/lit/ - Literature

>>14922069
I just went out to dump the trash and realized people were having a walk and buying food at the market. I'm terribly disappointed, feeling like I was only pretending. Some people out there don't care and it ruins my experience of a critical situation.
Also I'm a high school teacher and my bosses keeps harrassing me, like, you should record a video every now and then for your students, use a discord room or whatever.

I've been a NEET for the last month and living off a bulk quantity of canned tuna, so I haven't really noticed other than seeing more fb memes about it.

>>14922069
I'm excited as shit I hope it wipes out all the boomer Republicans

I lost my job and my campus is closing. I only had one in-person class, though.
It's sudden. I'll be losing most of my work buddies in an instant. This last week I had nothing to do, and nowhere to go. Everything's closed. I spent almost 40 hours playing just one video game. I decided to uninstall it last night.

>>14922111
Watch out for the mercury.

>>14922126
play Dragon Age Origins

I've been living life for years like i was quarantined so it makes no difference to me.

>>14922069
why is european architecture so daemonic
why do they pave everything with concrete where is nature

>>14922250
Do you like sex outdoors butterfly?

>>14922069
>lost half of my income
>lots of plans are ruined
>survival mode activated
time for helicopter money (TM)

By law I have to wear a mask in public. Three of my coworkers are in quarantine. Decontaminating myself is exhausting. The last flight out is on March 24th but I'm going to stay. Please pray for me.

>>14922069
>How are you experiencing it?
I'm in Japan, the government is doing its utmost best the save the Olympics. How? By not testing people, if they don't test them they don't have a problem, officially we are all healthy. Sooner or later shit will hit the fan.
This is not a conspirational theory, the idiots themselves confessed it.
Meanwhile my family in Argentina is in quarantine. I hate peronists but those fuckers are doing a fine job: deporting tourists that break the quarantine, arresting the locals, not letting busses/trains/subways to carry more passengers than seats available, closing borders. Anyhow, I hope I don't catch anything, I have to commute to work everyday and the japs are disgusting, those dirty motherfuckers don't even wash their hands.

I have realized that I have barely anybody to share this life with. I have focused on making a lot of money in the past few years, but it hasn't done much for me mentally and it may very well be completely useless very soon.

>professor is making us write an essay on what we think about the situation and how we are experiencing
OK /lit/ help me out here I have no idea what the fuck to write. I have to mail it in a few hours.

>>14922464

Make a story about a solipsistic boy who thinks that the Coronavirus is a hoax to supress dissent.

>>14922250
As opposed to what architecture?

>>14922475
The powerless often recognize themselves as so, and they hate it.
They fight it by embracing change they cannot resist, no matter how awful that change is.
>This is my change
>I am in control
>I am winning

>>14922069
that the spirit of humanity, monsieur, is being tested. and it will rise from this test in a new form. that the worst face of humanity, the dark side of our species, will manifest itself. a spiritual battle between good and evil, between right and wrong. a belated, long overdue moral test. ultimately a banal moral question: what to do. because everything that we do, everything about the way it is done, everything about who it is done for, everything about when it is done, will multiply itself across every media channel in moral ricochets that even a moral imbecile can't miss in his base self-interest which barely goes above an animalistic survival instinct. watch as the solitary idiot of modernity pauses for a moment, lifts his eyes from foaming at the mouth about elections and scandals, and asks 'is this right?' and 'is this true?' because the grand spectacle of lies that sits in front of us in television sets every day, which we enjoy, in dark times has another meaning for us: the lies hurt us, they can kill us. and so, finally, not out of virtue, but out of necessity, a time for moral thinking, for becoming picky, for becoming people who, enslaved to moronic hedonism, can think about the architecture of life outside of the release of serotonin and dopamine, life not in its ascetic beauty, but in its naked sublimity. this is only the first step in the ultimate proof of humanity which the twenty first century brings. and it is only the very start. from here everything will become more difficult. and as all of us here give up the ghost and slip into the abyss forever, we will have seen with our dull eyes, full of ideological cataracts, and said You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought, "Nah, forget it. Yo home to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabby yo holmes smell ya later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

It all feels so surreal. Universities, cinemas, theaters, bars closed. Everyone I know is isolating themselves but when I look at the streets from my apartments window I still see people walking about and living their normal lives. However there's a ubiquitous feeling of unease. I wonder if people felt the same way in past's conflicts or cataclysms.

My employment and future plans are mostly gone but at least I have time to read the worrying amount of books I've accumulated

>>14922481
Top is no better. We should be looking at trees and greenery not old decrepit buildings

>>14922255
yesno

>>14922481
These images really make me seethe

>>14922549
not that anon, but I think it's legit to say that top is better. It shows more attention given to what was built, probably a bigger investment too. Cities should be for bourgeois only. When you pack thousands of poor people in a town, you build shitty housings for them. The poor should live in charming houses made of stone and wood in the country, not in these shitty concrete housings downtown. And they should breed livestock and live a peasan's life, too. The surroundings would be charming when we have a walk in the countryside. Also nobody would be depressed.

This year will go down in history. The old world order is crumbling rapidly and not even just from the viron, but from the accumulation of rot long festering within the system. Globalism is on its way out and if not now, eventually. Forced isolation is subtly changing the thought patterns of the society at large, creating a period of introspection that the hustle and bustle of consumer/work life has deprived people of. Our economy is obliterating as we speak and its full effects yet to be felt, while the same society watches a detached, sociopathic and materialist elite impotently address what should be done.

Consumer culture has collapsed in the most unimaginable way possible. If it weren't for the fact that people in the States have armed themselves to the teeth and are going to be economically obliterated, I would have welcomed it.

>>14922609
The question is what comes next after countries lift the lockdown?

>>14922481
is that berlin? they did rather bring it on themselves
their "descendants" will mostly be turkish anyway

fuck chinksects

fuck chinksects

>>14922609
that webm is fucking adorable

bat masterrace

>>14922111
Sardinss have more nutrients, high concentration of omega 3s, and much lower levels of mercury than tuna.

We all know who is at fault. We all know what should be done.

>>14922351
God laughs at the notion of your "plans". Man is nothing than a worm compared to His majesty.

>>14922366
Flying is the worst possible thing you can do now even if you do return home. It's better to just stay where you are.

>>14922612
I don't know. For sure, Covid will still be out there no matter how long they keep us in until a vaccine is found. The hospital system is fucked no matter what and that will cause strain. Then, there's the economy, which should be the biggest fear for people that are healthy. Washington will try hard to undue what has happened. If what I'm reading is true, we're headed for a recession.

They’re going to put microchips, heavy metals and chemical sterilizations in every vaccine

>>14922675
The obvious change is going to be a return to localised industry. Neoliberalism will also probably die or at least be severely crippled because of this. It’s unlikely since this would be economically unsustainable, but I’m also wondering if we’ll be forced to have limited contact and more online working with others forever. The more likely concern is that if poverty gets too extreme then we could have a resurgence of populism and fascism.

>>14922651
>>14922654
COVID-19 is a bioweapon. There is no evidence to suggest the bat as being the original vector. Likely a modified strain of SARS that a researcher inadvertently got infected with at the lab in Wuhan. With a 14 day incubation period and it being asymptomatic, this is the most likely hypothesis. I can't really fault the Chinese either. They had a rapid response within days and new cases their have ceased.

>>14922687
>and it being asymptomatic
forr some *

>>14922687
doesnt matter
The International Bat Tribunal has spoken.
Those who defile the bat race have brought righteous wrath down upon themselves

>>14922069
i fucking love this BOOK

>>14922069
I was in Croatia when it started going down in Italy and decided to stay until now because of timing reasons with job and relationship. I wanted to go to Bosnia next but many flights are canceled and buses not running and they threaten quarantine to foreigners so I am flying out now. I wish I had found a place where I could fly without risk of quarantine but instead I listened to parents and I am going home. I was in venice for carneval on valentine's day. What if I have it and I give it to my family? Why shut borders if it just makes travelers give it to family instead of others? I'm feeling very targeted by greater powers. I wish I had the power to make my own decision about where I will go.

>>14922687
>it being asymptomatic,

no evidence for this

>>14922482
I read and enjoyed every word.

>>14922487
>I wonder if people felt the same way in past's conflicts or cataclysms.
They were much more used to them.

>>14922069
coronavirus can slob on my knob

>>14922099
If you're getting paid leave, why shouldn't you?

High pressure busy life and work arrangements are shut down just like that because everyone knows it has to be done. It makes me think of the old adage 'what if there was a war and nobody showed up'? Our society, our monetary system, states, institutions, all our ways of life are predicated on implicit or explicit agreement. We feel powerless most of the time but this crisis should show everyone that there's an alternative to the fast lane. If everyone just stopped doing what they did and relaxed for a little bit things could be better and less stressful. Corona forces everyone to adopt a certain mindfulness, maybe this could be redirected to consider throw-away-consume culture and improve all our lives once this is over.

>>14922850
except the welfare will run out sooner of later

>>14922850
>Corona forces everyone to adopt a certain mindfulness
everyone except those hording toilet paper for whatever reason. oh, and those partying and happily spreading misery while people are dying because the hospitals are more than full.

>>14922857
>>14922869
Yes. These things will pose problems no doubt. I don't want to glorify the pandemic, but I thought it's an interesting perspective to be forced to slow down.

The closure of schools hit me hard. I was supposed to prepare for the university exams there, but now I have to do it alone, and It's killing me because I can't concentrate at home most of the time.
It killed off any structure in my life and this "digital education" nonsense is really bothersome.

>>14922111
>dies of mercury poisonning by the end of the quarantine

>>14922896
Same. They should have just graded us on our existing coursework and called it a day. The worst part is that I want to to a Masters, but I don't know if it's worth applying for right now.

>>14922900
at least he won't be microchipped

>>14922069
I'm kind of disappointed with my country. We live such luxurious lifes that people are more concered about toilet paper than non-perishable food. I'm almost hoping for economic collapse to give us a taste of true hardship. It might be good for us in the long run.

I haven't had a schweinebraten in 2 weeks.

>>14922687
>here is no evidence to suggest the bat as being the original vector.
They traced the 2002 coronavirus back to a cave of bats and the genome of the new one is pretty similar so its highly likely its the same kind of source
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/10/sars-virus-bats-china-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome

>>14922797
I should.
>>14922906
>graded us on our existing coursework
Don't you think it's gonna happen in, let's say, 2 months?

>>14923143
Our exams are getting moved online, which I think is unfair on people who struggle to work from home.

I’m scared that I’m potentially going to be cucked out of my plans for postgrad because of this bullshit.

>>14922609
Interesting take. I heard that companies literally don't keep inventory of supplies any more like they used to because "muh bottom line" and they prefer a supply chain that is just-in-time with little slack. The assumptions of globalism have been completely called into question by this outbreak. As with nearly any crisis, some good will come of it, a creative destruction that will hopefully instigate political change. When nothing else works, a natural disaster will do. The have a power to upset the tables in a way that little else does.

>>14922609
One can only hope so. Stay safe out there, anons.