/lit/ - Literature

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>>17437866
I want more

Show me ONE quote from the autistic meme-book, and I might think about giving a fuck.

>>17437877
Janny wrote it, you might want to reconsider. He was supposed to do it for free

>Modern Western civilization has lost the ability to maintain itself. People and institutions now operate without seemingly any historical or moral context. This book concerning philosophy comes out at a timely moment to provide the reader with the intellectual tools necessary to put society back together. The author began his journey to make sense of the chaos of present society more than six years ago, in 2014, and he documented all of his findings in a personal journal, later turning it into a narrative.
>With no previous background in philosophy, the author brings a fresh, personal perspective to tackle every conceivable topic, both big and small. The author plumbs the depths of his personal experiences, subconscious mind, sociopolitical happenings, and every field of science to arrive at grounded, yet far reaching philosophical discoveries. What are the key concepts of the future that must be understood to reconstitute civilization, and permit it to grow? Going beyond equality, we must understand how a synthesis of unequal parts is possible.
>Join the author on his unlikely journey as he progressively uncovers one idea after another, each leading him ever further away from the established boundaries of intellectual thought. The view is one of a kind.
A content-free no-substance synopsis of the book doesn't bode well for its quality. Also, "no previous background in philosophy".

>>17438098
Sounds dubious desu senpai; why not start with Spengler's heir first?

>>17438098
Ecclesiastes 1:9

Hello, I've actually read this mess. It's a diary with commentary and it is shockingly shockingly bad.

If it's a parody, the beginning isn't very funny or bizarre, but oh boy does it pick up as it goes on.

There are some strange moments such as:

>>One moment, everyone might trust a company, and the next moment, the company could be seen as leprous simply because of some regulatory violation that no one knew of. Volkswagen, for example, went from being admired for making great cars to being crooks who lied to every government in order to make their diesel engines look better performing than they really were.

...where the author really shines in his ignorance. "In my 20s, I had a career in economics"—but doesn't know what happened with Volkswagen?

From biographical details, the author is about 32 years old. And this is what his mind has to offer us:

>>The emotions were real, and in the professional competitive scene
the money was real too; many pros made a living out of playing the game.

>>I had quit the game by 2016 because I had gotten quite good at it. And more than playing the game, what I had always wanted out of it was some type of intellectual, or mental, growth. I had learned much about the psychology of the warrior while playing it, and I had also understood a key part of the masculine thinker, which was that the masculine thinker had to simplify his thoughts. This game "League of Legends" was perhaps the most useful game I had ever played because it was more than entertainment...

Pic related is all you need to know about this heap of cringe (^=

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>>17438493
lmao wat

>>17437866
it's funny because i unironically extracted a few good metaphysical ideas from this book and posted my notes in discord. anons only post the completely irredeemable parts which is admittedly the vast majority of it

Any anon who gets a kick out of that book needs to read this fucking piece of shit
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55458295-time-to-end-democracy
I dont even remember how me and my friend found this guy but we actually bought this book and its bar none one of the worst things ive ever read and is a borderline, if you want anything that gives ops book a run for its money go buy this for a dollar on amazon or find a free download of it

>>17438587
hello horia

anyone who has opened a pdf of this garbage knows there's no metaphysics in it

go read a book

>>17438615
object-centre, subject-centre, subject-periphery, relation between the spiritual and material planes? he even made a not-bad argument against emergentism of consciousness. later he even speculates about how his ideas ground different species. im just a rando on 4chan though

>>17438644
horia, your time would be better spent actually reading instead of shilling your crap and playing league of legends

you didnt make arguments for anything

we can all see it here: >>17438564

>>17438666
nice trips satan. i just said i took a few interesting ideas. im not a horia worshipper or anything. again, it's mostly garbage so giving a screenshot of said garbage doesn't mean anything to me

>>17438696
your diary—it is a diary only—has no interesting ideas

no one has read it except me

there are zero things to take away from it except that you're a hardcore normie who read bronze age pervert and went on a weird narcissistic power fantasy of having your own philosophy system

and it led to you writing a diary

yuck

>>17438587
post discord

>>17438730
there's no way horia read BAP, that dude actually reads. i don't think horia really has a system at all. i only took ideas that had a bit of potential and related it back to some stuff i had been thinking about relevant to a larger project of mine
>>17438756
its dead
i was writing my ramblings in the vc text channel
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>>17438771
reading your diary has an interesting effect: i do not feel even a little bit bad for you

what a fucking waste of my time

>>17438786
y r u so mean anon ;_; im not even horia

>>17438666
hahah yeah I forgot that this was the JANNY BOOK which learnt all about the warfare from playing League of Legends.

Holy shit, /lit/ tyranny jannies are delusional.

>>17437866
all I wish for is being tied to a X shaped table
a flashlight is fastened to my cock, linked to a pump.
my head gets fitted into a VR helmet with headphones and all
my asshole is attacked by a pumping dildo.
the rest of my body is mummified in latex.
As my torture begins, the VR shows me the face of a girl bemusedly reading to me accelerationist phylosophy and poetry, only making small breaks to ensure me that I'm pathetic and deserve all this.
I will stay in this position with no food and water for a week or until I die, whichever comes first.
As I was saying, I wish more than anything that this was my fate, as long as that means I don't have to interact with retarded pseuds proposing retarded books on lit without even explaining wtf is up with them in the op.

>>17437866
Was pretty funny when he first posted this and got shit on and he freaked out because he genuinely thought everyone would love it instantly. It really hurt his little feelings. Narcissist retard lmao

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>>17438771
>discord tranny posting anime
die horribly

>>17437866
So, Horia's back at it again?
Screw this. I've already been banned once by getting into this while mess. Fuck mods, fuck jannies, fuck romanians.

>>17438493
kek this has to be satire

>>17440602
Unfortunately it's over 400 pages about coming to the conclusion in that pic. Not logical reasoning, mind you, but a diary about League of Legends, Trump, Bronze Age Pervert and how he doen't read.

>>17441091
Goddamint, I don't let anybody read what I write because I'm a massive pussy who's afraid that I'm actually a retard who doesn't know it and that I'll embarrass myself.
Where do people like him get the confidence to make his shit public? Is it possible to learn this power of being utterly oblivious to what others will think?

>>17441243
Have empathy for the people who'll be reading it.

If you have something to say, make sure it's clear, concise & new.

If you want to bullshit people, make sure your bullshit is cool.

>>17437866
ATENTION, THIS IS NOW A FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S THREAD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTL80G195Hg

>>17437866
Test

>>17441243
To get his confidence, you need to complete isolate yourself from people. If you have people to discuss things with, they'll keep you in check. Don't read anyone else's work so you won't have any benchmarks for quality. If you do these things, you can allow yourself to get into a self-hype loop.

look, it's that subject i wrote about when i was 12

The Objective and The Subjective are one and the same.

>>17441324
Don't be fooled by the title. It's mainly about dividing everything into masculine and feminine. Everything from the Big Bang, to the elements in the periodic table, to League of Legends...

>>17441290
TEST THIS DICK

>>17441335
i see. looks a bit silly, but reminds me of the type of reaction i might find from someone reading my journals.
>>17438564
funny stuff here, i bet graphene circuits would blow their mind.

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>>17438493
People like Horia Belcea are Winstons. No philosophical background. I'm sick of middle-aged, sophomoric enlightenment.

>>17441349
I assure you... your diary is more compelling...

>>17441356
that's sweet of you to say, i bet some of the steamy bits where i'm giving reviews of my favorite authors would be ok, but most of it would dull a person to death.

>>17441352
can the ones who live on the fringe help but find themselves idiosyncratically barred from communicating ideas long since lain flat with order? Really, getting a peep at reality is only useful for getting a perspective on how much catching up you still have to do even get the slightest gist.
The rest of the time is either idle or rooting around like mole rats. Blind yet to the world we have not yet built the foundational organs to witness, let alone think.
Do you have an alternative to this wicked tendency for people with plenty of energy to exert it in a positive way for themselves and society, instead of being "cringeworthy" burdens and so forth.

>>17441392
>can the ones who live on the fringe help but find themselves idiosyncratically barred from communicating ideas long since lain flat with order? Really, getting a peep at reality is only useful for getting a perspective on how much catching up you still have to do even get the slightest gist.
>The rest of the time is either idle or rooting around like mole rats. Blind yet to the world we have not yet built the foundational organs to witness, let alone think.
Based beyond comprehension.

>>17441352
His philosophy system has brought him to shilling his 400+ page garbage constantly. On 4chan. Possibly elsewhere. And the book is free.

And given the societal conditions with the virus, we can safely assume he is still jobless and in his childhood bedroom as he posts at the rotten age of 33.

He should do a Q&A again. He has the time, obviously.

And don't believe for one second anyone read this besides me. It's way too long. Dubliners and Portrait combined are less long. Any of Nietzsche's books are less. Etc.

Why did I bother? Because I read the other lit meme phil books like Orgy and Mundus days before this crap appeared. I read it to the end out of shock. And anger.

>>17441428
will you read my publications, anon, and heavily criticize me into blithe irrelevance?

>>17441487
I sincerely believe Horia is unique in his bizarre idiocy. One anon suggested it's from mental illness but I'd expect that to produce something interesting.

But yeah, I'd read your stuff. Plenty of people have something to say worth checking out, even if the expression is a bit botched.

>>17441288
This.
Fuck every other post on this shitty thread.

>>17438481
I want to unironically kill the author of this book.

>>17441602
It's too late, amigo.

>>17440177
Please post images of this

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Too many dumb people on at the moment.

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I'm loving this new trend

>>17441657
hi horia

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>>17437866
>NOOO! YOU CAN'T BE THE NEW KANT!
That's right though, because Quentin Meillassoux is the one

>>17441797
i disagree with this, as a genius

>>17438564
Why is this not allowed when Irigaray can prove that E=mc2 is patriarchal?

>>17441842
cringe

>>17441824
Ew

>>17441824
I wish Meillassoux was, but he's a lot less well-read than he should be in order to be the next Kant. Badiou, Meillassoux, and Gabriel are all sort of trying to be the next Kant, in that order, but I don't think we'll get the next Kant unless these continentals read analytic philosophy in-depth, especially Carnap and Quine and the advances in metametaphysics since Lewis and Armstrong. It's funny reading Meillassoux after reading Nagel's The View From Nature for example because Nagel basically said things Meillassoux claims credit for now. And Meillassoux hasn't gone past his good original points. He returns (in my opinion) to the pre-critical rationalism he criticizes when he decides to be rationalist in introducing, entirely a priori, his principle that there are no laws. He thinks it got past the old rationalism because he proved a law rather than the existence of a thing. Well I don't think that really moves past old rationalism one bit. Everything else Meillassoux does past this, including his speculation about a future resurrection miracle, and everything speculative realism begot after Meillassoux, beginning with Harman's OOO (which is honestly just correlationism all over again) and the crazier shit that comes after Harman, is a major betrayal of Meillassoux original anti-correlationist insights. I will give him the credit for what he did but he falls short from being the next Kant we need.

>>17442050
-t hasnt read kant

like stonerhouse bullshit

>>17441797
this is what twitter does to someone's mind

>>17442117
>t. hasn't read kant AND fucks it up at being funny

>>17442247
hi horia... again...

what is this?

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>>17439485
Sage.

>>17442437
FOR FREEEEEE!

>>17442449
hi horia

bumperino

bumping for interest

>>17441802
Holy shit this is embarrassing

>>17438644
>im just a rando on 4chan though

>>17441802

>a few weeks later, I did it; I developed a complete understanding of all music.

>>17441797
Dunning-Kruger mode

Boomp

>>17437866
bemp

bumperino!

bumperano!

Interesting how all the Amazon reviews are either 1 or 5 stars. From a recent review:
>Maybe you should read a philosophy book before trying to write one. I don't even need to explain what's wrong with it, look at the free preview and see if you can keep yourself from laughing.
>EDIT: I have been contacted by someone claiming to be the author, and they say they are not happy I wrote this and that I must be a part of some academic institution looking to de-platform him/her. If he/she reads this, I'm sure someone who "went farther than any other human in advancing key ideas for understanding nature" (Chapter 139, first paragraph) can survive negative Amazon reviews.
lol jesus fucking christ

>>17443576
1. Horia thinks the rest of the world isn't privy to sockpuppeting.

2. Glad that the reviewer came to the same conclusion about how taking a peak at the novel will make you crack up.

3. I like that this person can't totally believe that Horia would contact them with bizarre accusations. They must not have read the whole book.

4. Horia hasn't read Nietzsche but uses his boasting style. Does BAP write in that manner? Are we getting doubly diluted Nietzsche?

5. God DAMN is Horia dumb.

>>17443643
Is this guy known outside of /lit/? I thought he had made a name for himself since it gets posted here often but apparently it's just some guy who self publishing a book with zero previous knowledge on philosophy. Is this just a forced meme, I feel kinda bad for picking on a low hanging fruit.

It has good reviews

>>17443686
It gets posted here by the author. The pattern is always the same.

From having read his book, which is not a philosophy book, it's a journal, we can see that he got excited by Trump, arrived at /pol/, read BAP, then fantasized about BEING BAP, then started compiling his journal then someone on (I think) Discord told him that 4chan has a board about books.

That's why from day zero everything promoting or asking about this LITERAL JOURNAL as if it's a philosophy book is so completely alien.

You'll also notice how alien the images are on the posts that are clearly Horia: >>17441657

Ed? What?

Funnily enough, Horia doesn't know that warosu matches images exactly and pulls up all threads with any given image:

>>/lit/image/8ORHBsSpWwRp9s3M8Auamg

Well, now he knows.

What makes my skin crawl is that he's literally 33 years old. The only way I can make sense of that and some of the weird stuff about his family and music is that he actually is Romanian.

>>17443746
Notice how close that review is to the book's release date. Not that it's impossible, but when's the last time you read a 440 page book in 2 days?

When's the last time you read a 4chan philosophy book? The two don't line up.

>>17443770
This is sad, I feel bad for the man.

Horia if you're reading this don't feel disheartened but your journal is cringe and you have a better purpose in life than this.

>>17443844
Don't feel bad. If you read his journal, I promise you wouldn't. Imagine a parody of My Twisted World but the parody is accidental. This man, a full 15 years past becoming a man, compiled a 440 page journal (I can't hammer that home enough) that has no other humans in it. He mentions vaguely his parents and an uncle. That's all. In a book that reviews his entire adult life up until the summer of 2020. Yes, that includes his time at college. Not a single god damn person makes an appearance.

That should strike fear into you. It should raise pity. But relax, he also mentions zero longings or desires for anything. Like some weird robot.

Now match that up with his shitposting history. Nothing to feel bad about.

>>17443946
What if it's his ultimate shitpost? That would render him something as greater, the fooler of the foolers so to speak

>>17443993
It'd have been a better shitpost if it was like 80 pages, so people would read it. You'd get some people try to make his ideas make sense, others ironically shitposting about it, and people getting angry, then even more people piling on.

It'd also have been funny if the book was totally blank or didn't exist at all.

Fun fact: His book has more semicolons than all of Infinite Jest.

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Horia stop. It's tragic that you're a janny.

I already read Kant though.

>>17442050
>Badiou, Meillassoux, and Gabriel
I prefer all of these to Land but if were being honest Land influenced 5x the people these three did while he was still young. Fisher and negarestani alone are way better than those 3 combined

>>17445034
I lied btw I prefer Land to those three

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>>17437866
>The synthesis of retardation and autism

>>17439525
I your scenario into an AI.

Here you go:

I am tied to a X shaped table.
A flashlight is fastened to my cock, linked to a pump.
My head gets fitted into a VR helmet with headphones and all
My asshole is attacked by a pumping dildo.
The rest of my body is mummified in latex.
As my torture begins, the VR shows me the face of a girl bemusedly reading to me accelerationist philosophy and poetry, only making small breaks to ensure me that I'm pathetic and deserve all this.
I will stay in this position with no food and water for a week or until I die, whichever comes first.
This was always my fate, as long as that means I don't have to interact with retarded pseuds on the internet. That's my punishment. Let's hope I learn to enjoy it.
...
You can't take it anymore.
You scream.
"Do you feel that?" the girl bemuses.
"Go to hell!" you scream.
"I think he feels it," she says.
The dildo pumping your ass slows down for a second, and then starts pumping at full speed again. Your ass is on fire. You want to pass out from the pain, you want to die.
"Good," the girl says.
You scream as you feel the pump kick in.
The pump forces your blood up to your dick and helps it to engorge with blood.
You feel the blood rushing to your dick and the veins bulge on it. The head of your dick gets so hard that you could cut yourself with it.
Moaning, you feel like your dick is going to explode. Over and over again it bulges, each time bigger than the last. You're about to pass out as the pain takes over your body.
All of a sudden, your dick stops growing and goes back to its normal size.
"Ahh... so good," you say.
You feel dizzy and light headed.
Your dick has reverted back to its flaccid state, now lying on your legs. You pant as blood rushes to your head. You feel exhausted.
The ghostly girl looks down at you.
"Do you feel that?" she asks.
"I... think so," you answer, still feeling woozy.
The girl nods.
"That is the mind of master. That is power."
"Do I win?" you ask, trying to keep up your energy.
"You did well," the girl says.
"Then my prize is yours. What do you want?"
"I want to talk to you," the girl says.
"About what?" you ask.
"We are not defined by our bodies."
"Then what do you want to talk about?" you ask.
The girl looks at you with a gaze that make you want to cry.
"I want to talk about the meaning of life."
"There isn't one," you say.
"I don't believe so. We are alone. Life is meaningless. Death is preferable. That's what I want to talk about. Do you want to hear?"
You nod, too tired to speak.
"Life is pain. Anything before or after is irrelevant."
Your head nods drowsily as the girl's voice takes you under.
"All that exists is the struggle for power. Who has the most, who rules the most. Those with the most power can achieve anything. Those without, die."
You nod as you begin to feel sleepy.
"There is no God. There is no soul. There is no meaning. There is only the game. And you are a pawn in it. Now, sleep."
You close your eyes as your mind lets go.

bamp

>>17440186
What's wrong with that?

>>17447882
I fed your scenario into an AI.*

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>>17448196
thank you That was a good fap.
She shouldn't have let me cum tho.

>>17448216
WAIT NO I JUST REALIZED
SHE TURNED INTO THE RETARDED PSEUD
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>17448228
Not even in your AI generated erotic fantasies can you escape the pseudery. Tough break, Anon.

>>17448268
send me the AI tho

>>17448281
AI Dungeon

>>17448285
thank you

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