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nyrb has 'the sun king' which might be up your alley

>>9984466
The marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais.

>>9984479
I'm looking for something a bit more pro-aristocracy

>>9984402
>Where do I start?
edgy teenager with no friends
>Where will I end up?
doing psychedelics in india

>>9984402
i recommend that you read all his books on chronological order, the question should be; What i am searching for?

>>9984419

You found me out

>>9984435

Thanks for the advice. I know I'm searching for some answers. Hope I'll find them here. Have you read his books?

>>9984390
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hZX5nBYao
This is our guide to Tao

>>9984390
First and most obvious:

Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing)
Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)
You may also want to give the I ching (not strictly speaking a taoist only book, but obviously critical to old school taoists) a look, but personally I think the philosophy is way more interesting than the direction of fortune telling alchemy, etc.

>>9984495
Which translation?

>>9984199
I doubt anyone cares about the way of communication. But they clearly have a moronic target group.

>>9984207
>they clearly have a moronic target group.
Who? Certainly not the people mentioned in the OP.

I have already completely my philosophy of life.
I have an IQ of 157.
I can paint like Leonardo DiCaprio.
I've critiqued at least 677 books on Goodreads, 1405 films on IMDb, and 3 albums on RYM.
"I am great, not because I am great, but because I am" - me

>>9983887
Byron

>>9983887
Love Rilke. Eliot's probably my favorite, but I've been reading some others lately. Favorite Rilke

Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

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Taylor Swift.

is dis good haiku?

The cicadas buzz
A bird’s whistle pierces through
Like light through the trees

>>9984050
no

>>9984050

guess the setting

A palm beetle grub
One-dollar delicacy
True tropical treat

Floating foliage
Forever purgatory
Clouds carry canopies

Omnia vera.

>>9983507
Thanks for remind me I need to read this book.

Are there any good biographies of Guenon?

Bumping for OP, I would like to know too.

Here's how i did it:
>Watch anime on italian for about two hours
>have google translate to look for spelling/meaning (makes it easier to pick up words when you know sc sounds like sh, or c is k except before e or i when it changes to ch)
>repeat

After doing this for four months or so, a friend told me to download duolingo. It's not terrible; but it only serves to reaffirm/practice what you'll learn on your own.

Just recently i've been starting to read books on italian. Last week bought one on how to play guitar

>>9983339
**Mama mia spaghetti bonjourno letsa annex Etiopia**

>>9983219
...maybe you need a grammar book?

>>9983228
I think you're right. I just don't even know where to look or what would be considered good. Like a text book?

>>9983228
Can you find stuff like this at a local library?

>>9983177
Technically everyone's dead in the eyes of Hegel

>>9983313
Technically Hegel is dead in the eye's of everyone.

people still crave modern strains of his thought, he provided and also laid ruin. which will win his test?

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>asking /lit/

Are you alright?

>>9983164
I am kind of desperate and need a quick answer.

Those who profit from (own) the means of production have the resources, the means, and the motivation to reinforce their own ownership of the means of production and keep their alienated human machinery subservient.

Smith said in Wealth of Nations that the rich have infinitely more resources and time and motivation to get together and conspire, intelligently and calmly, on how to bust labour's defenses against the rich. The deck is always stacked in favour of the rich, because they are rich. A poor person is at best a cornered animal, but a rich person can hire an army, or an army of specialist lawyers, or pay off politicians, or just in general have nice leisurely vacations in the Bahamas to conspore with other rich guys on how to fuck over the unions.

So it isn't literally conspiratorial, no, but it's a false or secondary layer of consciousness that makes a prima facie unbearable form of life bearable by convincing people that it's normal/good. The rich participate in that false consciousness both consciously and unconsciously themselves, and can be just as taken in by it, especially in the petite bourgeoisie.

If you are told that the Immutable Law of the Universe, by God's decree, is that you should toil in a field while Bob enjoys the fruits of your labour and jerks himself off all day, you are much more likely to keep tolerating that situation, where without that fairy tale you might have done basic Rousseauist logic that any capuchin monkey is capable of and told Bob to even up the labour or go fuck himself. If Bob himself believes in the ideology while you do, and comes out occasionally and pats you on the head and tells you to keep up the good work. or even if he occasionally gives you back some of the food you prepared for him out of "charity" and actually thinks he's a good person. it's still false consciousness.

Gramsci extends the analysis pretty well to the "historic bloc." Given articulations of productive relations will naturally generate whole classes and servitors to maintain those relations. Capitalism will naturally produce whole types and sub-types of good charitable Bobs whose job it is to appease the working class, to obfuscate the means to revolution, to make the ruling classes feel less guilty and prevent them from defecting to the working class, etc. It naturally selects for maintenance of the status quo, naturally seeps into all "positions" in the culture, naturally entrenches itself.

Lobotomies.

>>9983014

Because you don't understand it.

>>9983014
Because Communism is so fucking retard? Yeah probably that.

You want fiction? Go for the freedom trilogy, youll get a comfy ww2 stream of consciousness-ish style novel. It's as good as it gets with this dude in terms of fiction, imo

Existentialism is a humanism, is a pretty good start to Sartre I think. Unless you're interested in his literary (and fictional) works, then I don't know.

>>9982801
>>9982808
Thanks guys. Fiction, non fiction, doesn't really matter, I like to mix things up.

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>>9982467
https://track5.mixtape.moe/wtjgrl.pdf

>>9982467
Just drop acid, don't be a faggot

>>9982794
Also
The pick you posted is exactly how the headspace acid gives you feels like, and at ego death it stops being a square and it becomes infinite

>>9982450
lol imagine killing yourself because of something as worthless as a culture kek
Good thread, OP.

>>9982450

>posting on 4chan
>calling others pathetic

? :D

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Fuck off, cunt. This is a Mishima dickriding thread now.