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Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:31:18 2019 No.14262881 [Reply] [Original]

Novels about being disillusioned with modern society?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:35:11 2019 No.14262890 >>14262881 Have sex nerd

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:36:19 2019 No.14262895 literally the only people who oppose modernity are autists who cant get laid so they blame society

Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:36:20 2019 No.14262896
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Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
But really, I would recommend the Western canon in its entirety, we have to remind ourselves that we have a culture that was forged for millennia, and we can look to the past to find answers to today's problems. In any case, it's better than imbibing in the contemporary slop that is media today

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:38:43 2019 No.14262900 >>14262896 >can someone recommend a novel >just read the entire western canon dude

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:40:40 2019 No.14262906 File: 407 KB, 500x740, the better version of that awful pic.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] @14262900 Read the first line of my post again

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 05:43:06 2019 No.14262913 >>14262881 My Twisted World, by Elliot Rodger

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 06:04:14 2019 No.14262966 >>14262900 He did recommend one though you sperg

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 06:46:14 2019 No.14263103 Culture of Narcissism >>14262895 Or they have a soul.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:00:04 2019 No.14263157 >>14263103 Oh great another esotericfag looking to an immaterial world because he cant get laid in this world. You anti modern fags are just coping

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:03:47 2019 No.14263174 My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:29:35 2019 No.14263255 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:36:05 2019 No.14263279 >>14262881 mUrrAY!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:36:52 2019 No.14263281 Joker is commodified disillusionment

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:38:55 2019 No.14263294 File: 428 KB, 680x797, chad gun.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14263157 Quiet, materialist

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 07:56:54 2019 No.14263351 >>14262881 anything by Houellebecq Submission is a good start

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 08:01:03 2019 No.14263361 >>14262881 All those bugmen in this thread disgust me. The modern world was a mistake. Return to your roots as best you can.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 08:02:06 2019 No.14263364 >>14263351 This but I‘d recommend Whatever as a starting point

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 08:05:14 2019 No.14263375 >>14262966 its not a novel

Anonymous Sat Nov 30 10:16:15 2019 No.14263751

>>14262881
try E.M Forsters When The Machine Stops and the preludes to it, dealing with life in the "modern era" from ordinary factory people living in the place who aren't time travelling trillionaires come to inherit the planet, it's highly depressing though. It's so accurate.

I can't really think of anything else... nothing you wouldn't already have heard of, anyway.

Anonymous Sat Nov 30 10:21:31 2019 No.14263773

>>14263751
>try E.M Forsters When The Machine Stops

Actually, my fault, that's not the depresing one, THIS is the one I'm thinking of,
H.G. Wells:
"Story of Days to Come" and then "The Sleeper Awakes"

When the Machine Stops is similar though, I mix them both up apparently.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 10:23:49 2019 No.14263778 >>14263773 >>14263751 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Story_of_the_Days_to_Come 1899 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes 1899/1901 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops 1909

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 10:24:44 2019 No.14263782 >>14263351 >>14263364 These but I'd recommend Atomised/Elementary Particles as a starting point.

Anonymous Sat Nov 30 10:25:23 2019 No.14263786

>>14263778
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Story_of_the_Days_to_Come 1899
>A wealthy heiress falls in love with a middle-class worker of romantically quaint disposition. In part one, the woman's father hires a hypnotist to program his daughter to instead choose a more appropriate suitor selected by him. When that plot is unraveled, the couple secretly marry and flee into the abandoned countryside and attempt to live off the land. After being driven back into the city, the couple live a modest middle-class lifestyle until their money runs out. At that point, they move to the "underneath" area of London to toil in physical labour as lower-class workers. Finally, their issues are resolved through the machinations of her spurned would-be suitor, and they resume a middle-class lifestyle.

>Among other things, this novella appears to anticipate technical developments toward massive urbanisation, skyscrapers, moving sidewalks, superhighways, advertising, mass media, psychotherapy, and intercontinental aircraft traveling at jet speeds.

>Socially and economically, however, it predicts a very stratified class structure and a largely communal society where few mega-corporations control all means of production. It also predicts hypnosis as a supplement or replacement to psychology, creches where child-rearing is transferred from parents to professionals, and a megapolis served by citywide moving walkways and escalators, with enormous cities (four in England) separated by abandoned countryside.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 13:21:42 2019 No.14264593 >>14262881 Brave New World

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 13:54:55 2019 No.14264798 >>14262881 Camus - The Fall

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 14:04:31 2019 No.14264853 Unironically Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 14:29:10 2019 No.14264969 >>14262881 unironically mein diary

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 14:30:41 2019 No.14264975 >>14263157 >>14262895 I've gotten laid, it doesn't help with anything. It is just hedonism. Same with masturbation. Life begins whenever you get rid of recreational sexual acitvities.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 14:34:26 2019 No.14264987 File: 35 KB, 334x499, buk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Post Office The Stranger Notes from Underground The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 14:53:28 2019 No.14265089 >>14262881 4chan.org

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 15:09:41 2019 No.14265168 >>14262895 Most retarded comment of the month.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 15:14:53 2019 No.14265203 >>14262881 Palahniuk - Fight Club Birmingham - He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Tokarczuk - Flights

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 15:44:35 2019 No.14265375 My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 17:11:24 2019 No.14265889 File: 92 KB, 775x653, 1574817017401.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14262895 n-no

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 17:16:25 2019 No.14265917 >>14262881 all of them

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 17:19:04 2019 No.14265937 File: 107 KB, 700x734, 1535068653428.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14263157 >just enslave yourself bro

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 17:52:05 2019 No.14266130 >>14263364 Could The Elementary Particles work as a starting point too?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 17:53:14 2019 No.14266139 File: 50 KB, 474x618, drieu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pierre Drieu la Rochelle - Le Feu follet (the Will O' the Wisp) one of my favorite novels, don't know if it's been translated in English tho

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