/lit/ - Literature

>>19428835
i still cant believe the numale grin is a thing

>>19428838
any american book

>>19428835
>Author is a libertarian
What is it with libertarians and SW? This isn't the first time I've seen the connection. I think I remember Bryan Caplan or Scott Alexander of someone like that praising Star Wars because it's capitalist, contrasting it with socialist Star Trek.

>>19428883
>of
*or

>>19428835
it makes me uncomfortable that such a book could be written, then bought. what have we come to?

>>19428883
Well it was a long long time ago.
Star Trek is just more advanced that way.

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>>19428883
Star Wars has a lot of shit with crime and smuggling and pirates and "self-made men" as opposed to everything in Star Trek being giant factions musing over abstractions.

>>19429991
Hey butterfly I recall you being a fan of Epicurus,

Have you had any experience with Lucretius and can you recommend any translations of it?

>>19428934
Ready Player Two

>>19429991
Star Trek is for pedos

>>19428838
Same. They literally all do it.

Mists of Avalon was pretty pozzed

>>19430514
"Muh women" King Arthur?

>>19430293
s-stop, i can only take so much cringe.

Harry Potter. I was by chance, just a child.

>>19430518
Somehow worse than that sounds due ro all the smugness about fictional celtic matriarchy being strangled by evil christendom

>>19430574
Sounds fine to me. Fuck (((Christendom))).

>>19428835
>>19430205
What is this expression trying to convey?

>>19428835
Any Stoic philosophy.

>>19430279
Not the tranny, but Oxford’s World Classics was clutch for Lucretius

>>19430616
>I am no threat to anybody anywhere, please spare me

It's like when a dog rolls onto its back when you walk towards it.

>>19430616
Insincere self-deprecation. He knows he's a manchild but he thinks he can get away with it if he sprinkles some irony on there.

What I don't understand is why they have this need to express their embarrassing enthusiasm in public. I guess it's a trait of feminised men.

>>19430616
it's just so unnatural to me.
i sincerely feel like some guy probably posted a selfie with this terrible, retarded expression on some popular reddit sub and then other betas just started doing it without really know why and now it just can't be stopped.

>>19430616
This.

>>19430643
heh

>pozzed

>>19428835
the blue book by mark manson

the new testament

>>19430616
"Click this thumbnail." Spread from söybois' obsessive consumption of pop-culture review and essay videos. Emotion will continously be replaced by whatever some algorithm deems most engaging while 'creators' and 'influencers' perpetuates the behavior on their 'platforms' simply because it's the new era we have arrived at. Get used to it, this is only the early stage of post human.

>>19430616

>Look at me! I'm a consumer! I just love consuming! I can't get enough of it! I consume, when I am done consuming, I consume some more! Look at how exciting, fun and thrilling my life is! It totally isn't an empty husk of an existence, where I move in a succession of one distraction to another, in order to trick my mind into ignoring the fact that I am a loser in my 30s, unmarried, live for the weekend, hate my job, family doesn't respect me, friends don't respect me, and I have zero motivation to change or improve my situation. It's actually none of that! I actually have a great fun life! I mean, look at my animated excited expression if you don't believe me!

tl;dr:
>WOW DUDE PRIDE ROCK

>>19428838
Please, call it Cuckface

>>19428835
Ended up committing myself to reading Ready Player One (long story), and all the way through I was doing that thing where you're cringing so hard you forcefully draw air through your clenched teeth.

>>19432293
I wish there was a qualifying term for this sort of thing other then "reddit"
A term for something thattries WAY to hard to seem niche, and in its effort shows its complete preformative nature rather than honestly being "in" to something. Like more obseessed with seeming like something rather than actually doing it.

I guess preformative might be the word, but i think its more then that. there is also a bit of self delusion.

>>19432293
Then you really need to pick up Ready Player Two. It makes Ready Player One look like a sophisticated and smart masterpiece.

>>19430616
>jizz in my mouth

>>19428835
>how the force can fix the world

>>19430674
this pisses me off because quantum leap was one of the few decent shows of its era, not some boilerplate sci fi trash like sliders

>>19428838
I want to say that they're in on the meme and doing it ironically in a self-deprecating way, but that seems unlikely.

>>19428835
The Animorphs series is generally well regarded even here, mostly for its progressively darker theme, but looking back I think it made a lot of kids into gays, furries and, trannies.

>>19428835
what is it with s o y eyes? It has something to do with the fact they all wear glasses, but it's not just that. There's something about all their eyelids that's really disturbing

That's the thing about Star Wars, with all the talk of meditation and temples and prophecy and legends you really think there must be some deep shit underlining it all. But George Lucas didn't even bother to explain the complex mechanics behind Amidala's demotion from Constitutional Monarch to Senator. The "deep" shit is just frantic speculation from nerds who don't want to believe that their fantasy world where thought can overpower the bullies at school and all the hideous space aliens running around will make their cystic acne seem mundane by comparison just doesn't exist. Lucas was smart, he knew his limitations and just fell back on hippy nonsense about like, if you get angry then you can't think clearly, and that's like, your immaterial emotions affecting material reality. Far out, right?

Go back and pay attention to the original trilogy, with an eye on drawing direct comparisons to our world, and you'll be shocked by the complete and utter lack of similarity. It wasn't until the sequel trilogy that a character drank water on screen or used fire for warmth or light. There is exactly one identifiable food item in Lucas's films: the pear than Anakin cuts for Padme. The dinner that Luke eats with his Aunt and Uncle, the spread that Vader prevails over when Lando reveals his betrayal, the rations that Yoda picks through when Luke crashes on Dagobah, and the plate that the diner operator hands over when Obi Wan comes to ask about the dart. None of it is identifiable, but it comes in a familiar shape that suggests certain ideas. And that's Lucas's brilliance, he can create a shape that you effortlessly fill in with your own mind. A sort of MC Escher painting where nothing connects and yet somehow the individual portions create a mental sensation of looking at a clear image of something which cannot exist. And the book that the faggot in the OP is holding represents a paradox: how can someone claim to under The Force and yet believe that it exists as something other than a thematic representation of feelings we all experience every day?

>>19432485
I went through a soiphase in my early twenties, the grin wasn't popular then but I think I can explain. I think it's self-deprecation that fails because they lack a coherent self-image and don't understand that they don't look the part for the character they're trying to play.

Imagine the old fiction trope: all the boys are making fun of one boy because he prefers tea parties to football. Then, suddenly, the cool guy comes along. Fonzarelli or Granpappy War Veteran or Greasy Mechanic Dad. The other kids invite him to join their mockery: surely this walking Marlboro Ad will see the absurdity of this young man's girly interests and will endorse their decision to mock him. But what's this? The manly man is sitting down and inviting the freak to pour him an imaginary cup of tea? Hmm... perhaps our ideas of masculinity are a bit too rigid...

So the guy in the picture knows that Star Wars is for kids, and what's more, there was this alt-right controversy surrounding Finn and Rey. So I'm guessing he imagines there's some little boy out there who enjoyed the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and he also imagines this huge alt-right internet mob who thinks Star Wars was ruined because Rey is the main character and all of the criticism about the writing is just a really sophisticated way of saying "Star Wars is for girls now." And so this kid really wants to like Star Wars but he's afraid of being judged, and maybe he's gonna see the OP image somewhere and he's going to think "Oh, hey, this man likes Star Wars. That proves it's not just for girls, after all..."

Hence the stupid grin, it's all part of the act he thinks he's putting on. See, I'm not too old and stuffy to lose myself in childlike glee! Because the guy in the OP image has grown up in a society where all the teenagers on TV are played by 25-year-olds, and it's been five years since he's seen his friends from high school, so he thinks that by now he's fully ascended to Grown Man status and is entitled to all the deference and respect it entails. He doesn't realize that if he were a sixth-grader getting bullied, and his adult self came along and intervened, the sixth-grade bully still wouldn't back down.

>>19432325
pretentious?

>>19428835
This is How You Win the Time War. I tried my best but I couldn't finish it, it was just so pretentious.

>>19433230
haha, Lose, not Win. I can't even get the title straight.

>>19428835
>Star Wars
>Leftist

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>>19431317
https://youtu.be/8UEyL8C_iG4

>>19432906
Don't you think it would be that he'd never lost contact with the bulk of his teenage social circle since? A lack of self-awareness in general, and not just this specific consumerist flavor of it, stays as long as the other personalities stick around to reaffirm it, speaking from personal experience. Just laugh along with your peers, clap like a seal, and as long as you're intoxicated by that air of shared glee, nothing is apparently wrong, even though any sane third party will see nothing but a positive feedback loop of decline. They hear their elated squeals echoed from mouths with bared teeth yellowed by decades of copious sugar consumption as rounded bellies bounce to each howl in response to whatever mass-produced faggy cartoon or movie or AAA video game and think 'yeah, everyone's the same as me, i did everything right'.
Personally, it was self-imposed exile starting shortly after my 18th birthday when I realized how much of a dead end they would be. I spent the rest of the summer before university wandering the city with my aging bus pass and a folding bicycle and posting here. Like pottery,a scant two years later, half of them turned out to be homos, a quarter trannies, the rest perfectly fine with it, and all some variety of five-figure hour Steam account owners/Nintendo merch collector faggot based on their unprivated Instagram pages.

>>19433425
>exile
For better or worse this is what develops blurry impressions of social absurdity into keen revulsion. It's amazing what a better vantage point can do for perception. A lot of previously well-adjusted citizens have been getting a taste since Wuhan

>>19428883
Left-libertarianism is still the political alignment of choice for your average obese internet atheist type, when your whole personality is 'gay married couples defending their weed farms with ar-15s LMAO' then you have a massive void to fill with popular media.

>>19433425
This has to be copypasta.

>>19433550
It doesn't seem like it. From what I can tell of the vanguard's behavior, social distancing mandates couldn't be less ineffectual at breaking them up. In fact, in most cases it's done the opposite; they liken themselves to the protagonists in whatever flavor of the month pandemic TV show instead.

>>19433704
is that a compliment

>>19433355
It’s libertarian.

>>19428883
> If there was a moment when the culture of enlightened modernity in the United States gave way to the sickly culture of romantic primitivism, it was when the movie “Star Wars” premiered in 1977. A child of the 1960s, I had grown up with the optimistic vision symbolized by “Star Trek,” according to which planets, as they developed technologically and politically, graduated to membership in the United Federation of Planets, a sort of galactic League of Nations or UN. When I first watched “Star Wars,” I was deeply shocked. The representatives of the advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization were now the bad guys, and the heroes were positively medieval — hereditary princes and princesses, wizards and ape-men. Aristocracy and tribalism were superior to bureaucracy. Technology was bad. Magic was good.

Libertarians are primitives.

>>19433965
>Technology was bad. Magic was good.

>>19430514
Just had to read that for an Arthurian lit course. Just atrocious.