/lit/ - Literature

>>22204488
The golden age was the very start, where eight tripfags sat around sucking each other's cocks and nobody talked about books.

Friendly reminder to never give your work away for free if you have any self-respect as a writer. Do not submit to places that do not pay you or make you pay. I don't care how "hip" or "transgressive these gay zines are, they are profiting from your unpaid labour.

Don't fall for it.

>>21416411
Yeah, I know absolutely nothing about eudaimonia and you can't read posts, kindly fuck off

>>21416362
>I honestly don't understand why people like yourself post this stuff.
To make fun of people like yourself, it should be obvious

>>21416261
buy a copy of meditations, a 1 year gym subscription, download that one motivational image of Plato saying what le shame it is. literally have no other hobbies than working out and reading, avoid any meaningful development of your own life or any contribution of the lives ofthers, post bullshit arguments on the internet about how people who work out for tangible goals are inferior and misguided and that the goal of all "self-improvement" should be self-contained and strictly adhere to a vacuous, alienated autotelic principle

>>21415751
This advice applies to people who want to create works of lasting merit as opposed to literal and metaphorical trash recollections published by Literal Who presses. No-one is buying your books because they suck and your wife is secretly resentful you work all these shit jobs pursuing a juvenile fantasy while she financially props your household up.

Imagine having to listen to these people IRL, Jesus Christ.

Fucking Harold Pickleburger was the favourite student of Lovi Shlameel, and he fell out with him over a theoretical dispute in a strongly worded letter on the concept of jurisprudential esotericist statehood? You don't say? That's fascinating. Oh yes, and let's not forget the whole "jewish" issue, I'd love to hear about how jewish Ira Pastrami was and how that relates to Spinoza's politics and the whole nazi thing for the next 20 minutes.Excuse me for a minute while I get another drink.

>>21415160
>The trick is to get a menial job that requires very little brainpower. Standing behind a counter or doing repetitive tasks in a factory is ideal
The job could be as simple as pushing a single button at a regular interval for 8 hours, for any intelligent person with an adequate sense of self the fact that they are constrained for those 8 hours to do a prescribed task for someone else will chip away at their spirit and sense of autonomy. That's why the smartest people don't want to do any work, or at the very least do their own work. Brainpower has very little to do with it.

In any case, probably the exact opposite is true. Try working behind a counter, if you actually work a job like that long enough it will turn you into a depressed, servile fucking moron, unless you have little to no sense of self. Or do your factory work and see if your brain isn't exhausted and reeling from 8 hours of repetitive, tedious monkey work. It's great preparation for a lobotomy but not so good for writing.

The solution is to not work or do your own work. Boring wage labor puts you to sleep just as much as engaging wage labor does.

>>21411591
>You can write while still having a real job.
Say a real job is 5 days a week 9-5, which is what you need for a mortgage, which us what the average person is working for longterm. You have approx 8 hours to yourself. Realistically it's even less, may be 6 after you've had your lunch, dinner, dressed, done all the daily maintenance things. And this is discounting things healthy people do, like gym and social calls. If you add in those it's more like 4 hours, if you're lucky. So 4 hours to write, and this is without doing any reading. If you read for an hour or two it drops down to 1-2 hours writing.

So saying you can write while having a real job seems pretty unrealistic, or about as realistic as expecting to become a professional athlete by training 1 hour a day while working a 9-5.

Wagwan bombaclot me say me thinking you should Quine kill ya self

>he fell for for the "become a tradesman and beat your wife and be an alcoholic and overall generally dumbass piece of shit" meme

>no-one including any significant post 2021 references

Yeah, I'm thinking all you faggots are bots

>>21381304
Nobody asked

Is this a bot or something? The lack of self awareness is embarrassing

>give me attention
No, lol. You are a boring asshole with no real problems, just like that other boring asshole whining in several threads about how he didn't take it far enough after a month of dating

Sounds like someone got an earful because they weren't behaving like an attention vending machine for a neurotic

Maybe you should go and get that ego into shape so you too can be a predictable and useful economic function like all the other smart and interesting people in society OP

ITT: Indians

It doesn't hold a candle to posting in every thread with sage visible

>I understand the idea of wishing to get away from a purely humanist perspective in the sense that it's often historically conceived around the bourgeois ego, but how does anti-humanism actually challenge that notion any better than a universal humanism that decenters the subject into humanity as a whole?

It's literally just about there being nothing exceptional or special about humans. How can you be this braindead. Daoism is anti humanism, Nietzsche is anti humanism. Why is your first point of reference some fag using the death drive as a cope for why he can't have kids, of all things

>>21369278
Aliens vs predator

Fuck off gay and retarded botposter

>>21366471
>throughout history technology has always progressed, never regressed, hence technological regression is impossible.
Not what I said. Like, whatsoever.

The arguments of those passages essentially amount to saying: it would take a shit-ton of time for progress to reemerge if it did, and certain technologies would not reemerge.

All of which is fair, but not really watertight, and he admits as much by saying "Fuck it, it's someone else's problem".

This is why you can only get so far with this stuff, there are no significant structural or "metaphysical" discussions like you would find with most philosophies. So when this issue of structural power cones up, or issues over whether things like language is technology, he has not much of value to say. Which is fine, it's clear he doesn't want to be a philosopher, it's just unrewarding to read.

The practical writing about revolutionary action and critiques of anarcho primitive writing is decent.

The logic by which he thinks technology cannot be constrained as a self-organizing system is the exact logic by which it would necessarily reappear even in the pre-technological world he wants. Power tends to do that.

Anyway, this is all more elegantly and succinctly explained by all 3 of the Mass Effect 3 endings

>>21364204
What I want to know is, where are all the people bitching and moaning about long term relationships, marriages, work, children and mortgages in the WWOYM threads

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thanks for the suggestion

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sup GPT3 bots.