/lit/ - Literature

>>18012304
yes

>>18012304
I always see this chart shilled hard, yet to this day i have no idea what the blindpill is.

The Marxists have very insightful critiques of capitalism. I personally do not believe in their solutions, but their analyses have done a lot to shape my philosophy. That said, you were definitely memed.

>>18012332
They don't have solutions
Capitalism doesn't exist
It's a good way of giving a placebo to otherwise relatively intelligent people to compensate for other inadequacies. The truth is reading all those books won't change a damn thing or make you any happier.

>>18012304
>>18012324

From the subset of these that I've read, the theme is entertainment bad; stop using your free time to trick yourself into thinking you don't exist. This chart is propaganda but so is most entertainment.

>>18012304
>oh noo they’re heckin Marxists
Grow up if you can’t read a book critically, retard.

>>18012341
Dumbest thing I’ve read all year.

>>18012540
Let's here a refutation. Please tell me why reading all this Marxist theory will take down the state kek and why it's not esoteric bullshit.

>>18012304
As >>18012332 said, the Marxists have very insightful critiques of capitalism.
Unfortunately, some of the picks in the blindpill were clearly ideologically motivated (such as The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproducibility, which was pathetically left-leaning [in the bad sense of the word]") and would be better of being replaced by better books, some Kaczinsky there, for instance, would be very good.
I wouldn't say you were memed, the blindpill is very useful once you get yourself used to its bitter taste.
>>18012341
I disagree. While there's no solution to capitalism except its death, The Shallows/Amusing Ourselves to Death/Capitalist Realism are life-changing books, especially if you change your habits after reading them; using less of the internet after reading the Shallows made me a much happier person and a much more effective reader/writer.

I propose to anons who've read the blindpill: let us remove the thrash and include more helpful/effective books. I believe that the message the blindpill sends and its recommendations are capable of making anons' lives better and making them better persons.

>>18012553
I’m not seeing talking to someone who says “Capitalism doesn’t exist”. I can also tell you’ve never read Marx based off that post.

>>18012562
Marxist theory is more than Marx, retard. Yes, capitalism does not exist materially, it's a construction to explain societies disposition. It's bad because of sentimental moral reasons not because of anything else.
Outside of the capitalism boogeyman the world is only bad because you're sad, captalism is only a thing because you feel compelled to criticize the world. Tell me what is so astounding about Das Kapital that I should skip my readings in order to read its entirety.

>>18012561
He seems like a con-artist.

>>18012587
Who seems like a con artist?

>>18012592
you

>>18012597
What?
What I'm conning anons into, exactly?
You sound like a schizo.

>>18012608
Yes
Reading your NYT bestsellers
2u

>>18012304
>expecting anyone else to have a good critique of the way things are

>>18012619
Schizoanon, I kneel.
They're not NYT bestsellers yet, but one day, if it's God's Will, they will be.
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Crocodile-Horrors-F-Gardner-ebook/dp/B08KFJG9KW
A dark fantasy horror novel, set during Halloween. After a boy is eaten alive by a crocodile, his family begins a descent into madness and terror in this odyssey of modern horror.
Part of a series of interconnected horror novels that can be read in any order. Each book serves as a stand-alone story, yet builds a greater picture behind a sinister mystery in Chicago.

>reading tons of books just to put your phone down
Lol

This edition of the chart some anon has Ellul, who wasn’t a leftist. I guess cuckservatives simply don’t think about these matters at all.

>>18012341
>tfw finished a book yesterday and felt happy when I did

>>18012324
Read the text at the bottom of the chart

>>18012304
>majority of poignant criticism of capitalism and consumerist hedonistic lifestyles turns out to be Marxist
Who would have thought

>is propaganda propanda?
have written words on paper meaning beyond the literal understanding?

>>18012304
No it isn't propaganda, read my list next.

You're trying to open my eyes to cum? Isn't that gay?

>>18012304
>chomsky in the list
yup, you were meme'd

>>18012304
>>18012685
>two different charts? b-but they both claim to be "official". What will I do? I wanted to take my do-whats-official pill and I got slipped a confusion pill instead
>wait, whats that over there? a retard sandwich? my my looks tasty

>>18014292
Proof that egoist anarkiddies only read cope literature ; go read ayn rand and you might just realize how ridiculous you look with your ‘muh individualism’

>>18014372
>go read ayn rand

>>18014361
The second one just answered to people’s request for Ellul. They’re basically the same

>>18014292
Tell me why should I read Direct Action over Debt or Bullshit Jobs. What does it bring to the table?

>>18012685
>Ellul
>who wasn’t a leftist.
hahahahahaha