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Are there any books about how historical progress might not be an improvement

>> No.19749260
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>>19749254
UH, excuse me CHUDDY; w-WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY???!!! THAT'S A HECKIN' BIGOTISM RIGHT THERE, SWEATY.

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>>19749254
Books by this guy

>> No.19749273

No, and it's fundamentally the biggest cope of conservatism, destroying their very ontology.

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>>19749266
UH-OH, MY CHUD-DETECTOR IS OFF THE HECKIN' CHARTS!!! MORE LIKE JULIUS BANNEDSEN (LOLE!!)

>> No.19749476

>>19749260
>>19749278
You are not funny.

>> No.19749488

>>19749476
Agreed, that guy is sooooo sneedy????????!!!!! (LOLE!!)

>> No.19749493

Historians try not to make judgements like that

>> No.19749502

Basically all of postmodernism
>Lolita
Argument against highways and anonymous interconnection
>Cat's Cradle
Argument against environmental military interventions
>Infinite Jest
Argument against television
>The Third Policeman
Argument against atomic age and infinite bounty
>Catch 22
Argument against quota driven military interventions and market arbitrage
>American Psycho
Argument against commodification of identity

>> No.19749551

John Gray’s books

>> No.19749571

>>19749502
American Psycho is actually an argument against homelessness.