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expectations thread

>> No.5509871

>>5509823
template?

>> No.5509884

>>5509823
>reading Noam Chomsky on any subject excepting psycho-linguistics

>> No.5509938

>>5509823
Everything went better then expected, then.

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>> No.5509984

>>5509884
But everything is psycho-linguisitcs

>> No.5510092

>>5509871
dafuq man? Exercise your radical freedom and make your own template.

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>> No.5510577

>>5509823
>Noam 'I Sure Love Drafts' Chomsky
>anarchist
Any anarchist who hasn't been sufficiently ghostbusted by Stirner is pleb trash who would love the state if it was socialist. In other words, Christmas and Easter anarchists. They hate capitalism, not the State.

AnCaps are all retards too, but for different reasons.

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>> No.5510599

>>5510577
Speaking of which, does anyone know any good anti-leftists quotes by Stirner? I need to rustle up some anarcho-plebeians.

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>> No.5510726

>>5510696
lel

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>>5510716

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Still haven't finished it but yeah, it's relevant.

>> No.5510884

>>5510577
>ghostbusted by Stirner
I smirked

>> No.5510888

>>5510599
>call people plebs
>can't think arguments for himself
>can't go back to sources by himself

>> No.5510892

>>5510716
>>5510874
Do you recommend it then?

>> No.5510904

>>5510892
I did not enjoy it, but I can see others liking it.

>> No.5510927

>>5510892
I enjoyed it immensely, but I could see how others didn't.

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>> No.5510938

>>5510904
>>5510927
Aaand no progress is made

>> No.5510952

>>5510577
What do you think about one of the greatest writers of all time, Leo Tolstoy being an anarchist? As are many other great writers, e.g. Tolkien.

>> No.5511113

>>5510888
>expecting me to reread a rather long book at will just for a few quotables

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>>5510933
You were too good for this world, Ilya.

>> No.5511159

>>5511131
what page is this sentence from?

>> No.5511160

>>5511159
None, it's just a statement.

>> No.5511165

>>5510880
howre you finding it bro, finished it last week

>> No.5511170

>>5511160
too bad

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>> No.5511569

>>5510933
that makes me wanna read it

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Personal favourite

>> No.5512080

>>5512061
>every thread

>> No.5512082

>>5510599
>Anarchism
>left
>Stirner
>anti-anarchist in any sense

You americans can ruin even the most beautiful ideas, fuck me

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>> No.5512203

>>5512190
rofl

>> No.5512209

>>5512190

you shut your whore mouth and don't talk about the King of Crops that way

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>>5509871
Some anon came up with this some time ago. From the amount of fags always requesting for this I suppose /lit/ has a shitload of newfag visitors.

>> No.5512562

>>5512061
>Corn

If I remember correctly, there wasn't corn on the European Landmass till the Columbian Exchange, roughly 1500 years after Caesar's death.

>> No.5512581

>>5512562
Before the modern era "corn" meant "grain."

>> No.5512586

>>5512562
GODDAMMIT STOP RESPONDING TO THIS!!!!!!
EVERY DAMN TIME!!!!!!

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>> No.5512619

>>5512562
In British English, "Corn" refers to grains such as wheat, while what Americans call corn is known as maize.

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>> No.5512626

>>5509823
>he thought anarchism was punks and vandals

>> No.5512634

>>5512611
perfect

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>> No.5512667

You really want to read the kind of anarchist book that is filled with violence and hatred? Read Alfredo Maria Bonanno, specially Armed Joy. That shit basically says that we should bomb the bourgeois and then jump on their dead rotten bodies.

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>> No.5512679

>>5512667
btw, insurreccionalists are crazy, don't take em seriously read them for the fun of it. Anarchist is not like that

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>> No.5512701

>>5512061
guaranteedhistorymajorswillrespond.png

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>> No.5512730

>>5509823
How is "On Anarchism"?

I dunno, I have anarchist sympathies, but don't feel comfortable calling myself one, not because I think that the state is needed for civility, but because it seems that the logistics of industrialized life would be difficult without government, and fuck anarcho-primitivism.
I know Chomsky is hesitant to give a vision of an anarchist society, because the entire point is people deciding that for themselves though spontaneous order, but is the book at least a good overview of anarchist thought, like the theories of Kroptopkin and Bakunin and Proudhon and whoever else?
Did they even have "theories," or were they similar to Chomsky in the regard of not positing a clear nature of an anarchist order? I've heard that they did less theorizing and conjecturing than Marx, and we're more about action than academia. Then again, this is the same charge Marx himself made against other philosophers.

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>> No.5512808

>>5511582
what even was that story
i couldn't deal with it

>> No.5512815

>>5512767
>Rolex Day Just ||
>Not even a presidential
For shame anon. Also a Patek Phillipe would fit much better.

>> No.5512837

>>5509823
Why on earth would you expect that from a book about anarchism? are you an 11 year old in the mid 90s?

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>> No.5512857

>>5512841
I think you mean
>Expected: The feels of time passing
>Got: The feels of time passing in seven (not six, as you drew) volumes

>> No.5512989

>>5512857
There's six volumes in the version he posted (It was condensed from 7 to 6)

>> No.5513083

>>5512730
The book is in four parts - the first one a intro to anarchism. The second an interview talking about a realistic or at least as realistic as Chomsky gets, about an anarchist future. The third is the Spanish Civil war criticism's criticism by Chom. The fourth is again a speech about language and liberty, where he tries to relate universal grammar to the notion of anarchism.

>> No.5513088

>>5512837
>>5512626
I know. I am a total pleb.

>> No.5513089

>>5512857
>I'm annoying

>> No.5513102

>>5512841
which translation is better? Lydia Davis or C.K.?

>> No.5513311

>>5510696

Holden Caulfeeld

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Still my favourite book of all time

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>> No.5513387

>>5512808
I love it, but yeah i dont know what dosto was on when he wrote it

>> No.5513412

>>5513102
if you're a pleb the former.

>> No.5513415 [DELETED] 

>>5512685
oh shit, does he go shotacon in this one? 1Q84 was full lolicon/moe, with a sex scene straight out of good hentai, I swear to God the man is a huge otaku and lying about it to everyone's face

>> No.5513429

>>5513380
kek. you're a pleb if that's your favourite.

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>>5512685
oh shit, does he go shotacon in this one? 1Q84 was full lolicon/moe, with a sex scene straight out of good hentai, I swear to God the man is a huge otaku perv and lying about it to everyone's face

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>> No.5513624

>>5513429
Fuck off idiot. Can you prove me being a pleb is true? If not, then I have won this philosophical debate and my mental capacity has outweighed yours without me having to utter a single breath.

>> No.5513672

>>5510500
I never finished Blood Meridian
It just got exhausting after a while
Everything is senseless violence, every character is awful, and it didn't seem to go anywhere except more awful. If there was supposed to be a point I either got it after the first chapter or it picks up at the end and I'm never going to get there.

>> No.5513682

>>5512263
Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are trash
Vonnegut in general in trash
Get at me

>> No.5513746

>>5513624
this post is prove enough

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>> No.5513823

>>5512308
fun fact: Phillip K. Dick thought Stanislaw Lem wasn't a real person but a committee of communist party hired writers trying to take over American popular culture (through a shitty science fiction magazine where Lem was dominating him). Dick believed that Lem spoke too many languages (or a contradictory amount of them) to be a single person. He reported Lem's publishers and advocates to the FBI. lel

>> No.5513829

>>5513821
hey not cool man

>> No.5513837

>>5513821
>tfw that poor grandmother kept cleaning so she could slow down the decay but she was destined to fail
also rip colonel aureliano

>> No.5513850

>>5513823

Yep. Lem does write in many different styles throughout his book too. Shame that PKD was so paranoid considering that he was just about the only American author Lem respected. Imagine if the two had cowritten a book...

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>> No.5513860

>>5513837
Long live the Liberal Party! Never forget the massacre

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>> No.5513865

>>5513821
i dont get the fish

>> No.5513871

>>5513865
did u read the book?

>> No.5513872

>>5513860
Always remember that it was more than three thousand and that they were thrown into the ocean

>> No.5513877

>>5513871
yes im like on the last chapter maybe it happens later?

>> No.5513880

>>5513877
>>5513871
ooo know i get it ahha clever

>> No.5513881

>>5513877
hmm maybe its my translation or something. but he mentions col. aureliano making little golden fishes about 1000 times

>> No.5513892

>>5513877
>>5513880
how is it clever, it's all Colonel Aureliano does after the war is over

>> No.5513902

>>5513892
becuase im stupid and i read the book and he makes fishes made of gold and you posted a goldfish

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>> No.5514161

>>5513933
so you expected vampires from the count of montecristo?

>> No.5514217

>>5514161
i literally knew nothing about it. so i was expecting some fantasy count dracula type shit. i damn wrong im glad to admit. damn good immersive thriller without being entirely predictable or cliched

>> No.5514219

>>5514128
what are those spiky things mounted on the wall?

>> No.5514238

>>5514219
Benis :DDDD

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>> No.5514250

>>5514238
oh, just remembered the whale chapter lol

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>> No.5514295

>>5513624
>philosophical debate
g8 daay m8

>> No.5514309

>>5513864
When you see that tunnel in you... fucking sabato

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>> No.5514360

>>5514343
well, that works for white nights too

>> No.5514370

>>5514360
haven't read that one but I'll look into it, thanks.

>> No.5514420

>>5512061

Maize wasn't around at that time

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>> No.5514449

>>5512209
Hey j.d.

>> No.5514458

>>5510696
kek

>> No.5514461

>>5514449
From MAL?

>> No.5514472

>>5512061
didn't corn come to europe in like 1500 ad ? lol

>> No.5514494

>>5514449
Fuck off.

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>> No.5514524

>>5514461
I prefer Hummingbird, it's just so much superior in every possible aspect of it.

>> No.5514525

>>5514520
I don't get the last image: what's it supposed to mean?

>> No.5514537

>>5514525
that's the ribbon for autism.

>> No.5514542

>>5514537
>doesn't understand No Longer Human
>now thinks it's autistic
This is the current state of /lit/.

>> No.5514555

>>5514542
Hey friend,
I did understand the book, and yet allowed myself this humorous attempt at an image macro. My attempt at making a funny observation or comparison doesn't necessarily imply a lack of understanding on my part.
I'm sorry it doesn't appeal to your personal sense of humor, but it does to mine, so I post it every so often.
Hopefully, in future posts, you'll be able to better differentiate between humor (such as displayed in this thread, to varying degrees of success), and serious discussion on themes and motifs in literary works.

Best regards,
a faggot.

>> No.5514563

>>5514555
You're right anon, my apologies. It was personal, TBH, NLH is a very good book, and I just thought anon had better taste, my bad.

>> No.5514564

>>5512061
>pretentious faggots will always reply to this fucking image

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>>5512061
>>5512562
>>5514420
>>5514472

>> No.5514676

>>5514589
De Bello Gallico V.XI

T. Labienus was always the most eager to take things up his ass. He
would be on all fours on his bed, bucking back on to three of Caesar's fingers
implanted in his hole, beating his meat furiously and reaching orgasm in no
time flat. T. Labienus loved to lie back and have Caesar or P. Crassus slide a finger
inside him while he beat off. He said it helped him shoot off.
One night in November they crossed the Rhine as an adventure. Caesar
was contemplating the stars when P. Crassus called him over to a field of
corn.
"Check this out," he said, holding up a thick-looking ear of
corn, yellow and about the circumference of his forearm. "This would be
perfect." Pretty soon they had their pants off and dicks out, and they started
beating off. Then T. Labienus unsheathed the corn.
"Alright, I'm gonna try this out." He slicked it up with olive oil
while P. Crassus and Caesar watched. The corn was considerably bigger than
their fingers, and they wondered how T. Labienus would take it.
He threw his legs up over his head and pressed the tip of the corn
against his hole. T. Labienus' ass never seemed as tight as Caesar's was.
His asshole kind of fit his personality--loose and ready for anything. He
pressed the corn slowly inside. His cock was rock hard. His balls were
drawn up really tight against his body, he was so turned on. Like butter,
the corn went right in to the hilt. T. Labienus held it there and let out his
breath. His cock was rock hard, his balls almost disappearing into his
body he was so turned on.
"How's it feel?"
"Fuckin' goooooood," he groaned. He slid it back out, stretching out
the lips of his asshole, then pushed it back in again, them time faster and
further. He was really getting into it--fucking himself and loving it,
just like Nicomedes had.

>> No.5514757

>>5514676

What is this nonsense?

>> No.5514772 [DELETED] 

>>5512562
>>5514420
>>5514472
Read the book. He doesn't fucking shut up about corn.

His other favourite subject is other people begging and apologising to him. Dude was narcissistic as fuck.

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>>5509823
:/

>> No.5514893

>>5512620
I still liked it.

>> No.5514904

>>5512061
fucking retard there was no corn in that time did you fail your middle school history class faggot?

>> No.5514917

>>5514904
I can't tell who's memeing and who's being memed anymore.

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I liked it.

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I like this one too.

>> No.5515066

>>5510589
but he does give a fuck and he has tons of feelings, he's just surrounded by primitive fucks who can't into deep feelings.

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>> No.5515094

>>5513933
What I got is pretty accurate, dat detail and years of intricate plotting culminating in one glorious last act of pure unadulterated vindication

>> No.5515136

>>5509823
what's with the little ranchero?

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I was not expecting it to be rather goofy since it is usually hailed as a root of surrealist literature.

It was far more bleak and haunting than I expected, I am surprised its influence never grew outside France,

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>>5515163
>that chapter about him yelling at the sea because he believes that's where Satan lives

Who knew something so crazy could be so depressing.

>> No.5515176

>>5512263
lel

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>> No.5515201

>>5515163
What's the name of that painting?

>> No.5515217

>>5515201
Lucifer by Franz von Stuck

>> No.5515218

>>5515201
Lucifer by Franz von Stuck.

I chose it for the imagery, the main character in the novel is not so Luciferian as he is a kind of embodiment of the concept of Zeitgeist through the eyes of the reader. The novel has a timeless quality I saw in the painting.

>> No.5515227

>>5515175
I almost gave up when the dog raped the girl

>> No.5515243

>>5513459
That scene and the few other parts with that girl (whatever her name was) were the only good parts of that book. [Spoiler]He has a wet dream about banging a clone of Kowaru from NGE[/spoiler], but it's not satisfying like the thunderstorm scene in IQ. The book was really really shit, and I feel bad for spending money on it. Also I'm not >>5512685

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>>5515227
>>5515227
>When he falls in love with the shark because it is filled with hate and eats everything it sees
>he tries to fuck it while it tries to eat him alive

>> No.5515306

>>5515270
That was amazing as fuck.
Also that trip when he sees Gods eats people and uses the bloodlake as sauce. Fuck, I wanna read that shit while I'm on acid.

>> No.5515308

>>5514757
>haven't read the most important profile of roman culture ever written.
Have fun being pleb.

>> No.5515311

>>5515136
Spanish Civil War.

>> No.5515318

>>5515306
>>5515270
>>5515227
>>5515175
I need to read this shit now.

>> No.5515558

>>5513589

Worth reading?

>> No.5515568

>>5510589
>implying the cure isn't fantastic.

>> No.5515571

>>5515163
>>5515175
>still waiting for my copy to arrive in the post
I got the version with illustrations by Salvador Dali. Did I do good, /lit/?

>> No.5515611

>>5513799
kek

>> No.5515622

>>5515571
You did very good

>> No.5515711

>>5515571
which version is that? I'm having trouble finding it

>> No.5515727

>>5515711
This one http://www.bookdepository.com/Songs-Maldoror-Comte-De-Lautreamont/9780982046487

>> No.5515761

>>5512061
corn didn't exist until christopher columbus made it in argentina and brought it to New England

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>> No.5515780

>>5515769

lol'd but please explain

>> No.5515786

>>5515780
Most pages have a long run-on sentence describing a big sequence of events with 'and' connecting them all. Still a 10/10 book, but it can get a bit overbearing.

>> No.5515793

>>5515727
thank you anon

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>>5514520

>> No.5515851

>>5515837
Are you the same guy that did the 1st NLH one? This one is much more accurate.

>> No.5515868

>>5515851
No, different guy.

>> No.5515996

>>5511165
Not too bad. It gets a bit boring throughout a significant part of it but it interests me enough to continue reading,

>> No.5516023

>>5515185

10/10

>> No.5516252

>>5510589
no pack of cigarettes???

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>Hated this even in high school
>Teacher thought so highly of this shit book
>Teacher made me despise English with a passion, biggest cunt I've ever met in my life
>Every time we finished a book in our high school AP English class we'd have to separate on sides to debate with the other side, everyone needed to articulate why they liked or disliked it
>AP Class was tiny (eleven people, inner city) and I was the only guy
>"Go to the left side if you enjoyed it"
>I'm the only one on the right side, didn't think the teacher was actually going to continue a debate like that, she does
>All of the girls rave about how much they loved the emotional impact and all that shit, call me stupid because I didn't love it
>I calmly explain my opinion, I was self-aware enough not to go on a long rant or anything, understood that it didn't matter
>Just said that the characters were uninteresting and similar and that the writing was extremely cliche and predictable
>Teacher told me I was wrong and she didn't even respect my opinion (just "I'm sorry, but you are just wrong, this is a literary masterpiece bla bla bla")
>My biggest regret is not having a massive argument with her and getting expelled

>> No.5516535

>>5514960
this one i hated
>>5515005
i loved this one. that chapter with the little kid

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>> No.5516626

>>5513851
It had the expected stuff in it too. Did you even read it?

>> No.5516703

>>5515175
>>5515163
Worth reading in the original language? (would take an effort, but if the translation ruins it, I'm willing to make it)

>> No.5516839

>>5509959
I don't get it. Why did reading the poetic edda involve guys in fedoras, scooby doo, and nietzsche?

>> No.5516868

>>5512061
BUT THERE WASN'T ANY CORN BACK THEN!!!!!11

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Never did finish it, it was just such a goddamn struggle. Tolkien's world is amazing but I cannot for the fucking life of me read any of his work.

>> No.5516916

>>5516882
Add in some sheet music and poetry and you really have the "Got" section.

The LOTR trilogy is honestly a good thing to have read, or at least tried to read just because its a major part of fantasy
>Inb4 "Nuh uh!"
and establishes like a billion themes that we see today all the time.

And also because its sometimes fun. Some people like how Tolkien phrases everything, but I do wish there was some rendition where it was like "LOTR for dumbasses" Where it was just easy reading you could page through in a day.

>> No.5517342

>>5516882
Most accurate post in the history of accurate posts.

>> No.5517560

>>5514434

I want to read this but my library doesnt carry it.

Is thee a PDF of it somewhere?

>> No.5517825

>>5515558
Sure, it's one of the most important works of the Latin American Boom, but I didn't really like it.
Maybe it's just me.

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>> No.5518272

>>5513083
Ah, I see. I'll check it out, then. Thanks.

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thought I'd appreciate his arguments more by reading him, but it was just a chore

>> No.5518366

>>5513102
I like scott more, but i think Lydia is more accurate to the original Proust

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>> No.5518374

>>5514343
tired joke but true

>> No.5518390

>>5512581
>>5512619

Thank you guys, this always bothered me about the Bible specifically the thing about Joseph's (as) dreams. I knew it would be a simple answer but I could never find it.

>> No.5518393

>>5514434
I can't tell if you liked it or not.

>>5517560
Just buy the ebook. It's cheap.

Not really a good read, anyway. Sort of repetitive and tells you nothing new. Preaching to the choir.

>> No.5518399

>>5518372
>Seemingly irrelevant episodes
I disagree with that. But I did feel like there was supposed to be a few more chapters between In The Cathedral and The End

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>>5510589
>AnCaps are all retards too, but for different reasons.
HOLY FUCK YOU ARE ME
So fucking accurate.

>> No.5518434

>>5515318
Ditto

>> No.5518443

>>5518372
You got Kafka'd

>> No.5518445

>>5518372
pleb

>> No.5518465

>>5510577
You obviously can't just have anarchism overnight, so you just have to settle for the steps it would take to get there. Ending the state before capitalism, as an ancap would have it, would only allow new states, or rather gated communities, fiefdoms and eventually empires. That's how retarded they are.
Start with capitalism, slowly fading it out till everyone gets the hang of it, and you have a radically new kind of population. Most would very well educated at this point and many would be interested in the progression of ending the state/govt. But this is always up to the next generations.
Free education and less work hours for more pay is the first step.

>> No.5518559

>>5509823
The only reason you all got what you got from the books is because you couldn't manipulate the information given to you into that of which you expected. A better question would be what caused the expectations and changes of your perceptions in the 1st place?

>> No.5519681

>>5516535
I'm trying to think of what you mean in regards to Mother Night. Do you mean Resi?

>> No.5519720

>>5515200
>mcride
mufag detected

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>> No.5520144

>>5512061

dude heh i don't think their was corn back than heh

>> No.5520343

>>5515568
that's just a reference to the song 'killing an arab'

>> No.5520346

>>5510605
I was pretty disappointed in dracula but I don't see what you're getting at here. Really don't like the epistolary format here, it's far too expository.

>> No.5520388

>>5513799
lol'd

>> No.5520418

>>5513851
You forgot confusion and incompetent lawyers

>> No.5520464

>>5513799
gut gut