Harry Potter ushered in the dumb kidult era we’re currently having to endure

[Anonymous No.11640720]

Is Will Self, dare I say it, our guy?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/17/will-self-i-read-as-many-as-50-books-at-once#img-1

[Anonymous No.11640723]

4chan is literally the poster site for manchildism

[Anonymous No.11640724]

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/982kj7/will_self_harry_potter_ushered_in_the_dumb_kidult/

lmao at the chimpout

[Anonymous No.11640725]

>>11640723
i think that would be more reddit, 4chan in the public eye is the poster site for deviants of various kinds

due to the ascendancy of /pol/ we may now be seen simply as neonazis im not entirely sure what the press says about us

[Anonymous No.11640733]

>>11640725
The general view is neets larping as neonazis

[Anonymous No.11640737]

>>11640723
>>11640725
4chan for negative machildism, Reddit for positive manchildism.

[Anonymous No.11640798]

LMAO who is this dude? Everyone knows who JK Rowling is, no one knows who this dude is... but then again i'm just a dumb kidult....

Edit: Thanks for the Gold Kind Stranger!

Edit 2: WOW! another one! thanks for the Gold kind sir xxxDDD

[Anonymous No.11640811]

>>11640798
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.11640812]

>>11640798
Take me upvote, good sir - you win the internet today.

[Anonymous No.11640820]

>>11640798
kek'd

[Anonymous No.11640835]

>>11640724
damn, those dumb kidults sure are mad that he insulted a book series for young readers that somehow has an adult following.

my cousin, who is considered a bright student, religiously declares the goblet of fire as her favorite book and has reread the entire series three times, once in the past year, and still stands by saying it's the best she's ever read. One of my mother's friends is a high level manager in a major retail firm and earns well north of $200k a year and considers them the best books ever written, and she doesn't even have the excuse that they were her childhood because she didn't read them until she was over forty years old.

I tried to get my cousin to read some actually good books but she can't stand the thought of reading anything in translation, is monolingual, and can't stand reading books that have any mention of sex because it makes her uncomfortable. She is 23 years old and still uses euphemisms to talk about sex in the company of adults. The guy is right, our generation fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.11640844]

>>11640720
WTF did I just read? This guy seems like a top shelf douchebag with a very high opinion of himself. He doesn't even have anything remotely insightful to say and seems to pen every paragraph with the goal to take some sideways potshot at the book series that is both undeserved and incoherent. And clearly this piece of work is such a wordsmith he gets to invent be words, like "kidult" that he never clearly defines and leaves just abstract enough that he can use it with impunity as a brand new insult leveled at readers.

[Anonymous No.11640857]

>>11640724
>https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/982kj7/will_self_harry_potter_ushered_in_the_dumb_kidult/
jesus christ reddit is bad, how do those people post there, it is fucking intolerable, it is like an entire tribe of complete faggots, smarmy unthinking weaklings repeating variations of phrases to each other

i feel a need to punch every single person there ihaven't felt since my highschool anger at the various rejects drooling autism at each other and the surrounding environment

[Anonymous No.11640878]

>>11640720
Marvel movies did that
The "dumb kidult" has always been a thing, they were just more noticeable via the internet
But after the first svengers we've started seeing more and more of them

[Anonymous No.11640879]

>>11640720
Didn't read.
But Harry Potter was not the only thing that contributed to this, nor was it the 20-something year old's sole responsibility. The current big-box-office film is what their parents watched and played with as children.

[Anonymous No.11640950]

Will Self may be a douche, but he's right about the Harry Potter books and their effect. Even if someone doesn't agree, they have to recognize that it didn't create a generation of readers - it only created a generation of Potter fans.

[Anonymous No.11640975]

>>11640844
>like "kidult" that he never clearly defines
How on earth is its meaning not immediately obvious to you, anon?

[Anonymous No.11640983]

>>11640950
He's a jew, so it's impossible for him to be "/ourguy/."

[Anonymous No.11640985]

i was once trying to talk to a coworker about literary theory hoping to instigate a pseud duel to see who would reign supreme, but she said "lol i dont really read much except maybe some harry potter" that conversation still gives me slightly suicidal feelings, mainly because i think the way i feel about her is how smart people must feel when they run into a pseud like me, it's just pseuds all the way down until u get to the harry potter reader at the bottom

[Anonymous No.11640997]

>>11640857
>smarmy unthinking weaklings repeating variations of phrases to each other
sounds like 4chan to me amigo

[Anonymous No.11641013]

>All that bullshit about how the Harry Potter books were going to turn a generation of otherwise uninterested boys into literary mavens – we could’ve done without that. The truth is that the books ushered in the dumb kidult era we’re currently having to endure, with illiteracy rates significantly on the rise for the first time in a century!

Based.

>Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin. Before reading it – and, admittedly, discussing it with its author – I thought of pornography as essentially a free speech issue; afterwards, I saw that it was a crime – and by no means a victimless one.

Solidly based.

I need to look into this guy's stuff now.

[Anonymous No.11641020]

>be Harry Potter fan
>be reader of classic literature as well
>try to talk to fellow Harry Potter fan about the blatant WWII/Nazi/holocaust allegory in Deathly Hallows as well as the biblical implications of Harry's death and rebirth
>"wtf are you talking about anon it's just a kids book, I didn't get any of that from the books"

[Anonymous No.11641022]

>>11640723
>last popular site in existence where US style 'free speech' is allowed is for manchildren

really makes you think

[Anonymous No.11641040]

>>11640975
he's too young to remember renting kidulthood from the vhs store. which means he's also too young to remember harry potter before it was virtue signalling

[Anonymous No.11641068]

>>11640844
Kidulhood is a famous series of british drama films. I'm not british nor have I seen them and even I knew that.

[Anonymous No.11641070]

>>11640720
I might have to finally read this guy. In a world where our edges are constantly being blunted it's refreshing to see such smugness.

[Anonymous No.11641272]

>>11640997
To be fair, 4chan debates the merits of race realism and calls each other faggot more often...

[Anonymous No.11641310]

[Anonymous No.11641311]

trite provocateur. read some short stories and found them worthless.

[Anonymous No.11641315]

>>11641020
Harry Potter is about a welfare mom fantasizing vaguely about the upper class, which then got popular when deracinated millennials latched onto its vision of an all-encompassing, righteous School arrayed against crudely-drawn revanchist racists as a utopia where their degrees all got them jobs inspecting magical chocolate bars after they demonstrated their bravery in the War.

[Anonymous No.11641319]

jk rowling is my big titty boomer mummy and will self is a hackfraud jew

[Anonymous No.11641330]

mass literacy made this inevitable

[Anonymous No.11641337]

>>11640737
redpill vs bluepill

[Anonymous No.11641364]

>>11641310
behold, a last man

[Anonymous No.11641366]

>>11640844
>WTF did I just read? This guy seems like a top shelf douchebag with a very high opinion of himself. He doesn't even have anything remotely insightful to say and seems to pen every paragraph with the goal to take some sideways potshot

Great job, you figured out Will Self immediately. Took me a couple articles to get to this point

[Anonymous No.11641370]

good quotation but will self is a loser that nobody cares for

[Anonymous No.11641371]

>>11640733
Seems accurate enough, except I'd say RPing rather than LARPing

[Anonymous No.11641375]

>>11641371
>except I'd say RPing rather than LARPing

Get with the times old man. They mean the same thing now in meme speak

[Anonymous No.11641388]

>>11641375
>live action no longer exists and everything is the internet
Damn

[Anonymous No.11641397]

>>11640720
I was just old enough to grow up along with Harry Potter, and as a consequence of that (plus few to no other fantasy books available at the time) I was essentially forced into reading them all. I enjoyed them a lot back then, and even today like them fine in spite of their many flaws... but yeah, the whole "generation of readers" thing really didn't crop up the way they thought, did it?

I think the problem is that Harry Potter ushered out a whole bunch of clones, each vying for the top position left by it. I'm sure many of the Potter fans went on to find other things to read, but they were split up along with Hunger Games, Twilight, and the legion of others, never again able to unite into a single cohesive whole to devour everything else around it.

[Anonymous No.11641403]

>>11641397
>few to no other fantasy books available at the time
Wut? No library?

[Anonymous No.11641409]

>>11641403
I live in a small town and there's not a whole lot available even today, much less anything good.

[Anonymous No.11641422]

>>11641020
It wasn’t meant as an allegory. Rowling is influenced by the time and Zeitgeist she grew up in more than her intellectually reflecting our existence.

[Anonymous No.11641473]

>>11641409
C.S Lewis is in every library in the Western world.

[Anonymous No.11641528]

>>11641473
>>11641409
The Golden Compass was also very popular before Harry Potter came out too. So much so it had to be banned in the US for chronic fedoraism

[Anonymous No.11641576]

>>11640798

Kek'd and check'd! Have my upvote and gold, internet friend :D

[Anonymous No.11641589]

This is /ourguy/ in a long piece on Harry Potter

https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/news/a1100/the-long-read-potter-gold/

[Anonymous No.11641620]

>>11641589
Given how we got drek like Cursed Child later...

[Anonymous No.11641658]

>>11640720

>Lel, author we usually hate sed bad thing bout Gary pooter and made Reddit sad, me now love him kekekekek

The a state of this board.

[Anonymous No.11641695]

>>11641658
>author we usually hate
Thanks for speaking for all of us m8

[Anonymous No.11641707]

>>11640857
/r/books is especially bad
/lit/ is full of pseuds and tryhards, but at least it doesn't try to justify reading kiddie books as a grown adult.

[Anonymous No.11641729]

>>11641658
Actually I love Harry Potter now because Will Self hates it

[Anonymous No.11641731]

I hate Harry Potter but I also hate Will Self. What do I do?

[Anonymous No.11641745]

>>11641731
You can admit that just because you hate someone doesn't mean they couldn't occasionally be right.

Or perhaps conclude that his hatred for Harry Potter is faulty, and not the real reason the books should be hated.

[Anonymous No.11641752]

The book I’m most ashamed not to have read
>Ashamed before whom? God? My mum who’s been dead for 30 years? Some notional bourgeois-minded intellectual out there judging me? No – I don’t think so.

kek his response is like a parody of himself.

[Anonymous No.11641753]

Manchildren are a symptom of capitalism and its need to commercialise everything.

[Anonymous No.11641767]

Self was always our guy. Shooting Stars is our panel show too.

[Anonymous No.11641786]

>>11641767
good shout

[Anonymous No.11641807]

>>11641745
>Or perhaps conclude that his hatred for Harry Potter is faulty, and not the real reason the books should be hated

This is the patrician option. I usually go for accusing them of not being /pol/ enough

[Anonymous No.11641812]

>>11640857
Haha I tried to post saying that will Self has a very dry sense of humour and is very self aware. It went down like a lead balloon. One guy was interested and I recommended The Book of Dave and his long read on the isle of St Kilda to show both his literature and journalistic sides. But that guy really stirred up the redditors.

[Anonymous No.11641813]

>>11641753
Bit of a chicken/egg thing here. We were already lazy, capitalism has enabled us to indulge our laziness like never before.

[Anonymous No.11641887]

>>11640720
>The truth is that the books ushered in the dumb kidult era we’re currently having to endure, with illiteracy rates significantly on the rise for the first time in a century!
Is this guy insane? It's not the fault of HP, it's because of the availability of the internet.

[Anonymous No.11641899]

>>11640720
I don't know who this guy is but he seems very self important with the 'Do you know who I am?' and refusing to answer fun questions.

[Anonymous No.11641902]

>>11640985
>i was once trying to talk to a coworker about literary theory hoping to instigate a pseud duel to see who would reign supreme, but she said "lol i dont really read much except maybe some harry potter"

kek

what made you think she would know about literary theory

[Anonymous No.11641906]

>>11641899
Will Self is a supercilious cunt and a fifth-rate mediocrity roleplaying as a public intellectual 50 years after it was possible to be one. He'd take any talkshow appearance or interview that allows him to further his roleplay, while his country burns and is replaced by Islamic niggers.

He's right about Harry Potter being for retards though.

[Anonymous No.11641907]

>>11640997
>>smarmy unthinking weaklings repeating variations of phrases to each other
>sounds like 4chan to me amigo
unbased and unredpilled

[Anonymous No.11641946]

>>11640720

>Pampered and sheltered bourgeois
>dabbled in heroin solely because he desperately craved a feeling of authenticity that his attitude of infinite reflection and irony towards life had made impossible in the first place
>Could cure himself of his faggy VICE-tier cynicism and worldweariness by just reading Kierkegaard unironically
>Mostly talentless
>Pisses off people for the sport of it

Truly our guy.

[Anonymous No.11641957]

>>11640723
no

[Anonymous No.11641988]

>>11641957
What kinda weirdo saves pictures of other men to their computer so they can feel superior about themselves? You could just as easily find pictures of men holding guns and looking silly. What's your deal mate? Why do you have these images?

[Anonymous No.11641995]

>>11641906
You're right but you forgot to mention that his Umbrella trilogy is actually a really fucking good series of books.

[Anonymous No.11642014]

>>11641988
to make a point quickly and efficiently, switchboi

[Anonymous No.11642046]

>>11641946
absolutely based i am now going to read the entire self oeuvre

[Anonymous No.11642064]

>>11641310
This is just sad

[Anonymous No.11642072]

>>11640835
USA?

[Anonymous No.11642075]

>>11640835
Are people like your cousin the norm? Where do you live? I don't know anyone who is that enamoured with Harry Potter or that terrified of sex.

[Anonymous No.11642088]

>>11640724

/r/books sounds even more insecure than /lit/. Mental.

[Anonymous No.11642091]

>>11641658
This post is impressively contrarian

[Anonymous No.11642092]

>>11640835
>expecting women to have good taste in literature
lmao

[Anonymous No.11642108]

>I said all those adults reading Goblet in 2000 had pubic hair — but by the time The Order of the Phoenix came out three years later, a lot of the female kidults had shaved theirs off, almost as if it were an homage to their youthful heroine, Hermione Granger.
A modern pynchon

[Anonymous No.11642109]

>>11642075

>I don't know anyone who is that enamoured with Harry Potter

Can I be you? That's every girl I've ever dated.

[Anonymous No.11642115]

>>11642108
>by the time The Order of the Phoenix came out three years later, a lot of the female kidults had shaved theirs off, almost as if it were an homage to their youthful heroine, Hermione Granger
How did he even know this? Did he go check?

[Anonymous No.11642125]

>>11640724
They're right about Gen X and Milenials not being to blame for all of this but they're also big babies upset that someone insulted Harry Potter.

[Anonymous No.11642237]

>>11642092
I expect adults to have adult taste in literature instead of reading "The cow goes moo. The dog goes woof woof!" the book.

[Anonymous No.11642300]

Will Self is a pretentious pseudo-intellectual cunt and his books are hot rubbish, but he's right about Harry Potter (and Big Macs).

[Anonymous No.11642303]

>>11642237

Agreed, people really need to grow up. This excerpt is from a book beloved by pseuds all over the globe:

>Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

[Anonymous No.11642308]

>>11640720
>will-self-i-read-as-many-as-50-books-at-once
>I read as many as 50 books at once
What an absolute idiot.

[Anonymous No.11642309]

>>11641315
good post

[Anonymous No.11642317]

>>11642303
Jesus.

What book is that?

[Anonymous No.11642318]

>>11640724
>https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/982kj7/will_self_harry_potter_ushered_in_the_dumb_kidult/
Should have been upset about this:
>The book I’m most ashamed not to have read
>Ashamed before whom? God? My mum who’s been dead for 30 years? Some notional bourgeois-minded intellectual out there judging me? No – I don’t think so.
And his Dworkin bullshit.

[Anonymous No.11642322]

>>11640844
Why is reddit

[Anonymous No.11642323]

>>11640985
10/10 post desu

[Anonymous No.11642344]

>>11642317
Joyce.

[Anonymous No.11642367]

>tfw you really need to rage
https://qz.com/788817/two-harvard-divinity-school-graduates-explore-religion-and-spirituality-in-new-harry-potter-podcast/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvqay9/is-harry-potter-the-jesus-of-a-new-generation

[Anonymous No.11642374]

>>11642367
>Zoltan and ter Kuile use ages-old spiritual practices like the Christian tradition of Lectio Divina and the Jewish practice of Havruta to find deeper meaning within the text. Harry Potter and the Sacred Text has hit a nerve with Harry Potter fans, who have suddenly found their religious obsession with these books justified by actual religious scholars. The podcast is a Top 40 mainstay on iTunes Religions and Spirituality Chart, and has inched up to the No. 1 and No. 2 spots more than a few times, putting it shoulder to shoulder with folks like Joel Osteen and Bishop T.D. Jakes.

[Anonymous No.11642375]

>>11642367
>Harry Potter
>jesus

More like Antichrist.

[Anonymous No.11642380]

>>11640985

[Anonymous No.11642390]

>>11642344
FW was a high level literary shitpost and can't be compared to harry potter in any way.

[Anonymous No.11642504]

>>11641020
Well Harry Potter is fictional, just like the holocaust so I guess Rowling got that part right.

[Anonymous No.11642557]

*pretends to read women and power and has a small knife next to his raspberry juice*

wow

[Anonymous No.11642558]

>>11642303
Your excerpt is from a part where the father is telling a childrens bedtime story to his son. It later repeats as the child learns who he is. It challenges you to understand the context of what exactly is happening from context and what you eventually learn as you continue reading rather than spoin feeding you the answers every time.

[Anonymous No.11642579]

>>11640724
The reaction just proves his point

[Anonymous No.11642583]

i always get a rush of vicarious enjoyment from just unabashed snobbery and wish i had the courage to be that much of a jerk irl myself

[Anonymous No.11642586]

>>11642237
lol fuck off ACFag

[Anonymous No.11642594]

>>11640835
the fucking state of the bourgeoisie

[Anonymous No.11642613]

>>11642390
Pseud

[Anonymous No.11642614]

so why did rowling include anti-semitic caricatures in her stories

[Anonymous No.11642673]

will self has borderline personality disorder

[Anonymous No.11642677]

>>11642614
Ummm /u/anon JK Rowling isn't alt-right, and it's just a kids' book.
Go back to r/TheDrumpf

[Anonymous No.11642721]

>>11642303
Fuck off it's great

[Anonymous No.11642734]

>>11642677
>/u/anon
that doesn't mean what you think it does

[Anonymous No.11642742]

>>11641753

[Anonymous No.11642764]

>>11642677
seriously though

[Anonymous No.11642770]

>>11640879
>But Harry Potter was not the only thing that contributed to this, nor was it the 20-something year old's sole responsibility.
Yeah, it likely started with Star Wars and the elimination of the rules that prevented advertising to children in the early 80s. Harry Potter and the films of Quentin Tarantino exacerbated the problems in the 90s.

Every adult I've met who's really fond of those books is hopelessly naive and allergic to nuance in how they engage with both life and art. It's kind of frightening, but I suppose it shouldn't be surprising given that these people were the target of the literary world's most aggressive attempt at branding. It's almost like Harry Potter is the publishing industry's MK ULTRA.

[Anonymous No.11642772]

>>11640724
Unfriendly reminder

[Anonymous No.11642784]

>>11642772
>don't get me started on Emerson
Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.11642785]

>>11642772
>every class structured in dull way in order to have students memorize enough information to do well on formal exams and earn the school more money
>but the purpose of english class should be to have FUN reading YA fiction

[Anonymous No.11642789]

>>11640835
>”oh that’s perfectly fine for a high school student, you’re probably overreacting”
>it keeps getting worse
>the part about your mother
>she’s 23
I wish I was deceased

[Anonymous No.11642799]

>>11640985
>it's just pseuds all the way down until u get to the harry potter reader at the bottom
Probably one of the best /lit/ posts I’ve ever read

[Anonymous No.11642818]

>>11640798
HURRAY FOAR INTERNETZ :D

[Anonymous No.11642828]

>>11642586
I regularly go after Eric on /v/ when he posts his hourly Xenoblade 2 thread.

There's nothing wrong with having liked harry potter as a kid and you know what, there's nothing wrong with liking it as an adult for what it is. But when you are presenting yourself, and priding yourself, on being a reader and a fan of books and you claim that Harry Potter is the best you've read something has gone horribly wrong. When you choose to read and re-read children's books instead of expanding your horizons something is wrong, much like adults watching my little pony or writing sonic the hedgehog fanfic.

It's like the people claiming that any Xenoblade game or even Octopath Traveler are top 5 JRPGs. It's okay to like books that aren't classics or aren't highly regarded in pretentious literary circles but where the fuck did our standards go?

[Anonymous No.11642832]

>>11642317
Even if you’ve never read Portrait of the Artist as a Young man, you should be able to recognize it’s first page due to how heavily memed it is.

[Anonymous No.11642837]

>>11642390
>Finnegan’s Wake

[Anonymous No.11642851]

>>11640724
An entire little world of adults who read childrens books 'because I like it!'

Take that patriachy.

[Anonymous No.11642855]

>>11640720
>>11640724
>I thought of pornography as essentially a free speech issue; afterwards, I saw that it was a crime
He didn't read any of these books.
He just browses /lit/ and bread and chastepilled himself.

[Anonymous No.11642885]

>>11640835
Sounds like a perfectly normal normalfag, at least in Canada. A jack of no trades, master of none.

[Anonymous No.11642888]

>>11642772
This has got to be a pasta

[Anonymous No.11642889]

>>11642303
perfect bait

[Anonymous No.11642899]

>>11640720
>Will Self

is that really his name? sounds like Max Power of philosophy

[Anonymous No.11642905]

>>11640720
>i-read-as-many-as-50-books-at-once

[Anonymous No.11642923]

>>11641946
>Could cure himself of his faggy VICE-tier cynicism and worldweariness by just reading Kierkegaard unironically

W-which book specifically?

[Anonymous No.11642932]

>>11640733
It is whatever the people talking about it need it to be, most times it is a few hundred incels pretending to be nazis, other times when they need to underplay their own incompetence it is a den of coordenated hackers and bots working to undermine something.

[Anonymous No.11642943]

>>11642923
His journals.

[Anonymous No.11642973]

>>11640720
how can you blame writers who speak to an audience that is primarily too distracted by economic demands to be absurdly industrious?

things'll improve in the singularity when nobody has to work out of necessity

[Anonymous No.11642981]

>>11640798
And my axe!

[Anonymous No.11643425]

>>11640720

I havent read the books, but they seem to create a light weight social fabric for people to relate to one another on. So and so is a hufflepuff vs some other magic school. I think kids take and run with these things in ways adults cant really control

[Anonymous No.11643480]

>>11640720
>with illiteracy rates significantly on the rise for the first time in a century!
So, a really popular book series somehow turned people illiterate? This guy is fucking retarded. Not that I expected much of a liberal arts faggot anyway.

[Anonymous No.11643485]

>>11640737
That's fair

[Anonymous No.11643502]

>>11640798
For a group that claims to never visit Reddit, you fags sure know all the memes.

[Anonymous No.11643517]

>>11640985
>i was once trying to talk to a coworker about literary theory hoping to instigate a pseud duel to see who would reign supreme
lmao revealing your power level to someone who is clearly pseud is the most pseud thing one can do

[Anonymous No.11643568]

Jean Baudrillard was so much right. America isn't real anymore.

[Anonymous No.11643672]

>>11642734
Oh but it do

[Anonymous No.11643682]

>>11643502
i go on the_donald all the time so i don't get a warped view of reality from reading the nytimes and other fake news, and every so rarely i go on "redpill women" to laugh at fat chicks complaining that chad won't for marriage to have sex with them

[Anonymous No.11643884]

>>11641310
I hate these lazy excuses they come up with.

[Anonymous No.11643915]

>>11642837
>using the plebe apostrophe

[Anonymous No.11643949]

> "The author on Harry Potter, the book that changed his mind about pornography and his writer regrets"
> You'd think an English publication such as the Guardian would recognize a sentence in dire need of an Oxford comma.
Well, Reddit got a point there

[Anonymous No.11643967]

>>11642973
If nobody had to work, they would just be browsing social media more often. People who are really into their hobbies do it no matter how hard they worked that day

[Anonymous No.11643971]

>>11643967
It'd give them a bit more time to do, and they would be burned out by work less. So it does help a little.

[Anonymous No.11643988]

>>11643949
>The Grauniad
>using correct grammar

[Anonymous No.11644001]

>>11643568
Was it ever? We just wrote on a piece of paper that we were a country and mostly everyone was ok with that

[Anonymous No.11644151]

>faggot druggie oxbridge sub-midwit nothing without any point of view or aeshetic jumps on the tradwagon

"Will Self" lmao, truly a great time for leaving worthless nonames out of mind forever. at least the babbys reading Harold Bloom for the first time have the sense and inspiration to write tentative and forgivably sloppy analyses of contemporary work through his lens, at least they do better than simply parrot his casual talking points from ancient public access interviews

[Anonymous No.11644300]

>>11641988
>Why do you have these images?
To post in the metal thread on /mu/ when someone likes an album I don't like

[Anonymous No.11644373]

>>11640835
That's fucking nothing.

I have a neighbor, a literal boomer in his 60s, who is absolutely obsessed with Harry Potter. He has personally built replicas of various objects from the books/movies and still makes more from time to time. As if that wasn't bad enough, once a year he holds a Harry Potter-themed gathering where a number of other middle aged adults from the neighborhood dress up as fucking Harry Potter characters and go to his house which is filled to the brim with Harry Potter paraphernalia and eat Harry Potter-themed food. It's fucking surreal

[Anonymous No.11644390]

Manchildness has really excentuated why I despise hyperconsumerism, they're almost pitiful.

[Anonymous No.11644419]

>>11644373

That sounds like a spot of fun. Unironically.

[Anonymous No.11644428]

>>11644373
worrying

[Anonymous No.11644439]

>>11644373
That’s weird as shit but also kinda charming

[Anonymous No.11644443]

>>11644373
does he work for a publisher or marketing consultancy? maybe its all a scam to get ppl to buy shitty stuff

[Anonymous No.11644456]

>>11644373
Would honestly love to be a fly on the wall there while that's happening.

[Anonymous No.11644509]

>>11644151
>at least they do better than simply parrot his casual talking points from ancient public access interviews
no they dont how new are you to this board

[Anonymous No.11644523]

>>11642772
Upvotes?

[Anonymous No.11644531]

>>11644523
https://np.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6de844/eli5_how_and_why_are_books_like_the_great_gatsby/di2d436/

[Anonymous No.11644539]

>>11644373
Time to infiltrate with your go pro hoochieboogalooo quidditch staff.

[Anonymous No.11644623]

>>11642318
If someone had only posted that excerpt without the rest of the interview and it's mean Harry Potter bashing it would have been upvoted into the high heavens.

[Anonymous No.11644663]

>>11641988
>t. SEETHING soiboi

[Anonymous No.11644680]

The Umbrella trilogy and Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys are the best things Self has written

[Anonymous No.11644686]

>>11642115
It's a calculated jab. Pretty clever actually. If he's right, readers will silently seethe at being called out. If he's wrong, the reader will be too embarrassed to come out and openly say "NUH UH I DIDN'T SHAVE MY PUBES". How fucking stupid would they look for chimping out at that particular point? It's a humorous form of "have you stopped beating your wife yet?".

[Anonymous No.11644727]

>>11642742
I prefer the edit of this with footage from Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Schindler's List

[Anonymous No.11644785]

>>11640835

but, is that bad?

I mean, when he says "dumb kidult era", I really doubt that he's talking about people like the ones you mentioned. Those are well adjusted people that, while having dumb hobbies, at least are steady on their lives.

[Anonymous No.11644794]

cunt in the media but nest British author for the past 30 years

[Anonymous No.11644808]

the west needs to get nuked

[Anonymous No.11644837]

>>11644808
This looks intentionally retarded. I find those freaks like Chrischan and all those neckbeards and obeasts worse.

[Anonymous No.11644863]

>>11641013
>>Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin. Before reading it – and, admittedly, discussing it with its author – I thought of pornography as essentially a free speech issue; afterwards, I saw that it was a crime – and by no means a victimless one.
i was going to read this once, as i thought its premise sounded interesting and i was open to hearing a viewpoint different from my own
but then i remembered that andrea dworkin looked like this

[Anonymous No.11644871]

>>11641995
book of dave is great too

[Anonymous No.11644920]

>>11644808
>Boomers dressed as boomer characters
Huh, honestly kind of wholesome

[Anonymous No.11645025]

>>11640724
>dissing harry potter on /r/books
Oh man, I'm making some popcorn right now.

[Anonymous No.11645076]

>>11644001
We sure did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJSp-igWqs

[Anonymous No.11645587]

>>11643568
how does one take the Baudrillard pill? do you just jump straight into S&S?

[Anonymous No.11645636]

>>11642772
>I liked reading books when they were easy
>now they're hard and I hate them
I even like children's literature a lot more than most on /lit/ but come the fuck on dawg you gotta grow up a little

[Anonymous No.11645642]

>>11643568
Which baudrillard should I read for this?

[Anonymous No.11645662]

>>11642772
Why are programmers so fucking dull? My brother is into programming and they have the driest, most shallow culture I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.11646000]

>>11645662
And they think themselves Christ reincarnate because they can make a website do a funny le gaben noise.
It's stupid, sub-midwit, and for the highest tier of pseuds who can't even convince simpletons of their intellect.

[Anonymous No.11646042]

>>11644863
based

[Anonymous No.11646046]

>>11640857
Based and redpilled.

[Anonymous No.11646075]

>>11645642
america

[Anonymous No.11646083]

>>11641707
/lit/ doesn't read

[Anonymous No.11646095]

>>11641022
>muh free speech

[Anonymous No.11646108]

>>11646095
That just proves anon right though. 4chan is one of the last places where you can speak your mind without being fired or otherwise ostracized, which is the idealized version of american free speech.

[Anonymous No.11646114]

>>11646095
>suppressive actions are part of free speech
>people sincerely agree with this comment.
What a world we live in.

[Anonymous No.11646122]

>>11646108
most people don't actually give a shit about the truth, and i mean this in a fundamental way. It's not that they're lying to fit in, it's that their minds are literally set up so that their conception of the truth is what is best socially for them.

Realizing this enormously simplified how people act for me

[Anonymous No.11646127]

>>11646108
>4chan is one of the last places where you can speak your mind without being fired or otherwise ostracized, which is the idealized version of american free speech.
1st that's not really what the founders intended. There are limits on "Free speech" anyone who doesn't believe this is a naive child. For example you can't say; I'm going to kill the president. This has always been illegal since the founded enshrined the first amendment in the bill of rights.

2nd the only reasons there are no ramifications to you speech here is semi anonymity. You can ask yourself if hiro isn't keeping record of what you say how long that will last. He's already turned /b/ and /k/ into fbi honeypots.

[Anonymous No.11646150]

>>11646127
>There are limits on "Free speech" anyone who doesn't believe this is a naive child.
Sure, but the only limit should be against speech in which the speaker states his intent to cause direct physical harm. Anyone who believes there should be more than that is just an authoritarian trying to silence their enemies, and with that in mind, it isn't surprising that these people are gleeful at the prospect of corporate entities monopolizing all discursive space.

[Anonymous No.11646157]

>>11646150
I ironically think the invisible hand of the market will solve your problem.

[Anonymous No.11646166]

>>11646127
you should operate under the assumption that everything you post could be linked back to you. it probably won't be, but you shouldn't post unless you don't care about the consequences of that scenario. i really don't care, so i post whatever I like, but I don't really give a shit about my life in general.

Also though you seem to misunderstand the entire ideal of free speech. It is not a call for the government to not interfere in private citiizens' behaviour, that is just something that extends from the basic idea.

The idea itself is that truth will win out if everyone agrees to have open discourse about things. The meme you posted about 'showing you the door' is exactly not the point. You are supposed to engage in discussion, not just ostracize.

You can disagree with that idea if you like, but that is what it actually is.

[Anonymous No.11646169]

>>11646157
But the intrusion of the market into the spaces in which public discourse occurs is my problem.

[Anonymous No.11646215]

>>11646095
>muh xkcd

[Anonymous No.11646245]

>>11646215
Do you think the comic you quoted is wrong, then, or do you just not like the messenger?

[Anonymous No.11646247]

>>11641397
>I was just old enough to grow up along with Harry Potter, and as a consequence of that (plus few to no other fantasy books available at the time) I was essentially forced into reading them all.

Bullshit, I was the exact target demo when the first book came out in 97 and I got bored with it after Goblet of Fire and moved on to LotR when I was 13.

[Anonymous No.11646265]

>>11646245
It's just another attempt at justifying censorship without calling it censorship all while making it clear that he's a corporate whore. It sounds wrong to me, but there's plenty of people who agree with that message.

[Anonymous No.11646272]

>>11646245
I wrote an entire reply to that comic, which is the standard definition of Enlightenment Europe's free speech thing, which the guy did not reply to
>>11646166

[Anonymous No.11646281]

>>11646215
i remember /lit/ being the most left-wing board of the site. What happened? Not saying is wrong desu

[Anonymous No.11646285]

>>11640798
its like reddit still live in 2009

[Anonymous No.11646291]

>>11646281
the entire anonymous internet has been shifting massively right as the identified internet becomes more lefitst. The people driven out from the public sphere end up on the anonymous sections

I'm not sure when this started happening but it really picked up speed around 2014

[Anonymous No.11646294]

>>11646281
The intersectional turn alienated the primary demographic of this board from the left.

[Anonymous No.11646312]

>>11646095
>thinking posting xkcreddit comics is the same thing as making a point.

[Anonymous No.11646313]

>>11644300
Based

[Anonymous No.11646315]

fuck you guys, reddit is based!!!

[Anonymous No.11646333]

>>11646291
Gamergate and the 2016 election sped this up. 4chan as a whole leaned more to the left 10 years ago when Bush was in office and Republican politicians wanted to ban video game violence. But Obama wasn't any better and now the left are the ones banning everything so the pendulum swung, not mention the site being counter-cultural and contrarian to the mainstream in general.

[Anonymous No.11646379]

>>11646333
i never cared about video games or politics really, I came here because I saw everywhere else just constantly lying about everything and it repulsed me.

The idiocy here is much more welcome to me than the lukewarm mendacity on offer everywhere else. I honestly cannot believe people debase themselves like that, that is the deepest thing about you, what you believe and say and do, and they act like it's a game to be played for social status. it's fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.11646383]

>>11646281
Mass /pol/ migrations (stemming from /pol/ getting reverse-colonised from r/the_donald) due to the "lonely disafected male "self improvement" movement" brought on by Peterson and his ilk. It's died down a bit recently but there's still considerable back-wash remaining here.

[Anonymous No.11646386]

>>11646379
don't worry, you'll grow up one day.

[Anonymous No.11646407]

>>11646386
you really don't see that at all? It would make me angry but i accepted that people are just like that, and it's the way things have to be.

I certainly don't extend any effort towards engaging those people in conversation anymore though, they are playing a wicked game

[Anonymous No.11646411]

>>11646407
No I saw it but it stopped bothering me so much after I realized how people here are stupid too.

[Anonymous No.11646424]

>>11646411
Well yes i said that in my post, i said 'idiocy', but i much prefer dumbness to people literally shitting on truth for social status.

I was always very engaged in society, i was always an outgoing popular person, but when I realized that people actually lie to themselves about truth for the sake of social status i became so disgusted that I have never been able to properly go back in. My social face now is a charade to maintain basic functionality, but i just expected so much more of people, and they dramatically failed my expectations.

It's a real fucking problem man, and there is no way to fix it, it's just there, it's part of who we are, even we do it as well, and the fucked up thing is we literally can't know when we're doing it, because our minds place social priority above truth. But we can at least try, I mean fuck it's a mess out there and things need to be solved, and people are just playing petty games

Yeah i know, this is just how it is, and it can't be changed, but i still get irritated about it sometimes and this is one of those times

[Anonymous No.11646436]

Well hes not wrong, tons of dipshits believe they're part of Dumbledore's Army because they don't like Donald Trump.

[Anonymous No.11646445]

>>11640798
normalfags should seriously be killed

[Anonymous No.11646487]

>>11643672
in that case, stop attacking yuri, it is the purest form of love and you have no heart or soul or love and should be ashamed of yourself bad man

[Anonymous No.11646542]

>>11642583
go on then, post some good snobbish articles

[Anonymous No.11646579]

>>11646424

not the guy you were talking to, but
>people actually lie to themselves about truth for the sake of social status
is correct and really terrible desu.
People who lie to themselves and really believe what's most convenient for them socially, often do get believed and respected by others even if they make one mistake after the other.
I've known people who're lazy, refuse to do any work, leach off others and still convince themselves they're 'good' because they're socially accepted and their opinions get validated by others.
The others don't see the bad shit they do, because they themselves are guilty of a lot of the same things (wasting their parents' money by partying and sleeping through college for example).
Truth really gets lost in self-delusion and I'm not even immune myself. And the more self-conscious you are about this, your confidence suffers because you rightly doubt everything, which results in being perceived as weak and awarded less social status.
It's like the entire thing is rigged against objectivity.

[Anonymous No.11646581]

>>11641310
Capitalism was a mistake

[Anonymous No.11646589]

>>11641887
This. The idea that popular books 'ushered in' illiteracy is absolutely bonkers mad

[Anonymous No.11646592]

>>11640737
>positive manchildism
contradiction in terms

[Anonymous No.11646595]

>>11646592
Not that kind of "positive", but rather the sort where they're happy and like good feels and all that stuff.

[Anonymous No.11646606]

>>11642932
Yeah. Pseuds tend to fall for any and all dissociation propaganda because by their very nature they don't want to inadvertently be labeled as and associated with caricatures.

[Anonymous No.11646671]

>>11646095
>the enlightenment concept of "free speech" can only ever be defined as a legal right to not be imprisoned
fuck right off

[Anonymous No.11646672]

im out

[Anonymous No.11646688]

>>11645587
Just do some lectures/ essays. S/S is terribly written and poorly argued.

[Anonymous No.11646692]

>>11646281
>hillary clinton
>democrats
>left-wing

ok..

[Anonymous No.11646701]

>>11644509
I'm not talking about this board, I'm talking about productive people in young contemporary literature

[Anonymous No.11646745]

>>11641311
there is so much to be provoked on this topic isn't there? every fool knows this to be true. muh provocator

[Anonymous No.11646770]

>>11641906
how's your sex life?

[Anonymous No.11646775]

>>11643988
>Caring about correctness over the practical needs of communication

[Anonymous No.11646804]

>>11646701
>I'm not talking about this board, I'm talking about productive people in young contemporary literature
who

[Anonymous No.11646840]

why do people have negative reactions to the use of complex words and ideas?

Everyone on reddit is calling this guy pretentious because he doesnt write at an 8th grade level that theyre used to.

[Anonymous No.11646848]

>>11646840
Because it's either that, or accepting that they themselves don't understand it. Human psyche is naturally geared up to blame everything except itself.

[Anonymous No.11647273]

>>11642785
The Anglo-American school system is literally fucking broken. I was a teaching assistant for a few years. Education is no longer a priority in the vast majority of schools.

[Anonymous No.11647283]

>>11644373
See, I dont mind this. If you're gonna be a sad bastard, be a sad bastard, go the whole hog. None of this halfways house "OMG I'm such a neeerrddd" bullshit. Commit to your degenracy. Shit like this is why conventions are ten times more insufferable than they ever were

[Anonymous No.11647290]

>>11645662
The scariest thing is that these fuckers are running the world now. We are slaves to financial institutions, consumer corporations and basic STEM edgelord programmers.

[Anonymous No.11647548]

>>11642108
Where in Order does it specify that Hermione shaved her pubes

[Anonymous No.11647570]

>>11640857
>it is like an entire tribe of complete faggots, smarmy unthinking weaklings repeating variations of phrases to each other

[Anonymous No.11647611]

>>11646281
>Hillary
>left wing
You cannot be serious

[Anonymous No.11647619]

>>11647611
Yeah, she's far-left.

[Anonymous No.11647625]

From R*ddit
>I used to read the thick, dusty, contemporary, meaning of life and everything else books when I was in college and had a simple part time job.

>Today I'm reading the slightly risque YA novels while preventing my toddler from enjoying near death experiences. I don't have the time, mental capacity, or desire to read the things I used to when I was younger. It doesn't make me a 'bad reader' or demote my knowledge when I read YA books. I'm still a reader. I still enjoy the craft of written words. And my kid sees that I am reading for fun. Someday she might sit still and read beside me.

>I hope to come back to the deep and intense books when I am older and have the time to appreciate the details. For now, I'm going to find out which witch poisoned the sandwich of her ex lover after study hall.

[Anonymous No.11647628]

>>11640720
>blaming content instead of mediums

[Anonymous No.11647634]

>>11647619
>In favor of iraq war
>in favor of patriot act
>in favor of every military budget increase
against gay marriage until the party dragged her to compromise land.
>husband promised to reform welfare as we know it (dog whistle for more means testing and cutting aid to poor people), which she was also in favor of
>called black teens "superpredators"
>started off republican
>entire strategy is "third way dem" which means "compromise with republicans as much as possible even when they refuse to compromise with you" which sounds like a winning republican strategy

Talk to anyone far left and they despise her. You're blind.

[Anonymous No.11647648]

>>11640720
i know nothing about the guy but he literally cucked Zizek on a debate, so he's good on my book

[Anonymous No.11647652]

>>11647634
>the far left is the only left

[Anonymous No.11647675]

>>11647634
lol

[Anonymous No.11647683]

>>11647648
Proof?

[Anonymous No.11647684]

>>11647652
the left that can be spoken of is not the real left

[Anonymous No.11647694]

>>11647625
This guy seems pretty reasonable, really.

[Anonymous No.11647697]

>>11640835
>I tried to get my cousin to read some actually good books but she can't stand the thought of reading anything in translation, is monolingual, and can't stand reading books that have any mention of sex because it makes her uncomfortable. She is 23 years old and still uses euphemisms to talk about sex in the company of adults.
there's literally nothing wrong with this

[Anonymous No.11647702]

>>11646095
>rights are only about what the government allows you to do

[Anonymous No.11647708]

>>11647683
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OAWRinR6GM

[Anonymous No.11647713]

>>11647625
>i just seek immediate pleasure
>my character shouldn't be judged by anything i do
i mean, go ahead, pursue pleasure as much as you want, but don't expect everybody else just to suck your cock because of it

[Anonymous No.11647787]

>>11646127
>that's not really what the founders intended
What is more important, the author's intention behind a literary work, or the reader's interpretation of it?

[Anonymous No.11647821]

>>11645662
>>11646000

There's a lot ore depth to programming culture. It just not the majority of programmers. Just like how the majority of people "who like reading" just like Harry Potter and Huger Games.

[Anonymous No.11647943]

>>11647708
Thanks. Think I was meant to watch this at the time.

[Anonymous No.11649324]

>>11644373
Don't let him babysit your kids.

[Anonymous No.11649337]

>>11640878
No, Marvel movies succeeded because of it, and perpetuate it, but did not cause it.

[Anonymous No.11649355]

>>11640835
>I tried to get my cousin to read some actually good books but she can't stand the thought of reading anything in translation, is monolingual, and can't stand reading books that have any mention of sex because it makes her uncomfortable. She is 23 years old and still uses euphemisms to talk about sex in the company of adults. The guy is right, our generation fucking sucks.

that's not generational, she's just a fucking weirdo. I'm assuming ur murica?

[Anonymous No.11649365]

>>11644727
The one where's it blacked dot com is clearly superior.

[Anonymous No.11649716]

>I read 50 books at once
>this is not b/c I have the attention span of a goldfish, but because being a moron drifting in and out of fifty different stories frees me from the compulsion to know what I'm talking about
>allow me to recommend my most recent novel, which contains my fascinating (and powerful) thoughts on Donald Trump
>"Comfort read"? Do you who I am? I am the edgiest writer alive, which is why all my opinions are boomer approved prog slop
what an obnoxious person

[Anonymous No.11650297]

>>11642303
Is this real? Why is HP so infantile?

[Anonymous No.11650365]

>>11641310
This is literally jonathan franzen's hot take.

[Anonymous No.11650453]

>>11646281
We kept reading and figured out Leftists are full of shit

[Anonymous No.11650570]

>>11646840
they call him pretentious for the reading 100 books at a time comment, which is fair enough

self sarcasms a lot but i don't think he is there, he's just being pretentious

[Anonymous No.11650579]

>>11650453
fuck off boomer, you have revealed yourself

[Anonymous No.11650580]

>50 books?
>at once?

[Anonymous No.11650583]

>>11646281

[Anonymous No.11650586]

>>11650365
>JF: good

[Anonymous No.11650589]

>>11640720
based
my dad likes will self and has a few books of his that I've been meaning to get around to reading, any recs?

[Anonymous No.11650591]

>>11650583
to be fair, this UI works really well on mobile.

[Anonymous No.11650596]

>>11650365
>JF: good.

[Anonymous No.11650602]

Isn't it ironic that general literacy, instead of catapulting people into higher intellectual potency, left them as dumb, if not dumber, as before while also making them so much more pretensions? The pseudery is still blatant and easily noticable, but it's so damn more insufferable.

[Anonymous No.11650604]

>>11650596
>heh, I knocked you out of the park with that curveball didn't I

[Anonymous No.11650886]

>>11642772
Why do so many people stop reading after they age somewhat? I was also an avid reader when I was younger then around high school I started reading way less, before beginning to read much more again

[Anonymous No.11650906]

>>11640798

[Anonymous No.11650908]

>>11640835
I feel lucky to live in this weird corner of California that is still really book-heavy. The tradeoff is that there is nothing to fucking do here but smoke pot, drink and work.

I've been able to talk to people about most of the books that I have read, including all of the memey difficult shit.

[Anonymous No.11650915]

>>11650602
How dare you. I even posted a cup of coffee and my favorite dystopian kids book on instagram. Can't you just admire me?

[Anonymous No.11650921]

>Life is too short to do something you don't want to (and don't need to) do. If he doesn't want to read something "difficult" it's fine. Like he said, he'd rather be doing something that makes him happier. Not everyone works the same way.

[Anonymous No.11650923]

>>11650602
The market has no academic standard.

[Anonymous No.11650998]

>>11650908
Honestly, sounds like fucking paradise.

[Anonymous No.11651817]

>>11650886
Because you discovered how to milk your wiener

[Anonymous No.11651882]

>>11650886

Since you basically do nothing for half of the day in high school and reading is encouraged, I read constantly throughout high school. Once I graduate at the end of this year, it'll be hard to find 2-3 hours a day to read

[Anonymous No.11652192]

>>11650906
aw shit nigga, i almost forgot about cooltext.
brings me back to primary school

[Anonymous No.11652194]

>>11647619
Not even the most left wing politician in that election.

[Anonymous No.11652202]

>>11645662
you are figuratively retarded

[Anonymous No.11652357]

>>11650886
before the age of 21 I had probably read a total of 5 books

[Anonymous No.11652376]

>muh illiteracy
Hurt Durr people are getting laid and not reading complicated books all day, lmao nerds

[Anonymous No.11652425]

>>11641957
have you been to /v/

[Anonymous No.11652428]

>>11641957
I see this picture and I'm embarrassed for these people and all, but they're not going to ruin my enjoyment of playing Octopath on the Switch and neither is anyone else.

[Anonymous No.11652465]

>>11643682
> muh fake news

so I assume you just fell asleep for the whole time Russia has been manipulating people via social media and other internet platforms by displaying fake news, but that's OK because that's fake news in support of "our guy" demented Donald?

[Anonymous No.11652666]

>>11652465
Russia hasn't been manipulating people, ignorance has...

[Anonymous No.11652670]

>>11643682
>i go on the_donald all the time so i don't get a warped view of reality

[Anonymous No.11652711]

>>11652670
I'd be more afraid of the New York Times than the_donald

At least the_donald is a bunch of stupid faggots being honest about the things they believe in. NYT is like a nest of vipers.

[Anonymous No.11652728]

>Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin. Before reading it – and, admittedly, discussing it with its author – I thought of pornography as essentially a free speech issue; afterwards, I saw that it was a crime – and by no means a victimless one.
is this guy for real? almost everything in that interview is cringey nonsense

[Anonymous No.11652729]

>>11643682
>i go on the_donald all the time so i don't get a warped view of reality

[Anonymous No.11652758]

I MUST BE HAPPY, IN THE 2-3 HOURS AFTER WORK THAT LIFE AFFORDS ME, HAPPINESS IS MY GOAL AND I STRIDE TOWARDS IT BRAZENLY AND EXHAUSTEDLY

MUST FEEL GOOD
COLOURFUL SHOW
FUN BOOK
ALCOHOL OR DRUGS (; IM AN ADULT)

MAYBE IN 45 YEARS WHEN I AM RELEASED FROM THE HELL OF WORK I WILL GET TO TREAT MY NUMBED, DIRECTIONLESS MIND WITH OTHER THINGS

[Anonymous No.11652765]

>>11652711
the_donald is boomer central and just a pitiful thing altogether

[Anonymous No.11652779]

>>11652711
>going on redd*t

fuck off back there please

[Anonymous No.11652796]

>>11652779
I didn't say I go on Reddit you dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.11652820]

>>11652729
But le God Emperor literally told me not to believe what I see or hear and, instead, believe what he says and nothing else. Why would he lie about anything, especially about things that would personally affect him?

[Anonymous No.11652920]

>Now that I read hundreds of books at a time digitally, I don't feel like I ever need to finish a book anymore.
>It's a great thing to let all the books I'm reading blend together in a pixelated mental paste.
Discarded.

[Anonymous No.11653071]

>>11652920
It's really sad. I wondered how he could follow any sort of argument or long narrative in what he's reading, but then I realized this is a bugman that whose thoughts exist in the form of tweets or Hollywood quips.

[Anonymous No.11653090]

>>11652728
have you read it? or are you just tribally booing because you like porn?

[Anonymous No.11653146]

>>11650365
Based and sad.

[Anonymous No.11653148]

>>11643480
He's saying it didn't help. Thus all the morons that say "well at least it gets them reading" are wrong. At best they grow up and start reading Stephen King

[Anonymous No.11653380]

>>11640985
Why is this so funny?

[Anonymous No.11653477]

>>11646095
>free speech is the American 1st Amendment
How dumb can you get?

[Anonymous No.11653748]

>>11653090
I don't need to, anyone with half a brain cell knows pornography isn't a crime

[Anonymous No.11654928]

>>11644920
the silver age are the boomer characters my dude

[Anonymous No.11654995]

bump limit

[Anonymous No.11655004]

>Strem of conciosnest
>I am writor

[Anonymous No.11655007]

>>11647634
>>called black teens "superpredators"
wtf I love Hillary now

[Anonymous No.11655147]

>>11655004
this is solid book.

lit should read Self, imagine Celine, Ballard, Kafka, Pynchon and Burroughs in one. Hard prose focus, wordplay, puns... all that shit is there. There is at least on book by him for most of us here.