/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10656580]

>sends a rocket to space
>next day articles by humanities graduates are written
>"This Rocket Was NOT ok- here's why!"
>"Elon Musk is too unintelligent to see the structural inequalities perpetuated by the space race!"
>"This fetishisation of linear thinking rocket scientists was predicted and critiqued in Chimbanonga Muhamadina's searing 2007 New Yorker poem"

Justify these

[Anonymous No.10656593]

>>10656580
I won't, humanities is fucked and I look forward to founding a new intellectual tradition on Musk's White Martian ethno-state

[Anonymous No.10656608]

Space cannot be accessed.

[Anonymous No.10656623]

>>10656593
>implying we won't blast minorities to the moon (or, Allah (pbuh) willing, into the sun) and have Earth be home exclusively to rich whites, while poor whites are exiled to Mars to create their own prosperous society

[Anonymous No.10656629]

>>10656580
People who go no where in life are angry about someone genuinely wanting to better humanity and it's future

[Anonymous No.10656631]

God damn it I want my space colonies and faggotd like these are fucking it up

[Anonymous No.10656633]

>>10656629

No. This isn't Joe schmo at the trailer park being jealous. This is a widespread form of leftism

[Anonymous No.10656648]

>>10656623
Not how history goes. Those who are brave and love freedom (ie White men) go out to explore new worlds and make new fortunes while the resentful brown dimwits only crawl in after to leach from what better men made.

[Anonymous No.10656649]

>>10656580

I don't see why we should applaud everything a rich person does.

[Anonymous No.10656655]

>>10656649
Who invited the soyboy

[Anonymous No.10656657]

>>10656580
For real? Links please. For research purposes.

[Anonymous No.10656669]

>>10656649
>man takes steps towards deep space exploration and colonization to save our overcrowded planet
>demonize him
He's doing more for our planet and civilization than any trans scum will ever do

[Anonymous No.10656671]

I haven't seen a single one of these articles. Do you intentionally get news from places that cater to pissing you off as much as possible? That's the only reason they write this sensationalist horseshit - faggots like you will read it, be offended, and share it on Cantonese locksmithing forums so they read it too.

[Anonymous No.10656674]

keep sucking the cock of "progress"

[Anonymous No.10656687]

>>10656671
Know thy enemy

[Anonymous No.10656693]

>>10656580
Wow sjws btfo. Pol wins once again, kekistani forever

[Anonymous No.10656698]

>>10656657
Yeah seriously, this is egregious and unbelievable.

[Anonymous No.10656700]

>>10656687
So you're a bold underdog in an imaginary war against sjws?

[Anonymous No.10656707]

>>10656671
yeah, seems pretty alarmist

[Anonymous No.10656712]

>>10656669
>>man takes steps towards deep space exploration and colonization to save our overcrowded planet
Will never happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaCPJrx8U0E

[Anonymous No.10656713]

>>10656580
There's nothing to justify since you just made those up idiot

[Anonymous No.10656717]

>>10656580
I have seen no reactions even coming close to this. Post links you memester

[Anonymous No.10656727]

>>10656700
Yes

[Anonymous No.10656737]

>>10656717
>>10656713
>>10656707
>>10656671
>>10656657
Even if the articles aren't real we need to discuss them as if they were since its the exact type of thing SJWs will come out with

[Anonymous No.10656742]

>>10656737
let's discuss them when SJWs actually do then howsabout

[Anonymous No.10656751]

this thread goes a long way towards demonstrating how clinically out-of-touch leftist fags are. These hot takes were all over twitter yesterday, and I'm not going to even bother with the quick search that will inevitably yield countless egalitarian rags decrying musk and his toxic whiteness.

[Anonymous No.10656753]

Since both OP and the rest of you too lazy, here's a general article (not about yesterday) bitching about Musk from the world's whiniest publication.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/mars-elon-musk-space-exploration-nasa-colonization

[Anonymous No.10656765]

>>10656633
No, it's just the radicals who think they're better than everyone. And it's common these days that any and every person who passes through journalism school has to write some shitty article because it's riles some feathers and gets people angry; because they don't have anything worthwhile to say or investigate. Politics has nothing to do with this

[Anonymous No.10656768]

>>10656669

> Bringing up trannies for no reason

Is this the power of /pol/?

[Anonymous No.10656770]

>>10656693
/pol/TARD CHUDS owned with epic irony once again, they're in tears and they're also shadilay virgins unlike me who is not a virgin

[Anonymous No.10656773]

>>10656580
Not literature. Also
>Mr. Khrushchev says that Communism, the police state, will bury the free ones. He is a smart gentleman, he knows that this is nonsense since freedom, man's dim concept of and belief in the human spirit is the cause of all his troubles in his own country. But if he means that Communism will bury capitalism, he is correct. That funeral will occur about ten minutes after the police bury gambling. Because simple man, the human race, will bury both of them. That will be when we have expended the last grain, dram, and iota of our natural resources. But man himself will not be in that grave. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

[Anonymous No.10656777]

>>10656770
>>10656693
Go back to your respective containment boards

[Anonymous No.10656781]

>>10656751
Maybe you should stop inundating yourself in the endless cycle of people being outraged about dumb shit and people being outraged that people are outraged about dumb shit ad infinitum on twitter. Maybe you should read books and talk about those on this board instead and post about your delusional, impotent bitterness elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.10656792]

>>10656669
1. Our planet is nowhere near to being overcrowded. Texas alone could feed the entire world with our current level of technology.
2. Our planet will never be overcrowded. Global fertility rate has been dropping for decades, and a hundred years from now there will be less people on the planet than there are now.

[Anonymous No.10656794]

>>10656753
For a second I thought I gave enough of a shit to read that
I even gave a click to it ffs, I'm paying those dickheads' food thanks to you

[Anonymous No.10656796]

>>10656580
This is fucking /lit/ ffs, get your Murican bs elsewhere

[Anonymous No.10656799]

>>10656765
Not him but I have college professors that openly hold the position that any sort of optimism about space exploration is problematic because something something feminist theory and exploitation.

[Anonymous No.10656803]

>>10656792
What about all other life on earth the we are arguably crowding out? Does your ethics have any room for non-human life?

[Anonymous No.10656808]

>>10656737
PFFFFTtfstftf hahah

[Anonymous No.10656812]

>>10656799
Sounds like you're talking out of your ass to me

[Anonymous No.10656813]

>>10656753
>He doesn’t seem interested in thinking through Mars’s policy or governance, the labor necessitated by building a civilization from scratch, or the problems that will arise from sending rich tourists to self-manage in a place with scant resources demanding communal organization and thinking.
Richfags BTFO

[Anonymous No.10656822]

>>10656799
Get out of feminist studies. Go speak to the mathematics and physics profs. They're more realistic and not pent up about petty arguments that no one gives a damn about

[Anonymous No.10656823]

Is it aprils fool already? Is this /litpol/ now? Who let all these amorphous polymorphic pol memetists in?

[Anonymous No.10656825]

They're right to criticize Musk, since all his space endeavors are heavily government-subsidized. Your taxes are paying for useless means of transportation and ultra-expensive advertising stunts and I wish people would stop sucking some government contractor's cock already.

[Anonymous No.10656836]

>>10656822
Better ask enginners and those Who do applied science, mathematicians and physics proffesors are as lost on idealistic hypothetical intangible fiction delusions as most gender studies snowflakes

[Anonymous No.10656838]

>>10656825
I'll consider my tax money well spent when we launch Rupi Kaur and Jordan Peterson into a black hole

[Anonymous No.10656842]

>>10656823

They think they own the world, so they let themselves in

[Anonymous No.10656843]

Commies can't stand watching their worldview get crushed. The government sucks at everything and SpaceX proved it. The virgin NASA would never have developed a completely reusable rocket because they don't have to worry about improving inefficiency with their unaccountable and essentially unlimited government funds. The Chad SpaceX has the proper incentives required to advance human civilization to the point of launching car advertisements into space.

[Anonymous No.10656848]

>>10656836
Engineers are narcissist goobers
t. Mechanical Engineer

[Anonymous No.10656857]

>>10656836
>durr le real world
Engineers are the scum of the Earth.

[Anonymous No.10656863]

>>10656753
let's archive that
http://archive.li/PPxO7

[Anonymous No.10656875]

>>10656737
Is this satire?
I'm afraid it isn't, honestly.

[Anonymous No.10656882]

>>10656593
no, wh*toids can’t survive intergalactical radiation because of their subhuman skin

This fact was revealed by one of the descendants of Yakub, when he tried shipping one of his wh*toid subjects to the KARA BOGA-colony in deep space.

[Anonymous No.10656890]

it sucked that it has come to this, but humanities are best studied by yourself, and not through some university. Though maybe philosophy is mostly saved as it doesn't appeal as much to women.

[Anonymous No.10656891]

>>10656882
>turk BLACK disciples post on /lit/ now
mashallah

[Anonymous No.10656892]

>>10656781
>leftist retard thinks he knows everything about me from one post
classic

[Anonymous No.10656896]

>>10656822
I'm not in feminist studies. My school is just super leftist so the curriculum reinforces feminist theory at every opportunity lol

[Anonymous No.10656911]

>>10656822
>I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!! RICK AND MORTYYYY

[Anonymous No.10656913]

Space exploration is retarded though.

I don't know what argument those people are raising, but it's just laughable that anyone thinks this is a good thing or something for mankind or whatever. There is nothing on the moon or mars or elsewhere for us at this point and while I understand there won't be if we stop going there, to "advance" in this technological sense looks cynical to say the least. It's like inventing a car and saying it will help mankind because doctors can travel faster or something, but as soon as you do, the whole scenario changes and a new layer of problem arises. Either it becomes a fancy rich people's toy, a military weapon, or a new way to explore people, resources and money.. It's "advancing from the top", it's like stretching a pyramid by its height, while that does nothing to change its shape, perhaps only make it harder for one to climb.

This whole thing is fueled by naive fantasies and some nostalgia from the space exploration which was nothing much than a tool to develop new military stuff while propaganda for your side of the cold war.

Pic is Bill Gates in the 90s sitting on a pile of paper saying a CD will "save this much forest". He was right and everyone now works digitally and that made us so much more productive we are producing more paper than ever even if we don't use it for all those things we used before lol, just to illustrate how naive this "save humanity" "advancement of mankind" can be.

Go to space, whatever, I would love to ride a highway to Mars as much as you do, but I understand this is just a silly fantasy. What gets me is more that some people unironically believe this is some higher cause.

[Anonymous No.10656916]

>>10656843
r/ing you put this post into memepic format

[Anonymous No.10656920]

>>10656822
>They're more realistic and not pent up about petty arguments that no one gives a damn about
I won't defend feminist studies, but that is the opposite of most physics and mathematicians I know of;

[Anonymous No.10656927]

>>10656913
>people spend their money on things the like and I AM ANGRY
the post

[Anonymous No.10656931]

>>10656580
Muskfags are the epitome of soyboys

[Anonymous No.10656933]

>>10656580
Stupid people being mad at smart people for being smart. Not much else to it.

[Anonymous No.10656936]

>>10656580
>loooool epic crazy scientist does SCIENCE and brings us on MARS
Who else /OptimisticNihilist/ here? It's crazy how far we've come thanks to SCIENCE and LOGIC. Mars here we come!!!!

[Anonymous No.10656938]

>>10656803
nuke the whales desu

[Anonymous No.10656947]

>>10656927
Spend on whatever, man, it's just that what you like is a childish fantasy. What's next, millions to invent a lightsaber? Do it. But don't pretend that's for "mankind!!"

[Anonymous No.10656954]

>>10656927
>people spend their money on things they like and IT'S PROGRESSING MUH HUMANITY :~~DDDD

[Anonymous No.10656960]

Lefties are scared because Musk is a white South-African, talking to those lads behind closed doors about race would scare Hitler.

[Anonymous No.10656965]

>>10656913
we need a backup planet m8 this one is running out

[Anonymous No.10656981]

>>10656947
>>10656954
i dont really give a fuck about space exploration but its way cooler than some gay welfare program. also, how is a real life achievement a 'childish fantasy'? A childish fantasy is something like, world peace.

humanity doesn't progress btw

[Anonymous No.10656986]

>>10656913
>Pic is Bill Gates in the 90s sitting on a pile of paper saying a CD will "save this much forest"

And it does indeed. The developed world uses less and less paper each passing year, it's only developing economies that push the demand for paper. Without CDs, we would be literally consuming thrice as much paper as during the early 90s

Maybe at least give things some more thought before reverting to this facile cynicism?

[Anonymous No.10656988]

>>10656737
Jesus this shit is so retarded

You're not arguing with real people anymore literally you're creating strawmen

[Anonymous No.10656994]

>>10656988
let us all aspire to one day be as brilliant as you

[Anonymous No.10657005]

>>10656580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7FuAswPW0

[Anonymous No.10657022]

>>10656781
You're right but if you think whiny SJWism isn't the zeitgeist of the left right now you're delusional. I can see you right now anon, carefully and masterfully applying the latest Post-Marxist analysis to the crisis of late-stage capitalism, looking for new approaches in under-explored theoretical outlets. It's kind of beautifully sad and even admirable that intellectuals of this type still exist on the left. Maybe you'll polish your theory, even dumb it down for popular consumption as you hope it will galvanize the next generation of leftists. You'll get nervously excited as you refine your theory, watching the left gain increasing steam as it eradicates the remnants of bourgeois tradition from the academy. You figure, why shouldn't I test it out on an audience of spirited and youthful revolutionaries. You see a facebook event for a local Marxist reading group where members of the public are invited to present their own writing. Marxists mind you, not ignorant tankies or neoliberal SJWs, so you look forward to spirited debate. After spending hours nervously trying to pick the right shade of red scarf from your collection, you get yourself together, excited to share your insights with your comrades. You arrive early, nervously wiping the sweat from your brow as it drips on to your wire framed glasses, carefully selected from the Lens Crafters. The meeting starts, you introduce yourself to your fellow comrades. Your nervous excitement increases as you see many people in attendance, since when was academic Marxism so popular? It gives you renewed hope in the potential of the radical left. You shift anxiously in your folding chair, awkwardly making small talk with the activists around you. They call the meeting to order, and you nervously stand up to get in line to speak. You feel a tap on your shoulder, and you turn around with a smile on your face only to find an extremely rotund brown woman staring at you. "Um, excuuse me. As a cis straight white male you are to speak last. Are you trying to drown out the voices of women of color?" You acquiesce politely, moving to the back. You agree that it is important to hear the voices of the marginalized. You wait at the back of the line as the latest advancements in fats liberation theology and nonbinary postcolonial theory are presented. After waiting patiently, it is finally your turn to speak... tbc

[Anonymous No.10657023]

>>10656981
spacex is literally a gay welfare program though. muh subsidies

[Anonymous No.10657033]

>>10657022
Still dripping with anticipation, you nervously begin your speech, a short synthesis of the work you've been editing and polishing for years. You receive blank stares, and you nervously begin to stumble in your words, skimming over most of what you planned to say and finishing prematurely. When you begin to walk away from the microphone, a hideous wail is heard, and soon the whole crowd begins to scream and moan. A large, proud woman of color, the one who had checked your privilege earlier. What *claps hands* about *claps hands* woman *claps hands* of *claps hands* color? By *claps hands* silencing *claps hands* and *claps hands* marginalizing *claps hands* our *claps hands* voices *claps hands* you *claps hands* are *claps hands* literally*claps hands* committing *claps hands* genocide!" Murmurs, growls and "mmm-hmmms" concur with her, and before you know it you've been glitter bombed. A group of disabled queer femmes armed with baseball bats storm the stage, and they begin to beat you ferociously. You are left in a wheelchair after this severe beating. You realize the folly of your ways, and use the new insight of being disabled to realize how you were using your position as a white male to perpetuate systems of control that marginalize and destroy black bodies. Your privilege, is, checked.

[Anonymous No.10657038]

>>10657022

Literally what the fuck is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.10657042]

>>10656936
>>10657005
>I haaate science so much my faves? literature and watching zizek videos :)

[Anonymous No.10657044]

>DUDE subsidies
Wow look at that the government needed a service and he did it in exchange for money

[Anonymous No.10657051]

>>10656986
The "developed world" is not separed from the "developed economies". It is the demand from said developed world that fuels paper production in the other countries. It's economical and political maintainance of poor countries to keep them that way that makes that not change worldwide at once (and how could that ever happen anyway). If you take what we produce in digital and imagine it printed, than that's "thrice as much paper", but we wouldn't even be making this much content if not for the digital format. The disposal of eletronics is also now a huge problem, with a more complex scenario that goes from mining for metals to planned obsolence.

[Anonymous No.10657060]

>>10656981
>how is a real life achievement a 'childish fantasy'? A childish fantasy is something like, world peace.

But that's what I'm at. Space race is not doing any good to mankind, although the enthusiasts really like to put it in terms of "world peace" or at least "when this world is fucked, we go some place else". I don't doubt we can go to space, I doubt the reasoning of people who support it.

[Anonymous No.10657061]

Elon Musk is a faggot but the Falcon Heavy was badass, it's a shame it's 5 years behind schedule because Elon Musk is a faggot who doesn't require people to dress presentable when they come to launch the rockets he pays them with subsidized funds to design.

[Anonymous No.10657066]

>>10656913
>There is nothing on the moon or mars or elsewhere for us
Besides trillions and trillions of dollars worth of rare minerals

[Anonymous No.10657073]

>>10657038
I like to shitpost, sorry guy. Also apologies for the sloppy prose, I didn't proofread.

[Anonymous No.10657074]

>>10657033
Lmao this is great

[Anonymous No.10657086]

>>10657051
You're focusing on a nuance of what I just said

To generate more wealth, more paper would be necessary. Without digital we would be using even more paper to generate as much wealth

[Anonymous No.10657101]

OK, this is a little bit awesome.
Elon Musk just launched a thing into space, here's why we need to talk about it.
Science trumps hate!
Get to mars asap!
I fucking love science
Flat earthers btfo yet again
I fucking love science
Black Mirror season 4, all episodes ranked
Dan Harmon just apologised for assault, here's why that's so important
The philosophy of Rick and Morty: finding humanity in nihilistic times
I fucking love science
I love science

[Anonymous No.10657110]

>>10656882
>>10656891
>>>/int/

[Anonymous No.10657117]

Holy fuck the triggered Christ fags in this thread is hilarious. You absolute morons, Musk is genuinely doing interesting enterprises to further humanity and society while you Cheeto finger stained autists only meme about hating scientific ventures and politics that have nothing to do at hand.

No wonder Peterson is loved here, you people are literal idiots

[Anonymous No.10657133]

>>10657117
speak for yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.10657139]

>>10656580
There is no justification. Just small little people realizing how useless they are.

[Anonymous No.10657140]

>>10657117
Rick and Morty all episodes ranked from worst to best

[Anonymous No.10657142]

>>10657086
I don't think we should generate more wealth. I think that is exactly the problem.

I don't think there is a solution, I don't think we will "go back", I don't think we will come in terms with it, I don't believe in revolutions or reforms, I don't think democracy could ever reach anything close to a solution because it's something no one would vote for, I don't believe in any authoritarian solution because I understand that would make things worse and capitalism is the very opposite of what I am about to say.

But as long as there is more production and more people, the more we will push ourselves towards only that, more production. The debts increase, public and private and this debt is not meant to be paid as we all know, it's something like an invisible push that keep us doing things. It's not only a matter of getting money to live well, but that if you don't go as fast as the fastest one, you'll get behind and whatever you acquire is less than adequate to survive. Not only you create a solution, but you create a problem and sell the solution. First you get addicted to sugar, then you sell toothbrushes and call it a development.

When I see a fancy eletric car that uses that is extremely efficient and so on, I don't doubt that it is, but I keep thinking "what if things go right as planned? is that really what we want?". Suppose those cars are much better than what we have in every way, for the user and the maker, wouldn't that entail more asphalt? More urban chaos? I love my microwave, it's some sci-fi shit that I can get a cold meal ready in a couple of minutes, but how much more plastic is being used to create pre-prepared meals? How much easier it is to be lost in a life of underpaid shit work if you can lunch in 15 minutes? It is the collateral effects of each of these progressive things that gets me.

[Anonymous No.10657145]

>>10657133
>>10657140
T. Brainlet cunts

[Anonymous No.10657146]

>>10656674
>against progress

[Anonymous No.10657154]

>>10657117
>man sends his car into space in a egotistic expression of his hubris and pride
>REEE WHY DO CHRISTIANS NOT LIKE

[Anonymous No.10657155]

>>10657145
he called me a brainlet cunt how will I recover

[Anonymous No.10657156]

>>10656580
Keep 'em cucked, Elon!

[Anonymous No.10657157]

>>10656988
Well, I mean...

...not LITERALLY creating strawmen, right?

[Anonymous No.10657168]

>>10657117
>muskfag
Ok, soyboy, calm down

[Anonymous No.10657174]

>>10657154
>man sends his car into space as mock payload in playfull and attention grabbing PR move
You're a crybaby and a philistine

[Anonymous No.10657178]

>>10657154
>Self made millionaire actually builds heaviest rocket and bets he can out his own car on it for shits and giggles
>Upset english student can't handle it
>REEEEEE

[Anonymous No.10657182]

>>10657168
Well shit, ya called me a soyboy, how how will I ever go on living. Go back to the dark ages you knuckle dragger

[Anonymous No.10657187]

>>10657174
>>10657178
Hes just rubbing it in our nses the boer prick

[Anonymous No.10657208]

>>10657178
Science just proved why Bohemian Rhapsody is such a good song, and its amazing

[Anonymous No.10657210]

>>10657066
>measuring in dollars
I'm sure those who get it first will happily provide them for free for mankind to enjoy that progress together ^_^

[Anonymous No.10657211]

>>10657187
t. Non-Christian resentiment

[Anonymous No.10657218]

>>10656825

[Anonymous No.10657228]

>>10657139
Wtf I love science now

[Anonymous No.10657236]

>>10656580
>Justify these
You can't. Leftism is a disease of the mind and the soul.

[Anonymous No.10657247]

>>10657208
Do you often wonder why no one takes you seriously? You should be a journalist for the Guardian

[Anonymous No.10657250]

It's really surreal how much any sort of concrete achievement triggers liberal arts types

[Anonymous No.10657254]

>>10656580
>literature

[Anonymous No.10657259]

Space exploration is for billionares to play with their money
Believing elon musk is your superheroe sure kids.
GTFO to reddit stemfags

[Anonymous No.10657262]

>>10657250
What's the achievement?

[Anonymous No.10657275]

>>10657259
>Posts Chomsky who hasn't achieved anything except for whinging about his own government and got BTFO in linguistics
>STEM is for idiots
Sure thing there kiddo

[Anonymous No.10657278]

>>10657262
SpaceX sent a reusable rocket into space

[Anonymous No.10657281]

>>10657278
What for?

[Anonymous No.10657295]

>>10657281

To make space travel cheaper

[Anonymous No.10657298]

>>10657281
Spae exploration and colonization

[Anonymous No.10657310]

>>10657281
Further push the boundaries of rocket technology and embark on a new space race.

It was years ago when people began thinking of space tourism, now it can be a literal probability

[Anonymous No.10657335]

>>10656737

[Anonymous No.10657341]

>>10657281
dumb purpose pleb.

most great breakthroughs in anything come from just fucking around

[Anonymous No.10657366]

Papa Chomsky is linguistic
Post your pseud ling

[Anonymous No.10657381]

>>10657310
>>10657295
>>10657250
>>10657247
The philosophy of Rick and Morty

[Anonymous No.10657446]

>>10657381

[Anonymous No.10657451]

>>10656580
ITT: triggered pseuds at someone actually aircheving something

[Anonymous No.10657456]

>>10657247
A wild guardian writer appears:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/07/elon-musk-spacex-launch-utterly-depressing

[Anonymous No.10657458]

I can't believe you clowns have sustained this dumbass thread that's not even /lit/ for literally hours.

[Anonymous No.10657462]

>>10657381
I think the soy has gone to your brain.

[Anonymous No.10657464]

>>10657381
>*farts* who cares about rockets, morty? god isn't even real lmao WUBBA LUBBA DUB DOOH

[Anonymous No.10657466]

>>10657038
Nice response to getting utterly btfo guy

[Anonymous No.10657470]

>>10657275
>Chomsky hasn't anything
>Chomsky's work on formal grammars literally the modern basis for programming languages in Computer science
>I study le stems xd
Stop LARPing, idiot.

[Anonymous No.10657474]

>>10657466

Not me he was responding to

[Anonymous No.10657475]

>>10656580
I've never been more convinced we live in the absolute worst era for arts and culture. Very few have created anything in the past 30 years that will stand the test of time. You think they'll be talking about Hamilton in 200 year? I doubt it. Now we have outrage culture and cavernous digital echo chambers. There are so many people who have nothing better to do than complain and now they have a platform.

[Anonymous No.10657494]

>>10656803
Those lifeforms are being destroyed by predatory exploration. Just stop capitalist mindless production and things will get better (we won't get a bunch of organisms back, no, but we'll at least avoid extinguishing some others).

[Anonymous No.10657562]

>>10657475
To be fair for the past centurary or so people have developed a multitude of art and cultural instances that haven't stood the test of time and only the exceptional has seeped through, or at least the more underground stuff has seem a bit of a renaissance (see Gaddis).

But we live in a culture of constant information and media, so its hard to really find things that distinguish one from another.

[Anonymous No.10657575]

>>10656777
what lefty containment board is there?
/b/?

[Anonymous No.10657578]

>>10656669
>overcrowded planet
That's a meme.

[Anonymous No.10657602]

>>10657475
This has always been the case. For every Shakespeare there are a hundred other playwrights. But I have to agree at a certain level. It's hard to imagine anyone looking back and finding a shitty Hitchhiker's Guide joke inspiring or "bettering (>>10656629 >>10656648 )

More interesting to me is to see how leftist "open up the canon" rhetoric, which makes a valid, if overstated, point that we should try to cast wider net, has been totally co-opted by the worst forms of "white" literature. Think Dickens and Melville encourage whiteness? Try Rowling, Vonnegut or Tolkein. And yet when I once saw a link to r/books talking about /lit/, many redditites referred to canon-worship as a sort of reactionary fad (which, admittedly, describes most /lit/ posters who really could give less of a shit about literature)

[Anonymous No.10657653]

>>10656580
Reminder that we could've been on Mars by now but we (The US) to a large degree defunded our space program to pay for welfare for blacks. The Higgs could've been an American discovery too but Clinton cancelled it.

[Anonymous No.10657664]

>>10657575
/leftypol/

[Anonymous No.10658283]

>>10656792
Wrong.
It's not about food, it's about energy consumption. We simply can't support such enormous numbers and growth in undeveloped countries without an environmental catastrophe due to their massive energy needs and the inability to provide clean solutions to the same.

[Anonymous No.10658334]

>>10656792
"fewer" not "less".
Agree with your point.

[Anonymous No.10658359]

>>10657562
my nigga

[Anonymous No.10658370]

>>10657653
>instead of fixing the problem let's extend it to another planet
Not to mention there are no nearby planets which can sustain life and all suggestions for terraforming are wildly speculative and would require thousands of years of horrible colonial life before they got anywhere near earth like.

And then not to mention the route of expansion out of the solar system would take longer than a million human lifetimes, again of soul crushing labour.

This is the one planet we should be focusing on. There's no point wasting time masturbating to sci-fi fabulation when real and serious environmental problems pose a threat to the actually existing populations and ecosystems on earth.

[Anonymous No.10658381]

>>10656674
whose cock are you shilling?

[Anonymous No.10658480]

>>10656712
Very few things Varg says are accurate. He has an interesting point with the atheist version of paradise but for the most part, people trying to go to space are doing so because *other* people are fucking up earth, it's not a capitalist mentality like he makes it out to be. At least not yet.

[Anonymous No.10658501]

>>10657146
not him but
>hue memes in response to someone being against "progress"
what is "Ordem e Progresso"

[Anonymous No.10658540]

>>10658370
SpaceX's funding is less costly than either Trump's or Clinton's presidential campaign and only a tiny fraction of what the US already spends on welfare or education. Just stop being fucking dense, defunding programs like these won't suddenly solve all terran problems

[Anonymous No.10658576]

>>10657066
>Humans are already killing the Earth
>The motive for space travel is to spread throughout space only to harvest and kill the entire solar system

[Anonymous No.10658621]

>>10658576
>waaah waaaah

The great irony you seem to be missing is how Musk is also the figurehead behind a company that might also significantly lessen our dependency on fossil fuels in the very near future