/lit/ - Literature

>>14084762
kek

I was fucking right and now you're all paying for it.

>>14084670

Musk is clearly not saying that regular people should be having 80 hour workweeks you illiterate idiot

>>14084754

fake article from a fake newspaper idiot

>>14084882

Don't forget about the Mario funeral

This image is from a leaked Sony business presentation about the movie After Earth.

>>14084810
Nothing in that room has been “crafted.” I refuse to stay anywhere, or eat or do anything, that isn’t “crafted.”

>>14084882
What the fuck do you want him to do, sit around at home all day?

b u r g e r p u n k

>>14085060
what's some burgerpunk music?

>>14085073
Watch Tentacruel's vid on Corporate Music

I only have this relic.

>>14085060
>b u r g e r p u n k

>>14085073
field recordings of taco bell parking lots

>>14084900
why?

Goldmine: https://www.eatonworkshop.com/hotel/dc

>>14084900
w-what? this is so sad, and not because of the dead kid

>>14085031
a mentally ill commie is spamming this thread with images

>>14084961
kek

>>14084882
These people are usually just bored and old. they're not doing it for the money.

>>14085172
This is factually true. Prices are basically a form of rationing. Whether it's the best solution for the issue is another question, but it's definitely better as a means of getting stuff to people who need it than just selling stuff at regular prices and running out.

This thread makes me feel a special kind of hopelessness.
Is there a cure?

>>14085073
https://soundcloud.com/encircler/untitled
https://soundcloud.com/bawrenmusic/brute
https://soundcloud.com/dj-thrustworthy/hypercube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5g9fJ27HYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YqL4mfCdM&list=PLDINwRwTatpQAGJtADjMgLc4GxXFDBMGj&index=12

>>14085235
Stop letting others filter your view of reality?

>>14085213
Literally a 30B market cap

>>14085231
why do they have to be this way?

>>14085012
Fake and there is nothing inheretly wrong with dressing like that

>>14085125
>this is so sad, and not because of the dead kid
an unfortunate statement

>>14085231
>stop taking photos!
Whats so bad about this? Are you only allowed to go places no one goes to for pictures?

>>14085274
you should use your brain

>>14085252
The life of an extrovert is necessarily performative. They enjoy things more in the context of being viewed by others. I don't fault them for it as long as I don't get dragged into it.

>>14085213
and this is why i drink red bull

>>14085177
Yup, they want to have something more stimulating to look forward to that the afternoon reruns. It gets them out of the house and interacting with more people than they'd be exposed to eating lunch at the senior center or whatever and it makes them feel necessary.

It's fine. I'd rather fish, but that man probably retired from his "career" 30 years ago, maybe he got bored of that shit.

>>14085274
Just a symptom of the disease. No knowledge can exist that has not been catalogued. All that is not documented or documentable is unreal. Individual experience is irrelevant without confirmation of its significance from the group. The experience never happened unless it was photographed and amplified on social media. The man his not experiencing the place, he's experiencing the image of the woman. The woman's not experiencing the place, she's experiencing herself as image. Reality dims.

>>14085253
Why you white knighting for a random whore on instagram?

>>14084961
I was volunteering for something a while back and saw this really qt girl attending. I worked up the courage to speak to her and we got talking about books, she mentioned she was a published author I asked what the title was she told me it was a self help books called "Let That Sh*t Go".

>>14084900
Only one guy? No continues?!!

>>14084665
it's bullshit and you know it. they use dwarves for those.

>>14085253
Kill yourself

>>14085332
bet she makes dosh tho

>>14084967
this disturbs me deeply - thanks!

>>14085278
not a single one of these kids view him as anything more than a circus monkey and yet they still pose as paragons of justice on twitter

>>14085278
A Dantean hell.

I feel physically ill

>>14085253
Not fake though, she is actually that stupid

>>14085243
Based, get blindpilled

>>14085421
why?

>>14085421
That's from consuming anime.

>>14085077
this shit makes me livid

>>14085176
Read these in a Patrick Bateman voice

>>14084738
Great thread we got going here.

>>14085517
kek

Interesting thread. Lit is good today. 10/10 dread. Suddenly I feel OK living in a small freezing cold flat. Fuck all of this

/int/'s America threads are a gold mine for these

>>14085578
that sounds good. can you link a few?

>>14085437
jesus

reminder: farm work, despite low wages, isn't soulless or mind-erasing. lift your ass from that wagie cagie and go buck some goat shit outside.

>>14084810
A temple to have my reveries on the precious memories of my youth and new art and bands in BKLYN.

>>14085437
it's a good thing that women who can be tricked by stickers and food don't reproduce. that's an elegant solution.

>>14085588
that's just boomer humour

>>14084861
Today a Bass Pro Shop megastore is one of the largest pyramids on Earth. From this fact we may understand the phrase "architectural leveling" in both the literal and philosophical sense.

>>14085012
I'M GONNA COOOOOOOOOOM

>>14085077
lol gays are even worse tyrants
how can you ever trust someone who puts his willy into another man's digestion tract or vice versa? it's chaotic

>>14084675
Wtf

>>14085672
Homosexuality is actually cryptofascist, gays do not exist under socialism.

>>14085674
Probably unrelated: approximately half of american works are also women

>>14085177
The image is more relevant to this thread if in fact his Missouri town can offer no more authentic community to the elderly. In major metropolises, you see older people playing chess and bridge in the park. In the countryside people have even more opportunity to occupy themselves with others. The very unique despair attached to Periurban is exemplified by the sucking void of free public spaces.

>>14085681
troof

>>14085671
this is actually based tho

>>14085177
>disabled and unemployable, perhaps for his entire life, disability checks don’t make ends meet and have to walmart slave
>just bored

>>14084950
Is that fucking starcraft 2

>>14085682

>>14085653
The burial place of Pharaoh Boomer IV.

It's already too late.

>>14084665
I’m a student at UCB and I pass by these robots all day long. I was transfixed at first but then it became a normal part of life. They stop, get stuck, and die a lot.

>>14085712
what in the actual fuck...
where is this

>>14085718
Memphis TN, ironically enough.

>>14085287
>popular thing bad!

>>14085231
Crazy how nature do that.

>>14085724
makes you wonder if there isn't some dark shit going on

>>14085692
This. Alternatively, some people become so enslaved by the system that they can't see a life outside of being a wagie. I know a guy who just retired in his late 70s from a hard factory job. His sons are loaded and he has a lot of money. He could have retired 30 years ago. Now he just sits at home and is depressed. Once they beat the wagie life into you, it's hard to release yourself from it, especially if it's all you've known. Wagies are like hypnotized cattle.

>>14085690
In what way is it cool to be a raging cunt over headphones

>>14085773
because irwin, the "intern," was probably a huge soiboy faggot.

>>14085776
For wearing headphones?

>>14085712
>>14085718
>>14085724


>memphis, TN
>memphis, egypt

there IS a conspiracy to enslave you, but sometimes shit just looks cool

>>14084853
yeah he's self-aggrandizing by counting twitter shitposting and fancy dinners as "work", much like all CEOs do.

>>14084810
ok yeah it's a bit fake looking but it looks like downright heaven compared to a normal hotel room. Of course it probably costs four times as much.

>>14085781
no for being an unpaid intern

>>14084915
reminder this dude is a washed up opera singer kek

>>14085810
You're not making any sense anon

>>14085274
bitch don't try to pretend countless women and men don't go places purely for the instagram picture

>>14085726
Get off this thread if you don't get it.

>>14085808
the best rooms are to be found at independent mom/pop motels in rural areas, at least that's the case here in new england and upstate new york. chain hotels are extremely uncomfortable.

>>14085073
James Ferraro

>>14085177
>I can't fathom doing any activity beyond working for Walmart

>>14084665

>>14085726
Yes

>>14085313
Good post.

>>14085073
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbF1g3k2mtw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxhj1Is7HpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w
Just some examples of the more unbearable shit my workplace plays through the PA system. The same songs, over and over every single day. Corporate hellscape.

is this thread meant to make me want to KMS?

>>14086125
I mean you don't have to live like the images itt

>>14085880
>My perception is the only one
He could have actually thought it out and decided that, based on the parameters of his life, Walmart isn't a bad option. Being a door greeter is piss easy, too.

>>14085080
What is the meaning of this beautiful mess?

>>14085080
where did you get a pic of my college notebook?

>>14085118
I came to this conclusion not too long ago. There is far too much government meddling in everything we do. Why are things this way?

>>14085837
I can't recommend Ferraro enough.

>>14086307
because you're GOVERNed by them?

>>14086208
>based on the parameters of his life, Walmart isn't a bad option.
This is the fact that should cause you to wince at the image.

>>14085213
>fires us up to fight the big multi-national companies who dominate the beverage business
>owned by coca cola (though only 16.7%)

Anything to make the millennials feel powerful

>>14086219
Damn this one got me. The involuntary vision flashed before me of blue-white light from a laptop screen weakly illuminating the bare walls of a bedroom, along with a slight headache.

>>14084675
lmao

>>14085073
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2TPJEpd4U

>>14084738
>Guess we should start going to church

>>14084853
Yes he is. lrn2read4subtext

>>14085118
So this is what bootlicking means.

>>14086351
M-morty I lied about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction Morty! I helped start an oil war Morty! I'm FBI Bob whooooooooooooooo

>>14085712
Do boomers pray in the direction of this like Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca?

>>14086423
lol, source on that?

>>14086435
26 year old boomer here that place looks fucking lit

If you've never been to a bass pro or cabelas, fucking go they're amazing

>>14086219
This shit is what garlic is to vampire to me

>>14085256
lol

>>14086436
>On February 11, 2003, one month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Mueller gave testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Mueller informed the American public that "[s]even countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism—Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, and North Korea—remain active in the United States and continue to support terrorist groups that have targeted Americans. As Director Tenet has pointed out, Secretary Powell presented evidence last week that Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction, willfully attempting to evade and deceive the international community. Our particular concern is that Saddam Hussein may supply terrorists with biological, chemical or radiological material."

>>14086342
what even is juul

>>14085274
they're posing like vapid little idiots. at least the people who ironically hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa know they're being stupid

>>14085726
>>14085897

>>14086479
Damn, the more you know

>>14085313
>Just a symptom of the disease. No knowledge can exist that has not been catalogued. All that is not documented or documentable is unreal. Individual experience is irrelevant without confirmation of its significance from the group. The experience never happened unless it was photographed and amplified on social media. The man his not experiencing the place, he's experiencing the image of the woman. The woman's not experiencing the place, she's experiencing herself as image. Reality dims.

Books for this feel?

>>14084665
Colombian here. 2$/hour is actually not a bad deal.

>>14084882
>Will almost certainly die within the next 5 years
I wish it were me

>>14085597

>>14085274
The real experience has ceased to exist. There is no connection to the supposed represented (a day at the beach). What remains is a circuit of representations. Look at your grandparents' photographs of the beach. They are likely represented smiling supine on beach towels and squinting at the sun, or maybe they are pictured as a blob of color in the distant water. The ritual seen performed in the questionable image is not even the mimicry of a glamour-magazine photo shoot: it is the mimicry of itself. In this way the "day at the beach" evaporates and is replaced by its own representation. The photographers are not memorializing a moment in their lives: they are memorializing the act of memorializing. This is the idea of the hyperreal.

>>14086592
That isn't really the point.

>>14086563
The Reign of Quantity fits if you are interested in the religious implications of that sort of thinking.

>>14086592
>Colombian here. 2$/hour is actually not a bad deal.
F

>>14086669
Thanks, my guy.

>>14085597
>farm work, despite low wages, isn't soulless or mind-erasing.
This false return to the "simple life" is just another layer of dissimulation.

What’s with all the sadboy freaks saying this thread is making them sick and sad and depressed and shit

>>14086579
I remember empathizing with this guy when it all happened, and wondering what he'd been thinking. it was never spoken about for more than a day. I've still never found anything more about the guy who lit himself on fire. I'd be interested if you have any more information on him. I wish he'd left a note. may he rest in peace.

>>14084665

>>14086751
Whatever is responsible for that feeling is responsible for the spontaneous affinity of all these pictures for each other. All of these images in some way point to the breakdown of the symbolic order.

>>14086850
>furfaggotry
enjoy your ban scumfag

>>14086854
It's not porn. I thought it was a relevant image.

>>14086827
Is this Quake 4

>>14086700
It's not about a return to simple life. It is about having autonomy and identity. No one says farming life is ideal. It sucks. But it is still better than living to slave for a foreign company against your personal interests while having your cultural identity simultaneously fade into nothingness as you inevitably have to leave for your family for work.

>>14086885
>cultural identity simultaneously fade into nothingness as you inevitably have to leave for your family for work.
What do you mean by "cultural identity"?

>>14086896
Depends on the person.

>>14085177
>when you are do detached from reality and people's lives that you actually think this

>>14086864
kys dogfucker

>>14086928
what the fuck is that guy doing, that wasn't even approximating a smile

>>14084681
Blo-jack ruins another perfectly Orwellian picture.
>>14084779
Still don’t understand the problem with this one
>>14084868
This looks like a miniature
>>14084967
I do not accept pictures of people for people. Ishygddt
>>14085077
Fucking Bloomberg
>>14085031
Not have to work “for a living” you dumb fuck
>>14086531
Combover not popular

>>14085274
pic is a derision of thottery, not of photography.
also fuck solving captchas for 5 minutes per post

>>14085031
What if he didnt work but had a fulfilling and rich life as a retired man, finishing his life's work and socializing with his family and community. Think I would rather do things as a retiree.

Kind off fit?

>>14086950
every single person involved in "economics" or "business" is a complete sociopath

>>14086950
dude what

>>14086964
this is very true. most "people" see everyone as expendable.

>>14086964
Every capitalist is a sociopath *

>>14086970
We’ve been experiencing a labor surplus since the 70s, which is why they inflicted “stagflation” on us and are actively poisoning us and denying proper medical care. They know exactly what they’re doing

>>14085031
in japan seniors can grow mushrooms to sell, you know add value. instead of fucking serving plastic shit and contributing to the American consumerist cycles

>>14087002
Yes, obviously the problem with society is that people own things that make other things

>>14086950
I thought it was fake. God damn it.

can somebody please tell me i'm not crazy? i've been feeling like i'm going mad thinking about how many jobs shouldn't exist at all. like all the boomers still working office jobs in billing departments, accounting, administrative shit, HR, insurance companies, the entire sales/marketing departments. none of these jobs would exist if people didn't have to go into a life of debt just to live and it's making me depressed.

>>14084665

>>14087029

>>14085241
Aww fuck, I live around here.

>>14087040

>>14087046

>>14087018
That’s not capitalism, Bubba

>>14087002
yes butterfly, but here you have to hide your powerlevel and commit the seventh type of liberalism when agitating because this board is reflexively anti-communist despite having threads like these that are clearly anti-capitalist (even if many posters won't admit it).

>>14087049

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism

>>14087029
if labor time had continued to decrease as productivity increased we'd be working ten hour weeks right now. Porky can't be having that, though.

>>14087058

>>14086928
Why does this make me so irrationally angry

>>14087066
is that guy a libertarian? that arm looks like a child's

>>14087046
Poor fool

>>14087042
Should be talked about more around here

>>14087054
Seventh type? Neh, I think it’s time they get real red pills to swallow

>>14087079
Are you mentally retarded?

>>14087079
Looks like an Onion or otherwise fake.

>>14087080
I didn't recommend that book just so a stupid attention seeker could give me a (You). Have you no sense of shame?

>>14087079
It's his wife's arm, you dolt.

>>14087092
>9.50/hr

kek

>>14087061
accelerate!

>>14085313
Excellent

>>14087099
Isn't it funny that a century ago, the end of humanity was only possible to imagine through some literal act of God, but now nobody would be at all surprised if some retarded innocuous non-threat like contraceptive corn accidentally killed everybody off next week

>>14087099
I know where they should sow that

>>14087131
The end of humanity will probably be a superstrain of staph.

>>14085437
Birth control isn’t just for not getting pregnant btw.

>>14085580
>Bloodstains on her boobies! I’m gonna cüüüü....
Shuddup

>>14087099
Fucking hell.

>>14087131
I think foucualt talks about this somewhere

>>14086219
What is this

>>14084665
The whole issue is a distraction. it would be little less horrendous for society to have those bots even with a well paid worker.

Bad times ahead frens

No (and that’s a good thing) articles?

>>14087290
bad times make stronk frens

>>14087248
“Well paid” being key words here.
No one is going to be well paid.

>>14087296
Not on anti-social networks.

Switch off

>>14087296
stronk frens make good times?
i dont know if even the stronkest of frens could fix the clusterfuck that's coming
maybe the only solace we have is in our frens, and hope to weather the bad times together.

>>14087301
the point is the technology itself implies many other negative things other than inequality or even universal low pay.

>>14085671
Bart
sales leader
linkedin influencer (BWAAAA ha ha!)
entrepreneur
>never trust anyone using linkedin or apple products

>>14086563
McLuhan

>>14087317
this.
it's morally dubious. it's serfdom but now i don't even have to look the fucking serf in the eyes. is that the goal? we just tune everything out while a masked serf brings me coffee? masked is even putting it lightly, it's straight up dehumanizes.

>>14086435
Not boomers per se
white trash redneck is the targeted clientele.
giant ass pyramid is still ugly as fuck

>>14084665
the ceo of the company is columbian and 2 dollars an hour is more than minimum wage there, this is less exploitation and more trying to get jobs to those in need in his home country

>>14085712
it's like blade runner, but shitty and instead of being awe-inspiring it's infuriatingly low-brow.

>>14087339
Jobs that will be automated away in a matter of years.

>>14086840

>>14084967
Bro.. why are "saussureans" so dumb?

>>14085073
>>14085837
Adding onto this since his discography is massive, James Ferraro - Last American Hero is his most burgerpunk release

>>14085073
Sugar Ray

>>14087148
Why do I get the impression that you are a bigot that doesn't understand how trade works?

>>14086617
speaking as a farm worker, retard
>>14086700
it's not a return somewhere, they mostly use technology for the hardest work, i just believe working with animals and crops is soul-restoring. also, it's actual useful work, not some shit like retail slavery

>>14087339
Is it actually more the minimum the wage if you assume 40 hour work weeks ?

>>14085655
This isn’t a contract made by parents for some mentally ill son, is it?
hellish

>apply for big company
>forced to complete a badly disguised IQ test and personality quiz designed to filter through only ultra compliant worms before you can even submit a resume
>this process wastes half an hour and your resume is scanned for bugworld buzzwords before a fat human slug in HR even deigns to look at your application
I LOVE my job! I LOVE working! I will not oppose the rules of your game!

>>14087817
I recently did the same thing. Automated recruiter sends me a message. Respond. Automated recruiter makes me fill out a "personality profile", your ultra-compliance quiz. Automated recruiter makes me take a two-hour programming test where a lady in India watches my screen and my webcam the entire time. She asks me, when she hears a door slam, if I am cheating. I can see her, and she can see me. She never smiles. They book me a phone interview. I kill myself so I don't have to meet the person at the other end of the line.

>>14087152
>finds love again
>again

>>14084967
i'm ...

gonna .......

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM

>>14087012
>in japan seniors can grow mushrooms to sell
Stupid weeb motherfucker, you have no clue. Senior citizens n Japan that work, have to work because no money, and they’re given the shittiest no-brain jobs available.

>>14084665
Tell me this video isn’t peak Burgercore.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ykNZl9mTQ

>>14084665