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No. Apart from having a basic bitch understanding of philosophy he utilizes manga tropes out of the ass, in a couple of years he'll be writing Sanderson clones.

>>9523549
>manga tropes

What did he mean by this?

>>9523566
It's just some deluded otaku's opinion. He thinks everything comes from manga.

Para pensar

>>9523440
Yup

>>9523440
>>9523482
I've just finished the part where the family Christmas dinner dissolves into political/religious squabbling. So far, I'm really enjoying the book. Does it get worse?

>>9522779
>two ubik threads created within a minute
what does this portend

>>9522779
I'm about 3/4 done and I'm really liking it.

I liked it. The ending was good.

Is there a punchline coming?

>>9522749
A poet makes beautiful stuff
A philosopher asks why this stuff is beautiful and if it matters

A philosopher stuffs stuff down your throat
A poet just stuffs it

Why is Richard Spencer on there?

>>9522639
No idea. What happens when you search it?

>white

I see what they're doing

>want to know what /lit/ thinks

Never gonna make it

Only philosophy worth caring about.

Stoicism is a pretty good fit for cucks, but not really a cuck philosophy.

Schopenhauer

>>9522228
>plays flute

I don't think so.

>>9522228
>Schopenhauer
How so, you can barely count him as one when you consider the OP pic

>>9522168
quick rundown on him?

Right.

haven't read him but there are several industrial societies doing perfectly well without freud: india, china, japan

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I'll start.

>Your IQ
125
>Your favorite work of literature

Siddhartha

>Overrated piece of shit

The Catcher in the Rye

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>Your favorite work of literature
Invisible Cities.

>Your least favorite work of literature
The Great Gatsby.

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>white buildings
>anything from the beats

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>>9521752
Yeah

>>9521752

my diary desu

Houellebecq's Whatever.

>>9521521
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

They seemed to have a fantastic amount of money and were buying tons of US assets, and were the number 1 exporter in the world for a while.

Too bad it was all completely false and was followed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan), and have even bigger financial and demographic problems now (see abenomics)

tl;dr, funny money

>>9521521
Watch Princes of the Yen.

Also, same reason we think China is going to take over the world: we underestimate the Asian genius for stagnation, which comes from their amazingly self-serving culture of elitism, monopoly, and patronage. That's also why something like North Korea is even possible.

>>9521531
I am utterly incapable of grasping the technicals behind the downfall.

dude, it's by a failed stemfag former child prodigy who couldn't produce any work of value in his own specialty so he thought he could just dabble in humanities and social science, the worst of dilettantism.

>>9521326
Of course I know, but it is not even worth reading as some edgy internet literature.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225468.Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future
And fucking 3.8 on goodreads, people who never read any political work are liking him and think he makes good points.

Just read Marx/Evola/even fucking Mises or any actual political writer.

>>9521320
I think that a significant factor in its quality is that he was writing for mainstream readers who hadn't read the complete works of Jacques Ellul ten times over. It gets the point across okay.

>>9520332
i genuinely might have some minor mental illness but I am afraid I will just be considered one of those special snowflakes who wish they were schizophrenic bipolar autists with unique minds.

i want to write an english argument paper on ai but not sure what about

>>9520332
eatin the booty like groceries

>Americans pronouncing any non-Spanish foreign word ever
Here's the thread summarized for you.

>>9518847
no need to have a party. dont even invite anyone. will just be a bunch of friends drinking and telling jokes and laughing. so predictable, we might as well just pack it up.

>>9518847
O B S E S S E D
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If you stick it out until near the end, you get to meet Satan read about the trial.

>>9517330
You picked the wrong translation, bud. That's the one I read and boy was it awkward. Good story though. Just stop being a pussy and finish it, you already read most of it. The ending is pretty good. And a bit of a tear jerker.

>>9517330
If you thought the Grand Inquisitor was underwhelming, then you didnt understand it. Finish it. Ivan has so many good chapters, and like another anon said, the end is fantastic and a tear jerker.