/lit/ - Literature

>>14328281
Watch better anime.

If the collapse of the capitalist system is teleologically predetermined, then why do i need to read theory? can't it just sit back and wait until capitalism destroys itself from its internal contradictions?

>>14328378
look closer at the image sweaty

what theory?
which theory?
i don't understand

>>14328281
They're called "books".

>>14328378
It isn't teleologically predetermined.

>>14328383
oh sorry, i didn't notice haha. Did Carlyle write any formal treatises? or is his philosophy embedded in his works of history and novels?

>>14328395

>>14328281
That's not theory

>>14328395
>>14328400
>>14328474
try this

>>14328496
i'll check it out

>>14328524
I'd check you out, if you know what I mean.

>theory
stop tainting philosophy with this lame americanizing humanities word

>>14328496
Not theory either

>>14328546
But that's Frankfurt lingo.

read ellul

>>14328281
No.

>>14328281
>>14328378
>>14328400
>>14328469
>>14328524
>has to use cambodian cavedrawings to entice people to read
Americans go home

>>14328281
is grown men pretending to be drawings of little girls a product of capitalism, liberalism or both?

>>14328958
capitalism + autism

>read theory

>>14328958
It's young millennials and zoomers being mentally destroyed by anime. Every day I thank God I was born before this shit became popular.

>>14328978
but Im a zoom, have watched anime even the girly ones, and Im not like these people.

>>14328958
Isn't there also a weird anime + trannie connection?

>>14328975
kek

>>14328975
LOL. God why are these people so fucking pathetic.

>>14328958
hyperreality

>>14328999
I agree, I also noticed that. Is it possible that we do not support masculine virtues in contemporary society? Or is there something else that I am ignorant of?

>>14328281
Alternatively, work your way through Hegel and realize that the logic of critical theory is structurally dysfunctional

>>14329006
it's becoming clear that theory actually makes you dumber
look at this take for a prime example

Is there any manga or anime of discernible talent?

>>14329014
>take
B^O !!!!!

>>14328975
Stalin would have had these faggot fucks executed.
Che would be ashamed to even look at them.

>>14329010
Slice of life anime is a projection of the great mother - a life of harmony and trust, with small adventures and challenges, where the normals, quiet kids, the tomboys, eternal idiots, tricksters, creatives, autistics are all loved and accepted just the way they are. It's a world without regrets, fears, "real" problems or serious interpersonal conflict/ conflict of ideals.

Within a traditional culture, the clear identity which children are born into and adopt explicitly as they are initiated into their society basically guarantees that they will recognize suffering and hardship as necessary and good, and integrate that understanding into their own self-conception. In a post-modern, fragmentary culture on the other hand, it can appear to children who have no clear role models, who are tasked with "finding out for themselves who they are", that identity itself is a lie, and they will see no purpose in the conflicts they are forced to carry out. These children will long for a return to unconsciousness, the harmony of a world still cloaked in darkness, and adopt the archetype of the eternal feminine for themselves. Anime, insofar as it is an artistic celebration of that archetype, often becomes a place of rest for such unfortunate children, a place where they can drown themselves in their escapist fantasies - but for the most dependent of these, the return to the real world becomes all the more painful for it, and they seek to extend the sphere of their fantasy so that it encloses their entire existence by embodying the archetype - i.e. they don't want to become women, they want to become little girls.

>>14329018
No, none.

Why are you faggots so surprised by seeing anime images on 4chan?

>>14329140
anime is fine, ironic lefty cultural appropriation, however, is not.

>>14329165
>waah waah lefty cultural appropriation
do you hear yourself?

>the theories that I am interested in are “theory”

>>14329111
this is just rationalising of watching semi-paedophilic children cartoons
cope

>>14329111
>>14329479
Brainlet.
His take is good. Pic related also

Define "theory"

>>14329504
based tranny destroyer

>>14328958
capitalism + the effort to push trannydom into the public

>>14328716
Fuck the Frankfurt School, we are pure metaphysicians and theologians like Deleuze and Benjamin

>>14329781
>look up Benjamin
>he was literally a religious ethno-nationalist
Wtf /lit/ you should have told me he was so BASED

Giant Days is objectively superior and cozier than any meoblob-pedo-slice-of-life jap cartoons. Once you've experienced GD you'll never want to look at japshit again.
Just throwing that out there.

>>14328281
>>14328469
>read theory

newfag here, can someone explain why I should get into theory?

>>14329111
ok poopoomer

>>14329111
nice trips, flube-chan!! :^)

>>14330924
because that's the only way to develop your own position. otherwise you just have to trust a bunch of retards to tell you how things work

>>14331326
>develop your own position
what did he mean by this? position in relation to what? as opposed to trusting who?

>>14330924
Anyone who says "read theory" is an undergraduate who thinks they're a public intellectual because they read a Benjamin essay in a class and they listen to Chapo Trap House. Read philosophy because it's good, and ignore the "read theory" discord zoomers.

>>14328975
Reminder that "read theory" fags are literal chapotards and reddit tourists

>>14330924
Those who don't have the spirit of their time have all the misery of it.

>>14328281
>Carlyle
Moldbug posting?

>>14328608
but it's certainly a theory. not your pitiful wallowing economic theory, but a theory yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

>>14331352
>howard zinn
absolutely cursed

>>14328378
Capitalism killed God, there's no teleology anymore

>>14328378
if you don't read theory now you won't be swept into comfy role in politburo later

>>14331326
>now read from this graph I specifically made to predispose one to marxism

>>14331699
this. read what you want. if you're worth a damn it'll lead you to the right path.

>>14328958
It’s a product of nuclear bombardment

>>14328281
ETERNALLY BTFO

>>14328400
Sartor is his magnum opus but the French Revolution is a pretty good starting point.

>>14328496
On Heroes is pretty dumbed down for plebs though.

>>14332570
>On Heroes is pretty dumbed down for plebs though.
surely, but it's an explication of his philosophy and the archetypes. they can be gleaned from reading his histories &c. but it's better to have a firm conception of his thought as it's presented in the lectures. on heroes is basic but nonetheless essential.

>>14332570
okay i'll read the sartor then

>>14328281
>read 1000 years of non-linear history on /lit/'s reccomendation
>it's a bunch of warmed over foucauldian fretting about homogenization
Well that was a complete fucking waste of time.
>mfw

>>14328608
neither is half this shit on >>14328469 but you keep posting it anyways

>>14330924
It's only called "theory" because even academics recognize how cringe-worthy it is to admit to being a Marxist.

>read theory
>sharia ends up reigning anyway

>>14330924
In order to turn you into a true nu male materialist cuck that lives to serve globalhomoism you first need to heavily indoctrinate yourself. But you won't become a revolutionary because being an armchair academic is more safe and convenient, then, if a revolution ever occurs you can die after being hung on a lamp post but either the minority activist groups that have hijacked your movement or the Third Position.

>>14331352
https://reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/e9gmns/fine_you_nerds_talked_me_into_it_ill_read_marx/