/lit/ - Literature

>>14381565
What makes this one real?

uh oh

He's right about self-reference being the key to much of this. I'm not sure how many layers of self-reference an ordinary human mind can cope with but it's probably not enough. It'd have been better if he engaged with some philosophy on the topic for example Fichte and Hegel.

>>14381575
add thomas aquinas

>>14381575
I have more than three strikes on this. I'm out

>>14381575
Where's Fahrenheit 451?

>>14381679
Whoa there, Fahrenheit 451 is not claiming to be overly smart, just a bit of dystopia for shits and giggles that's all.

>>14381753
that's not really what being a midwit is about

>>14381575
>adding legitimate authors like chomsky and sam harris to a midwit core compilation

Yeah, nah.

>>14381760
Exactly

But why's Penrose triangle on the cover?

>>14381575
>dissing on real human bean Marc Goldyboy
>dissing on Huxley and Orwell
>dissing on the Hero Cycle
>dissing on fucking The Prince and Art of War
I can tell this was written by a hipster without a shred of original thought.

>>14381765
>chomsky
>harris
>legitimate authors
The only one that shouldn't be on there is Taleb. Chomsky is a filthy communist and Harris is an imbecile.

>>14383210
midwit detected

Every book on that chart is "good" if you're a fresh faced innocent little teenager just beginning to think for himself, but adults who don't develop any further than that are midwits

>>14381575
I really don’t think midwits know about Stirner

>>14381620
Near infinite. Capable of more but coping becomes a lost concept

>>14383474
>Near infinite.
no it's like 5

>>14383218
Sure thing Nassim

>>14383218
Hi Muhammad

>>14383218
Chomsky is a communist WHAT he’s not even a socialist this is a high iq thread to be certain

>>14381565
This is a book for people who have no idea about Godel, Escher or Bach.

>>14381565
meme book, ignore

>>14381765
AHAHAAHAHAHHAH

>>14381575
>Sun Tzu
>Marcus Aurelius
>Hoppe
>Herrnstein and Murray
>Douglas Murray
>midwits
They have their flaws anon but come on.

>>14381765
>>14381575
The only legitimate book in there is The Prince, fuck you for including it in there

>>14381575
you're forgetting a few

>>14383812
Did you just put Socrates there lmfao retard

>>14383812
>being such a resentful stupid little niggerbitch
kek

>>14383812
>Including Jesus
*Fedora tipping intesifies*

>>14383812
>Mahler
kek

>>14383812
>the AVGN
Shut the fuck up, the nerd is the most enlightened and well articulated person out there! He is up there with other great writers like Socrates and Plato. This whole chart is a shitton of shit

>>14383812
Is there anyone remotely popular who is not a pseud ?

>>14383812
>sam hyde
he's a comedian dude, chill out

>>14383931
Any good philosopher who isn't a modern day sophist
>>14383934
He's a political pundit in the form of a comedian

>>14383930
the what

>>14383986
Angry Video Game Nerd

>>14383997
disgusting

>>14383812
>Tao Lin
how DARE you, Taipei is LITERALLY my bible

>>14383958
>Any good philosopher who isn't a modern day sophist
List 5

>>14381654
Oh nonono

>>14383812
why is Onision between Darwin Pynchon and Borges LMAOO

>>14381575
Forgot the bible.

>>14383486
same thing desu

>>14383467
Yeah, plenty, he's very popular in antifa/alt-left/leftypol circles.

>>14381765
looooooool

>>14381575
i would like to read hero with a thousand faces at some point. does it really belong here?

>>14381765
>mentioning Chomsky and Harris in the same sentence
Pseud, please.

>>14383812
this is bait btw
obviously it starts out good then just has everyone on it to upset autists

i liked the bach bits
doing various types of canons and counterpoint in dialogue form was neat
i was too brainlet to keep up with the maths

>>14381565
i tried reading it but the guy is fucking insufferable
every time the turtle and achilles show up it's cringe af makes me want to disregard everything he says

>>14381765
Dude you just posted cringe

>>14381565
That book is the definition of pseud. Aquinas preemptively summarized the entire thing in a few lines by defining that beauty consists in clarity, proportion and perfection. Imagine being a pencil necked professor and getting blown the fuck out this badly by some guy who has been dead for several hundred years.

>>14383834
To be fair if he was alive today, people here would think he's just that.

>>14383812
>not pictured: Philip K. Dick
Uh I'm going to call based on this one!

>>14381620
>engaged with some philosophy
I read GEB as a fun math book, not really philosophy. Martin Gardner type deal. Talking about previous philosophers would have added to it's length without adding anything of importance to it's content or premise.

>>14386091
>>14386094
>counterpoint in dialogue
Going into it, I thought I would hate the dialogue bits the most, but they grew on me. It was a fun little way to introduce the concept, even if it did beat you over the head with it. Could have been done better, but could have been a lot worse.

>>14381565
Babbys first system theory

>>14383812

>All these morons not realizing this is a joke

/lit/ has to be the most autistic board on 4chan

>>14381573
It was actually written by an autistic NEET

>>14383563
Ashkenazually, he's a CIA/Mossad agent. He can speak fluent Hebrew, for no good reason given his claimed ancestry.

>>14383812
This is a shitpost meant to piss off everyone lol Fantano and Borges, Dawkins and Jesus, Nye and Kubrick, Milo and Joyce! Makes no sense.

>>14381565
>it is in the Adelphi catalog
It definitely can't be bad

its pretty kino. I think it's like an independently conceived entry to the post-structuralist discourse from an anglo-analytic perspective.

>>14381575

>waah anything mainstream in liberalism is bad

The theoryfag that made this is probably seething at his own lack of understanding of economics. Putting Piketty and Krugman on here because they're center-left and vocal about their politics is like saying Chomsky is a shit linguist because he's a dipshit leftist... they're all highly respected in their academic fields

GEB is a fine book and utilitarianism, while autistic, does have a place in normative ethics discourse. Everyone else on here probably is midwit bullshit

>>14381575
b8

>upset about a "pseud" who must speak to the level of their audience to not put them to sleep

>>14381765
sam harris is honestly brainlet tier. he's not even a midwit.