/lit/ - Literature

>>18400025
Correct. Refute him.

>>18400025
>we are oppressed in this more nuanced and hidden way this is truly a horrible society
when will this meme die out

>>18400025
Based
Thank You Moot for not making 4chan a plebbit 2.0.

>>18400037
what?

>>18400025
In fact they are.

>>18400040
you should thank me. i created 80% of the OC that sustained the culture

>>18400050
Thank you anon.

>>18400025
Yes but I'm also on this shitty site so I can't say much

>>18400042
he spends his whole time in Topology of Violence and Burnout Society babbling about how our current society is oppressing us in more hidden and nuanced ways, which is just a big reach.

>>18400079
Where's the lie?

The truth is he doesn’t go FAR ENOUGH. The internet is simultaneously killing any purpose and action which can be found in life, while also setting up our imminent enslavement by super-AI which will move us all along rail lines... though that might already be the case. Ask your friends if they’ve ever seen ads or videos for things they’ve only thought of recently, not even mentioned out loud.

>>18400025
Definitely one of the worst contemporary thinkers

>>18400050
KYS guenonfag

>>18400079
Seems correct. There are many "small" things that change us little by little. Read The Shallows.

>>18400123
kek. is this why there's not a quote to be found in these threads?

People who don’t like him are the same people who make threads about Brave New World asking what’s wrong with the world they live in haha

>>18400037
When civilization dies out most likely since it’s been that way since at least the Ancient Egyptians.

>>18400028
I'm not attempting to refute him. I'm making fun of his dull, repetitive mental ramblings

>>18400161
You’re doing a pretty poor job

>>18400161
Well, do that effectively next time.

>>18400089
His books are a big nothing-burger.
>>18400174
K.

I think what’s interesting to me about him is how well he’s able to keep up with the movements of the internet and their specific effects on people as well as society as a whole, so much so that there’s things in his work which only come about after they were written. Most of these boomer sociologists are like a decade behind in their understanding of the internet.

>>18400089
His main point in Burnout Society is that whereas earlier people were subjugate by external authority, today we become self-alienated and redoubled into the master and servant. This is flat out false, because even Junger in his On Pain (written in the first half of XX century) talked about the same kind of redoubling that is created trough the appearance of new technologies that mobilize and form masses. There is nothing novel about the idea of interiorization of power. But he claims that this precise mechanism is why people feel depressed, anxious today as if it didnt exist in earlier times. He wants to offer a conceptual system that explains oppression, because people feel that something is off today, but cant conceptualize it themselves. It is essentialy a will to console and boomers like Peterson do it better (thats why he is more popular). Byung is the Peterson for the lefties theorycels.

>>18400197
>This is flat out false
Definitely isn’t, do some reading in contemporary psychology and neuroscience regarding this stuff.
>because even Junger in his On Pain (written in the first half of XX century) talked about the same kind of redoubling that is created trough the appearance of new technologies that mobilize and form masses.
Irrelevant. Just because someone wrote about a dynamic doesn’t mean it’s the same now as it was then, or for the same reasons
>Byung is the Peterson for the lefties theorycels.
And the retarded /lit/ quip thrown in just for good measure. Yeah man, he’s totes cringe!

>>18400235
Found the theorycel