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Yep

>>9393710
Affirmative

Comfy book to read while high

What a coincidence; I finished this book yesterday.

There's nothing similar I could think of, but why don't you check out the other novels from Ellis? I heard there's Patrick Bateman in Rules of Attraction, so you might want to check that one out.

glad to see an ellis thread without any mention of dubs

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>>9393033
We just started senpai. Check 'em

No, stick to Big Bang Theory and airport novels.

>>9391759
Depends on what you find entertaining

>>9391759
More entertaining than trying to understand Chapman's translation

In all likelihood Kafka probably never "said" that exactly, but it is implicitly said in the Trial and elsewhere.

>>9384302
great thread

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Zizek also always quotes Lenin in an odd way:

"Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort “Freedom - yes, but for whom? To do what?”" -Zizek

But I can hardly find any mention of Lenin saying that, besides Zizek saying so.

>>9373546
Indeed dialectical critical realism may be seen under the aspect of Foucauldian strategic reversal — of the unholy trinity of Parmenidean/Platonic/Aristotelean provenance; of the Cartesian-Lockean-Humean-Kantian paradigm, of foundationalisms (in practice, fideistic foundationalisms) and irrationalisms (in practice, capricious exercises of the will-to-power or some other ideologically and/or psycho-somatically buried source) new and old alike; of the primordial failing of western philosophy, ontological monovalence, and its close ally, the epistemic fallacy with its ontic dual; of the analytic problematic laid down by Plato, which Hegel served only to replicate in his actualist monovalent analytic reinstatement in transfigurative reconciling dialectical connection, while in his hubristic claims for absolute idealism he inaugurated the Comtean, Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean eclipses of reason, replicating the fundaments of positivism through its transmutation route to the superidealism of a Baudrillard.

I say that a football is a mass-produced wad of polyeurethane and lace with traces of leather--Browner says it’s a pigskin with a Southern drawl so emphasized that you hear the saliva build. Browner says high school is for the sake of the girls, the hedonism, and the “opportunity cost of youth” as if he knew what half of the words meant that came out of his bright mouth, with teeth so shiny you want to swing a fist at each molar and feed him candy until they rot to the core.
Every Christmas was configured the same:
We’d wake up,and Browner would make sure he took the plumpest of the pancakes before I got downstairs, and he’d beat me with his legs that had to of been stolen from an ostrich. He’d get a football, a jersey with the numbers “08” stamped and pressed in the back, and a new videogame console. I’d open the books I requested and I’d thank ma and pap for them, and I’d get plucked by my brother once again. We’d sanction ourselves into our own spaces. The top bunk was his territory, a proper nest for his posture. I was left with the creaky bottom bunk that withdrew a constant “Hey, Lucas, how ‘bout you shut up down there, yeah?” And we’d bask in our newly received pleasures of Christmas while eating Aunt Beth’s traditional piles of chocolate and other assorted candies wrapped in their noisy foils and wrappers. I’d read a book and he’d lay around texting the seventh high school-sweetheart of the month about his new jersey and his “hard-earned-cash” (that is, the cash Granpa handed to him for Christmas).
We didn’t have the traditional gingerbread houses or the marvelous dinners, nor the caroling, nor the making of snowmen. These were alien to Floridians. But our family always had one tradition, and it was always to play the glorified sport of football. In fact, the mere word “football” is the epitome of us, the Brownsters, Christmas. And Browner would always ask me the afternoon if Christmas, “Want to play some football?” Last Christmas, the following exchange of conversation after the question was as followed:
“No, I don’t want to play the stupid sport.”
“You never want to do anything. You just sit in some cave and read books all day while thinking about everything, like everything is just some fantasy to you.”
“Well all you do is play some sweaty sport and waste your life on thrills and feelings.”
“And?”
“And? It’s stupid. You think it’s all about having fun, don’t you? You think you’re going to ‘make it’ in the big leagues and not have a worry in your life.”
“Where’d you read that, one of your stupid book? Did your idol Shakerspeare quote that in one of his books?”
I threw a punch at him we rolled around on the carpeted floor of our room for some time until Pa came in and broke the two of us up, sending us to two separate rooms. He gave me some sort of stare as if to intimidate me, and we exchanged some colorful words.
>>9373546
not bad

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>>9373546
Don't know why O.P but every time I read it, it sounds pretensions in the beginning. can you post the rest of it? or is that all?

>>9373619
Not bad, get really into it. Browner should be the main character

my diary desu explains them all

Ok, here goes a wall of text: I'll go chronologically from modernity, through modernism, to postmodernity to postmodernism.
Modernity
is the period after ~1700, approximately, sometimes we discuss things after the Renaissance as "early modern".
The major traits of modernity are: rapid technological and scientific development, globalization, print and then media culture etc.
However, modernity is also defined in a philosophical and historically specific way.
First, modernity was characterized by the entrenchment of humanism: valuing the role of man over nature or God.
Second, the centrality of man and "death of god" meant that societies underwent rapid changes around utopian ideologies around the question of how to live properly: how to organize society and how to understand, shape, or even fix humanity.

1/?

>>9398895
Didn't you read the cartoon you posted?

>>9398874
Psychoanalysis is fun but it's totally unsubstantiated wankery
Psychology as a science is boring

>>9398874
If you liked Piaget, you should read "Six Psychological Studies". It's the most basic, introductory book about his work. It's a collection of 6 essays written by himself.

If you are interested in behavior, you should read About Behaviourism, by Skinner. It's a much more dense work, but he can very clearly give you an understanding on how behaviourism works.

Although not psychology, psychoanalysis is a subject you should also check out. A very good book on Freud's thoughts are Civilization and Its Discontents. Should give you a nice introduction to his works. It was also written by him.

All in all, keep in mind that psychology, for the most part, is a science. There are a lot of neurophysiological explanations for behaviour and human thought. However, it's also very much a human science, so much so that there is something called Social Psychology.

If you want to discuss anything else, I'm here my man. I'm majoring in psychology for some reason.

>>9398911
Thank you very much for those suggestions, I will definitely take a look at those texts.

>>9398745
What makes an elegant play?

>>9398757
This.

What do you mean by "elegant"?

>>9398757
>>9398779
you know like graceful

It doesn't matter, it's about the rule and margin you idiot

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>>9398562
pic related is superior treekiller

>>9398562
>writing on sheets of tree pulp in 2000 + (6*3) -1

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>>9398528
Necessary to what?

elitism is kinda necessary everywhere when discussing seriously something. Discussions when the knowledge levels are too different is always unproductive. That's what schools, books and teachers exist to correct this knowledge gap. And hence why 4chan is a failure at discussion

>>9398540
Everything is a failure at discussion when you're not doing it face to face.

>>9398455
i am redpilled and against women and minorities having the same rights as me

>>9398463
do you believe everyone else should think as selfishly as you do about their own race/gender

>>9398490
only my opinions matter (and people like me) as I am inherently superior to 90 percent of the world

>>9398391
try the redpill of white nationalism instead, cuck

>>9398396
elaborate

>>9398391
The Weöres Sándor translation in hungarian.

>>9398384
>he gets worked up about other people getting worked up about spoilers

>>9398392
>he gets worked up about a person getting worked up about other people getting worked up about spoilers

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>look like shit
>don't do anything for the shitbox cars they get put on
>are just a way for low intelligence zero culture cunts who probably worked at an abattoir for 10 years after dropping out of high school in year 10 to show off to their equally shitheaded mates and impress slutty women whose only ambitions in life are to pump out 7 kids
Yes, I get worked up about it but I get worked up about a lot of things dumb cunt bogans do with their money. It's the pinnacle though as there is NO reason for it apart from making their ford falcon look 'cool'.

my diary desu

>>9398261
The bible

>>9398261
what the fuck do you think?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction#Romance
but are you willing to trade your dignity?

>>9397929

In the sense that they had few goals beyond survival, yes.

It's very easy to live a purposeful life when your only realistic goal is your biological imperative.

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>>9397929
Obviously, before there was honor and god. Now there is but nihilism and satisfaction of our basest desires.

>>9397966
>Now there is but nihilism and satisfaction of our basest desires.
Not everyone is an autistic unlikable shut-in trying to rationalize his apathy through quasiphilosophical melancholy, anon.