/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15997729]

Is this the most destructive book in human history? Its teachings held back the most populated region in the world for millennia, condemning them into squalor.

[Anonymous No.15997752]

>>15997729
>held back for millennia
China was, without interruption, substantially more advanced than Europe up until the Ming Dynasty started falling apart

[Anonymous No.15997760]

>>15997752
Ayy lmao

[Anonymous No.15997765]

Confucian in the streets
Legalist in the sheets

[Anonymous No.15997768]

>>15997752
chickity china the chinese chicken, you have a drum stick and your brain starts kickin'

[Anonymous No.15997774]

>>15997729
I think the Han Chinese are more to blame than Confucius himself, but the history of that region overshadows both. It is really fucking sad desu, way too much suffering of far too many for far too long.

[Anonymous No.15997789]

>>15997729
Nothing quite like starting off your literary history with a book about how you should devote your life to literary criticism and antiquarianism. It's like the gospel of senility, a child born planning its own retirement.

[Anonymous No.15997793]

>>15997752
Confucius and his followers are precisely why East Asia had no chance of being as innovative as the Europeans.
>>15997774
I say Confucius because his teachings spread outside of China.
To this day, the hellish work culture in "developed" Asian countries like Japan and Korea can be attributed to his influence.

[Anonymous No.15997840]

Confucianism's primary attribution to oriental culture was re-affirming social status and classes. The same pseudo caste system that rome had when it was hot shit, and the same thing that that medieval europe had when it was reinventing modern european culture. If you want to look at the cause of china's stagnation, look elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.15997873]

>>15997760
>>15997768
>>15997793
ITT: midwit litniggers with no contextual understanding of the works they consoom

[Anonymous No.15997883]

>>15997873
>implying I read anything written by chinks
Oh so sowwy, me rikey getting tugged in massage room, happy ending understand?

[Anonymous No.15997895]

>>15997840
When was it that these cultures had people memorising entire books to prove that they're cultured?
Chinese culture's been autophagous for thousands of years.

[Anonymous No.15997906]

>>15997729
Soulless Asians cannot do philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15997910]

>>15997906
>>15997873
wow no need for racism folks

[Anonymous No.15997924]

>>15997873
>>15997906
yikes! let's unpack this

[Anonymous No.15997926]

>>15997752
i seriously hope you guys don't think this

[Anonymous No.15997949]

Yes. This book is black magic on a scale that puts hegel to shame, it is literally responsible for desouling billions of people. The practices of this book will literally turn you into an insect, and over generations chink minds have been battered so hard by this shit that the scabbed over remains of their minds will probably block any dribble of soul or independent thought from trickling in ever again. The chinese, japanese and north koreans have basically weaponised this "advantage" and exploited the submissive literalism of their peoples """minds""" to create ant hill societies which are economically successful. They have no sense of morality, just etiquette, no sense of self, just positive and negative stimulus which has been manually rent away from independent thought and rerouted to blind servitude to money, the government and convention. Its fucking pathetic when you actually look at it, especially with japanese people whose entire life is like a cope filled satire of how materialists think

[Anonymous No.15997984]

>>15997729
>Society is supposed to be ruled by the wise, not the most charismatic
>Devote yourself to learning literature and philosophy, and if you're good enough and not just a pseud, take an exam.
>Pass, get a low or high ranking position in the government
>literally don't have to work hard for the rest of your life
>the npc mass are governed by a strict moral system, work hard and honest if the rules are upheld.
>isn't obsessed with forever development, increasing the level of comfort and conviction ever more. No endlessly strive for better way to consoom
Tell me again how the millennia of advancement in technology and philosophy have done for the west is better?

[Anonymous No.15998014]

>>15997949
>no sense of self
How is that a negative? Self-awareness just gets in your way. Unless you're a Chad meant for greatness, and remembered by future generations, it's just an inconvenience to acknowledge your uselessness. If you're just going to be a drone in the beehive, like the overwhelming majority of people in history has been, you might as well not be self-aware.
>inb4 Alex Jones-que speech about how you're a human, you're self aware, etc, such as: https://youtu.be/na4GYyJwYjQ
Lmao, no, you're just a hamster in a wheel.

[Anonymous No.15998023]

>>15998014
>i can only be happy if im "useful" to some utilitarian end
>i cant find worth in my own existence internally
holy pathetic, you are basically a self aware version of a chink

[Anonymous No.15998033]

>>15997906
Lao Tzu's pretty good

[Anonymous No.15998069]

>>15997729
the cover looks cool tho

[Anonymous No.15998081]

>>15997752
fpbp, absolutely true

[Anonymous No.15998110]

>>15997984
You're also describing the Soviet Union.

Turns out that people who don't sit on their asses in sinecures they got because they were good at memorization and drawing bamboo with an inkbrush are better at basically everything... except memorization and drawing bamboo with an inkbrush.

>>15998014
Self-awareness allows you to re-examine how you do things, even if they are very old habits. Crop rotation, windmills, water mills, covering grain transports with a tarp so the top layer doesn't sprout - you didn't need to be a chad to benefit from figuring out how to make your life easier. The modern equivalent is probably bash scripting.

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

>fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.

The coffee hacker is 100% a product of Western culture. That's how we got where we are and how we'll continue to dominate, while Asians helplessly submit to social norms.

[Anonymous No.15998126]

>>15998110
Here's another one:
>xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time".

[Anonymous No.15998368]

>>15997729
>Is this the most destructive book in human history? Its teachings held back the most populated region in the world for millennia, condemning them into squalor.
That's not the Tao Te Ching.

[Anonymous No.15998556]

>>15998368
>do thing but don't but do but don't
*gong*

[Anonymous No.15998577]

>>15998368
>doing things is a spook
~Lao-Tzu

[Anonymous No.15999313]

chinese are still mad that some guy over two thousand years ago told them to behave like decent human beings, imagine reading chinese history and thinking what held them back was basic morality teachings

[Anonymous No.15999553]

>>15999313
>confucius
>morals

[Anonymous No.15999903]

>>15997752
this post is correct and its critics failed 10th grade world history

[Anonymous No.15999983]

>>15997729
No, that would be the bibble and also the Q'ur'u'ra'a'an