If you fucking retards ran a University

[Anonymous No.17082671]

And I signed up for what’s commonly known as Liberal Arts major, you fucking retards would just hit me with this book, right.
I know you’d just go for a submission move as soon as the first day of classes.
Is there no counter to this move?
Must be something in evolution, genetics maybe?
Doesn’t Francis Collins now believe in God?
If I ran a University I’d be much nicer than you.
I’d follow Mortimer Adler’s curriculum.
Mortimer Adler—that’s the ticket.

[Anonymous No.17082675]

Schizo

[Anonymous No.17082692]

>>17082675
Oh, shaddup

[Anonymous No.17082761]

[Anonymous No.17082764]

[Anonymous No.17082771]

to answer your question, OP, no. there's no retort to that book, which is the built-in argument of the book. anything you could possibly say to it is cope.

[Anonymous No.17082801]

>>17082771
So, all the Liberal Arts business is nonsense.
What...
What if /lit/ were right?
This board should devote itself to this issue.
However, I think there may be a counter argument somewhere in evolution or genetics.

[Anonymous No.17082803]

>>17082801
this, too, is cope.

[Anonymous No.17082814]

https://voca.ro/1oBayxr2YyZV

[Anonymous No.17082999]

>>17082671
This book is a cope.

[Anonymous No.17083010]

>>17082999
That's the point

[Anonymous No.17083413]

>>17083010
^This post is a _____.

[Anonymous No.17083464]

>>17082671
Anon. You are now free to build your own meaning, knowing that meaningfulness is an impossible lie. Knowing that the search for glory is what ruins lives. You are humbled in an instant. You can now deduce the rules of this trucks game with absolute clarity. Every dickhead becomes an open book. Every idiot woman. They're all searching for immortality. Rubbing around live chickens with their heads cut off. This book frees the student. The student may now avoid years of fruitless efforts and meaningless striving. The student may now decide exactly what they need to give their life meaning _because_ they know that we will must lie about what is meaningful. You're free

[Anonymous No.17083481]

i've not read this but i like your post

[Anonymous No.17083485]

Why would I run a university when I could be bombing electrical grids?

[Anonymous No.17083496]

>>17082671
>Is there no counter to this move?
you know the deal we had under the bridge of sighs, prince
there are no others

[Anonymous No.17083508]

>>17082671
>Is there no counter to this move?
>Must be something in evolution, genetics maybe?
Yes.
What Becker sees as the drive for immortalization could be complex demonstrations of sexual value. In the arts this is easy to see, less so in ideological and religious commitment.
But there is something there.
This pic related is another punch in the gut, but also offers this alternative view

[Anonymous No.17083548]

>>17082671
>And I signed up for what’s commonly known as Liberal Arts major, you fucking retards would just hit me with this book, right.
>I know you’d just go for a submission move as soon as the first day of classes.
No, that would be too.
I'd hit you with something short and straight to the point like pic related. Then I will call your parents for a 24/7 suicide watch for two weeks.
I WON'T GET YOU AWAY WITH AN HERO UNTIL YOUR FIRST SUBMISSION DUE IN THE SECOND WEEK.

[Anonymous No.17083626]

>>17083548
You are a dangerous psychopath. The Last Messiah should be burned. The essay is an existential threat to the human race

[Anonymous No.17083749]

>>17083548
Respect.
This is what Lib Arts should do.
Whole class might attack prof.

[Anonymous No.17083751]

>>17082671
Why do you retards think this book is somehow irrefutable? it's the same logic as The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, the book just presumes itself to be true without ever doing a coherent philosophical argument. Why should I give a shit about this book when it rests everything on psychoanalysis which I don't give a fuck about.

[Anonymous No.17083755]

>>17082671
Did Adler convert to Catholicism on his deathbed? I don’t remember where I heard this....

[Anonymous No.17083762]

>>17083508
I read that, loved it.
Can’t remember it.
I’ll re-read.
Didn’t shake me like /lit/ does.
College liberal arts education looking worse and worse.

[Anonymous No.17083764]

>As anal play is an essential exercise in human mastery, it is better not interfered with. If the adult anxiously cuts it short, then he charges the animal function with an extra dose of anxiety.
>It becomes more threatening and has to be extra-denied and extra-avoided as an alien part of oneself. This extra-grim denial is what we mean by the "anal character." An "anal" upbringing, then, would be an affirmation, via intense repression
>Penis-envy, then, arises from the fact that the mother's genitals have been split off from her body as a focalization of the problem of decay and vulnerability. Bernard Brodsky remarks about his female patient: "Her concept of woman as fecal greatly stimulated her penis envy, since the lively erectile penis was the antonym of the dead, inert stool"
>Phyllis Greenacre--outstanding student of the child's experiences--had already remarked on this same equation in the child's perception: penis = movement, therefore life; feces = inertia, therefore death
t. ernest becker

[Anonymous No.17083780]

>>17083755
Yes, at least, Adler was Christian.
Can’t find any evidence Adler was less than sincere.
Adler basically worshipped Aquinas from beginning of his life to end.
Byword at U of C was that Protestants went there to be taught Catholicism (Aquinas) by Jews.

[Anonymous No.17083816]

>>17083751
dunno.
But college Liberal Arts suck (and cost a fortune).
American profs believe in Nietzsche above all, right?
Then prof should try to psychically kill students from Day One and make them stronger.
How many students would an hero?
Students in law school an hero all the fucking time.
/lit/ is right and college liberal arts suck

[Anonymous No.17083836]

Aren’t American profs beholden to course evaluations, ie, their job depends on the “grade” students give them?
That’s backwards.

[Anonymous No.17084117]

>>17083751
>doing a coherent philosophical argument.
he aint doin muh philosophies!!!?
REMINDER EVERYTHING BECKER INTUITED WAS LATER PROVEN IN CONTROLLED LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AS DOCUMENTED IN "The Worm At The Core"
REMINDER THAT PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY REACTIVE TO THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT THREATENS TO EXPOSE THE VITAL LIES THAT THEY ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN.
REMINDER THAT THEY DO NOT CONTROL YOU.
PUSH BACK AGAINST THE TIDAL WAVE OF IGNORANCE.
DIVE BELOW. THERE IS A CALM SEA PAST THE WAVE

[Anonymous No.17084124]

>>17083762
Based re-reader with drug and depression-induced memory loss

[Anonymous No.17084132]

>>17082814
Lol

[Anonymous No.17084184]

>>17082814
yeah Boyd Rice is cool

[Anonymous No.17084380]

>>17084117
>REMINDER EVERYTHING BECKER INTUITED WAS LATER PROVEN IN CONTROLLED LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
That's two orders of magnitude of hyperbole. Either you're such a hysterical retard you don't realize the difference or you're a deliberate liar with baffling motives.
>REMINDER THAT PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY REACTIVE TO THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT THREATENS TO EXPOSE THE VITAL LIES THAT THEY ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN.
Same is apparently true of you, a defender of this book. Seriously, get a grip
>PUSH BACK AGAINST THE TIDAL WAVE OF IGNORANCE.
>DIVE BELOW. THERE IS A CALM SEA PAST THE WAVE
Push back and dive below are two things you literally can't do at the same time. Get your thoughts straight, weirdo.

[Anonymous No.17084396]

>>17082814
lol

[Anonymous No.17084420]

>>17082814
Haunting, visionary

[Anonymous No.17085213]

>>17082671
>Is there no counter to this move?
>>17082771
>there's no retort to that book,
>>17083464
>meaningfulness is an impossible lie
>>17083508
>the drive for immortalization
Haven't read it, but I have some satoshi's so my transactions are forever recorded as part of the bitcoin blockchain. Combine this with the butterfly effect, and human existence seems unbearably immortal. Kundera comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.17085338]

What's it about?

[Anonymous No.17085393]

>>17082771
There's no retort? First he has to offer a solution. Until then it's just another jew