/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19867563]

Which books deserve to be burned?

[Anonymous No.19867568]

>>19867563
I wish you were a book for making this useless spam thread.

[Anonymous No.19867569]

>I disagree with something so it should be censored

Fuck off totalitarian

[Anonymous No.19867584]

burning books is LE FASCIST

[Anonymous No.19867587]

>>19867563
Your diary, desu

[Anonymous No.19867589]

Whatever pseuds like

[Anonymous No.19867600]

>>19867563
Why aren't we burning servers?

[Anonymous No.19867605]

All sophistic literature from the fragments we have of ancient sophists but also modern sophists like Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, poststructuralism, postmodernism, any and all kinds of relativism; all materialist literature like Marx and neomarxists, Freud and his followes, anglo empiricism from Locke to Quine to contemporary analytics; and all degeneratte modernist literature, which is almost all prominent 20th century novelists and poets; and also all pagan idolatrous literature like Hindu polytheistic works and also Greek and Roman mythology.

Trust me the world would be a much much better place without these.

[Anonymous No.19867607]

>>19867563
it's good to see deep america fighting back, really.

[Anonymous No.19867611]

>>19867607
The proper term is the heartlands

[Anonymous No.19867616]

>>19867584
That kind of make communism more sinister, the other two its right on the tin what to expect.

[Anonymous No.19867621]

>>19867611
>heartlands
we're not talking about eurasia, Mackinder

[Anonymous No.19867667]

>>19867563
Those self help books with swears in the title like in that one picture that has a whole shelf of them
Otherwise no books should be burned

[Anonymous No.19867678]

Anything that incorporates dialectics, semiotics, or psychoanalysis.

[Anonymous No.19867697]

Just about any "pop" books. History science you name it

[Anonymous No.19867719]

>>19867678
>psychoanalysis
Unironically this.

[Anonymous No.19867720]

Isn't book burning, with the rise of online books and databasing, more metaphorical than actually burning a book? It's not like it's the only copy, if I printed out a shitty news article and burned it, would it be the same as this printed book? Pretty similar, book is literally just longer and sometimes fiction, as if modern news articles are even non fiction. I'de say it's fine to burn books, its fine to burn flags, its a form of free speech, expression, and protest. And I bet you can google any of the books they're burning and buy a new copy for 10.99 on amazon.

[Anonymous No.19867740]

>>19867563
Books don't deserve to be burned. People deserve to be burned. Like Jordan Peterson and his fans would look great in a coat of fire.

[Anonymous No.19867752]

>>19867563
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Middlemarch
To the Lighthouse
The Golden Notebook
The Ice Age
Possession
White Teeth

[Anonymous No.19867757]

>>19867563
Unironically quite a few.

[Anonymous No.19867789]

>>19867563
I'd like to burn the warehouses of remainder books used to prop up political and cultural figures. Don't you know they sell these books to themselves to drive politics?

[Anonymous No.19867790]

1984 I am tired of illiterate retards unable to understand HS lit and it will annoy retards who get offended by burning a few copies of a book that sold millions of copies.

[Anonymous No.19867793]

>>19867667
Most ya paperbacks, romances, and Stephen king

[Anonymous No.19867796]

>>19867569
kys lolbertarian, you will be a woke slave with your shit mentality

[Anonymous No.19867799]

>>19867569
With the Internet you can't really censor that easily. Book burning today is symbolic; a rejection of the ideas contained therein.

[Anonymous No.19867801]

>>19867740
Agreed, but also dean Koontz and patchet and Jodi picoult

[Anonymous No.19867809]

>>19867793
I have no issue with those

[Anonymous No.19867814]

>>19867793
Stephen king was pretty entertaining when he was druggie.

[Anonymous No.19867852]

>>19867563
All of them. The world needs a new start.

[Anonymous No.19867899]

>>19867563
There's nothing wrong with censorship or fascism, although the two aren't necessarily related.

I think we should burn more books, pretty much anything written by a woman, a black, or a gay.

[Anonymous No.19867911]

>>19867563
Tranny books, anti-White books

[Anonymous No.19867919]

>>19867719
Getting rid of semiotics and works related to it is the most important part. The extent that discourse would be improved by destroying any work which uses the terms “signifier” or “signified” in s so great that it is beyond comprehension.

[Anonymous No.19867920]

>>19867584
Total retard doesnt understand fascism and monarchy are way more moral since they are not materialist ideologies like communism, which is a-moral at best.
Typical reddit pseudo-intellectual.

[Anonymous No.19867948]

Is that a book being burned?
Ahhh, I am losing my mind!

[Anonymous No.19867956]

>>19867584
Leddit:
>CoMmUnIsM iS aBoUt WoRkEr cOnTrOl
Also leddit:
>A society where one must work to survive is fascist!

[Anonymous No.19867959]

It takes a pretty high power level to actively burn books tho. That's not a normal political move.

[Anonymous No.19867994]

>>19867584
>communist caring about morality
>materialists feeling the need to justify their views with """morality""'
Oh Karl, if only you could see how badly your followers have fallen lmao.

[Anonymous No.19868001]

>>19867959
Fundies have been burning Harry Potter for decades. It’s the right thing to do even though it was done for the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous No.19868024]

>>19867994
I don’t think it would bother him that much. The one book he wrote for actual workers is full of such appeals.

[Anonymous No.19868075]

>>19867920
are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.19868094]

>>19867563
Me. I deserve to be burned.

[Anonymous No.19868095]

>>19867563
Anything published in the last 50 years. Anything that normalizes gender dysphoria or advocates genital mutilation. Anything that advocates communism, socialism, anarchism, progressivism. Any works on critical race theory. Burn it all.
>inb4 “lol ur edgy”

[Anonymous No.19868127]

>>19867563
boring and played-out, get back to us when we start burning people
t. CEO of /lit/

[Anonymous No.19868130]

>Which books deserve to be burned?
Phenomenology of Spirit.
The Talmud is a distant second.

[Anonymous No.19868138]

>>19867793
t. Reads 3 books a year

[Anonymous No.19868142]

>>19867563
books that has no philosophical intentions behinds it , books that doesn't make the reader think.
meaning every book about a rich fag fucking a retarded hillbilly or any horror book.was going to say comedy but most of the times its just a way to deliver a message.

[Anonymous No.19868241]

>>19867584
>Also leave the cultists alone, they're victims in a cult
>But every single Nazi and/or Confederate conscript should be publicly hanged

[Anonymous No.19868255]

im confused how people are acting like this is some rising fascist movement. haven't churches been doing these harry potter book burnings for years? i remember hearing about these things like 20 years ago and nobody paid it any attention

[Anonymous No.19868268]

>>19867569
Censoring things YOU don't like is literally the highest form of individual freedom. If I hate a book I don't care if it burns.

[Anonymous No.19868276]

>>19868142
>or any horror book
BASED. Horror is the shittiest, lowbrow genre.

[Anonymous No.19868280]

>>19867563
The god delusion by Dawkins
Anything by Andrea Dworkin

[Anonymous No.19868296]

>>19868255
Because people are connecting it to recent book bans in schools. I don't know if they're burning the same books that are being banned in schools, but if they aren't it's a silly overreaction to something that has been happening for years.

[Anonymous No.19868321]

>>19867569
>>19867605
>>19867678
>>19867740
>>19867801
>>19868130
Mental illness of the charts itt

[Anonymous No.19868336]

>>19868321
Please tell me what benefits dialectical philosophy, semiotics, and psychoanalysis provide. I can tell you for certain that it won't make up for the way in which those subjects have degraded the discourse around almost everything they've been applied to.

[Anonymous No.19868372]

>>19868336
Everytime someone hold’s these things as boogeymen it’s because they only know what they’ve been told about them.

[Anonymous No.19868388]

All books need burning...

[Anonymous No.19868389]

>>19867911
based, the only right answer to this shitty thread

[Anonymous No.19868416]

>>19868336
>ooooh ooooooooh I'm going to read your mind oooooh beware oooooh you must burn those books

[Anonymous No.19868424]

>>19867563

oh no they burned a popular book i cam buy online in seconds

[Anonymous No.19868434]

>>19868372
These things pervade all aspects our discourse today. Every living person who is not totally disconnected from society knows them intimately and is degraded by them whether they've heard of them or not. They don't need to have people tell them things.
The only people who defend them are those who know how to use them to actively harm others.

[Anonymous No.19868438]

Fiery but mostly peaceful book burning

[Anonymous No.19868468]

>>19867563
>America has a famous historical event where a widely available commercial good was destroyed as a symbolic protest
>they ignore that and just do le nazi book burning
What did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.19868475]

>>19868468
>>America has a famous historical event where a widely available commercial good was destroyed as a symbolic protest
What are you referring to. Disco Demolition Night?

[Anonymous No.19868482]

>>19867563
Gravity's Rainbow.

[Anonymous No.19868493]

>>19868372
They fear that which has filtered them. Tale as old as time.

[Anonymous No.19868495]

>>19867584
>Hace 3h
Hola Jose!

[Anonymous No.19868499]

>>19868475
The boston tea party

[Anonymous No.19868509]

>>19867563
Lmao do they realise that all books are being constantly shared online?
I like physical copies of my books but unless they're planning a global blackout, burning shit won't make any difference.

[Anonymous No.19868536]

>>19868509
It's a symbolic burning, the actual pyre was mostly comprised of wooden rafters to make it look bigger. They had like 100 books max. They didn't even go all out!

[Anonymous No.19868589]

>>19867605
You are wrong. If you want to make a world a better place burn discriminatory and religious books. Start there and build from it.

[Anonymous No.19868673]

>>19868509
It wouldn't be hard to wipe out a book from public consumption on the internet. There are many, many things which rot in obscurity and barely exist on the net, let alone in print.

[Anonymous No.19868682]

>>19867563
those mills and boons romance novels lets be honest its the only way to get rid of them

[Anonymous No.19868847]

>>19867956
You can go back there with your "bIg AnD sMaLl" talk.

[Anonymous No.19868869]

>>19867584
>burning books is unconscionable
fucking irrelevant in 2022 whether some podunk town school burns books
>big tech companies working together ban ideas off of every corner of the internet
this is fine

[Anonymous No.19868886]

OP's mom's diary

[Anonymous No.19868943]

It’s so cool how we’re literally watching a psyop develop in real time to reinforce liberal ideology while America declines on the world stage, what a fucking pathetic country

[Anonymous No.19869076]

>>19867563
The guy in the OP pic is a BASED counter-protester throwing in a copy of the Bible.

[Anonymous No.19869255]

Reddit is only pretending to be outraged about censorship because it’s right wingers doing it. If this were a crowd of people burning books like culture of critique, they’d be applauding. It’s obvious because they regularly clap like retarded seals whenever our corporate tech overlords censor someone for holding even moderately right wing opinions. For Christ’s sake, just this week redditors have been cooming in their pants over celebrities removing their music from Spotify in an attempt to get Joe Rogan deplatformed.

[Anonymous No.19869276]

I wish we could have a thread burning.

[Anonymous No.19869298]

>>19868138
I'm currently reading la comedies humaine in french. The proliferation of cheap ya fiction has infantalized and corrupted two generations of potential.

[Anonymous No.19869305]

>>19869255
>Reddit is only pretending to be outraged about censorship because it’s right wingers doing it. If this were a crowd of people burning books like culture of critique, they’d be applauding.

There were some book burnings in Canada not long ago that confirm this thought.

[Anonymous No.19869308]

Imagine being so pathetic that you're concerned with how high school history teachers will talk about in the future.

[Anonymous No.19869310]

>>19867563
I used to think that Nazi book burnings were evil until I saw what books they were destroying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#Persecuted_authors

[Anonymous No.19869321]

>>19867563
This kills the Redditor.

[Anonymous No.19869333]

>>19867584
>Whereas monarchy requires violent enforcement of a monarch's will
So has every fucking system since the beginning of time. I hate Redditards so much it's unreal.

[Anonymous No.19869338]

>>19867569
>I disagree with something so it should be censored
Yes.

[Anonymous No.19869343]

>>19867911
This.

[Anonymous No.19869356]

>>19869308
I'm almost certain the only history book that guy has read is Gun Germs and Steel.

[Anonymous No.19869374]

I hope they start burning witches again, too. Society really took a turn for the worse when we stopped doing that.

[Anonymous No.19869381]

Boomerwaffen rising

[Anonymous No.19869396]

bait thread and everyone is biting.
telltale signs:
>retardation
>using reddit post to mock the common opinion here, in an attempt to associate the obvious with "that's a reddit opinion"
you should be burned OP

[Anonymous No.19869415]

>>19867584
How would one achieve total "worker control over industry"? Purely peaceful methods methinks

[Anonymous No.19869762]

>>19868589
>Because the French Revolution went so well.

[Anonymous No.19869796]

>>19867605
Holy basado

[Anonymous No.19869806]

>>19867605
I don't agree with burning the ancient sophists or Greco-Roman mythology but agree with everything else.

[Anonymous No.19869822]

>>19867789
Underrated

[Anonymous No.19869832]

>>19867584
literal textbook cognitive dissonance

[Anonymous No.19869858]

Non-mutt here, what books are they burning and why are they burning them?

[Anonymous No.19869865]

>>19869858
Anti-white and tranny shit. At that, only the worst of the worst I would assume. Even when I was in school we read a ton of pozzed garbage.

[Anonymous No.19869874]

>>19867605
>poststructuralism, postmodernism, any and all kinds of relativism; all materialist literature like Marx and neomarxists, Freud and his followes, anglo empiricism from Locke to Quine to contemporary analytics; and all degeneratte modernist literature, which is almost all prominent 20th century novelists and poets
The only based part of this post everything else outs you as a nigger faggot

[Anonymous No.19869905]

>>19867605
inconceivably based

[Anonymous No.19869949]

>>19869806
Remember the reason we only have fragments of ancient sophists is that ancient Platonists burned their works.

[Anonymous No.19869969]

>>19869949
Philosophy peaked with Neoplatonism. It was literally the perfect condensation of Classical thought in a way that was also applicable to monotheism and other non-Hellenic systems as well.

[Anonymous No.19870044]

>>19867600
Only good post in the thread

[Anonymous No.19870055]

>>19867563
None; he who thinks otherwise belong in any other board but /LIT/; although, nah, they belong right here. The place where no one reads.

[Anonymous No.19870075]

>>19867852
Based. Words are meant to be ephemeral

[Anonymous No.19870085]

Ready Player One
Fifty Shades of Grey
All Harry Potter fanfic
Zoomer humor books
Anything written by an ‘influencer’

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY/Ar.iI No.19870125]

ALL «PROTESTANTISTIC» BIBLES.

[Anonymous No.19870143]

>>19870125
>Seething about Prots in the year of our lord 2022

[Anonymous No.19870185]

>>19869865
Oh, this is because of the critical race theory shit right? I thought it may have been 1984 and catcher in the rye etc, those kinds of books.

[Anonymous No.19870195]

>>19868296
it sounds like Maus was banned by one school district for dumb reasons, and then some church is burning harry potter/twilight, which isnt that special since some churches always do that dumb shit. as with everyone else this seems like a dumb overreaction. book burning is lame but this is not some ominous movement

[Anonymous No.19870198]

>>19870125
>pedo hates protestantism
shocking

[Anonymous No.19870207]

>>19870125
>PROTESTANTISTIC
You mean protetsatanic?

[Anonymous No.19870215]

>>19868001
Trans-Fundamentalist Alliance against Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.19870232]

>>19868438
Entirely peaceful, actually. You can actually protest without assaulting people and destroying property