/lit/ - Literature

>>19174832
(2/10)

>>19174837
(3/10)

>>19174844
(4/10)

read this instead
https://carlsbad1819.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/why-post-liberalism-failed/
(1/1)

This board sucks so much

>>19174852
(5/10)

>>19174859
(6/10)

>>19174854
Based Carlsbad

>>19174863
(7/10)

>>19174869
(8/10)

>>19174877
(9/10)

please go away

>>19174832
Completely seriously, Mein Kampf

>>19174882
(10/10)

>>19174888
Appropriate digits.

>>19174844
I read this, it’s doomer garbage. In fact this list is all over the place. Fucking DUNE? This nigger is just giving out reccs at random.

>>19174832
We're posting things from IG now oh my fucking god.

>>19174854
Seems interesting, I will.
>>19174856
>>19174883
Kill yourselves.
>>19174907
Fair criticism, but they're still all very valuable books.
>>19174910
Yes, sneed.

>>19174907
these are the only 8 books he’s read

>>19174854
>“They have no work,” you say. Say rather that they either refuse work or quickly turn themselves out of it. They are simply good-for-nothings, who in one way or other live on the good-for-somethings—vagrants and sots, criminals and those on the way to crime, youths who are burdens on hard-worked parents, men who appropriate the wages of their wives, fellows who share the gains of prostitutes; and then, less visible and less numerous, there is a corresponding class of women. Is it natural that happiness should be the lot of such? or is it natural that they should bring unhappiness on themselves and those connected with them? Is it not manifest that there must exist in our midst an immense amount of misery which is a normal result of misconduct, and ought not to be dissociated from it? There is a notion, always more or less prevalent and just now vociferously expressed, that all social suffering is removable, and that it is the duty of somebody or other to remove it. Both these beliefs are false. To separate pain from ill-doing is to fight against the constitution of things, and will be followed by far more pain.
Very nice

>>19174854
>Carlsbad 1819
What a retarded name for a blog.
The Carlsbad Decrees were authoritarian measures to try and supress nationalism and anti-semitism i.e. exactly what contemporary western governments/corporations are doing now. Yet this cretin identifies himself with the people who passed those laws, I assume because he read the wikipedia entry on 'Reactionary' and they were mentioned.

>>19174832
Midwit alert

>>19174832
I enjoy that page. I don't always, or even usually, align with his diagnoses or prescriptions for things but he's a funny and insightful guy and a good account

>>19174854
Christ, what a mindfuck of an essay.

>>19174854
Lol boomer retard

>>19174854
>social liberalism [disguising] itself as an “anti-liberal” or “post-liberal” front fighting the “neoliberals,” meaning the eternal plot by Margaret Thatcher (and now her ghost) to privatize the NHS.
lol

>>19174863
Come one, City of God is a bizarre screed against pagan religious incoherency and the nature of daemon worship. It belongs to its time, its not a top ten of anything other than Late Antiquity philosophy.

>>19174882
>best novel ever written
Please

>>19175563
>you have to worship my volcano demon not yours
>sex was pretty cool but only for me, not for thee

>>19175589
Your second part is from the Confessions, a much better book that might even fit into the OPs thrust. I wouldn't include it even if I were a pushing some sort of Christian revivalism, but you could at least understand why someone might.

City of God is a 1000+ page rambling diatribe against the esoterica of pagan lore. Completely out of place.

>>19175645
I have to wonder if the facebook user who produced those slides ever read Augustine or just knows he's an 'important conservative philosopher' and wanted to pad his listicle with some premodern heft. Certainly having a new york times columnist as your representative of something-other-than-liberalism-that-is-not-leftism is ridiculous. Would such a person change anything about society other than retarding the speed at which it adopts new morēs?

>>19175672
>I have to wonder if the facebook user who produced those slides ever read Augustine or just knows he's an 'important conservative philosopher' and wanted to pad his listicle with some premodern heft.
I can't think of another cause for why it would be included desu.

I've only read Douthat's columns. Maybe his book does serve as a contemporary introduction to the issues, at least descriptively, IDK.

>>19174907
i think those are just the only ten books he's read or something. i refuse to believe someone who reads would "curate" a list like this.

>>19175645
>>19175589
>>19175563
>He didn't make it to the second half
filtered

the postliberal reading list is any (post)leftist theory. not this ameri-poli-pop drivel.

>>19174854
This is some nrx fag isnt it.

>>19174888
based spirit of hitler btfoing this faggot thread