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Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:53:26 2020 No.16562230 [Reply] [Original]

>Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy.
Based, read more Allan Bloom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:30:50 2020 No.16562727 Bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:34:01 2020 No.16562741 The hubris of blaming the outcome on the outcome and not on the antecedent he so praises...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:39:59 2020 No.16562769 >>16562230 >philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs Yep! Sounds like masturbation. I fail to see the inconsistency.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:52:30 2020 No.16562819 Well if this philosophic and scientific genius was so great then why did it produce that kid he so despised. Also he seems strangely fixated on describing the kid with sexualised language. Some kind of pedo?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:58:13 2020 No.16562851 >>16562819 nothing about his description was sexual, but i mean he did ask you to "picture it". it's not his fault if you pictured a little twink masturbating instead of the actual subject.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:02:45 2020 No.16562873 >>16562851 >A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms Nice imagery

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Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:05:41 2020 No.16562892

>>16562230
I think the difference between the 19th century and the 21th century is that in the 19th century this young boy would be running through the streets with a dozen other boys breaking shit, atleast when he isnt working hard in some sweatshop, when the boys grow older, they will start visiting prostitutes, they will drink and gamble most of their money away and then they come home and beat their wives.

Kind of makes modern society seem a little bit better, it offers the commom man all sorts of far less harmfull escapism, he doesnt have to drink and gamble, he can also watch netflix, pornography replace prostitutes for most people, video games keep most young people off the streets.

Its kinda easy to be critical of modern society, if you dont know how the working class used to life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:08:36 2020 No.16562913 >>16562892 Based. These kind of pleb writers like bloom hate the proles enjoying life and have a really snobby outlook.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:10:26 2020 No.16562926 >>16562892 ill take beating my wife over netflix anyday of the week

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:12:16 2020 No.16562933 >>16562926 >ill take beating my wife over netflix anyday of the week Yes, netflix can never replace beating your wife.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:24:05 2020 No.16563003
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>>16562230
Ok Boomer.
Like this guy says >>16562741, it's the fault of the parents for not raising their children properly. You don't get to complain that your kid is a sociopathic narcissist when it was you who offshored parenting duties to the TV, Internet, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:31:22 2020 No.16563051 >>16562230 >the most productive economy ever known to mankind That would be USSR

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:34:01 2020 No.16563066 File: 49 KB, 726x643, guenon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >liberties That this results in mass cultural sissy hypno is surprising only to neocons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:43:42 2020 No.16563125 >>16563051 >That would be USSR Actually that would be the Dutch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:44:22 2020 No.16563132 >>16563051 The USSR was less productive in almost every way. No threat of losses meant many businesses abused the system and took more resources than they needed. It was an overworked system whose output didn't match the level of input.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 13:45:56 2020 No.16563137 >>16563132 Saying the USSR was more productive than the USA is like saying 100 slaves are more productive than a combine harvester because there's more "work" being done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 17:00:42 2020 No.16564314 >>16563003 The problem is not the parents but industrial society as a whole. Agriculture as a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 17:01:50 2020 No.16564326 >>16563132 >>16563137 If only the USSR nuked the USA before going out at least it would have done something good in it's existence.