/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6990094]

~~~~~~~~~~MIRA GONZALEZ AND TAO LIN ON KCRW's "BOOKWORM"~~~~~~~~~

Who tuned in?

What can we do to make Mira less depressed ;_;

Do you agree that "Collected Tweets" is the contemporary version of Aesop's "Fables"?

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/mira-gonzalez-and-tao-lin-selected-tweets

[Anonymous No.6990103]

Get the fuck off my board faggot chink and take your mental spic whore with you.

[Anonymous No.6990112]

It was such a great show. I really enjoyed the conversation they had and I agree on what Michael Silverblatt said about "Collected Tweets" being similar to the aphoristic books written by many prominent philosophers. I also think Mira was correct in saying Twitter is a valid artistic medium. She really is one to watch out for.

[Anonymous No.6990118]

>>6990094
>Do you agree that "Collected Tweets" is the contemporary version of Aesop's "Fables"?

You're rewording what they were saying. I think Mira can be less miserable. I have nothing to say about Tao other than that he should go to bed sometime.

[Anonymous No.6990127]

>>6990094
you make me sick

[Anonymous No.6990129]

>>6990112
Go to fucking bed
There's a poster count at the bottom of the site you know

[Anonymous No.6990131]

>>6990118
>I think Mira can be less miserable.

Umm wow, are you joking or are you from the 18th century?

[Anonymous No.6990134]

>>6990112
I agree!

[Anonymous No.6990135]

>>6990112
>she really is one to watch out for

Like she's going to hopefully kill herself soon?

[Anonymous No.6990136]

>>6990094
stop samefagging

[Anonymous No.6990146]

>>6990131
>Implying a person from the 18th century lacks the ability to jest.

[Anonymous No.6990155]

>>6990146
Only infinitely so.

[Anonymous No.6990208]

Someone should develop a pasta that quickly summarises where flavor of the decade and alt lit books belong in the grand scheme of things.

>>6990155
Infinite Jest was Shakespeare before DFW and will probably be Shakespeare again before the century is out.

[Anonymous No.6990217]

>>6990208
There's already a pasta for that

[Anonymous No.6990236]

>>6990094
Fuck off tao and mira.

[Anonymous No.6990237]

>>6990094
Tao is much more likable than Mira "dude dying young lmao" Gonzalez

[Anonymous No.6990251]

>>6990237
She actually says in the interview that she wouldn't mind dying before 40 years of age

[Anonymous No.6990256]

I wrote this last time Mira posted a thread here. She needs to fuck off.


This type of writing is borne out of gen y's search for authenticity and the difficulty when confronted with reality of not being able to attain it and be seen as a relevant figure by todays standards of measuring artistic worth. We now have writers who feign sincerity, and use a hokey method of detached literalism to exonerate themselves from any form of criticism, this is then infused with modern meta irony, or ironic sincerity (a fitting oxymoron because it parallels the contemporary obsession of using conflicting trains of thought and relativism as a valid form of self examination. It allows the thinker to jettison any technique that forces them to hold any one belief true and not have to worry about passe things like conviction, instead it just derails thought patterns in to tangential, digressive mush where the thinker doesnt actually have to hold true to any one belief whether that belief is correct or not) : using sincerity and injecting it with a layer of irony to distort and obfuscate any true understanding of their intentions regarding how they want their text to be perceived. To deflect any kind of criticism that comes their way, they use this deceptive technique to avoid being seen and called out for who they truly are: vapid, narcissistic, juvenile navel gazers. By reveling in the fact that they are self conscious of how emotionally hollow this form of writing is, it becomes a defence mechanisim when confronted with the reality of their actual intentions: to create a culture that has fully resigned themselves to indifference; to how emotionally and intellectually dead our culture is. To reflect this modern ennui they write about it in a lacksidasical shallow and detached manner full of affectation. It gives twenty somethings a pat on the back for understanding how much of a cunt they are and reinforces the idea that everybody is that way and nobody actually cares and you can't to anything to fix it. It fosters a culture of narcissists full of self entitlement and devoid of sympathy. So yeah, lets bask in how disaffected and detached we all are and how cognizant we are of this horrible truth, maybe we can sell some shitty books full of inane tweets while we're at it.

[Anonymous No.6990259]

>>6990251
I know, I listened to it. She is boringly predictable.

[Anonymous No.6990262]

>>6990256
4/10

Stay jelly betafag

[Anonymous No.6990274]

>>6990262
Nice one mira. You suck and are inly where you are now because you sleep with people who know how to get your banal, mealy-mouthed, juvenile, narcissistic, navel gazing tripe published

[Anonymous No.6990276]

>>6990256
Thank you for articulating the thoughts in my head.

[Anonymous No.6990293]

>>6990276
Rather than the thoughts in your....?

[Anonymous No.6990299]

>>6990293
Fuck off tao and mira /lit/ hates you. Not in a good way either. Fuck off. Your "work" is shit. Your circle of self promotion doesn't extend to this site. Nepotism does not work here, we're not some liberal columnist who pretends to enjoy your shit to foster a certain image of themselves in other people. Go eat a kale and barbiturate salad.

[Anonymous No.6990300]

>>6990094
nah

[Anonymous No.6990308]

Why the fuck does Tao bother promoting himself here? There's only about a hundred of us here at any one time I would guess. Can't he just stay on Twitter?

Obligatory; go bed Tao.

[Anonymous No.6990309]

Just read some of their tweets. OMG IM DYING LIKE HFGRHFHGGH, THEY ARE SO TRUE GFJDHKHXFJH

[Anonymous No.6990322]

>>6990309
Lo-fi tweet no.976:

Today I thought about my old apartment and when I ate xanax with with Y and then X came over and we drank beer and felt mildly close to each other because we were all a little bit sad in some way.

[Anonymous No.6990325]

>>6990308
I think the most logical answer to your first question is: he doesn't. Anybody who has been lurking /lit/ for like 1 day knows that Tao is a source of supreme (in my opinion, projected) hatred here, and creating threads that are phrased differently to /lit/'s usual self depreciating style is golden bait. Tao has a solid enough audience for his books by now that posting here would be completely redundant.

[Anonymous No.6990326]

>>6990299
Please stop associating kale with these people.

[Anonymous No.6990328]

>>6990326
I'm very glad you posted this. Kale is super cheap in the UK and makes great lazy salads (olive oil, lemon, red pepper, sunflower seeds)

[Anonymous No.6990329]

>>6990325
Maybe you're right. But he sure as hell used to promote himself here.

[Anonymous No.6990338]

>>6990328
Yeah exactly. I hate how it's now seen as fashionable or something. My mum used to cook kale and she's pretty working class.

[Anonymous No.6990343]

>>6990328
Thank you for the recipe. I might make it this weekend.

[Anonymous No.6990346]

>>6990328
>lazy salads

Fuck off you dumb pretentious twat.

[Anonymous No.6990347]

Why does he wear the hard hat hair

[Anonymous No.6990349]

>>6990338
She either is or she isnt working class you gobdaw.

[Anonymous No.6990350]

>>6990322
Holy shit is that what's in the book?

And this is what counts as meaningful?

[Anonymous No.6990352]

>>6990349
She's trans-class

[Anonymous No.6990356]

>>6990343
No problem, just massage 1/4 of a lemon and a fair drizzle of olive oil into the raw kale, maybe a bit of salt, add other ingredients after. From what I understand though, raw kale is an acquired taste. I fucking love it though.

>>6990346
Honestly I've never seen somebody get this worked up over salad

[Anonymous No.6990359]

>>6990350
Don't feel bad because you don't get it lol

[Anonymous No.6990362]

>>6990349
Wow, what a pedant. I disagree though. Class is used in more ways than just the Marxist sense. Most people would understand its usage in a comparative way (she's more/less working class than him, etc.). Orwell wrote an essay about this shit, you should check it out.

[Anonymous No.6990367]

>>6990350
Nah it isn't in the book, I just made it up to emulate how shit their writing is.

[Anonymous No.6990372]

>"Tao Lin grapples with a lack of meaning so pronounced it visits him in the form of depression and violent urges: “Feel insanely, almost completely nonhumorously depressed I think”; “imagined myself strangling someone i’ve never met while loudly asking ‘what is wrong with me?’ really wanting to know.”For her part, Gonzalez struggles with profound rolls and pitches throughout the timespan covered by the book, which is recorded chronologically: “you’re only as depressed as you feel” and “‘Living’ is just the longest and most painful form of suicide."

http://electricliterature.com/telegraphing-coherence-selected-tweets-by-mira-gonzalez-and-tao-lin/

[Anonymous No.6990386]

>>6990356
I've never seen someone so fucking pretentious that they are exchanging kale recipes on a literature forum.

[Anonymous No.6990388]

>>6990350
It's actually better than some of the stuff in the book.

[Anonymous No.6990390]

>>6990322
That's so deep and existential

[Anonymous No.6990391]

>>6990386
How is it pretension? Something pretty normal happened. Do you never talk about cooking with friends?

[Anonymous No.6990399]

>>6990391
No. I don't talk about cooking with my friends because I'm not an effete fuckboi

[Anonymous No.6990405]

>>6990399
Yeah but you're a faggot for using words like 'fuckboi'

[Anonymous No.6990412]

>>6990405
Go choke on some kale, you dunce.

[Anonymous No.6990416]

>>6990412
Why are you sperging so much about kale? You sound deranged.

[Anonymous No.6990418]

>>6990412
Don't even eat kale, you kunt

[Anonymous No.6990419]

>>6990416
Maybe go choke on some quinoa then.

[Anonymous No.6990459]

>>6990399
4chan is 18+

adults cook for themselves, so they occasionally trade tips and recipes. you'll figure this out when mommy's not around to feed you anymore.

[Anonymous No.6990461]

>>6990459
Time and a place. Trading fucking shitty recipes on a mongolian braille enthusiast board which discusses post-meta-post-post-modernism, isn't one of them. Go trade your shitty kale salad ideas with the self absorbed turds you have on facebook.

[Anonymous No.6990469]

>>6990461
Only you seem to have a problem with it tbh fam

[Anonymous No.6990471]

>>6990461
Boy this retard sure is butt-devastated

[Anonymous No.6990480]

>>6990461
anon please dont do this
it kills me inside to watch

[Anonymous No.6990554]

Lotta samefagging going on in here.

[Anonymous No.6990691]

H U M O R

[Anonymous No.6990711]

>>6990691
Misogynist much?

[Anonymous No.6990711,1]

sweet book

[Anonymous No.6992284]

>See multiple mention on /lit/ of something called "Selected Tweets"
>See Tao Lin's name
>"Haha cute new meme
>see this thread
>amazon it
>it is real.

mfw.

[Anonymous No.6992302]

>>6990256

>I don't know what paragraphs are

[Anonymous No.6992312]

Less Than Zero for kids who dont actually do anything

[Anonymous No.6992327]

Requesting examples of said tweets.

[Anonymous No.6992357]

>>6992327
They're fucking tweets. Nothing good has ever been written in that format.

Besides they deleted them once the book was set to be published.

[Anonymous No.6992433]

>>6990217
can you post it?

[Anonymous No.6993039]

>>6990262
>Stay jelly
>betafag

and the best butthurt-to-effort ratio in the thread award goes to...

[Anonymous No.6993180]

>>6990299
>we're not some liberal columnist

actually tao is centre right. mira endorsed rand paul at the interview with hamilton morris.

[Anonymous No.6994885]

>>6990419
>edgemeister realizes kale and quinoa are symbols of hipster health trends
>determined to be the sharpest edgemeister in town
>doesn't buy into hip health trends

dude they are just healthy foods. Your hostility is absurd. Look beyond the fan base you dip.

[Anonymous No.6995789]

>>6993180
Mira endorsed Rand? She's an even bigger fuckwit than I originally thought.

[Anonymous No.6995821]

>>6990094
>What can we do to make Mira less depressed ;_;
hang her

[Anonymous No.6995936]

I enjoy kale and quinoa but they are kind of expensive now

[Anonymous No.6996095]

>TFW my girlfriend is pretty friendly with Mira and her gang

She's okay in person guys. A little bland and phony-seeming, but ok overall.

[Anonymous No.6996109]

>>6996095
what's your gf's name?

i'm part of this scene too and will probably know if you're bullshititng

[Anonymous No.6996114]

>>6996109
@mollysoda

If you live on the West coast we've probably met / attended the same parties.

[Anonymous No.6996120]

>>6990094
>What can we do to make Mira less depressed ;_;

You kidding me? I can't wait for this bitch to kill herself.

[Anonymous No.6996126]

>>6996095
>>6996114
>>6996109
samefag tbh

[Anonymous No.6996133]

>>6995789

she didn't say it very seriously and literally the only thing she knew about him was that he endorsed legalizing weed

[Anonymous No.6996137]

>>6996114

Man, your girlfriend seems like an insufferable cunt and just the kind of psuedointellectual bullshit """"""artist""""" that'd hang with tao and mira

Fucking huge bushy armpit hair too, usually I'm not too against it but gross man

[Anonymous No.6996139]

>>6996133

[Anonymous No.6996149]

>>6996137
Yeah, nah, she's pretty chill

[Anonymous No.6996154]

>>6996149

oh ok nevermind

i trust ur judgement anon

[Anonymous No.6996165]

>>6996139

to be fair, tao also is aggressively apolitical, which is itself a political stance (a right wing one)

[Anonymous No.6996174]

>>6996154

this was on the cover of showpaper like a year ago! i forgot all about it, didn't know it was the sdame person.

[Anonymous No.6996181]

>>6996165
He also has a "fuck America" tattoo, and it's clear in Bed how much he resents the United States, presumably because they exiled his fraudster father. He comes across a lot like Elliot Rodger in that book, not sure why more people haven't picked up on that. His next book is also called "Leave Society"

[Anonymous No.6996186]

>>6996114
Holy shit man that's fucking disgusting wtf is wrong with u

[Anonymous No.6996221]

>>6996114
I think she's cute.

[Anonymous No.6996235]

>>6996181
Where can I download Beds?
Pls help

[Anonymous No.6996253]

>>6996114

acording to her most recent tumblr post she is single.

[Anonymous No.6996266]

>>6996253
It's just part of her character m8

[Anonymous No.6996268]

>>6990322
Just murder me

[Anonymous No.6996338]

>>6996266
>pretending to date an internet celebrity on 4chan

anon i am shame of you

[Anonymous No.6996364]

>>6996338

Not even an internet celeb

A twitter celeb. Shamefur dispray

[Anonymous No.6996391]

>>6990094
this man in my country, he is nothing

[Anonymous No.6996399]

>>6996364
She is/was big on tumblr too
Popularity on more than one platform constitutes general Internet celeb dom

[Anonymous No.6998370]

>>6996114
So you're ok with your 'girlfriend' posting poor quality half naked photos of herself on her shitty zine?

[Anonymous No.6998548]

>>6992284
That makes two of us, bud

[Anonymous No.6998701]

>>6996165
Why do you say being apolitical is a right wing stance?

[Anonymous No.6999893]

Can I write alt lit? I don't really make edits and this obviously wouldn't be anything I publish (which I'd want to be short stories)
I typically don't believe in writing any kind of fiction


I'm watching Mira Gonzalez read some of her poetry or something while thinking about posting a story I wrote earlier about putting on my clothes, giving the background on the purchase of each piece (Other than giving snippets of my life in general the point was to mention how I was basically being supported by my ex when I and I bought the first sweater on a rack waiting to meet her one day just so I wouldn't be wearing the same thing I always wore) then i write my walk to the liquor store and on the walk back I end up strangling a homeless man, I'm pretty sure a house in the neighborhood saw what I was doing and didnt say anything, I undress afterward because it feels like my clothes are dirty, then the homeless, who shat itself, who I now refer to is it ends up waking up and crawling under something; while thinking about what to do my ex texts me talking shit and I lay on the cement thinking of a comeback - all of which is true except the homeless man described a cat I tried to kill when I was 14 and my ex texted me a different night.
Mira is obviously a little embarrassed reading some of this and I'm pretty sure she blocked the camera in the beginning to look at herself. It sounded like she was masturbating for a few second during this but I doubt that's true

I bought her book, which I think I'll regret because I don't like poetry or the opinions of women if I'm being honest
I'm thinking about emailing her the story but that might seem desperate because she didn't reply to my last email.
When I discovered her last weekI thought we're both 23. Both I guess spaniard. Both have the same formatted email address. And probably comparable mindsets

I'm watchig Tao Lin's mumblecore and I thought it was a movie attempt at first. This girl seems like a genuine asperger. She basically punks him when they play fight and she knows this on a subconscious level
On cooking the books she talks to him the prounoun second person and actually tells him he doesn't have to respond in the third person

[Anonymous No.7000341]

>>6990326
kale is horrible

[Anonymous No.7000349]

>>6994885
kale is legitimately awful though

[Anonymous No.7000503]

>>6999893
That's dense, anon. Write you can.

[Anonymous No.7000510]

>>6999893
twaddle. reads like alt lit to me

[Anonymous No.7000634]

>>6998701

because it is an implicit endorsement of the status quo. in Taos case he has written at length ( for example in the Asia society newsletter) about how his experiance is no diffrent then that of white americans (or if not no diffrent, he has certainly downplayed the asian american element of his experiance)

to be fair to him, this tendency seems to be less apparent in tai pai then in earlier work. It may be that diffretn topics require diffrent emphesis. for example, I am not sure James Baldwins narrator in Giovonis room is a black guy or not.

[Anonymous No.7001384]

>>6999893
After watching more of that video I see the girl comment on one of Tao's styles that aren't minimalist, apparently formatted like an essay where he uses metaphors and imagery in quotations. The girl says she doesn't like it and his defense which he says in one if his insecure introspective voices is that the quotations represent the fact that what's quoted can take on different meanings for different people - this is a lie I'm not sure he consciously tells, the real reason being that he feels stupid being sincere when using in depth prose and adds the quotations to give an air of sarcasm

After a book reading someone asks if he feels a need to stick with the truth and instead of outright saying that not all of what he writes is true he says he uses his memory as a rough draft then without fully coming out and saying it he says he replaces things that happen with something similar, though probably more interesting or more ironic or something - he says this in a very introspective very awkward way, consciously trying to make it seem a little more interesting than it is, though just coming off as what he is, which is an asperger

In the bookworm interview he almost says some genuine, probably "uncool" (like when he had no friends) things about himself, stops mid sentence and says nevermind

After watching some of that long DFW interview where he is awkward as hell and admits that he didn't write IJ as comedy but as a sad story than uses the justification of writers 'not getting interpreting it the same as readers' to justify that his writing and therefore thoughts and point of view are out if touch, and he probably didn't write anything after IJ because IJ was largely by accident and he was probably afraid he'd fuck it up the next time around

I'm realizing that writers are a strange, awkward people. That they often create something theu don't fully understand, and show it to the world while looking at their feet in an awkward, effeminate way. That this might be representative of the PoMo art world in general

>>7000634
He's not surrounded by azn's so that's expected, and irrelevant to your point

[Anonymous No.7001472]

>>7000634
There's a funny moment in Taipei when he catches himself being racist towards the Taiwanese.

[Anonymous No.7001513]

POLL REDUX

https://strawpoll.me/5208453/r

[Anonymous No.7001531]

>>6990256
This

Tao Lin's literary output is a narcissistic defense.

[Anonymous No.7001534]

>>6990349
her parents are pretty rich and at least one is famous-y (musician?) tao's dad is also super rich
see also: most of the old alt lit names, published poets

[Anonymous No.7001539]

>>6996114
has molly been staying off of alcohol? i would click on her tinychats a couple of years ago and yikes

[Anonymous No.7001564]

>>6996114
she lives in detroit you idiot
this is a very weak attempt

[Anonymous No.7001595]

>>6990256
This is accurate enough for the alt lit community as a whole, but I think Tao produced a very honest and worthwhile work with Taepei - though his previous output doesn't hold up.

[Anonymous No.7001603]

oh dear

[Anonymous No.7001614]

>>6996165
>being apolitical itself is right wing

What in the fuck are you talking about? I hope that was a drunk post you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.7001617]

what a shit show/irredeemable cesspool (audience and the writers i'm aware of present)
http://www.smilepolitely.com/arts/sf_ld_reading_at_exile_on_main/
the woman tao got to write apologia for him last year (around the time of this reading) is the one in the...sleeveless overalls? denim jumpsuit?

[Anonymous No.7001619]

>>7001614
Being apolitical is usually either a tacit acceptance of the status quo, or it's a tacit endorsement of a kind of friends-family centered politcal strategy, which is also pretty conservative.

[Anonymous No.7001627]

>>7001614
Are you really this stupid? In effect it's identical to conservatism.

[Anonymous No.7001633]

>>7000634
What the hell are you talking about? None of your post made any sense.

[Anonymous No.7001640]

>>7001633
>>7001614
saying 'what the fuck are you talking about' over and over again doesn't change the fact that you're being the idiotic obtuse one in this little convo

[Anonymous No.7001651]

Mira being one of the only alt lit girls who gets any attention (via media, articles on her or promotion from the (now, formerly) established main alt dudes) is so depressing since she's one of the least talented and is so dull and has something to do with her a. connections b. her talent and work not threatening anyone either with its content or by being too good.

[Anonymous No.7001658]

your hair and makeup look nice though Mira, if you're reading, you treacherous hack

[Anonymous No.7001664]

>>7001627
What if you supported the status quo in a socialist country? Would the game change and a shift towards capitalism be considered left wing?

Are we using the Wing Dichotomy with an 18th Century French context where right wing is considered the majority authority? Or in contemporary American-Global context where conservativism is innately right wing and progressivism is innately left wing, and if so why is the totality of the status quo right wing? Wouldn't it inherently be neutral, especially in the latter case?

[Anonymous No.7001667]

>>7001640
No, you're the one who's confused here. Why is the status quo automatically relegated to conservatism?

[Anonymous No.7001776]

>>7001539
Talk more about here
Talk about the west coast (specifically northern California, bay area) scene if there is any. I think Marie Calloway and her friend Rachel whoever are here

>>7001667
It's a relatively conservative stance regardless
I don't really have an opinion one way or another on this

[Anonymous No.7001838]

>>7001776
>I have no opinion*
The word your looking for is clue.

[Anonymous No.7001862]

>>7001776
i don't actually know any of these people

but oh boy isn't Marie just 24? has she released anything new this year?https://instagram.com/rachelrabbitwhite/
distressing...I hope she's doing okay and that she moves beyond being (guessing) weirdly exploited by thought catalog writers

[Anonymous No.7001867]

>>7001776
Her*
Or other PoMos in general


>>7001838
I have more than a clue
Bitch

[Anonymous No.7001880]

>>7001664
>What if you supported the status quo in a socialist country?
>>7001664

sorry, could you remind me again where tao writes and where his work is set?

[Anonymous No.7001889]

>>7001862
How is she being eploited?
Seems like she doesn't have her own social media. Before I saw that it past, I was tempted to do Rachel's 40 day thing, partly as an in to meet Calloway

I find it hard to believe that after seeing my confessional writing the bish wouldn't be down to meet, if she is local

I'm interested in what these people are up to, specifically locally. I think it would be cool to be a part of this scene some how

[Anonymous No.7001907]

>>7001867
Well goodness at least you know what you possess. I was beginning to fear you might be absent of some basic mental faculties.

[Anonymous No.7002066]

>>7001384
>He's not surrounded by azn's so that's expected, and irrelevant to your point

wouldn't that make his asian experience more relevant not less?

[Anonymous No.7002227]

>>7002066
It means he doesn't really have an azn experience, but an American one

[Anonymous No.7002343]

>>7002227

this is the opinion that is being described as conciliatory to the status quo. his experience is Asian american and to discount that, is a form of erasure.

[Anonymous No.7002394]

>>7002343
I'm not discounting that, but it's a fact
If you're born in here and assimilated enough to be hanging out almost exclusively with other (white) Americans then chaces are you only feel American

My mom's maiden name is Gomez. I probably look Spaniard. I don't identify with anything but (white) American

I'm sure Mira for example feels the same way


What is your point with this again

[Anonymous No.7002478]

I'm not sure anyone else has said this so I will:

I commend Silverblatt for at least being willing to pretend for the forty minutes that this went on that this is worthwhile "art". You can tell he uses his vast knowledge of aphoristic writers and examples like Pessoa to try to create some sort of artistic lineage for them, but it is quite a reach.

At least Tao appears to put some effort into novel writing; my knowledge on Mira is limited, but it seems like she is on the same path of "I'm just trying to figure out how to make money," as Tao has admitted to in the past.

Silverblatt deserves a pat on the back for trying, but I'm sorry, these tweets are have close to zero artistic value. It feels like a twenty-something who just discovered Basquiat, and then starts trying to pass shitty crayon drawings -- that have little thought or content or value -- as art.

[Anonymous No.7002500]

>>7001619
>Conservatism is the status quo
It's hilarious how liberals actually believe this.

[Anonymous No.7003529]

>>6990094
That one of Tao's "If you believe you're in a maze you instantly gain purpose" is okay.

[Anonymous No.7003603]

>>7002394
>What is your point with this again

if you honesty don't understand after it being explicitly spelt out multiple times in this thread, i recommend you read N+1 magazines piece on tao, "no ones protest novel" it makes this point at greater length and perhaps more articulacy stated.

[Anonymous No.7003726]

>>7003603
I'll only accept being told I don't understand your point, as opposed to simply not agreeing with it, which I don't - because I probably don't (understand)
And because you can't seem to command the words to clearly express it, I'm guessing you don't either. More likely there is no point - much like Tao and his work
This is what I was getting at in the post with the blond girl. I doubt Tao is consciously apolitcal. He probably just doesn't have an opinion
Writing bleakly, like living meekly or getting paid weekly (through a shitty job or temp agency) is for the dull in life, and I doubt his dull light reaches the political sphere

[Anonymous No.7004186]

>>7002500

If you're in the USA, it pretty much is. Dems moving to the centre and republicans going further right since Reagan made it so. The dems might have moved a little to the left on social issues, but it barely shows when it comes to policymaking.

[Anonymous No.7004239]

>>7003726
>>7003726
>And because you can't seem to command the words to clearly express it,


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[Anonymous No.7006327]

bookworm?

[Anonymous No.7006463]

>>7002478
I-I oh jeez Rick, is this considered literature in this dimension?