/lit/ - Literature

>evil books
There isn't such a thing.

Bataille - Literature and Evil
Klossowski - Sade My Neighbour
Lautreamont - Les Chants de Maldoror

>>22238416
You sure that quote isn't just advocating for nonduality? Sounds like aversion-desire duality

>>22238491
No, which his suicide shows.

>>22238416
>freedom is slavery
>black is white
>life is death

Sounds like edgy, meaningless drivel on a Hot Topic Tshirt

>>22238416
I think even from an egoist perspective the things considered evil--manipulation, crime, etc--are not worth the potential cost.
Unless you're extremely wealthy and/or well connected, crime doesn't pay. If you're either, you can get away with just about anything, but it's unlikely that you are.
Just read about the life of any criminal, and their lives invariably are shitty. Having to live on the run and always looking over your shoulder worried that you'll get caught. Sounds to me like a horrible life, and a worse way to live than just being a normie.
Anything that says otherwise is just a juvenile power fantasy.

>>22238427
This guy fucks.

>>22238416
Did they put a black face on the cover so white supremists wouldn't read it?

>>22238914
This is created by a fan. The original book has no cover. Regardless, the guy isn't poltically correct, despite being Jewish

>>22238961
That's some cerebral bait. No one else is going to appreciate it, but I do.

>>22238568
I believe he means "equal to" in the sense of "not intrinsically better or worse than," not "identical with"
Agree it's a self-indulgent way to make a point though

>>22238416
>Political Ponerology, Lobaczewski
>marketing & persuasion research
>summoning texts (Goetia)

>>22238416
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>>22238416
Did you actually read that entire 1900 page clusterfuck? If you did, I'd be very curious to hear your more detailed opinion

>>22242020
Yes. Opinion regarding what specifically? The book considers multiple topics. As a whole, it's definitely 5/5 for me

>>22242026
What were the major takeaways of the book? What makes a 5/5 for you?

>>22242051
The shift in mindset

The entire book centers around one insight: memetics. Beings procreate, and more of the same are created: Heisman extends this to everything. For example, the theory of everything is impossible because the laws of physics or anything else just aren't stable: they evolve from particularities to generalities and from generalities to particularities. He deconstructs various ideologies, pointing out the differences between the mindsets of scientists/philosophers that are German (focusing on generalities) and Anglo-Saxon/Jewish (focusing on particularities). You can't choose both: how you choose to observe affects what you observe, and so in 2005–2010 he more or less predicts transgenderism and calls it an excess of the focus on particularities ("science suffers from autism", "scientists have hydrophobia", etc.) He thus attempts to weave together absolutely everything (focusing on generalities, despite being Jewish), explaining how Christianity ties into the Industrial Age and whatever, while hypothesizing about future scenarios

>tl;dr
He exposes every single idea as baseless and biased, and the application of this to himself causes his suicide (the book ends with a quote "But I don't know myself, said the Master".) Despite being political, he supplies arguments for both sides through a sort of detached perspective while at the same time being hilarious and accusing people of having rabies. It's almost like a novel because you see how his obsessive pursuit (thousands of books) affects his psyche, etc