/lit/ - Literature

>>14434349

>Resisting the Attention Economy

Based Obama

What would Obama the young man think of Obama the ex-President?

>>14434368
He used to be cool.

FUCK OBAMA AND FUCK AMERICA AND FUCK IDIOTS LIKE YOU WHO CARE ABOUT WHAT OTHERS ARE READING.

SHAME ON YOU ASSHOLE

>>14434349
I don't know any of these titles

>reading contemporary mass market “literature”
Yikes

>>14434350
>>14434368
Is this natural for people when they get older? They stop caring? They spent their youth striving for something, reading the best of the best, and then the rest of their life reading shit from the front counter at Barnes and Noble.

My dad told me he used to memorize poems when he was young, and I haven't seen him read a book in my entire life. He watches TV and reads sports news websites.

>>14434509
yer Dad is a lazy cunt

>>14434509
Working a full time job or studying American law tends to do that to people.

>>14434509
You can reread the classics only so often until you start to lose any passion for it.

Reminder that Obummer is a White House nigga who bailed out the banks.

>>14434368
Damn
Thanks
Heard he was brilliant, just wasn’t challenged until Harvard Law
His grades were bad until Harvard
Still think he got some sort of superior tutoring before Harvard, which he entered older than just about anyone in his class

>>14434526
Not true

>>14434526
a true classic will never stop being beautiful. The most beautiful require a lifetime of reading so that, before you go off into endless night, you may feel divine warmth.

>age of surveillance capitalism
that's fucking rich onigger

>>14434509
He memorized poems because that was a requirement of the educational system when he was growing up. Schools don't do shit like that anymore.

>>14434545
The man who bailed the banks out was named Bush.
Obama advocated a stimulus for states to spend how they wished. It kinda worked, depending on the state. Stop being a dumb nigger.
Not even defending him, but dumbasses like you are the real niggers. I don’t care what color you are.

>>14434349
I don't have an easy life where every day isn't a struggle to survive for some meager necessities that allows leisurely reading without distraction. He does. He has a very easy and comfortable life. This is why we need labor camps.

>>14434972
To add, I actually read nothing in 2019. If I had air conditioning, a family, some money, some basic comfort, it would have been another story.

>>14434611
B-but the NSA is democratically accountable

>>14434972
>>14434973
Okay peasant

jia ’da innunet’ tolentino comfortably slotting into obamacore seems fitting

>>14434404
girl woman other also won the booker prize
jesus fuck. the state of this literature board

>>14434545
ahahaha citation needed faggot

>>14434349
Is nobody calling him out for claiming to read all this? Like, "the complete works of Toni Morrison" should be all you read for a year, if you're properly digesting them. His list is about what I would expect from a well-educated black American, with a touch of political flavor and Dem-establishment reading, but this seems like 2 or 3 years worth of books, not one.

>>14434349
>>14435081
He has interns skim and then annotate them for him like the absolute shabbos goy he is

>>14434349
Obama is such a classic Punahou douchebag.
Christ. "For the sports fans." fucking dork.

>>14434526
Imbecile.

>>14435081
He has far more free time then most.

>>14434349
I read 52 books this year, most of which of great reputation among great writers, and in five different languages.

That is a lot below my usual number, but I had to take some time off to finish Law school and pass the bar, which I did.

I do not know why Americans get impressed by Obama so much. Maybe that's because most of them have never read a book in their lives. They don't even think it laughable that Obama didn't recommend foreign titles (it is).

>>14435081
He's a retired president, has written multiple books himself (which are honestly pretty good, considering the genre), and probably doesn't waste hours a day posting on 4chan like most people here (who still manage to be better read than 90% of the population) I'm sure he can manage to read those books.

>>14435126
Yeah unlike most of these lists it doesn't seem fully curated by someone else. He probably read a lot more or perhaps didn't read a couple of these, but these were the selections.

>>14435081
>Like, "the complete works of Toni Morrison" should be all you read for a year, if you're properly digesting them.

Ten minutes at most, considering there is nothing to digest.

Now seriously, it is perfectly feasible to read a set of collected works in a few days. Most people who read books have done so many times in the past. I have read the complete works of Shakespeare, Camões, Virgil, and others. You can read the collected works of Shakespeare in three weeks, if you read two plays a day.

>But you won't be properly digesting them!

Nonsense. One reads books to know them and to have fun. Sometimes one will choose a particularly beloved book to study in depth, but that's an exception, even amongst writers.

Also, you cannot digest a whole book, unless you memorize it, and even then...

However, if you read a book only once it will already be enough for you to digest some passages of it.

Obama is a criminal, but he probably did read those books. That list is not a big deal, though he certainly deserves my admiration for having read all that - or for having read at all - while being, at same time, an American.

>>14434349
>twitter from iphone

>>14434973
excuse making i see hobos reading all the time

>>14434349
how can one man suck this hard?

>>14435081
>Like, "the complete works of Toni Morrison" should be all you read for a year, if you're properly digesting them
Maybe you should actually read the image. If you did you realize that's on the side of "books he recommends"

>>14434509
Don't ask the board of pseud 20 somethings.

>>14434349
He most likely didn’t read them. Remember, Obama is still politically active, especially when compared to most presidents after leaving office. Most of the (now ex) president’s image has been carefully crafted by a public relations army. Every book, every interview, every late night talk show appearance, every speech, etc. He is not nearly as eloquent or sophisticated as he appears to be when taken out of a sterilized environment, such as when a teleprompter malfunctions, or when Obama states that he had *just* finished reading the same book multiple times over the course of almost a year. I thought people on 4chan were smart enough to see through the bullshit, but I guess not.

>>14434368
You can’t possibly believe that Obama wrote that shit, right? He’s a fucking politician, and a modern one at that—utterly pedestrian and middlebrow beyond redemption. Unless you think that Obama’s quality of writing plummeted dramatically from the time he was a mere B student at Occidental College to the time when he was elected to the Harvard Law Review (not really based on merit, nor was his tenure very productive, but I digress). Probably some literature professor wrote that in 2012, thinking he was working towards the greater good, or maybe a gifted speechwriter who didn’t sleep in his English classes.

>>14435378
>recommends a book he didn’t read
he’d fit right in at /lit/

>>14434972
but you have time to post on an anime forum

>>14434972
>computer
>internet connection
Anon, are you sure you're not a Kulak? I would hate to have to liquidate you. . .

>>14434349
wtf? obama still exists?

>>14435126
>doesn't waste hours a day posting on 4chan like most people here (who still manage to be better read than 90% of the population)
fuck. if i didn't post here i would be a fucking genius by now, but if this place didn't exist i wouldn't even want to be one...

>>14434972
He doesn't have an easy life at all. He's black.

>>14435639
yeah. it must be hard being disproportionately responsible for so much crime. just think of how much time you would have to dedicate to committing crimes

>>14435643
Imagine being enslaved for centuries and then oppressed for almost two more centuries. Do you think that is easy to come back from?

>>14435650
i can't even imagine living longer than one century

>>14434374
I'm actually surprised to see this. As much as I like Trump, he wouldn't make a tweet like this.

>>14435669
Because you don't have to.

>>14435676
you're right, thank god i'm not black

>>14435650
Obama isn't descended from American slaves.

>>14435404
he posts here

>>14435396
Yes I believe he wrote it, it's basic 21 year old ivy leaguer navel gazing. Pete Buttgeeg's favorite book is Ulysses. They all read when they're young, and then they leave it behind to jockey for status in the real world

>>14435794
Obama wasn’t even at an Ivy League when he wrote this. And I doubt Buttigieg likes Ulysses.

>>14434349
>>14434350
Obama's books are not LINDY

>>14436835
Oh shit, savage

>>14434349
>Age of Surveillance Capitalism

absurd that he posts that as his top book when he was pretty much continued and extended the reach of high tech companies that utilize the systems that book rallies against

>>14436856
>you can't change your opinion
>you can't read books you disagree with

>>14436835
/lit/ leftists btfo by based barbell merchant

>>14436835
Nice.

>>14436871
Obama is not a leftist. He’s a sellout rich-bitch if he ever was left liberal.

>>14436863
the reach of the SuveillTech companies and their issues were well known when he was President and yet still allowed them to roll over and be implemented onto the wider public.

It almost feels like hes going "damn thats sucks haha" meanwhile he still gets to live his life of privacy

>>14434349
There's no way that Obama is this much of a basedboy, his secretary wrote this shit and posted it to his social media.

If this is actually his favourites list, then Alex Jones is right and Michelle is a tranny with a wrecking ball between her legs.

>>14434350
>age of surveillance capitalism
the biggest fucking irony coming from fucking Obama.

>>14434373
He looks, much like he does now, like a guy who needs to fake a black accent.

>>14436835
Based

NOT A SINGLE CLASSIC
SAD

>>14434349
>50 books
Get on my level, Barry

Yes, I know these lists are just virtue signalling, but I like to think that our elected officials actually read

>>14435650
imagine being such a primitive race that EVERY SEMI-ADVANCED NATION CAN ENSLAVE YOU WITHOUT IMPUNITY

>>14435396
>I thought people on 4chan were smart enough to see through the bullshit, but I guess not.
Got it

>>14434368
Would fit right in.
It's such a sophomoric view of Eliot. Ignores any development in the man's outlook through the interwar period, and makes far too much out of the stupid narrative in his head about "btute sexual reality".

>>14435650
Anti semitism anon. Stop talking about the Jewish slave trade. Jews are unquestionably good.

Based Taleb

>>14442482
Eliot is fucking sophomoric tho.

>>14435639
That does not affect ease of life. Money is the only thing that affects ease of life.

>>14443882
take your meds

>>14444062
That has nothing to do with the pictured take on Eliot.

>>14443953
Does Taleb think that he'll survive a decade also? Lmao

>the age of surveillance capitalism
That’s fucking rich coming from obama

>>14434796
One of Obama's top 5 donors was Goldman Sachs. Before even taking office, he curried favor with international finance, just as he did with the insurance companies when making the sorry excuse of healthcare reform that was Obamacare (which also cost him all his political capital in Congress)

Oh and this:

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton

>>14435109
He has to balance looking like an intellectual while making himself appeal to normies, so he naturally comes off as a pseud. He's very intelligent but he's just another focus group-based politician at this point