/lit/ - Literature

>>13859274

>>13859274
what a faggot hair lmao looks like an annoying kike grandma

>when campus police fancy a chit-chat because of your ribald Pinkerposting

>>13859309
based science guys!

>>13859274
I thought the global IQ keeps falling every single year.

>>13859288
Tell that to the people in Auschwitz

>>13859274
Because "Enlightenment" is actually a surrogate ontological death-trap made by materialistic spinozist lunatics unaware that they by refuting metaphyisics with rationalism they performed a still metaphysical shortcircuit in which the Nous is cut off and most of society is stuck is discursive reasoning without any means to escape or elevate our existence from the dust whence we came

>>13859331
Buddhism really does mean to say it to people in Auschwitz, too.

>>13859309
>it was just the seating chart!
>it was only a few US scientists!
>they were social clubs between investors and academics
>they were collaborating on the future
>don't you want a space colony?!

>>13859274
>let me tell you why, as a tenured Harvard professor, you should be happier! Just let me cash my Epstein check first.

>American Professor
>paid by American institutions
>esteemed and celebrated thought leader
>mosquito nets and malaria drugs karmically balance perpetual war profiteering, commodity warfare, mass pharma markets
>it's not the inflection point, we've reached the utopian plateau
>we should be proud of our modern selves
>our work and our understanding of that work have been good and true

Actually, in sweden crime has increased due to mass immigration. According to a 2005 study, immigrants are 500% more likely to commit sexual assults. And in 2019 we have plenty of mass shootings committed by immigrants. Also multiple "communes", for example Filipstad took in a large amount of immigrants whom couldn't read which resulted in a bad economic situation. We also have a record of bombings in 2019 due to migrant heroine gang.

>>13859457
Pls delete this. Mods!!!

>>13859457
and why is the swedish government not doing anything about them?

>>13859457
cry some more faggot

>>13859457
>and they date my sister, too

>>13859491
They are, the recently had a meeting, where they excluded the anti-migrant party, which didn't amount to anything. But they are posturibg about ideas and plans to decrease crime.

>>13859495
so brave and edgy of you to uphold the international progressive status quo

>>13859328

>>13859501
it all could literally be fixed with hard anti-immigration laws. I hope Sweden rots if they don't do anything substantial about this.

>>13859274
It’s not that people are unhappy, that’s a poor war of phrasing things; unsatisfied is suitable in terms of describing the current human condition. It’s almost akin to this comic. The rich and bourgeoise are instead shaking the proletariat and shouting “Drugs! Sports! Cars! I’ve given you everything you want, why won’t you be happy?”

Happiness is for stoics.

>>13859509
yeah im an old fashion guy.. for me being a bigot is just being a bigo t- not a counter culture, steve bannon is just a slimy demagogue and not a Jimmy Hendrix.

you might say im a conservative, really

>>13859331
gas yourself schlomo

This troll is the ultimate accelerationist. He can make cucks seethe at the mere mention of capital.

>>13859274
>The world is better because Africa is getting food.
I can't fucking stand this jew at all.

>>13859274
>Why aren't you happy, anon?
because tfw no qt /lit/ bf

>>13859309
I don't think there's any other image that expresses such sheer jewishness and sleaziness

>>13859274
>Why aren't you happy, anon?
>implying

>>13859845
This.

>>13859274
I'm reasonably happy. That said, does he really believe that people nowadays are wise? I didn't read his books, but it seems he believes we are i n the best era ever due to material wealth + less conflicts.

>>13859274
>Dude, like, how are you depressed it's the fucking twenty first century. We are in an era of science and humanism!

>>13859331
Did you read Viktor Frankl?

>>13859913

Kek

I'll bite. yeah we can buy more cheap household goods (which also don't last long.) yeah third worlders have more access to school, but this is pearls before swine. those who cared could always get books. they only care about school so they can get higher paying jobs and buy more plastic stuff.

everything is spirtiually empty. everything feels so hollow. I'm not even in a capitalist hating fag. if you manage climb to the top, it's empty there too.

>>13859924
>more
What did he say?

>>13860053
>I'm not even in a capitalist hating
And that's your problem. You got brainwashed to think that Jew gold matters.

>find a passion
>pursue that passion
Life is THAT easy nowaydays.

>>13860077
Do you really think so? I graduate in two semesters, and I don't think I'll be able to survive more than a year after that. t. handicapped.

>>13859274
I can't put my finger on the exact thing, but there's something creepy about unironic Fukuyamism in time when Fukuyama himself admited on being wrong.

>>13859274
Seeing this guy speak really put everything into perspective. He's obviously a huge fucking pussy.

>>13859457
It's simple: you're banned from talking about it. Problem solved!

>>13859309
>we heard your girlfriend was out of town
>maybe....we could be your girlfriend for tonight

>>13860093
In what sort of shithole would your survival even be a question? Bet even burgerland has some sort of retardbucks or neetbucks, at worst they do have homeless shelters, churches and the likes. You'll be fine even in worst case scenario.

Compare that to the good ol' past where your handicapped ass would've been thrown into a river or an asylum.

>>13859660
This.
Capital is progressing.

>>13859681
I'm a potential /lit/ bf but I already have a /sci/ bf
:(

The Language Instinct is really good, does he have any other good books? Is he one of those nonfic authors who is good when writing in his field but a complete meme when he leaves it (see Dawkins)?

>>13860693
Fags get out.

>>13860727
But I wear a skirt so it's not really gay!

>>13859288
>It's all in your mind bro just decide it bro

>>13859499
t. american cuckold

>>13860118
Yeah, what's wrong with Pinker? He's 25 years late to the party.

>>13860127
>He's obviously a huge fucking pussy.
You sure about that? He made fun of Nietzsche in one of his books.

>evolutionary biologists
>any insight whatsoever
lmfao might as well read green eggs and ham

>>13860127
Just checked his speaking after your comment. He's indeed a pussy that lacks any gravitas or conviction. He could be explaining 2+2=4 and I wouldn't be convinced.
Is the subjective integrity of worldview that one holds the ultimate redpill that makes anything he says right or wrong?

>>13859274
The more you know, the more you know you dont know.

>>13859309

>>13860303
>Mammon is progressing
>The demons that accelerate technocapital or Mammon unto themselves are trying to materialize into this world via the realization of autonomic AIs
Save us Ted K

>>13859331
they all deserved it.

>>13860127
*Smacks lips*

>>13859288
Westernerzed budisum is pure cringe

>>13859845
but /lit/ leftists keep telling me its da white menz

>>13859331
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

>I mean how dare you. What an immoral and unthinking individual you must be. To say, to think, to even consider that consumer capitalism doesn't completely fulfill every possible human need and that its even possible to be dissatisfied with modern deracinated alienation. How dare you.

>>13862788
Then holocaust was white genocide

>>13862800
>fat drunk jew neocohen
S and TFU

>>13859274
>>Why aren't you happy, anon?
>>13859309

>>13863333
Holy quads.

>>13859331
The museum exhibit is big money entertainment.

>>13862788
Islam is right about women.

>>13859331
yah ill track down all 6 of them

>>13859274
My neighbor died of lung infection, I just found out because his door was plastered with duct tapes. He couldn't leave his cats to get hospitalized and paid the price dearly for that. The guy had no job nor family; I could see his emaciated face every day as he was sitting in front of the drug store, bare feet, close to teenage drug dealers conducing their thriving business. When he told me he was going to die I said nothing to him, he was just a stranger to me as he was to anyone else. I don't know where his cats are, hard to say considering there are lots of them on the street.

>>13859288
Whoa, watch out. We got another Bentham here.

>>13860727
Homophobes go back to >>>/pol/

>>13859331

>>13863497
I'm so tired of you whiny little milksops.

>>13859660
Capital is forever.

>>13859627
silence boomer

>>13859331
wouldnt want to interrupt the football game

Pinker is right. Nobody here has good counterpoints to him

>>13864510
wtf i love modernity now

>>13864510
Read Tribe

If life is still good why do i still have to labor for 40+ hours a week like an ant?

>>13859913
>We are in an era of science

Literally the only thing that makes me feel better is abandoning technology.

https://youtu.be/GcAUuDwvAyw?t=50

0:50 - 1:40

is this non-opinion philosphically grounded?

>>13860053
>they only care about school so they can get higher paying jobs and buy more plastic stuff

Have you ever been to the third world? I mean the real third world and not some backpacker cafe in a safe zone? You're projecting your capitalist desires on a population that has water and foot as top priority.

>>13864792
I'm "pro" climate change (whatever the fuck that means) but damn that's retarded, they couldn't even prep her with some concessions to epistemic pluralism or pragmatism so she doesn't look like a gung-ho scientism technocrat? This is just going to give fuel to people who have enough intellectual tools to criticize her scientism, of which there are plenty, and the number is only growing.

Stupid. She's been groomed to be the mascot for this ideology and they can't even do it intelligently and strategically so as not to alienate more people. It doesn't take a lot to have her say "look, we all know science can be flawed or misguided, that it can have hidden agendas and be bought, but the consensus on this is SO overwhelming that we need to at least step on the brakes a bit, just to be safe." That would win a lot of people over who are undecided, and who have been listening to the accusations that this is all propagandizing.

>>13862800
this but unironically but actually unironically

>>13864844
Is anyone opposed to "stepping on the brakes a bit"? The whole problem with the climate change retards is that they want to uproot all human economic activity to the tune of trillions of dollars.

>>13864917
I barely keep track of this stuff. Have they got a solution yet that doesn't involve banning air travel, cars, and eating meat?

>>13862795
This definitely isn't "happy". The Catholic mystics largely agree that happiness isn't any sort of goal, and more likely than not you'll be pretty fucking miserable if you're doing things right.

>>13864917
>The whole problem with the climate change retards is that they want to uproot all human economic activity to the tune of trillions of dollars.
It would be good if they wanted that but no, they're just shills of the system.

>>13859320
i have no idea what this means but I'm laughing

>>13865002
post those feet missy

We live in a society that has what people from the past dreamed of. However 1) it has its problems 2) we shouldn't stop trying to make it better 3) it doesnt mean everybody will be hapoy since we are comolicated beings

>>13859274
>>because we're all a lot more Enlightened now
>enlightenment century in the past at least
>more and more philosophies have come and gone since, regardless of if enlightenment was the break
>china obliterating poverty with a-liberal economic institutionalism
>american/european economic models way past everything in the enlightenment
>many other success stories in Asia
>>we need MORE enlightenment
Motherfucker got lapped by everyone else on earth and is acting like he's two steps ahead.

>>13859681
I’ll be your /lit/ bf anon

>>13859913
>implying sois don’t all say they have depression

>>13865499
this

>>13859309
>slays teenage pussy on the regular
>"isn't life beautiful, anon?"
No shit

>>13859331
Come on man, why do you have to derail a potentially good thread with this /pol/ shit?

>>13862800
>What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god?
>What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape. No recall or intervention can work in this place.
>Come, lay down your weapons, it is not too late for my mercy.

>>13859309
Krauss straight up looking like a rat.

>>13859309
Just three guys who happen to be Jewish hanging out

>>13859627
>Acknowledging reality is bad because it would hold me accountable for my bad decisions

The Conservative is the most worthless sort of person, because when defeated, he immediately turns coat. The Conservative will fight tooth and nail against the tide of "progress" until defeated, then he will turn right around and fight FOR his oppressors against anyone attempting to reverse the tide of battle.

The only positive thing that can be said for Conservatives is that you are obedient fucking cattle, and that all it will take to return you to your proper place of slogging water for us like the mules that you are will be one condescending slap across your servile, sniveling mouth.

>>13859274
the ancient world didn't have metrics

>>13860118
We are talking about a boomer jew, he will never ever admit his (and largely his generation) aspiration were wrong. He will die 'happy' never having seen the ultimate consequences of his ideology. He'll probably comment on how easy you gaming's have things on his deathbed.

>>13868355
*youglings
But autocorrect was based for once, gamers rise up.

>>13863502
What is with a sword and old white man?

>>13859309
Jews rock!

>>13859309
It is so disgusting to see anti-semetism on the rise AGAIN! The resonses to this picture are like another holocaust!

>>13859338
based

>>13859274
Ass

>>13867863
have sex .

>>13859274
I am happy though. I only come on 4chan to shitpost for fun and because I've been lurking on this site since practically the beginning.

>>13859274
i got my entire bank account on this guy never being punched in the face

>>13860053
Everything feels hollow because life has always been vacuous space to be filled with our own experiences, beliefs and interpretations. If your life feels "spiritually empty" it is because you have made or embraced nothing spiritual within yourself and you are just projecting that inner abyss out into the world.

>>13859274
get away from me pedo man

Everybody is fat, addicted, and gay. This is regression.

I don't desire to be happy, happiness if fucking overrated, happy people are useless pieces of shit who have never created much. sadness is the greatest expression of inner human emotions.

>>13869628
lol i hate this guy but i hope you're under 18

These guy seem to be under the impression that if we invent a vaccine its therefore okay to mandate that everyone lives in a pink retard playhouse or wears fursuits because things are "better." Making things "better" does not mean we should excuse every shitty thing that happens because infant mortality is no longer dragging down the average lifespan numbers or whatever

>>13859309
>"why aren't you happy anon?"
>pic related
it's not fair bros

the smell in this thread

>>13864792
you can just look at the comments and have your answer

>>13869633
which guy do you hate?
eat shit dumb happy faggot, pain and struggle is the meaning of life, not being happy(gay(homosexual)). there is nothing more satisfying than being in shared misery with the loved ones.

Why hasn't this thread been pruned or trashed yet?

>>13861654
Damn anon! Even I wouldn't call a Demon a Jew, that's harsh to Demons.

>>13867863
Actually seething

>>13859274
Pinker's Words and Rules is an interesting attempt to summarize major ideas in linguistics and defend his own theory. His writings on artificial intelligence are interesting. His book Enlightenment Now makes it clear that he has not done any serious reading in the history or philosophy of the Enlightenment and does not understand the term he chooses to employ.

>>13859274
Because while the first two rungs of Maslow's Hierarchy may be well-fulfilled for the most part, the three above it have become harder and harder to accomplish more than ever before in history. Ironically, the abundance of freedom that material wealth has given us has left men and women floundering for purpose and connection, in no small part from fear of losing that very freedom in exchange.

And there's no easy solution in sight.

>>13872419
>Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

>>13872498
It's too simplistic when getting into more complicated matters of the human ego, sure, but it's useful for general descriptions. Do you deny that people are generally miserable nowadays because their spiritual, emotional, mental, and relationship needs are unfulfilled?

>>13859331
they can't hear me, they doin laps in the pool for the big swim meet

>>13872542
I just have to quickly step in and mention that i happened t find out that maslow is a really profound thinker. The hierarchy of needs taken out of context is bland, but in maslows thinking and system it is really far away from that. Maslow is a thinker on par with Freud himself. Which is no small compliment

>>13864792
>listen to “science” because it’s science
wew lad
What scientific background does she have anyway? Her solutions are libtard tier

>>13872698
freud is a hack though

>>13872698
What is it in particular about the wider context that makes you say this?

>>13866279
at least you get to see zoomers call him a pedo for it
these niggers are going to read some history and have a nervous breakdown

>>13859274
>be me
>be mathematician
>join company three years ago
>learn to program on the fly, only one who does it there
>find .5 Mil in first 6 months of unclaimed revenue
>make tools that saved tens of thousands of man-hours
>not even joking, company is in the stone age
>made a tool that generates presentations/projections
>causes millions of dollars in sales
>got let go today because some higher up manager didn't understand what I do or how useful I am
>given one weeks notice

at least some of my coworkers are threatening to walk over this because none of them will be able to do their jobs without me.

Anyways, to answer your question, we have one of, if not the, largest skill gap between generations. I can't tell you how many six-figure salary people I've had to teach excel. All the people in upper management want to run things like the 90's, and few understand investing in time rather than instant gratification money.

Everything's changing too quickly

>>13873909
big blackpill post.

>>13859331
>Auschwitz
swimming pools, theater, soccer games, babies being born, prison money to buy things, newspapers from the outside.
It was just a normal labour camp until the famines and typhus hit. The ally bombings screwed up their medicine and supply lines.

Go figure

>>13873925
>big blackpill post
I'll move on, but am I wrong? Not one of my grandfathers' or their fathers' careers are viable today.

It used to be if you wanted to be a chef, you joined a restaurant and cooked your way up. Now you have to have certifications, and everyone's using online applications and keywords to select people.

>>13873943
you're not wrong at all. it's likely that this sort of acceleration of technology will continue assuming progress is unabated and we might find that in our older age that gen z2 is teaching us how to use whatever the equivalent of excel is in the future.

>>13873952
I'm ok with that, but I get frustrated at the pushback I receive on teaching. It's like public school all over again, except I have to sit there and know these people are paid more than me and have better career options

>no, you don't HAVE to learn this
>you also could just print out your emails every morning
>yes, this is intimidating, but if you spend an hour learning this now, you'll be saving yourself four hours every week from now until you retire
I'm just dumbfounded at people's unwillingness to learn. Over half of my coworkers haven't read a book in over a year.

>>13873993
some of it is probably neuroplasticity related, and some of it is ideological. the older generation really fears asking for help or being exposed as weak on something. i see it with my parents all the time. they will absolutely refuse to accept help or critique because they would rather do it themselves than have to admit that they might need help learning once in a while.
it's a very sad thing.

>>13859274
He says in between his month long escapades of sex tourism.

I'm just kidding though. There is a lot to appreciate about life in the 21st century for most people.

>>13873909
what the fuck
I’m surprised we don’t see more people going postal over shit like this

>>13873934
yeah, sure

>>13859331
the jewish people's suffering isn't more special than anyone else's suffering

>>13873943
My grandfather was a woodsman and ploughed land in a horse and cart. I would trade my education and everything I own to do what he did without a second thought. If I have to use excel ever again I will lose it

>>13874037
I think this is a "grass is greener" kind of deal and probably 2 months of manual labor is gonna make you wanna die

>>13874055
You’d be wrong, I’ve worked numerous manual labour jobs in the past and it was infinitely more satisfying than education, retail and service hell. I want to go back god damn it.

>>13863389
underrated

>>13874019
It's the difference between a cookie now and three cookies later. Management tends to favor cookie now because it's easier to justify and less risky. That and any money caused by my endeavors is two or three steps removed from me, so no one wants to dig and find the root cause of success.
This sounds like sour grapes, but I'm in a very hidden position at work.
Moral of the story is embrace stoicism/cynicism and try to be better than your base instincts. Getting upset wouldn't have changed anything, but would have made me look bad.
>tfw they'll never contemplate anything but alcohol, sports and spending money

>>13874037
>>13874055
I'm not saying I WANT to be a traveling salesman or what have you, but people are using yesterday's solutions to today's problems. It's easier to use something ready-made, even if it doesn't work, than to make something new. That way, you can act like the other person is unreasonable and ungrateful when they point out that it's not a viable option.
I once had to explain why it would be better to take an hour or two NOW to create an automatic emailer than to take ten minutes to send all the report emails myself. Which I would have had to do every week in perpetuity.
>your generation just loves to take shortcuts!
>One of these days you're all going to have to buckle down and actually get down to work
The reports were commission statements. He earned in two or three months what I earned in a year.

>>13861654
oh god, the worst thing of all! a nerd!

>>13861654
i don't think there's a single non-sleazy shot of epstein jfc

>>13866282
The post you replied to is not /pol/shit, the people replying to it are. Also, like literally every pinker thread, it had zero potential to be good.

>>13874171
what if being able to instantly retroactively make every photo of a person sleazy by virtue of revealing something about them is a bad thing

>>13873909
I'm in a similar situation though numerically less extreme (provided your numbers aren't bullshit). At some point I stopped trying. I effectively work < 10 hours a week, I'm present on the workplace 20 hours a week (40 on my contract, I only work mornings unless there is an important meeting planed after noon) and my managers don't even mention it.

>>13859681
>>13860693
>>13865497
oi
stop making me gay, you faggots

>>13859331
thay have no sentience,

>>13859338
Kinda this desu “enlightenment” is just roundabout discourse in the ethical sphere, and more than anything it simply allows people to delude themselves into thinking their particular brand of morality is correct and endlessly arguing with those of a similar predisposition.

>>13859274
I imagine him with a normal buzzcut hairdo and immediately start wondering why he has purposefully emasculated himself with all that hair.

>>13859309
>trust us goyim, transhumanism is gonna rule!

>>13859274
there's literally nothing wrong with transhumanism or accelerationism
pinker is a retarded shill tho

>>13859274
post-death of god there is no genuine happiness. Just some temporary biological feelgood chemicals resulting from material success. And even then you can't escape the hedonic treadmill.

>>13873909
>automate your own job, therefore making yourself obsolete
>get surprised when you get sacked
Read the 48 Laws of Power, specifically "Never outshine the master"

>>13873909
I know a guy who got an entry level IT job with a big chain hotel, and quickly found out he could completely automate his own job with some programming. So he sat on his ass 8 hours per day pretending to work while the program was running, being busy with some sidehustle. Later he sold the technology to other hotels and got rich of it.

>>13859309