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Anonymous Wed Mar 30 01:30:31 2022 No.20141404 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books with a pessimistic view about human nature?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 01:32:40 2022 No.20141410 >>20141404 Are you this lazy, you dumb fuck? Google pessimism

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 01:40:53 2022 No.20141427 isnt that like every book

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 01:47:35 2022 No.20141440 >>20141404 anything midwittish should do. Smart enough to begin analyzing, but not smart enough to understand, but instead choose to j'accuse.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 01:56:47 2022 No.20141466 [DELETED]

>>20141404
Not a hook, per se, but these wiki articles should give you pause. Skim though them and realize that race relations worldwide are completely intractable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire_racism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 02:12:55 2022 No.20141502 >>20141404 the soul of the marionette

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 02:23:10 2022 No.20141526 >>20141404 literature on the anthropocene >After Nature by Jebediah Purdy >Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton >Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W Moore

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:23:52 2022 No.20143112 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:35:16 2022 No.20143172 >>20141404 Leviathan, Burke's Reflections, then Thucydides. Come back when you're done

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