/lit/ - Literature

It sounds interesting actually. Nobody has actually done anything like this as far as I know. Well, at least nobody who isn’t a MIGAboomer

>>18661466
>He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump.

>>18661517
>nobody's had a pro individual liberal take on modern culture
how can someone find this in anyway interesting? Looks like peak midwit shit

>>18661466
>White
>wide-ranging exploration
>what the hell is going on right now
>personal stories from his own life
>razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates
>culture, politics and relationships
>considers conflicting positions without flinching
>adheres to no status quo
>powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech
>blisteringly honest
>mpossible to ignore and certain to provoke
>encourage discourse
was this written by a fucking AI?

>>18661466
>What he values above all is the truth.

He is going to name them?

>>18661563
His values? lol

>>18661559
>Anonymous 07/16/21(Fri)15:06:10 No.18661559>>18661466(OP)
>>White
>>wide-ranging exploration
>>what the hell is going on right now
>>personal stories from his own life
>>razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates
>>culture, politics and relationships
>>considers conflicting positions without flinching
>>adheres to no status quo
>>powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech
>>blisteringly honest
>>mpossible to ignore and certain to provoke
>>encourage discourse
>was this written by a fucking AI?
was this written by a fucking AI?

>>18661587
>>>18661559 (You)
>>Anonymous 07/16/21(Fri)15:06:10 No.18661559>>18661466 (OP)(OP)
>>>White
>>>wide-ranging exploration
>>>what the hell is going on right now
>>>personal stories from his own life
>>>razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates
>>>culture, politics and relationships
>>>considers conflicting positions without flinching
>>>adheres to no status quo
>>>powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech
>>>blisteringly honest
>>>mpossible to ignore and certain to provoke
>>>encourage discourse
>>was this written by a fucking AI?
>was this written by a fucking AI?
was this written by a fucking AI?
Verification not required.

I liked the redneck manifesto. Almost covers the same kind of subject, but more about rural white people than white people in general.

Fucking American cancer

>>18661538
Spbp

Jesus Christ, this just looks atrocious. A bookful of boomer attempts at edgy cultural commentary retreading the same ground which has already been inced to subatomic particles. Is this the most unwarranted book ever written?

>>18661538

>>18661746
It's a bastardized retelling of early 2010s internet arguments in a form digestible by New Yorkers over the age of forty. To anyone that has browsed 4chan, it will at best read like a glib facsimle.

>Being a white middle-aged boomer is somehow controversial.

>>18661466
Another grifter trying to capitalize on the polarization (and subsequent monitization) of CRT that is currently dominating the culture at the moment.

It’s a money grab. This book wouldn’t be relevant 10 years ago and it won’t be relevant 5 years from now.

>>18662084
Won't be relevant in 5 years? This is dead on arrival, a stillborn

>>18662084
Thomas Sowell is extremely based. He's what Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson fans want those two to be. Cosmic Justice is a good read.

>What my friend and I were really discussing that night in Culver City—as disillusioned Gen X’ers who came of age during the one-two punch of the nihilistic ’70s and the rah-rah Reagan ’80s—was freedom. But how could you be free if you were bowing down to the shrieking antics on both sides of a Grand Canyon-size divide that no one was attempting to cross? Since November 2016 my friend and I had both heard that a horrendous economic collapse was about to materialize, the planet was going to melt, countless people would die, the fraught situation in North Korea would send the United States into a nuclear Armageddon, and Trump would be impeached, brought down by a pee tape—leaving no jobs for anybody and Russian tanks in the streets. We also idly noted that the filmmaker David Lynch couldn’t say in an interview that he thought maybe Donald Trump would go down as one of the great presidents in history, not without groupthink forcing him into apologizing for this immediately on Facebook. And where was a resistance that was so attractive and cunning that it managed to sway you, that maybe made you see things in a broader, less blinkered light? But the one we had in 2018 seemed bent on advocating mostly vandalism and violence. Trump’s star on Hollywood Boulevard was destroyed with a pickax, an actor resembling a septuagenarian Lorax said “Fuck Trump” at the Tony Awards, a television hostess called the first daughter “a feckless cunt” on her TV program, another actor suggested the president’s eleven-year-old son should be put in a cage with pedophiles. And all of this from Hollywood: the land of inclusion and diversity. Maybe nobody cared at all about Barron Trump, because this was simply the year of endless low points for a resistance that was spinning epic fails in venting their anger about Trump. Maybe it was just another episode in the reality show that is still unfolding. Or maybe when you’re roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.
Before this he talks about Kanye West for 3 pages

>>18661746
>>18662084
>>18662854
This is the sad thing. Once he was an edgy counter culture author, and now his takes are less insightful than somewhat conservative uncle in rural Alberta.

>>18662854
Wow, this shit is more vapid and bland than I imagined.

>>18662854
Fuck this, sorry for taking the easy way out boys