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16498581 No.16498581 [Reply] [Original]

Why yes, I have read Burroughs! Such a genius! The destruction of traditional moral values that constitutes the west's sustained prosperity and success is so edgy and kewl! Nothing matters right? So just shove a heroin needle in your arm! Put that paintbrush down kid, theres no point, be a pleasure seeking animal instead. What's that Harlan Ellison? Civilisation is pure savagery and not worth making better? What a positive message for the kids!

The reverence for shit like Burroughs, Bukowski and Nietzsche fucking astounds me. These people glorify filth and decay, and spit on love, dignity, beauty and the divine mysteries of the universe. It's pretty clear that beat literature and nihilism in general is yet another Jewish attempt to disarm the west by professing against the very values that built it: discipline, morality, respect and self-control.

Those who have no regard for life are quick to throw it away.

>> No.16498600

>Burroughs, Bukowski and Nietzsche
decent bait

>> No.16498613

>>16498581
The Passion of the Western Mind will cure anybody of nihilism. It maps out the entire trajectory of western thought, step by step, from the ancient Greeks, Christianity, renaissance, enlightenment, and ultimately culminating in the current postmodernist crisis - and then hints at what is coming next, which - agree or disagree - does indeed seem to be playing out...

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>>16498581
mmm... yes... your reading comprehension is off the charts OP, you should consider finding a way to profit from this genius.

Might I recommend baiting r/lit, I have a machine that converts Seethes into pure Energy. Maybe we can work together.

>> No.16498672

>>16498661
do you have a counter-argument or what?

>> No.16498699

>>16498581
OP is a faggot who would seethe reading the actual Western canon. NOOOO why is Catullus writing about buttfucking a senator? Why is there oral sex in the Bible!!!! Why is Chaucer writing about cuckoldryy HELP ME

>> No.16498721

>>16498699
still better than reading gutter literature written by a heroin addict who shot his wife whilst being a drunken retard.

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>>16498699
Look, OP, you got one!
Let's see if you can reel it in.

>> No.16498738

>>16498699
> I read 1 million words to find the three phrases that kinda hint at debauchery
Is this the power of the Western Canon?

>> No.16498757

>It's pretty clear that beat literature and nihilism in general is yet another Jewish attempt to disarm the west by professing against the very values that built it: discipline, morality, respect and self-control.
You’re such a retard OP, holy shit

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>>16498738
shut up illiterate

>> No.16498767

>>16498757
all I'm saying is Burroughs wouldn't have got anywhere without that marxist faggot Allen Ginsburg, who's work is equally as grotesque and sordid.

>> No.16498895

>>16498581
>yet another Jewish attempt
Yet another near miss. When will jealous hylics stop seething?

>> No.16498934

>>16498581
I was gonna take you seriously but you lost me with the Jewish plot rhetoric.

>> No.16498939

Trolls trolling trolls

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>>16498581

>Beat Literature is anti-western
>The literature of people perpetually not at ease in western society is anti-western

No shit, Sherlock.

>> No.16498958

>>16498581
Can't comment on Burroughs or Bukowski but saying Nietzsche does any of that is ridiculous. He was not a nihilist.

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>>16498581

>love, dignity, beauty and the divine mysteries of the universe

Uh huh, because meditating on these things in in the United States in the neurotic era of 50s and 60s outside of beatnik circles was so very, very prevalent. People were definitely, deeply concerned with history and the humanities in these decades.

>> No.16499008

>>16498961
yeah why weren’t authors writing about discipline, morality, respect and self-control when world leaders had their fingers hovering over nuke buttons all day long!?!

>> No.16499087

>>16499008

That's not what OP said, and let not delude ourselves in pretending 'discipline, morality, respect and self-control - love, dignity, beauty and the divine mysteries of the universe' are "Western values" the are instilled in the average prole and Beats were somehow railing against it.

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>>16499008

Beatnik authors were writing about these things while other contemporary ra ra nationalists were writing about how great the ideals of the West were as opposed to the Soviet Bloc.