/lit/ - Literature

>>17691366
>his lorax book was anti-growth
>this is a bad thing somehow
Oh god shut the fuck up oh please shut the fuck up. Why do these people try to posture as progressives fuck I hate my life

>>17691366

>>17691366
>"Lorax" book is anti-growth, feeding and eco-Malthusian narrative

So all environmentalism is anti-growth? All conservation efforts are anti-growth? Should we plow over the national parks and put up condos?

>>17691396
No, we should demolish condos and put up national parks.

>>17691366
>his "Lorax" book is anti growth, feeding an eco-Malthusian narrative
Neolibs remain undefeated
At this point leftism is a corpse they make dance for their own amusement

>>17691383
i usually don't like wojaks but this one is pretty good

>>17691407
>>17691396
no, we should plow down both and make wildlife experience condominium timeshares that would run quite the lucrative sum.

>>17691366
It's about deforestation. How the fuck do you misread a picture book

>>17691366
>"Lorax" book is anti-growth, feeding an eco-Malthusian narrative
yes

>>17691408
>Neolibs

>>17691407
>>17691396
>>17691437
Wrong, integrate them both in a manner that is balanced.

>>17691366
I called this.

>>17691408
I know, this is insane, Marxists literally have the impossibility of infinite growth as one of their central principles, which is why they expect capitalism to collapse on its own instead of laughing and seamlessly converting them to a harmless (to capital) form, wokism/critical theory/cultural marxism/whatever it goes by today.

>>17691474
wrong, there are no half measures
only you can return fire

>>17691366
>caleb maupin

>>17691396
>>17691408
Ask him yourself:

https://twitter.com/calebmaupin/status/1367283213119455233

>>17691366
>Dr Suess

>>17691366
FYI, this is the same weirdo who claims Jackson Pollock was a CIA agent.

>>17691366
>Room for criticism
Does he know how worthless Critical Theory has made that phrase? I expect to see an article any day now that says the moon is racist.

>amogus

>>17691533
Bloody hell fucking kek

>>17691408
>>17691484
Maupin is on record claiming "abolish billionaires" is an anti-communist slogan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQbv0_ogOFE

>>17691566
I'm perfectly willing to accept that communists are morons, but is he an actual pied piper?

>>17691571
He has a pretty dedicated fanbase.

>>17691474
t. hasn't read kaczynski

>>17691366
>"Lorax" book is anti-growth, feeding an eco-Malthusian narrative
the tress are telling me to press the button

>>17691589
>pic
Didn't know anyone was actually Thanos-pilled, except maybe Bill Gates, and he's a lot lazier about it, thankfully.

>>17691366
>his "Lorax" book is anti-growth, feeding an eco-Malthusian narrative.
What did he mean by this?

>>17691480
It's not hard, just take literally anyone not woke by the standards of March 2021 and figure they will get taken down eventually. By the current rules of the game we really shouldn't be allowing the existence of any books besides those by author Teh Nasi Coates.

>>17691611
I guess the new Superman movie will get to stay then.
(kill me)

>>17691366
FYI this guy is an actual Nazbol and transphobe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHmImnx3p0

>>17691579
Ted is a hack.

>>17691408
>Neolibs remain undefeated

That's the endin', so much transactions my breach levels pendin'
Fuck you mean?
Get with the, get with the winnin' team
Look, just made some millions, boy you won't believe

>>17691671
His stuff is kinda pseudoscience and conjecture, but the idea that you can coincide environmentalism and technology in some utopian manner is pure cope. Any community that tries this will eventually be taken over by a community that does whatever it takes in the name of progress

>>17691566
This guy is a pure used car salesman. Looks and sounds just like one.

>>17691606
Environmentalism is now considered extremist: ecofascists for the right-wing and Earth-liberationists for the left-wing.

>>17691382
Because it's popular to hate nice things. Dr Suess made nice things, so he catches hate in order to make Twitter users more popular.

>>17691704
Well boys, time to go terrorist. Only sheep are staying sane these days.

>>17691705
No, it's just that Suess needs to be canceled to make room for newer crops of children's books.

>>17691396
Developers are worse than idealogues of any politics.

>>17691566
>first 10 seconds
>a lot of my time yesterday was occupied by a fight on twitter
Oxygen waster

>>17691724
>, it's just that Suess needs to be canceled to make room for newer crops of children's books.
It legitimately is that simple

>>17691366
Maupin is so fucking funny , I’ve never seen someone as earnestly autistic and unself aware as him

threadly reminder that technology is incompatible with ecological reality

>>17691767
>earnestly autistic and unself aware

in other words, the ideal soulless bugman bureaucrat to staff the ranks of globohomo's middle management

>>17691484
>capitalism will collapse, it cant grow forever
>well actually we are just gonna keep growing on mars now lmao

>>17691366
Can't someone explain to me what the fuck is
>dr seuss
>cpusa
>lorax
>anti growth
>eco malthusian
And why is the lorax all those compound words

>>17691781
im sure you will keep this sentiment going in the near future when factory farming is eliminated by laboratory grown meat tissue that is identical to the real thing

>>17691790
You’re honestly good dude , nothing to see here , genuinely please go back to reading whatever book you were before you got distracted and came on here

>>17691790
dr seuss is a children's literature writer, lorax is a kids book he wrote about a creature with extremist environmental ideology. anti growth means to be against the expansion of human population and industry. CPUSA is Communist Party USA

>>17691800
Lol, I guess I'll take your advice. Cheers, mate.

>>17691724
Lot of nogs in those books...

>>17691724
>Let's cancel something popular and profitable to make room for unpopular political lecturing
Wow those damn capitalists

>>17691817
Thanks

>>17691781
Well, I mean, you did know crab legs came from crabs right? Somewhere along the line a crab had to die for us to eat crab legs. You can call it cruel but it gets the job done.

>>17691793
one of those fake meat startups just signed a deal with a bunch of fast food chains, organic grass fed steaks will be served on sand hill road while you eat the fake meat and pat yourself on the back for saving the planet

>>17691839
when peterson came out with that lobster thing everyone said lobsters are crustaceans without a central nerve system so we shouldn't care what they do, but now we must weep for the crabs

>>17691850
interesting, are you talking about actual lab grown meat companies or one of the dime a dozen plant based "meat" alternative scams that are trendy right now, because there is a pretty big difference between that and what I am talking about

also trying to make me feel ashamed of myself using "pat yourself on the back for saving the planet" while patting yourself on the back for being in favor of something as hellishly dystopian as factory farming kind of just makes you look like a deranged lunatic and makes me feel superior

>>17691834
capital is just a means to an end

>>17691884
Shut the fuck up

>>17691724
>Kamala Harris book
Ok...
>ITS CALLED ROOTED IN JUSTICE
I had to pour a new drink for that one. How can having someone that would, if white, be cancelled for repeatedly engaging in pseudo-slavery policies as their state DA be considered a "just" political leader? This cunt deserves to be put in front of a firing squad for how many Americans she wrongfully put in prison, but she gets a pass because she played the race card right.

>>17691892
cope

Ben Shapiro said congress should change the laws around copyright turning books into public domain if the publishers choose to remove them.

Kind of an interesting idea and one i'm not totally against at first thought. What's stopping Jeff Bezos from buying up half the right wing literature and then simply removing the books from legal publication?

>>17691566
Cringe on all accounts.

>>17691767
>earnestly autistic
He's 100% on the spectrum and in denial about it. I watch his livestreams sometimes and there's a handful of topics that, when mentioned, will set him off. Pure autismo.

>>17691905
>All this shit capitalists are supposedly doing hurts capitalists immensely but actually the secret capitalist central planning committee decided on it all as part of their 40 year plan to destroy America so they can get cheaper burger filppers. They decided, all cooperating together, because that is what different businesses with different strategies and different end goals do, to just fucking nuke everything, make people like themselves the most hated, be forced to hire a bunch of women and minorities and do unprofitable woke bullshit instead of just making money, because that means they win.

>>17691874
Most plant-based "meats" are disgusting and don't provide you with basic nutrients meat does, like B12 and heme iron.

>>17691566
Marxists are the the furries of politics, or furries are the marxists of fandoms.

>>17691533
Why does this make me wet?

>>17691945
Not all of them are as bad as him. He’s definitely an ivory tower tanky.

Michael Hudson, Paul Cockshott and Richard Wolff are much better

>>17691968
You're familiar with Caleb?

>>17691366
Hmmmm BORGER KING

>>17691976
I’ve watched him field questions on his yt some. Watched his Superman spiel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkiqFBH2Qoo

Dysprosody-kun, a fellow /lit/izen suffering of down syndrome induced dysprosody, saw this coming. Watch this very important video, gentlemen.

>>17692043
Superman?

>>17691704
damn the dr was sick wit it

>>17692086
https://youtu.be/o-AmxY3as5U

>>17691366
Go back to twitter you massive faggot.

>>17691366
>"Lorax" book is anti-growth, feeding and eco-Malthusian narrative

yeah buddy, huh, twitter does that to you... just be careful not to suffocate in your own asshole; it's big alright but your neck fills even your sphincter out alright.

>>17692101
Autism

>>17692101
Is this what American academia is actually like? I've seen so many lectures in this format of some guy just shilling his narrative infront of samefagging impressionable college students.

Anyone posting unironically itt should go to twitter and fucking stay there. These kind of threads are exactly the low effort type of complete bullshit which we do not want on this board and I for one will not tolerate. My hope is that OP is going to be figuratively raped by the mods.

>>17692147
What are you going to do about it?

>>17691732
This is the mindset that gets you the California housing market

>>17691366
Does Maupin have ANY good takes?

>>17691834
>unpopular political lecturing
The blackpill here is that condescending identity politics is popular and profitable, no matter how many right, center, and mildly left people boycott those companies.

>>17691566
If everyone on this earth lived like a billionaire it would require eight other earths to sustain.