ITT: Books /lit/ Doesn’t Have the Balls to Discuss

[Anonymous No.18432336]

Why won’t /lit/ discuss this absolute masterpiece? Most of the authors spammed here don’t even begin to approach the simple genius in these pages.

[Anonymous No.18432358]

>>18432336
this book is the reason why im obsessed with cars today as a 30 year old.

[Anonymous No.18432834]

Il/lit/erates, on this board, will read Go, Dogs, Go! and only see a children’s picture book. Credit where it’s due, it is a children’s book, but they’re snobbish elitism blinds them to insights and observations gleamed from any source that isn’t a poorly translated, 800 page rant by suicidal German and Russian incels that have been dead for over a century.

Go, Dogs, Go! is a surprisingly profound observational critique of modern society. In a book that has nearly as many pages as it has words, Eastman finds a way to address modern class, race, and sex relations. He observes how much we’ve been constrained by modern extravagance and technology. It even touches upon religion.

[Anonymous No.18433102]

>>18432834
Here we see Eastman’s analysis of American class and race relations. Notice the visual portrayal of the dogs. The pages I’ve included show interactions between dogs of different sizes and colors. In the illustration of the doghouse, we see a large, blue pitbull preventing small, red wiener dog from entering the doghouse. This clearly portrays inequality between the races. Eastman wants the reader to believe that the success of the blue dog, and the plight of the red dog, is due to physical differences. The blue dog is a stronger, more violent breed. While the red dog is of a weaker, comical stock. At first glance, the author is saying racial hierarchies exist because of biological differences, but further reading paints a different picture.

Observe the two white dogs. Same color, same breed, but a different size. The small dog struggling to pull the chair of a large dog. A pointless task; the large dog is clearly healthy and contributes nothing to this arrangement. It would seem that the task itself only exists to provide the large dog pleasure by depriving it from another. Clearly, this can only depict class conflict. The dogs are not separated by biology; they are the same coat and breed. The size difference is alludes to the difference in power. The larger having sway over the smaller.

The third picture, where a blue dog looks down upon a group of red dogs, is where Eastman tells the reader where these hierarchies of race come from. The dogs in this picture are the same breed and size, but different colors. The red dogs happily play in the water while the blue dog watches on. The red dogs don’t play in a pool, this is a natural body of water. The act of playing in natural bodies of water, by the 60’s, had been relegated as an activity to those who couldn’t access public and private pools; usually the rural and poor. The blue dog watches from atop a two story house. Despite being the same size, and therefore of relatively equal power, they are separated by activity. The blue dog in his fancy house and the red dogs in there swimming. Eastman is trying to tell the reader that race is a product of class division, and that class is the main root of division and isolation between people. It’s no accident that he watches from the roof through a telescope. It shows how class has distanced the races from each other despite being physically close together.

What’s really interesting is that in the first two images, the larger dogs refuse to even look at their subordinates. They refuse to even acknowledge their existence in their world even while directly interacting with them. But the blue dog is solely focused on the red dogs in the water. At first, I thought this was an allusion to white flight; the dog is hyper vigilant that inferior breeds will move in. But the blue dog is wearing a sailor hat. That means he wants to join the red dogs in their frivolity. He has received luxury from this division, but it has wounded him.

[Anonymous No.18433210]

[Anonymous No.18433227]

>>18432834
>>18433102
this thread has a lot of potential, don't waste it boys

[Anonymous No.18433562]

>>18432336
BRO THIS IS SO FUCKING CLASSIC

[Anonymous No.18433588]

>>18432336
I fuckin love this book

[Anonymous No.18433600]

I like this one. Shows to be content with your homeland and not to desire other places for the sake of seeing them.

[Anonymous No.18433673]

>>18433102
On this page we see several dogs, of many colors, rushing out of bed in the morning. Those who might still see Go, Dogs, Go! as a children’s book with nothing to say might see how this scene seems to contradict my earlier interpretation of the books illustrations as a metaphor for race relations.

“Aha! If the book is using colorful dogs to portray racial division, then why are all these dogs, all of different shades, happily sharing a bed?”

This confusion is understandable, and to any anons I think this way, I’d like to draw your attention to the window above the bed. Notice how the curtains are pulled back in so that the window pane is unobstructed. If you look closer you may notice a big yellow dot behind the window. No, it’s not the discharge from an unseen piss jug, nor is it dorito fingerprints built up over the years; it’s the sun. Natural Light streaming into the room, unhindered and unabated. And though you might, the dogs are not running in terror. They’re excited. They don’t even notice the sun. Yes, these dogs are normies. But more than normies, they’re newborns. Newborns delivered into the mortal world at the dawn of the day (and their lives) by the sunbeams.

[Anonymous No.18433781]

>>18433673
The sunbeams here are a symbol of God. Rays of light have often been used to represent the Abrahamic God’s active presence in the lives of mortals. As an example, here is a Renaissance depiction of the Eye of Providence, a symbol of the Holy Trinity. Notice how rays of light shoot off it. Also, those of you who go outside for reasons other than doomer night-walks may have talked to another living, human person long enough to hear the phrase: God’s Fingers. If you didn’t derail that conversation into a incoherent rant on how Julius Evola shows that Christianity and Islam are a part of a Jewish plot to destroy the West, you would have learned that they were referring to sunbeams streaming through clouds, or over the horizon.

The bedroom picture shows that, at the start of their lives, these dogs were born in equal power relative to one another regardless of their color. They also aren’t surprised or upset. The idea that they would be born equal is innate in these dogs, and any differences are taught later on. But there is more Eastman is saying in this picture.

[Anonymous No.18433789]

>>18433781

[Anonymous No.18433795]

>>18433781
Forgot the Eye of Providence

[Anonymous No.18433832]

>>18433781
The bedroom scene also shows the dogs stampeding from their bedroom. From the very moment they are awake they are frantic to get to some unknown destination. Much of this book shows dogs that want, above all, to get to somewhere else soon. And for the most part, they seem to have the same destination in mind.

[Anonymous No.18433903]

>>18433832
Now I will talk about the most memorable part of Go, Dogs, Go!: the cars. These sons of bitches love speeding in their cars.

In the ‘Big and Small Dogs in Cars’ scene we see these dogs in their cars. The dogs are piloting these cars with total freedom and abandon. No roads, no barriers, no constraints. Here Eastman wants to dazzle the reader and have them feel the chaotic liberation that new technology, like cars, provides. But this freedom has not brought the dogs happiness.

Not one of those hounds is happy like the Blue Pitbull or the White Dog in the chair. Most are stoic; hyper-focused on the road. The Green Dog is absolutely terrified.

Also notice how the sizes of these dogs does not correspond to their color. Of the two dogs that wrecked, only the yellow one is upset. The Blue one seems bored. Almost as if he can afford to wreck a couple of cars every once in a while, the bourgeois bastard. Also we see a small blue dog chauffeuring the green dog. Again Eastman shows that class, not race, is the primary source of division in society.

[Anonymous No.18433971]

>>18433903
Now we see that the age of lawless driving is over for dogkind. They are single file and have become subject to traffic laws. Networks of roads stretch out far into the horizon. Where before the dogs were erratic, now they are uniform. Not one disobeys the rules put before him. Even the bird, a symbol of unrestrained freedom, urges the dogs to submit. Rather than flying, the bird subjects itself to walking parallel to the road.

In three pages, Eastman shows us how any technology that liberated also endangers. And that endangerment will not only lead to constraints, but that this loss of freedom will be embraced willingly by the public. Rather than lose their cars, the dogs would lose their freedom.

[Anonymous No.18434277]

>>18433600
I think GK Chesterton once wrote something along that line of thought

[Anonymous No.18434361]

This was the first book I ever read. I was 3

[Anonymous No.18434476]

>>18432336
Your hat is trash, bitch. GTFO.

[Anonymous No.18434521]

>>18433971
Even when the constraints are removed, the dogs still move in a single, orderly line. It’s easier to make a habit than to break one. The dogs have been so conditioned by industrial society that they have almost no agency beyond what their rules and constraints obligate them to do.

[Anonymous No.18434742]

HAHAHAHA IT'S A BOOK FOR TODDLERS BUT HES PRETENDING ITS REALLY DEEP OMG WE DID IT!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.18434840]

>>18434742
Ok but Go, Dog. Go! is actually a great book. I would read it today if I had it.

[Anonymous No.18436215]

>>18434742
die