an overstatement

This is the worst image I've ever seen

>>12609353
>Jordan clutching his phone like a buoy in a sea gale while Sam tensely covers his dick as though afraid someone is going to bite it off
>Joe's a smiling oaf
>Ben in the back with predatory tapetum lucidum glinting, smirking to hide the length and size of his teeth
>is that Malcolm Gladwell?
i love this image

>>12609368
Now add to it:
>they will make more money than you ever will
>they will receive more accolades than you ever will
>they will sell more books and be read by a larger audience than you ever will
>they will have more sex with far more attractive partners than you ever will
>their fame will live on far longer than yours ever will

>>12609389
>>they will make more money than you ever will
>>they will receive more accolades than you ever will
>>they will sell more books and be read by a larger audience than you ever will
>>they will have more sex with far more attractive partners than you ever will
>>their fame will live on far longer than yours ever will

things that don't matter

I'd rather die a virgin than be a Joe Rogan tier moron

>>12609353
these are the new faces of the loyal opposition to the cathedral; the synthetic "alt-right"; what the mainstream right will sound like after the current discourse of the republican party is completely delegitimized. it's an establishment astro-turf.

>>12609361
They were definetly some of the most creative thinkers. who competes with them? neetch? grandpa al? that is basically it. will lol of you mention heidegger or wittgenstein.

>>12609377
Lmao I didn’t notice Harris’ crotch crab until now. What da hell?

>>12609404
>What are the Greeks and the Ante-Nicene/Post-Nicene Church Fathers

>>12609353
Well, it’s not as if these men lack knowledge or interesting topics to talk about. Regardless of whether you agree with them or not tbe represent the contemporary milieu of thought, or at least in the anglosphere. To engage with them is to understand the thought of many your contemporaries. I’d say that’s important. Considering how many great thinkers were defined by their contrast and rejection of their contemporaries, i’d say that a great modern thinker would have to be verse in the thoughts of these men, whether to reject them or built positively from them.
There are still thinkers engaging in postmoderm french thought nowadays, just look at Zizek or Land, but they’re not in vogue the same way the cognitivist and sociobiologist are. I believe that in order to make waves in our current intellectual climate, one needs an answer to them, scienticism has to be exposed in its own terms as inefficient or lacking. You can’t avoid them as of right now.

>>12609420
non-entities

>>12609436
ebin

>>12609353
anglos have always been retarded the "intellectual dark web" and youtubers are not the cutting edge philosophers

>>12609353
would Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard and Derrida actually have had dinner together tho? what would have happened? who picks up the tab? i want to imagine this as a play

>>12609459
Lol

>>12609459
Baudrillard thought Deleuze was a brainlet, and probably wouldn't even be invited. Derrida would attempt to make an excuse to leave out of embarrassment. Deleuze and Foucault would have extreme sexual tension until Deleuze makes his choice to be with Guattari forever, leaving Foucault to slowly succumb to AIDs alone

>>12609377
They're all about to train on Shapiro s tight boy pussy. Harris can barely contain his enormous boner in anticipation so hides it with a napkin. Peterson never signed up for this.

>>12609397
b-but wouldn't you rather be comfortable than proud? the fact that I'm using this to mock you doesn't tell you anything fundamental about my psyche!

Unironically the rise of the internet.

>>12609353
>Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Derrida

Humanity is definitely lost

>>12609353
>40 years ago when the greatest thinkers that ever lived, Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Derrida
This is how you get to where we are today.

You're unironically an idiot... but that's so common among philosohy-types.

>>12609353
>the greatest thinkers that ever lived
>Deleuze
hehe
>Foucault
oh please
>Baudrillard
hahaha
>and Derrida
hahahahahahahahahaha
OH NO NO NO NO
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>12609353
Certainly not a golden age of philosophy, but there are still some good minds bouncing around if you know where to look.

I dont dislike people, I dont honestly. but I just wanna punch Sam Harris in the face.

can't stand a faker man.

LOL!!! those people are a joke. vapid, insipid, worthless, pseuds who regurgitate platitudes taken from dinosaur ideologies of the 19th century.

The next wave of thinking is ANTI-TECHNOLOGY / PRO-WILDERNESS

Read "Anti-Tech Revolution" and "Technological Slavery"!

>>12609642
lol. this. this. this. that guy is such a middling pseud.

>>12609620
recent Moldbug is looking...interesting

>>12609716
wtf he's growing a chin

>>12609782
what did Google mean by this

>>12609750
Go to bed, Sean.

>>12609716
lol. what kind of guy poses for photos like that?!

I'd be weary of reading him only because I suspect his ego/emotion is too involved.

>>12609716
>tfw thinking about firing all government employees

>>12609353
Why is that one dude wearing an uncoloured clown wig?

>>12609796
>>12609803
this one is even better. that face

>>12609818
here he sits the Cement Throne, first of his name

>>12609828
sorry, i guess it's the File Throne

it's beautiful tho

>>12609818
this is better, and more dignified.

>>12609853
young ted was handsome no doubt. but he ain't pretty no moah

Moldbug will age both more gracefully and more ridiculously, which is a credit to him

>>12609353
>the greatest thinkers that ever lived, Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Derrida,
lol

But you're at least right in that the quality of those men was WAY ABOVE the quality of the people in your pic. The thing is, they are just the next step of those postmodernists you mentioned, who were themselves on the border of being mere celebrities. The guys in your pic? They're celebrities, through and through. There's no substance to them beyond the celebrity status. They are good with people enough that they are able to make waves with shallow readers, and that's it.

Philosophers still exist, and they will never be people promoted by any media. The media focuses on celebrities, not people who can create value for the world beyond having the chops to swoon pseuds.

>>12609707
Only low IQ peasants fight the dragon. High IQ master race rides it.

Itt: elitists

>>12609353
*crashes your party*

what happens next?

>>12609785
Heh

>>12609878
dude, you think if you went through what ted did just before that photo you'd look any better???

There's a reason the propaganda machine almost only uses that photo...

>>12609942
if you try to ride it it eats you.

>>12610017
they all shit themselves and shut the fuck up.

Why is the state of philosophy so sad right now? Was Nietzsche right? Is nihilism the final boss of humanity, which we're too brainlets to defeat?

>>12609716
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>>12610282
reality > fiction. we live in the best of all possible worst worlds.

i miss 2016 tho. Metal Gear NRx can never really be a thing now. Bannon/Senator Armstrong comparisons: dead on arrival.

so sad.

There are still plenty of great philosophers.
You're just looking in the wrong places for them, because those aren't philosophers.

>>12609716
The Corrections was actually deeply philosophical no matter how hard /lit/ puts it down. I heard Freedom was even better.

>>12610150
t. peasant

>>12609426
>You can’t avoid them as of right now.
t. fucking brainlet

None of these individuals are remotely relevant in the intellectual sphere. The 4 horsemen are more esteemed than these memes will ever be. You can engage with the entire spectrum of relevant philosophy and engage with all scholars without needing to know anyone in that goddam picture.

>a great modern thinker would have to be verse in the thoughts of these men
No, modern thinkers don't need to know the thoughts of fucking Joe Rogan. Fuck, can we evict brainlets from this board please!

>>12610017
>bet you weren’t
*puts on glasses*
>expecting this

>>12610683
ugh. it's taleb's publicist again.

I know this is a troll thread, but he’s got a new book coming out in April and it looks pretty good.

>>12610017
>>12610683
I invite him shake the hand of his guest