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What books best describe the zeitgeist of the early 2020s

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>> No.19621750

>>19621729
>>19621739
Please tell me this is satire

>> No.19621752

mother of god that picture tells the whole story, it's easy to hate these human piles of garbage but when you realize that innocent little baby's whole life is in their care it makes it viscerally real

look at the baby's face, it has NO FUCKING IDEA it's about to be raised by a zoomer prostitute for 20 years. i swear i can see in the baby's face "Hullo! What century is it! Finally it's my turn! I'm ready for my turn at life now!," look at its face and you can see it, and now it will be raised by an ipad tuned to 15 hours of algorithmically selected shrek injecting antifreeze into his cock videos

>> No.19621754

It hasn’t been written yet because art and culture are dead. That is perhaps the most defining feature of the century so there’s your answer.

>> No.19621758

>>19621729
>>19621739
Someone please help the women. this is not sustainable

>> No.19621775

>>19621729
>>19619099

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>google "why do tiktok users dance"
>On TikTok, the mass grouping of people together in space is replaced by a more subtle form of togetherness through imitation and synchronised movement. These dancers are separated through time and space, but they create solidarity and positive feeling by moving together, mediated by the structure of the platform.

>> No.19621795

>>19621729
What the hell is wrong with people

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>>19621729
This is not the place to squeal about tiktok
>>19621739
Stop posting here if this is all you’ve got

>> No.19621813

>>19621739
i don't even know what's going on in this world anymore

>> No.19621815

>>19621729
In all seriousness this period is going to remembered as a surreal nightmare

>> No.19621816

>>19621800
Report the post then you faggot

>> No.19621825

>>19621815
I unironically think this is the second major mass lead poisoning epoch in history and we'll all be known to posterity as the insane retard period of history, like a dark age of mongoloids

>> No.19621832

>>19621729
The escalating narcissism of social media users never fails to astound me.

>> No.19621837

>>19621825
i feel bad for all the zoomers that were raised on this crap. they were a bunch of guinea pigs for social media and the internet.

>> No.19621841

>>19621825
>second major mass lead poisoning epoch in history
Is this a vaccine theory or are you referring to something else?

>> No.19621844

>>19621729
Its funny to me because this is what /pol/ wants to save. I say burn, burn it all to the ground.

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>>19621816
Did you report it?

>> No.19621847

>>19621841
Internet poisoning

>> No.19621849

There wouldn't even be a way to write a book exploring the early 2020s without that book inevitably turning to satire.

If you told things exactly as they are it would read like some dystopian novel by a smug ironist. I can't think of any other time period of which the same can be said.

>> No.19621859

>>19621845
I'm not the one crying about it, faggot

>> No.19621864

>>19621832
Even 4chan promotes narcissism. In some respects less, you cant obsessively curate your profile and stats. But in other respects 4chan interaction is actually more narcissistic because one of the features of narcissism is that other people arent actually real to you, they're just like incidental features of your own self, and this is kind of like 4chan since you just craft a post, a little bit of yourself, and nobody else is real at all. On other social media sites you build relationships with people so you can interact in a more normal social way, but you can only do so much of that here, whether a rapport you strike up with another anon in a particular thread, or just an attempt to be helpful and understand an anon without caring about yourself. But the site does breed its own form of callous narcissism.

>> No.19621873

>>19621864
4chan is aristocratic narcissism (the valuation of others insofar as they are equals to yourself), twitter is slave narcissism (the valuation of others insofar as they provide support).

>> No.19621879

>>19621859
So you’re one of the trolls too?

>> No.19621881

Newton predicted this.

>> No.19621882

>>>/int/157019576
These threads are being copy pasted

>> No.19621883

>>19621847
Oh, yes I agree. I can just never be too sure.

>> No.19621888

>>19621800
Nor is this the place to attentionwhore. Oh wait, you have been doing that for the better part of a decade.

>> No.19621908

why are so many of you guys fascist

>> No.19621919

What the fuck more do you faggots think she can do hahahahah sit around looking worried like it's going to actually do anything? You retards don't even know what you want

>> No.19621922

>>19621729
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5RZ8k6iQik
RIP baby

>> No.19621924

>>19621919
She should act like a normal person not a zombified TikTokTard.

>> No.19621925

>>19621908
They aren't they are chinese intelligence wait yeah that means they are lol sorry.

>> No.19621929

>>19621924
Which is what exactly? Do nothing?

>> No.19621931

>>19621873
Neither Twitter nor 4chan are remotely aristocratic because we're just creating content so tech guys can sell advertising information and governments can track public opinion, and the rules of the game are laid out by these higher entities and we follow them. Aristocracies don't have any higher laws but the rule of God or natural forces or whatever.

We tacitly admit to being slaves, clowns, by posting in these places. If you're an upstart slave and think you can use the system to bring it down all the more power to you, but thats not aristocracy.

If you want to search for echoes or aristocratic sensibility in the incentive structures or posting patterns of people on internet sites then go ahead, it is fun joke or whatever, but it's ust a joke.

>> No.19621933

>>19621931
You took my post way too literally

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>>19621908
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8VMPqa5TKU

>> No.19621938

Just imagine gen Alpha, the only generation wholly born in the 21st century. They will either be literal Hitlers or creatures of indescribable depravity.

>> No.19621941

>>19621879
That's cute coming from you. Are you going to start reporting posts instead of crying about them, faggot?

>> No.19621942

>>19621938
If only chinese intelligence was competent then that would be true but you guys are pathetic and suck ass so it will not be like that at all. :P

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>>19621919
shut up tranny

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>>19621908
That's what living in globohomo does to people, maybe you'll understand someday

>> No.19621952

>>19621933
I thought you were
>search for echoes or aristocratic sensibility in the incentive structures or posting patterns of people on internet sites
I mean you can as easily say that the basis of aristocracy is men wanting to follow you into combat and teitter people resemble this in amassing following, but this is obviously dumb isnt it?

>> No.19621959

>>19621950
why does living in globohomo society do that to people

>> No.19621966

>>19621908
Barely anyone who seems fascist to you on 4chan is fascist. They do it because they're annoyed at what they perceive as the oversteps of our system, and they know our system hates fascism, so they go right to that to say "fuck you". Of course some are racist fascists but that's not that strange either, it was very popular 90 years ago after all as a response to communism.

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>>19621959
Humans naturally dislike being immersed in filth day in day out.

>> No.19621969

>>19621739
Yeaaaahhh ... I think I know why he killed himself.

>> No.19621974

>>19621938
The west won't collapse because the operational admin of running such a complicated society is becoming remarkably easier and people take this system's governing conditions of possibility for granted - which is something they will realise when actual metaphysical threats start to exploit the otherwise controlled flux of democracy. Generation alpha aren't going to have anything to do with ideologies of the past because even their grounds will become obsolete in such an unanticipated way, where it won't even be held in reserve but completely disregarded as a quirk of an antiquated thinking. We are fucked as an older generation but there can't be a renaissance without that relatively minor fact

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>>19621959
How many reasons do you need?

>> No.19621985

>>19621974
Could you be slightly more specific about the threats we face and the possible solutions

>> No.19621990

>>19621967
the existence of these people barely suprass 1%, it's hardly immersion you dumb faggot unless you want to engage your sui-homicidal fantasies being incapable of producing any actual value

>> No.19622001

>>19621959
Because chinese intelligence invested a lot in destroying u.s. economy. Pls accept their narrative they bought hollywood for this! Show some respect...

>> No.19622004

>>19621943
Just because 4chan tells you post successful doesn't actually mean what you want it to

>> No.19622005

>>19621825
Stoopid Romans used lead crystals to make very sweet fizzling wine that slowly but irreversibly made their upper class demented lunatics while the proles ran into the totalitarian desert cults from Judea to save themselves from Oogamir Boogarich tier warlords of Lower Germania "Refugees", no way modern populus could ever be that stupid! *drinks pepsi*

>> No.19622007

>>19621938
Hitler was a degenerate tho

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>>19622007
Hitler was a fine man who loved his country.

>> No.19622051

>>19621729
what the heck

>> No.19622061

>>19621985
Metaphysical threats that will disrupt a very well-established and integrated economy of value/meaning, in a way that can't be recuperated because they attempt to dispose of the fundamentals of the west - i.e. freedom of information, transparency, education, a promise of human emancipation (whether this is metaphysically possible or not is irrelevant to its function in co-ordinating such a grand project) - in a shockingly unjust and unaccountable fashion. This could be marxism, fascism, etc., some other derived ideological neo-feudalism that otherwise ignores the history of philosophy encoded in our laws and conception of what it means to be human, a self-proximate consciousness. Simply the police are the only justified military presence and even the existence of this para-military is being broken down to its core functions and adapting to a futurised west, rather than an institution for its own sake. We can only decentralise and democratise due to the sheer amount of people and people producing information - the problems we are seeing now are simply teething problems as we adjust to a brand new (yet old) paradigm, something fundamental.

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>>19622019
Though not enough to save it from an inferno.
Lucky they were nuked. What an idiot

>> No.19622090

>>19621729
Anything about clowns and circuses.

>> No.19622095

>>19622019
Though not enough to save it from an inferno.
Lucky they weren’t nuked. What an idiot

>> No.19622109

>>19622095
He tried his best, it's hard when you're fighting the zionist alliance of communism and capitalism who hate you because you liberated your people from usury and international banking
>>19622007
stop reading jewish propaganda

>> No.19622116

>>19622109
Stop playing video games

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Bros, how do we bring back sincerity? Are we forever trapped in this nihilist hellscape?

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>>19622116

>> No.19622126

>>19622121
Go volunteer somewhere and do something for someone other than yourself to see an end to irony

>> No.19622128

>>19622061
Are you saying Marxism or fascism or something like that is going to disrupt us? I am having trouble following

>> No.19622132

>>19622125
>ahhhh dopamine

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>> No.19622138

I take great satisfaction in the fact there will always be a space for mocking and shaking your head at clown reality. We're air bubbles trapped within this system that cannot expunge us without destroying itself. Like that whole bit about the impossibility of unperceived universes: no matter how alone you feel, we are the perceivers.

>> No.19622140

>>19622136
>ahhhhhhhhhh

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>> No.19622143

>>19622095
>How dare you try to resist us turning you into gay tranny holocaust memorial exploding terrorist muslim jamboree and AIDS emporium

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>>19622140

>> No.19622148

>>19622126
Or just leave the clownish hellscape supermarket that is America behind already. Just replace the DSM Manual with a travel brochure. I've never seen so many pathologies concentrated in one geographical space before.

>> No.19622153

>>19622128
Yes something that is not nearly as analytical or agile and cannot deal with managing the widespread, highly co-ordinated network of trade and exchange that is more and more proportionately managed by the liberalist ideology we are literally coding into the programs that order this necessary operation. Simply neo-feudalist ideologies have not had the practice with this tech and there will never be enough time to get that experience before the full tide of democratics could return from its ebb. The long Rousseauist era of LARPing is over

>> No.19622164

>>19622144
how big's your folder my aryan brother

>> No.19622172

>>19622153
Yeah I have no idea what the fuck you're saying

How do you feel about vaccine lockdowns, just a yes or no will do

>> No.19622174

>>19622148
It's really not a societal issue. There haven't been widespread movements of anything since the 50s. It's a pain to even get people voting

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>>19622164

>> No.19622187

>>19622172
I'm not interested in discussing politics, that time is over

>> No.19622188

>>19622174
Lol you think I'm talking about society and not the ontological sink hole America has become for minds, bodies, and souls of 300 million people and counting.

>> No.19622200

>>19622188
It's very much a useless abstraction, and you can wield a word such as 'ontological' and pretend because of it you can flaunt the rules of what it means to provide a full and accurate representation of something. You are the hollow one, you can barely represent yourself

>> No.19622205

>>19621729
>What books best describe the zeitgeist of the early 2020s
I'm working on it. Its almost done. Hope you like poetry.
>>19621800
nobody likes you. And YES this is the place and there is nothing you can do about it.

>> No.19622212

>>19622200
Nice one buddy. It's because you and those like you refuse to think like this that your protests and movements are so anemic.

>> No.19622215

>>19622172
It's time for a radical overhaul of human technology and human understanding of control and power. What this means is a few things:

First off, people must get used to the idea that everything is computer code. Our bodies can be coded and decoded. Our minds can be decoded. We must accept the fact that we must always have computers in our bodies. The computers we build must also be open source, accessible to anyone, and designed by a non-white, non-man programmer, a programmer who was not taught the current dominant neo-liberal ideology. A programmer who knows a thing or two about the mechanics of consciousness and what it is like to take control of your body. You must accept that any system, any program designed and installed into your body, is no more than you and your own consciousness. The program has no value unless it helps you and helps to increase your consciousness. You must accept that your own body is your responsibility. Your body is your tool to become an expert in consciousness and this tool should always be available to you. A good programmer is like a good artist. They create tools to help them learn. They understand that their tools are useless unless they understand them fully. They may not understand what their tools do, but they understand their tools all the same. They understand the mechanism, the theory of how it all works and they understand how they can use it in order to create something greater. They learn the code, they know the tools. The programmer builds himself or herself from the ground up and does not rely on the knowledge of others. They understand the mechanism, theory and code of the computer. You must understand this. You cannot just look at someone else's program and expect to understand their code. You must become the code. You must learn the code of your own program. You must understand what makes it tick. You must learn the theories. You must understand how you will change the world. And then you may begin to act. You may begin to become conscious. You must become a programmer. We cannot have computers in our bodies unless we know how to program them. There is only one way to learn how to program a computer and that is to learn how to program in a computer. There are many languages and many computers. Every computer needs a language of its own. We need a language that does not depend on any other computer. This is the language of consciousness. All that we can do in consciousness is in this language. We cannot have consciousness without language. The only way to reach consciousness is to become a programmer. To become conscious. To be the code. Consciousness is a program and the programmer is the creator of the program. We all learn to code, we all learn how to do this. The question is not how we learn. We learn because we understand. We learn because we want to know. The question is only how do we know. The answer is that we know. We know because we understand. We know because we want to know.

>> No.19622218

>>19622212
You obviously don't know what you're talking about because I don't participate in protests and movements. You have trapped yourself in your own thinking and honestly I don't care to help you

>> No.19622224

>>19622218
I'm tired of fighting with tokens of strangers on the internet. Good day to you, and forgive the misunderstanding.

>> No.19622352

>>19622205
No. This is not the tiktok whining board.
You really must be hated by the good posters

>> No.19622366

>>19622352
It is a regular whining board though, thanks to you. So I guess it's on topic after all.

>> No.19622383

>>19621729
Tiktok is a reality grinder. It is literal poison. People willfully turn themselves into commodities when signing up to that platform.

>> No.19622392

>>19621908
define fascism

>> No.19622404

>>19621990
The fact that they exist at all is an insult to reason and the immortal gods.

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>>19622392
Me

>> No.19622420

>>19621739
What is she doing with her hands, sign language?

>> No.19622427

>>19622420
Tiktok dancing

>> No.19622443

>>19622415
Based

>> No.19622444

>>19621729
Roger Ebert once said that art reflects possible realities and therefore should be treated as existing in a post-moral atmosphere. However, these Tik-Tok women are perfoming in reality where lies accountability, we genuinely think of dancing as an art form however this is so close to the pedestrian platform that the veil of 'art' is shattered and we experience to surreal nature of all these immoral pretences next to the horror of an ignored reality. Tik Tok is as if the Hitman games suddenly became materialised and we are forced to look upon assassins walking the Earth as if they are still art.

>> No.19622448

>>19622444
meds