/lit/ - Literature

>>15485098
>average 4chan male library
>filled with anime figurines and manga

>>15485098
That was amazing. Thank you very much.

I wish other people would do that. Seeing a man's library is like becoming his personal friend for a few minutes. It is a window into his soul.
Can you imagine what Harold Bloom's, George Steiner's, or Umberto Eco's libraries must have been like?

My library is much less impressive, but I own around 1100 books, and will continue buying more for as long as I have money.

>>15485265
Didn't Taleb do a tour of Eco's library? The antilibrary that he always talked about?

>>15485278
Yes, but it wasn't filmed.

https://youtu.be/Czc_KjWji8E

>>15485098
>that fucking music
megakek, didn't even watch the video

Masha'Allah brother.

>>15485098
goddamn this is amazing

>>15485098
>that vid
Based. But most female libraries I've been to are also pretty nice. My mom has a large collection of translated Japanese texts from antiquity to Mishima.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpyROPvICKw

He says, and I am paraphrasing, that a clean and organised library is one that is obviously not used. Mine is used but is also clean and organised. I will even hunt for specific editions of books to try and get similar sizes to the rest of my books so they look more like they belong, as well as buying the most aesthetic edition. I clean a lot too. It's just an excuse for being lazy desu and can also be a form of vanity. "Wow look at how messy my books are it's because I read a lot because I am an interllectual!!!!". Not saying that guy does that but just that it can be. I clean a lot because I am mentally ill and so highly neurotic. It's not nice. I wish I could enjoy a, big somewhat structured but only a little bit, mess.

>>15485098
Both consumerist whores.

>>15485098
>>15485773
Have these guys not heard of the internet? My library is 10 times as big as theirs' and fits on a flash drive.

>>15485098
Beautiful, thank you. I did appreciate it as much as I did not appreciate the useless female mention of yours

>>15485957
I get you, but one usually buys the edition needed for the comment or such, not for the look.. Although most of his books are quite pretty editions also. Anyway it looks messy but clean, it's not so common to see encyclopedias and dictionaries kept clean

>>15485098
You obviously haven't seen my library.

>>15485098
>dozens of multivolume sets of Islamic law, Islamic occultism, Islamic history (makes sense as he's a muslim)
>dozens of multivolume sets of Jewish law, Jewish occultism, Jewish history
>dozens of multivolume sets of Hellenic philosophy, occultism, history
>multiple shelves of 'traditionalist' and perennialist writers
>one (1) small shelf on the history on the historicity of Jesus Christ
>no patristic writings, no Christian dogma, no post-pagan Roman writers
pseud detect

>>15486292
your religion was literally dismissed out of hand lmao

>>15485098
Why can't you praise someone without bringing a whole gender down?
My grandma had an amazing library

>>15485990
Physical books don't run out of power or suffer from bitrot. If you have the money and the space, they're superior to digital books.

>>15486292
Christcucks SEETHING

>>15485098
Damn that's based, how do I become a book collector/seller if I have only 1k startup capital?

>>15486613
>bitrot
Its a meem

>>15486292
I'm Muslim, and I also only find Judaism interesting. Christianity seems too retarded to even consider, so I don't bother reading much about its details at all (outside of the basic Augustine and Aquinas), even though I can spend hours reading about various halachic minutia, and obscure midrashim, etc.
Nothing personnel kiddo.

What is the book he blurred out at like the eleven minute mark?


>>15486292
Early Christianity is the only true path

>>15485990
Libraries are not simply stores of information. They include the stories of when you originally got each book. They include the memories of when you first grasped a difficult concept in a work. They include the times spent with a lover reading and exploring one another’s mind.

If you’re a functionalist or a materialist you wouldn’t get it. You would be content to treat your books like the data that bugmen love to manipulate

>>15485098
What a dumb dogmatic shit. I've seen Iranian intellectuals before the Revolution who had shelves of French poetry and literature. I saw a documentary of one recently who had Baudelaire among other works, and he was a remnant of those intellectuals who survived Khomeini's reign of terror. He had plenty of classic English and Indian literature too. Of course, he had the obligatory Hafiz, Shahnameh, Hedayat, and other Iranian lit too.
He did not excessively obsess about meme mysticism the way you stupid nigger admixed Arabs do. He was able to collect literature on things outside his religious beliefs or lack thereof. Are you capable of reading real literature, not meme-y over-redundant mysticism, with those you disagree with while still finding merit in it?
The reason you Arabs will never produce a real intellectual is because you don't see a world outside of your highly limiting cringe Pisslamic worldview. Go read a book outside of Semitic trash for once. Maybe read some Dickens or something, nigger trash.

>>15488015
This sounds like a pasta to me.

Did you not see his French psychological section and his Euclid? This guy seems like the least crazy Arab supremacist if he is one.

>>15487280
You dont buy all at once you build up your collection over time.

Persians truly are the most based of the middle-easterns.

A lot of the shit I have on my shelves is sci-fi/fantasy from my younger years I havent gotten rid of because it feels wrong to toss out books, and while I still enjoy some genre fiction now and then many of my newer purchases are more history, philosophy and a lot of shit on the essential charts, which is surprisingly good. Currently I'm reading Book of the New Sun but I really want to read War and Peace even though that's going to be a long journey

>>15489167
I have a ton of Star Wars (legends canon obviously fuck Disney) from my teenage years that I keep off my main bookshelf for aesthetic reasons. Reminds me of my teenage years gives me nostalgia. I may part with them if I needed to for space but I’ll keep ‘em for now

>>15489167
War and Peace is probably a shorter journey than Book of the New Sun. At least it was that way for me.

>>15488015
>dogmatic shit
you seem triggered, friend
i have a 20,000-volume library and have probably 30 books on the quaran/middle eastern religion? dude from another culture has more on western philosophy than i bet you do
you seem like an uneducated pleb who doesnt understand basic cultural frames

>>15490991
>I have a 20,000-volume library

doubt.jpg

>>15487293
God is in every synagogue, orthodox, rwgorm, conservative. God is in every mosque, shia or sunni. But will you find him at an evangelical temple in Texas? That cold religion, with trump followers, no depth, no complexity. No. I think not.

>>15487924
>What is the book he blurred out at like the eleven minute mark?
Mmm...something bad? Antisemitism? Maybe it's a book that hasn't been published yet.

>>15488015
>dickens
back2twitter, guppy

>>15485098
boi he got principia mathematica

>>15486613
I personally store my books on golden plates.

>>15486292
I see nothing wrong with that.

>master is showing strangers around his library again

>>15487924
If you pause the video quickly, you can see it. I'm pretty sure it's Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare by Michael Hoffman.

>>15485098
>>(check 15:50 for a special surprise)
the way he says rene guenon

>>15492864
>>15492354
>Michael Anthony Hoffman II (born January 2, 1957)[1] is an author. He has been described by critics as an American conspiracy theorist[1][2] and by the Anti-Defamation League (among other sources), as a Holocaust denier and antisemite.[2][3]

>[T]here is no material scientific proof for the existence of Nazi homicidal gas chambers. There are no autopsies available from any source showing that even one Jew died as a result of Zyklon B (hydrocyanic acid) poisoning, among the millions who are alleged to have been killed in this manner. [The quote is from Hoffman's "The Psychology and Epistemology of 'Holocaust' Newspeak", Journal of Historical Review 6, Winter 1985, no. 4, p. 472.

>According to Derrick Jensen, Hoffman is "overtly racist" and "attempts to make the case that the enslavement of whites by commercial interests in Britain and the Americas was worse than the enslavement and genocide of Africans

Another one got loose. Someone call the based department.

>>15491600
Doubt all you want. This is mine:
Pykewater.com
Every year or two I’ll make a thread and post updated images here and there. I don’t make YouTube videos of my library for obvious reasons.
You’re still a piece of shit.

>>15487924
>They include the stories of when you originally got each book. They include the memories of when you first grasped a difficult concept in a work. They include the times spent with a lover reading and exploring one another’s mind.
All of this is possible with an e-reader.

>>15486613
Digital books don't get eaten by worms or bleached by light.

>>15492968
They're good for fiction but for a serious reading of non fiction it's proven to have less retention.

>>15493008
>proven to have less retention.
Only on standard screens. E-ink screens are fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_M108B3mdY

>>15493034
Computers do smell though?

>>15485098
>average female vcr collection
non existent
>average male vcr collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o&t=39s

>>15493096
>the accent
>the haircut
>the editing
>the autism
My sides have left the fucking stratosphere

>>15486282
But seriously what is that edition of Tintin, because it looks dope desu.

>>15485098
>facsimiles
based

>>15485098
>Not keeping your books as files on your harddrive
Why waste the space?

>>15493192
collector's gift set. it's nice, but the books are in a small format. i'd prefer to see a set that was larger than the original

>>15487924
>You would be content to treat your books like the data that bugmen love to manipulate

>>15492939
Based.
>I don’t make YouTube videos of my library for obvious reasons.
Not that obvious to me.
Explain?

>>15492939
Hey you’re the guy in those shelf threads I see where people don’t believe that’s actually your collection.

If this is actually yours this is really sick

>>15485098
>open video
>AAAAAALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

>>15485876
uncultured amrimutt degenerate detected

>>15487293
Muslim saying Christiany is retarded... kek, this gotta be b8

>>15492939
Nice

>>15492939
The fact that you not only post the occasional update but lurk here too is just great. I'm glad there's others in the professional world that are shitposting on /lit/

>>15494233
>>15494347
>>15494473
thanks, friends. yes, it's mine--been collecting for years, post under the trip "rapture" usually. people often don't believe me, though i tend to be open about any aspect of it. i think my image/legend has run far beyond 1. my capacity to control it, and 2. reality. partly my fault, no doubt; i cultivate a little mystery around the program but for the most part it is exactly what it says it is. would be happy to clarify any aspect.

i've been re-working aspects of the library/project now during quarantine. i recently took down the reading lists i had posted to re-work them and add others. right now i plan on opening up a whole new set of detailed, professional-grade reading lists on a number of political subjects and topics. i'm looking to fill in a felt gap here and elsewhere: academic-grade direction as to all the literature beyond the usually circulated, meme-level stuff. if you have any specific requests, please let me know.

i'm also looking to open up the forum aspect to a slightly larger public. if anyone goes to harvard/MIT or is a particularly gifted /litizen from the boston area, i'd love to start a conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsLFSR_Y94

>>15494788
I know Sadler is memed upon but I did like this library and his selection.

It just baffles me how he’s read so many early Christian works and other works (Nietzsche) and still is a lolberal and rages like a freshman at Trump tweets. It’s a good reminder that even smart well read people can be fooled.

>>15486282
soul
>>15485098
>>15485302
soulless

https://youtu.be/1E8PGchwuGA

>>15494749
I don't see reasons for not believing a library exists, although anons on 4chan can't believe women exist sometimes, so don't take it personally, they're probably more fascinated than I am.
I live in Italy, so not that practical for being interested directly to your work, but I've visited Boston once and I still follow it as the university and the museum are an excellence in my field of interest, being strong on African and Eastern archaeology, history and arts.

>>15494912
comfy

>>15494912
i bet it is impossible to have a conversation with this guy about anything without him at some point saying "you know, in ancient rome..." even if you are talking about something trivial like ice cream flavours

>>15494912
Oh hell yeah this guy is absolutely based. Even his voice is top tier, I’d listen to him read an audiobook all day

>>15495307
i hope you aren't saying that that would be a bad thing.

>>15494233
to answer your question, and to be quite frank: i try to bridge the gap between creating acceptable public optics and maintaining some degree of privacy. i usually get doxxed when i make a thread, which i don't mind, i'm quite open about my general information, etc.--but in terms of real specifics, im aware that we live an era that, a la "don't fuck with cats," the internet can take an image, let alone a video, and pretty much pinpoint you to the centimeter. i'm independently wealthy and therefore don't really worry about any institutional/career hazards, but there is enough money behind my operation that i do not want to truly found (and trust me, i've received death threats, etc) unless i invite someone to join the reading group, etc. i just turned 31: i've got a wife now, a family i care about deeply and who i wouldn't want to be drawn into anything dangerous, etc.--youtube just isn't the medium that really helps me out. my operation gets along very, very well without it; plus, i have absolutely no social media and virtually no digital signature, and i really enjoy and profit from the invisibility that comes therewith.

>>15494707
yeah, like i said above to the other anon, i don't participate in any other social media--4chan has actually been a real resource, i've found a lot of random and interesting suggestions on here, some provocative ideas, etc. i'd say its the "best of the internet," even for its degeneracy, but i don't know much about the internet, so i dunno.
you're a professional? what do you do?

>>15495583
>you're a professional? what do you do?
I teach grad school level philosophy/literature/film studies

>>15485263

NEETs generally can't afford too much though.

>>15495799
what are your favorite contemporary directors?

>>15493336
The real patrician choice is to get the small collector's edition books and then get the full-sized volumes for your 5 or so favorites. That's what I have in my Tintin collection. It's the best of both worlds without forking out crazy money, since each of those full sized volumes are $15 or so, even if you buy them used.

>>15492939
>>15494749
This is based AF
What do you do? Do you have any plans for the library overall?
Wish I was near Boston, seems like the most /lit city desu

>>15495833
This is all a man needs.

>>15494749
i attend Harvard and my fart erotica has been lauded as "the best," and "so hot" by many key fart erotica critics. you can hit me up at my discord if you want: stinkyboi#9573

>>15485938
>metal jesus
>game room
>happy sounding oversaturated rock music as intro
>my wife allowed me to use the whole floor *insert so y face*
fucking cringe

>>15496508
if i ever end up like that, please, mercy kill me.

>>15486292
He's afraid of finding the Truth

>>15495076
i love italy. lived in rome for a bit--via sistina, near the spanish steps. whereabouts are you? you an academic?
cambridge, MA is my favorite place i've ever lived.

>>15496445
i've worked in tech investment, communcations/PR/campaign management, and have taught briefly as an academic. i retired from virtually all of that in 2016--diagnosed with cancer, still have, it, etc. doing well, though. as bizarre as it sounds, i've basically retreated from the world with my wife unto my estate and just read and write all day. my library is and does exactly what it says; i digest and abridge a lot of material, as well as pursue my own edification.

i see the purpose of the library as a set of concentric circles. the first and foremost is the material benefit for myself, my wife and my family. i can read/reference virtually anything i want, and i absolutely love that. education stands as a core pillar of what i take as "living well" on a personal, hearth level.
the second circle is political. i offer the libraries resources to high-end politicians and academics looking for real depth in topic-specific knowledge, usually oriented toward some type of political action. i take this project as non-partisan; it is truly open to any and all who seek legitimate academic or political ends.
related to this, and part of this second circle, is the personal hope to provide a new intellectual basis for the conservative right. i am what you might call a more "old-school" conservative; what i see around me is...disappointing. i seek to eventually provide an alternative--not a series of illusions or tricks, but real, foundational resources for a revitalized right. i am almost to the point of offering this program more fully/explicitly--at this point its just a logistical matter of getting all the ducks in order.

>>15496445
>>15496832
the final and largest, most ideological circle is also the one where i probably will lose you/the most people, but that is fine. to be as honest as i can: i believe a higher type of man will emerge through the marriage of art and politics. my mission/the mission of pykewater is to cultivate the intellectual conditions amenable to the production of this God-Man, to add substance and materiality to the image of the Immortal Soul, to envision a new form of human homeness.

i believe the essence of this homeness is freedom and the essence of this freedom is immortality. today it must be shown that immortality constitutes a primary human right, a profound need, an individual duty and collective responsibility. of course, every attempt to distance the pursuit of this ideal from an adequate culture has hitherto produced only confusion and violence. therefore: first, the proper culture; second, the proper constitution; only then may the proper God-Man form.

this is my core and sincere purpose: to build a new culture, to pool and consecrate valuable intellectual resources, to exist as an instrument in the pursuit of human immortality.

i've cultivated resources over a decade now to help realize this; slowly it has simmered and grown. i have held it back, for the most part. now i am on the verge of fully releasing its potential, going on john galt, but in negative, in a good way. i do not think it will disappoint you all.

call me crazy, i don't mind. with cancer, a library and a big ol bank account, i've gone full lex luther on this bitch. i have elitist inclinations, no question--but i am first and foremost a son of this republic, as dying as it is. that we are now cardiac surgeons of liberty operating on cadavres, well, there is beauty in the breakdown, still things left to account for, still things left to save and preserve.

one man wants to burn the world, finds for himself a right to do so; i draw up the alternative, not out of spite, but out of balance. things caught in the gravity of my judgment, in the pathos of the education i hope to provide, are set to live forever.

>>15489987
I have two trilogies of star wars books, the Thrawn trilogy and the Black Fleet trilogy which are coincidentally ones that focus on fleet combat to a large degree. Maybe I just like ship combat more than anything else in SW.
>>15490009
Then I'll be in the right place, I finished Shadow in a week and a half on a poor reading schedule, now that I'm in full swing, I imagine I'll tear through them all. I also plan on re-reading Siddhartha before venturing out into more of Hesse's works

>>15496832
>the second circle is political. i offer the libraries resources to high-end politicians and academics looking for real depth in topic-specific knowledge, usually oriented toward some type of political action. i take this project as non-partisan; it is truly open to any and all who seek legitimate academic or political ends.
that sounds kino as fuck anon. you're like a mage or some shit.

>>15496866
may i ask you to describe this "God-Man" in further detail?

>>15496866
I’d like to hear more. What inspired this? How have you grown it? What are you doing now?

If real, this has the potential to be the most based/prophetic thing ever written on this board.

>>15496893
If you like ship combat, the x wing series was well written and quite fun.

>>15496832
>>15496866
This is a very interesting conception of the world anon. I love the sheer ambition and that you want to change the world in your own way.

Is this immortality you aspire to one of material and physical immortality, or one of soul / spiritual immortality? From the context it sounds like you’re describing physical immortality.

>>15496953
thank you. i hope to eventually open up the full range of services and reading lists to the public.

>>15496972
i'd be better at answering more specific questions, but to respond and hopefully start a conversation: i am personally interested in both spiritual and physical immortality, the former more so. my political project exclusive takes up the latter, however; as i said above, amidst my elitist leanings is a true love for the republic/nation i grew up in and that forged me. what that means is that figures like berlin, james, dewey, arendt, sklar, and even nietzsche/hegel (dialectics of enemy) are my (at times, begrudging) examplars. rawls and habermas--but they are admittedly quite boring. closer to aspects of laclau and moufe's agonisms, but they are admittedly rather shallow. if i were to impose my spiritual transcedence on you, then this will almost certainly end with one of us dead.
so my ultimate goal viz. pykewater is to fashion the conditions 1. for physical immortality to spread universally, and 2. for spiritual immortality to be achieved individually. i hope to not only provide a new physical condition, but, perhaps more importantly, the opportunity for the individual to use that immortality as a true experiment in this world, to turn their own lives into works of art--in short, the chance to live well on their own educated terms. mark 4:4.
to this end, i am deeply influenced by kant's aesthetics and schiller's appropriation viz. play and the freedom of the aesthetic state. i envision a new, democratic bayreath, one of real intellectuals and artists striving to achieve the singular goal of existing in peaceful, meaningful tandem.

and so: the fully-realized human being in me says yes to both the spiritual and physical; the committed democrat in me says yes strictly to the physical as a political program, the spiritual as relegated to the status of a social program.

i ask you, then, good anons, as i ask anyone before they enter my reading group/library: what is it you want most out of this world?

>>15495833
blesséd existence

>>15497204
meant to reply to you, too. please see >>15497283

>>15495583
You added my ribbonfarm and Sebastian Marshall suggestion, that made my day.

>>15497465
hey, thanks, good looks. suggestions like that are pretty much why i come back to this board.
if you have any others that might be good additions to that list, let me know. always looking to refine/expand.

>>15497283
i suppose i have many questions about what you've just said, but firstly, pertaining to your new species of man, my question would be: given the state of things, how do you hypothesize such a man would react and go about changing the world into his vision of it?

there are a lot of things i want to do, that i want to become, that i want to leave behind, but there is only one thing that i can think of that i want out of the world. a son.

>>15495833
look good king

>>15497663
how would such a man react? i cant say: i provide the mold, i provide an infinite variety of forms to fill it, but it is up to that man to fill it as he sees fit. and so, i ask you: what would you do today? would your action be different if done under the promise of immortality?
for me, the answer is exactly before you: my hope is to provide for those who want and who need. my vision? after immortality, i'm just here for the ride. and when i mean "ride," i really mean: it is all for her.
with cancer i've had my lazarus moment: i've officially "died" and been coded 8 times by now. drill line to the shin, CPR, defib, etc. i'm more ghost than man at this point; i've long, long overstayed my welcome. and yet welcome i still somehow feel.
i love this world. i hope to bring together others who sincerely love it, whose talents are geared toward seeing something made out of it, something good. you could say: like every generation, i'm interested in cultivating the last greek age. are you interested in living well, in exploring what that means, in knowing truth and beauty and goodness, in finding some island amidst the flux? well--"abide with me--fast falls the eventide"

>>15497737
Hey rapture
Unironically
How do I use your library? Do you have a discord? Can I come study with you?
I’m serious about that so please answer honestly.

>>15497737
am i interested in living well? yes. i want to live as best as i can, which almost certainly means something radically different to me than it does to you. every man should want to live well and righteously in his allotted time; but make no mistake, i have no interest in tasting the fruits of this world. i hate this world, though not all things in it.
and i myself have also "died." i too have had premonitions of new kinds of men, and frankly i think that many of the kind you speak of will be counted among my enemies. maybe, maybe not... there is a lot of mystery to you and your project and i don't know enough, but i know my enemies will be great; you must know that if you cultivate great men, they will be divided against each other. do you see yourself as a sage? or as a general?

>>15488015
>why does a researcher a academic in various Islamic fields has a lot of Islamic books
retard

>>15497984
>i hate this world
tell me, friend: what is the essence of your hate? did you once love it?

what have your visions, your premonitions of these new men looked like? i, too, have immortal longings in me--et in arcadia ego. you and i would almost certainly be enemies. and if i am right in terms accounting for your seeming depth, you and i would almost certainly love each other for it. so "tell me, little radish, do you love me? i love myself, too."

what mystery surrounds me? let me dispel it. sunlight is a strong antiseptic; now, i would much rather be known for the man i am, for the things i actually do, then any semblance or illusion. revelation, unconcealment, the open, etc. etc. spectemur agendo.

a sage? no. a general? not quite, though i clearly entertain some degree of megalomania. honestly, the way i describe myself to myself, in all its pompousness and elitism and private, overwrought confidence, is one of the great curators of this world. less law-giver and more educator, way bringer. ideally: archon.
i wont lie: the people who know me personally either utterly love me or utterly hate me. nothing neutral. i tend to force a choice. but those who love me? they would also die for me--and i for them. you dont have to have read machiavelli, geertz, shils, weber, carlyle, etc. to know, simply: power is being authentically, sincerely close to the center of things. it's that power i've sought to cultivate the most. if mystery is a part of it, then that makes me think that i'm getting close to my goal--which is not to be mysterious, but to reveal mystery as one of the great touchstones of human purpose, to use mystery in the service of revelation. otto's idea of the holy comes to mind here.

your insights are interesting and valuble. thanks bro.

going to sleep for now. will hopefully catch you/your responses tomorrow.

>>15497984
>>15498087
For radically different reasons, you are two of the most inspiring and based anons on this board.
This is a good thread and you both should say more.

>>15497984
I forgot to pose the question back to you, but i would like to know: what is the image you see yourself as?

Goodnight.

>>15498124
Thanks brosef. If you got any questions that i can answer, or topics you want to discuss, I’m all ears.

>>15494818
I think it's more a sign that reading is not a personality and doesn't make you smart.

>>15498087
i hate this world for its injustice. for how it rewards the evil, the ugly, the lowest common denominator.
i have been denied, since my birth, most of the things every average joe takes for granted, the essential beauties and experiences of a rich life, and forced to watch as he pisses on his precious gifts. i'm well aware of my own "bitterness," as many would put it, and i'm aware that they would shout "sour grapes," but even if it is sour grapes, it matters little. what was denied to me isn't an option, and my path is set whether i like it or not. this path isn't founded on hatred for this world, but for love of other things which remain hidden to most, things which are maybe only revealed in darkness. yes, the darkness that this world surrounded me in drove me towards a new light not of it.

i think this world is finally ripening. there are no more frontiers, we can travel anywhere in a matter of days, if not hours, all the nations are more or less friendly with each other to a degree never seen before, especially the european countries. we've already seen at least one new species birthed, who get made fun of on this site every day. the bugmen/soibois who are utterly content with what they see as the final stage of the world. they think we're done evolving and that all that's left is leisure.

there will be other species, and all i know is that whichever one i am, the others will be my enemies and we will all fight for something new, mainly against the status quo of the "new" world we have now, which soon will become the old world. the wars we'll fight will be strange and novel to us, they won't be wars fought by nation against nation, nor mere ideology, but for virtue and vision. this type of enemy will be terrible, but few. the main, sort of npc style enemies, will be the status quo defenders, the stereotypical, boring masses, whose strength will lie in numbers and resources, but who are horribly inept and divided against each other. in the beginning we in turn won't be so explicitly against each other, but once the present world powers wane factions will crystallize and alliances will be broken. more could be said but i have only inklings.

>>15498171
i see myself as a founder, as a king who will rend order from the jaws of chaos and carve a realm from nothing where my my people can flourish and my deeds will be dwarfed by those of my descendants. or simply as someone who will pave the way for that man, only time will tell and i will play my part humbly either way. above all, like you, i want to find and empower great men who will do great things, but for a common good. if they aren't in line with me i will send them off.

and another thing you should know: we're very close on the map, so we may be fighting for the same territory ;)

>>15496832
I'm from northern Italy, but live in Naples for study. I'm an MA student

literally the next recommendation from yt

good lord I hate normies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunuF46k-ao&feature=emb_rel_pause

>>15485098
What's the music at the beginning?

>>15498621
>tfw this is the exact type of chick who's attracted to me and the exact type of chick i'm attracted to

>>15495833
oh god, i lived like that for a while when i first moved away from my home town. in a way i wish i could go back to those simpler times, even though my life is better now in every way possible.

>>15498693
stock photo libraries really have some weird shit

>>15498621
oh my god she's fucking adorable

>>15495833
is that all the room is?
no window? is the bathroom shared?
or is it just like a shitty corner of a big house

People who have "libraries" are just posturing pseuds, whether they are men or women. Even if you read several books per week that's still only a few thousand books in your lifetime, which could easily fit into a medium size shelf.

>>15499210
When you work and study with non fictional you just need several books you won't read entirely, but keep to consult on the need. For example, he keeps several editions of the same books, he's probably not going to read entirely, but just the passage he needs to compare. No way it's just a few thousand books in a lifetime, any university student has studied (i.e. more than read) a minimum of 200-300 books just for passing exams. Count pleasure reading, personal additions, life before and after those five years it's quite more than few thousands. Of course you can and must borrow and read ebooks/internet available, that's added to a list of books researchers need to keep anyway

>>15485098
The average man is barely literate and has most likely not read more than five books since high school/college. I would say reading YA trash is better than not reading at all.

>>15498621
>Comparing a middle aged academic to a teenage/young adult youtuber.
Retard

>>15499210
Imagine not knowing what a reference work is and calling other pseuds.
Keep reading your pop-books in their entirety.

>>15485098
The average male male doesn't have a library.

>>15499248
>No way it's just a few thousand books in a lifetime
You know basic arithmetic so you should be able to verify this.

>>15499340
Doesn't matter, even if you add another thousand reference books it still doesn't require a library.

Plus you don't actually read, you're just defending a hypothetical person who needs a lot of reference books.

>>15499210
>>15499363
How old are you? A "few thousand" books absolutely wont fit on a medium sized shelf and if you just "add another thousand" you have a fuck tonne of books.
How many books do you think makes a library?

>>15498693
lol really?

>>15485098
based & Ellulpilled

Excellent thread

>>15498621
guys guys i just had a brilliant idea what if...
hear me on this what if.. the cutesy girl with her decorations and shit but retarded books
and the guys like the middle aged sandnigger academic with his great collection but depressing space
what if these guys instead of doing their own retarded thing THEY JUST LIVE TOGETHER lol
the cute girl could compliment his collection with her decorations she could keep the space clean so they don't accumulate dust and he could share his learning in retarded babble so she'd actually learn something
wouldn't it be great if we had an arrangement like that with proper attitude bros

>>15499576

>>15499248
>No way it's just a few thousand books in a lifetime, any university student has studied (i.e. more than read) a minimum of 200-300 books just for passing exams
Man Universities in the Uk are a joke.
I did humantities and barely reached 50 books, not including my dissertation

>>15499606
this bitch is so annoying she doesn't even deserve a man

>>15499613
Well yes that was based on my country. That's because UK methods are much more onto practice, I live in Italy and we sacrify much practice for studying broad basics. Our humanities degrees also take a lot of time, often 6 months just for dissertation, so we're OLD. Pros and cons, I wish I did a bit more practice with real world

>>15498087
>>15498517
Truly, truly based anons. Please say more.
Where are you both from? American?
How do you intend to conquer? To angry anon: what happened that caused your bitterness?

Rapture: how did you come to acquire your library? You run a reading group? Can people join?

>>15486282

>>15498517
and up from the ashes--a new, real, true enemy! oh how you excite me, anon, how happy you make me feel. you press your hand against the wall--mine mirrors it on the other side. you seem interesting and ambitious. how old are you? what do you do?
tell me more about your story, please.
your inklings are provocative. do you see yourself taking a part? ideally, what would that part look like--what is it you would "found"?
you are near boston?

>>15499802
yes, i'm american, born in DC and live now in cambridge, MA.
i've been running a private seminar/reading group in cambridge now for a couple of years. it's a good system: colleagues from previous institutions ive learned/taught at send me their "best and brightest" who i then introduce to one another and hook up with further career prospects, depending on their interests. its very directly and openly a kinda bourdieu/pinsky-like "state nobility/cultural capital" system that i justify based on strict meritocratic guidelines. i've taken very wealthy and very poor students; students from all backgrounds and ranges; nationals and internationals; they are all defined by simply being a cut above.
at this point i pretty much exclusively work with friends/colleagues from harvard/MIT. it's worked out pretty well so far, you get your occasional disappointment, but it has for the most part become exactly what i want it to be.
if you are near the boston area and are qualified/interested, let me know. in principle i don't mind expanding the program and opening up not only the reading lists and archived scans, etc., but a greater community that takes seriously aspects of the project i've outlined above. or just very brilliant aesthetes and thinkers.

>>15496832
>>15496866
this is the gayest larp ive ever read on 4chan

>>15500132
>>15500155
good example of someone who wouldn't be invited to join

>>15500164
its ok. i dont read anyway. im just here from /pol/ to spread white supremacy and foil the plans of the degenerate left

>>15500168
i believe you

>>15495833
Enough to make anyone suicidal.

jesus christ narcissistic /lit/ larpers are so fucking gay

>>15492939
>>15494749
>>15495583
>>15496832
Not to denigrate what you're trying to do, but why wouldn't a serious politician or academic apply to be a reader at a university library or a national one (Library of Congress) instead? 20k books is a lot, but nothing compared to the millions in those collections.

>>15500132
So you're a glorified recruiter/headhunter? You seem to not understand that morality is the foundation of all the things you love dearly. The American Republic and its democracy would not exist today if, as de Tocqueville observed, wealth was not constantly being churned up and divided by the wealthy dying and their riches being divided up between their sons. What incentive would those great statesmen have had for trying to devise a better democratic condition if they knew they faced no threat from their many enemies? All immortality will do is freeze in place the existing conditions (or your "new culture") permanently, a state of affairs antithetical to the fundamental flux and change that governs the universe. I fear that your own illness and fear of death may be blinding you to just how life-denying immortality is. Death and decay are the only things that can bring new life, trying to grasp on to something that transcends this principle will only bring misery and ruin. God help you.

>>15500341
Because he's a larping narc

Holy shit I remember who this guy is
He used to attention whore on /lit/ all the time about his library
Used to post in litcord for a bit

Lmao sorry about your balls dude

>>15500341
i absolutely don't take the place of any of that--if anything i encourage and help facilitate those types of fellowships, readerships, positions, etc.
what i do is provide a small reading group to a series of very dedicated scholars who are interested in discussing philosophical subjects at a high level. that i use it to further career prospects of student attendees absolutely does not take the place of legitimate jobs, positions, connections, etc. i see myself as one part of a much larger system, a part that can easily be ignored or skipped if you want; but, as a reading group, it is not just a "front", it is first and foremost an arena of ideas and debate.

>>15500426
this is a confused post. you seem to be saying about 10 things and therefore nothing.
1. i'm not just a gloried "headhunter recruiter." if you have to reduce things in that capacity, id say: closer to a mid-wife.
2. you confuse the end of human life with the end of dynamic life, or somehow see the possibility of immortality as antithetical to meaning/purpose in a bizarre zero-sum game. i don't know what you want me to say; you are wrong, this is weakness, this is how everyone thinks--and then you wonder why the world is the way it is...

>>15500442
yeah not me. i've posted before, i'm narcissistic, but i don't have a litcord and my cancer is pancreatic, not testicular.

>>15500300
>>15500437
status: rejected.

>>15495833
You beautiful bastard

>>15500511
No, I see the end of human life via immortality as the death of creation itself. This has nothing to do with meaning, or a "dynamic life", which are completely vague and therefore useless terms; it is about the ability for anything new to be born. Consider some of the fundamental processes in life. For this universe to be born and old one had to die, contract and then expand. For new harvests to sprout then the cycle of birth and death must occur. For human beings to evolve, we had to follow a cycle of death and rebirth over millenia that allowed certain mutations in our genetic structure to grow to fruition. Likewise, for new ideas and ways of being to appear, the old ones must die. What would happen if the USSR never perished? We'd still be locked in the Cold War, forever.

If immortality was granted today then what would occur would be the total takeover of the Western world by these elites you seem so keen on helping to birth, who would proceed to try and limit the growth of any new ideas that threatened their position; they would of course also have total economic control, as how could wealth pass from their hands if they never die? You yourself reveal as much when you call another with different thoughts to yourself an "enemy", suggesting on some level you want him vanquished. Stop trying to grasp onto the idea that something in life can be made permanent, it cannot, for everything in this life owes its existence to the ability to die and be reborn.

>>15492939
Incredibly based if real.
You’ve mentioned “reading lists” a couple times and it seems a large part of your operation. Could you provide an example? How do you build them? There is a list on your site but no links.
I’d be more inclined to believe with some sense of what you offer.

>>15498621
>norm*es
Consider yourself one, faggot.

>>15501313
what reading lists from the posted online list would interest you most?
i'm hesitant to post anything because i am reworking a lot of aspects of each reading list, but your interest is warranted.

>>15485098
Always like library tours with lots of religious books and commentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX06qOs_eP8

>>15501803
This has got to be an anomaly, no? Is this just the most well-stocked/well-read pastor of all time?

>>15501886
Reformed Christians are the most well read of Protestants. Even the laymen read a lot.

>>15501803
>English, Greek, Latin, Modern Greek, German
Is /lit/ even trying?

I love commodity fetishism.

>>15501952
Its okay to be poor anon

>>15501733
Well I’m a musician so maybe start with the music theory list.
I’ve been reading some recs lately, so the lists on Plato or Nietzsche or Wittgenstein.
Also interested in what you mean by deep political knowledge, so maybe the one on war?
I know it’s not listed but you mentioned you were influenced by Arendt- do you have anything on her?
Interested to see if you really do have any suggestions beyond the “meme-tier”

>>15500168
based

God to be an independently wealthy scholar looks kino as fuck

>>15502035
all right anon, i'll hook you up with those. give me a little to upload them to my website.

you should know about the reading lists: each one is a dynamic resource, so if you have any suggestions for major changes, please feel free to let me know.
each is the concentrated effort of several years worth of work. i consult academics and professionals in respective fields and slowly build/reef recommendations as i work through and filter them myself.
the point is to provide both comprehensiveness/depth while also providing a manageable toolkit. there are millions of books out there--i try to drill through and select the best, most foundational, most cited, etc.
to that extent, each reading list i post will be an amalgamated version of several smaller, more specific lists. these larger amalgamated lists operate as "full spectrum" analyses of a subect/genre--the idea being that one could do anything from teach a freshman writing seminar/provide for freshman apprehension all the way to receiving a PhD or professional degree in a subject.

the plato reading list has taken 5 years and id say is about (estimated) 90% complete.
wittgenstein: 3 years, 75% complete.
nietszche: 2 years, 60% complete.
arendt: 1.5 years, 80%.
war: 8 years. 75%.
music theory (i've studied music, too--what do you play/pursue?): 10 years, probably 30%.

this should give a rough estimate of the time/efforts involved and their propensity to morph and change.

ill let you know when i post.

>>15497283

I want beauty anon, best of luck with your project, I enjoyed reading this thread.

>>15502775
I listened to a harpsichord quintet playing JS Bach in that cathedral last summer. Probably the most overwhelmingly beautiful experience of my life.

>>15502035
>>15502466
Id very much like to see these, too.

>>15502775
thank you, good anon. beauty to you.

>>15503137
i'm working on it. takes a while to review and post.

>>15485098
How can one man be so based?

>>15494749
Do you still have the Wittgenstein reading list?

>>15495935
Micheal Bay is a must

>>15501733
Wittgenstein

I'm taken aback that nobody has posted this wonderful video yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsL7BUO6c4

>>15503869
Not that guy but I unironically think movies like bad boys and the rock are well done.

>>15502035
>>15503137
>>15503857
>>15503872

ask and ye shall receive. again, feedback is always encouraged and appreciated. please let me know when they have been viewed, as i am not comfortable having them up very long (they are still very much in progress):

https://pykewater.com/reading-lists

>>15504371
>15 pages on war
>10 pages on Plato

Holy fuck this is some of the most kino shit I’ve ever seen, thank you anon