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Kantbot's new project, The Autistic Mercury, launched today. I think we should discuss this new platform and the content therein.
I am seeing a nice collection of work by several well-known frogtwitter (loosely defined) figures.
To mention a couple of the pieces, there is an excellent review of Milo's book by Mr. Bones (pbuh) and an analysis of the infamous Google Memo by crypt. Both very good reads.
Make no mistake, Kantbot himself is very much /ourguy/ despite his Goethe fanboying. I'm happy to shill for the faggot because this is the most promising and ambitious culture-focused platform to come out in a long time. If done well (and do not claim to know what that means), I think The Autistic Mercury has the potential to become powerful.
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>>9981334
I don't like the format. Get a better font Edward
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>>9981334
forgot link. https://autisticmercury.com
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>>9981353
who is Edward
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Has anyone on /lit/ ever achieved Satori?
How did you go about it, and what insights can you share, if any?
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>>9981141
Once.
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>>9981159
And?
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>>9981141
The more I look at that picture the stupider it gets.
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Childhood is believing Sam Harris' concept of objective truth.
Adulthood is realizing that Peterson's idea of utility as truth is historically accurate and thus the actual underpinnings [TRUTH] of the world/simulation we collectively inhabit.
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both of them are gay.
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peterson's idea of truth is more dangerous and degenerate than all the gosh darn postmodernists put together (cause he should know better)
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What is the truth of utility?
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What books would you recommend to someone looking for good dialogues?
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>>9980979
Who the fuck do you think?
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>>9981005
>autist takes down ridiculous strawmen and is utterly incapable of just getting that some people are nominalists and have good reasons for it outside of the context of ridiculous strawmen: the collected works
Huehuehue
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>>9981005
lold
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What are your thoughts on capitalization in poetry? 2017-09-05 01:15:59 Post No.9980927
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What are your thoughts on capitalization in poetry?
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I've been taught at college that a prevailing new standard for poetry is to have the beginning of lines uncapitalized, instead of capitalized, as the convention had been, before. Does this have much to do with the beat poets of the 1950s, and modernist and post-modernist poetry movements? Who today is a successful and critically acclaimed poet that still habitually capitalizes the first letter of every line? Objectively, could the two conventions both be correct and appropriate for modern poetry, or have we already reached a point by which the previous way is frowned upon as archaic? I prefer the aesthetics of capitalization for my own work, and in others'.
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It's best to alternate between the two for each sentence.
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It gives me a surprise when I wake up lol
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>>9980927
The best way to do it is 2 just B urself
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is this book good? I read a Bram Stoker short story called Dracula's Guest and it was shit, but Dracula himself sounds like a cool guy.
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>>9980918
It's a great book up until Jon Snow is murdered by the Night's Watch.
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>>9980946
did I just read a spoiler in the first post of the thread or are you making joke
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I enjoyed it quite a bit but I like that style of writing.
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Was he right, /lit/?
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>tfw you agree with Locke and Nozick's justifications for private property, but hate the social and cultural effects of Capitalism.
He was definitely right about Capital being an atomizing and alienating force, but I don't buy the 'labour theory of value' (I know that this is considered a fairly easy target). I also don't agree that all non-class divides are made up in order to further Capital's interests - big business has been some of the biggest critics of the populist/nationalist uprisings and things like nested loyalty (ie, the lack of true pan-prole solidarity in the absence of false consciousness) seem to be just a biological fact of life
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>>9980911
about what?
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Sort of.
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Any /lit/ related documentaries that you would care to share?
If we could avoid politics and yootoobers that would be fab.
This malcolm lowry doc was pretty neat. apparently he had a micro-penis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wma61_wfHqg
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>>9980862
Was watching an episode of South Bank Show about William Blake the other day, pretty good for ITV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvx0on0Hj2I
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While not necessarily about literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnt7_GsDK8k
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>>9980951
thank you gentlemen
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Is slightly buzzed the proper way to read Pynchon?
When reading sober I find that my mind starts to wander during some of his longer tangents but when I read while sipping 2-3 beers I find myself hanging on his every word.
Anybody else?
On the other hand, reading Pynchon stoned is very, very difficult.
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>>9980846
Was Gravity's Rainbow written on drugs? I remember hearing about that someplace, but I can't remember if it was just speculation or if it was somehow confirmed by Pynch-man or one of his friends or something?
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Nah, more rewarding sober.
I don't think reading is a great thing to do when high anyway, but Pynchon is rewarding if you're doing deep reading that while stoned I have difficulty doing.
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Tangent -- thoughts on bleeding edge?
Finished recently and enjoyed it
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if this guy was such a big nihilist, why did he write so many books?
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>>9980606
If this thread is bait, why am I posting in it?
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>>9980606
read the books and find out
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>>9980606
Hitler wasn't a nihilist retard
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Has this guy written any good books?
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FACTS don't care about YOUR FEELINGS: life as a REBEL against LIBERAL BULLIES
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>>9980478
I don't know about his own work, but his opinions relating to literature are laughably immature. Just listen to him talk about Lord of the Flies, he sounds like a middle schooler.
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>>9980509
his role in society is not to be imaginative, creative, or poetic but to act as a voice to keep the idealists among us honest and anchored.
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How do I get into Existential Christianity? Is it possible to be a Christian and not trust the Church as it is contradictory to the Word?
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>>9980167
Read Kierkegaard
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>>9980230
No read Dostoevsky
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>Is it possible to be a Christian and not trust the Church as it is contradictory to the Word?
Have you not heard of that whole reformation thing that happened a while back?
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>Nabokov
>Lewis Caroll
>all the Greeks
>Stephen King
>Shakespeare
>Pynchon
why are so many great authors pedophiles?
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>>9980165
>haha memes
The deepening sense of regret within you will consume your entire being
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>>9980165
Half of them weren't even pedos. For instance I'm pretty sure Caroll was asexual.
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Don't forget Salinger ;^)
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this is required reading for my history class,
My question to you, /lit/, is now that communism has failed does this book have any modern relevance?
discuss.
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>>9979903
I feel like i didn't really understand why people were attracted to it until I read this.
That's the value for me at least.
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>>9979903
As long as capitalism exists, so will Marx.
Read it, it's actually good.
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It's diagnostic not prescriptive.
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I'm really distraught, /lit/ 2017-09-04 07:09:59 Post No.9979601
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I'm really distraught, /lit/
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I was just on a train reading the Republic and a black man next to me asked me, "Are you an intellectual?" I said, "No, not really." and he replied, "That's why you read Plato."
How am I to respond to that?
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>>9979601
Morpheus.. easy on the dialectic
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>reading middle school stuff as an adult on the train
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we wuz filosphur kangz n sheeet