Is this the peak of rhetoric? I've been reading Aristotle and these ladies seem to nail every one of his pointers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
>>9179306
DRUMPF BTFO
HOW CAN HE BEAT HILLARY NOW? HOLY FUCK IT'S OVER FOR THE STALE PALE MALE!
I was a high school debater in the US, and later judged debate while I was in college.
This shit was endemic even then, you hate a fuck-ton of Kritical Affirmatives that had nothing whatsoever to do with the topic that people came to debate and everything to do with ever more creative ways to employ variations of the race card, the woman card, or both. Coupled with speed reading, which was another procedural bullshit strategy, it poisoned the sport of debate.
The strategy behind a Kritical-Affirmative is two-fold: you're bringing a case to debate that most teams are not fully prepped for the way that a topical affirmative is prepped for, and any judge that would normally vote you down for an extra-topical case will hesitate to do so because you're playing to racial and other Kritical issues. The strategy behind speed reading is that any dropped argument is considered to be lost by the team that dropped it, so cramming as many non-eloquent words as possible into a speech to make as many arguments as possible, no matter how weak, has become standard across many teams.
What you wind up with are "debaters" who have little to no rhetorical skill who can only use procedural strategy and some who turn every issue into a racial issue. It's fucking sad to see, and anytime I saw it I downvoted it.
>>9179369
I wish in HS debate you could go full 1488.
It would be just as offputting as their tactics.
Where to start with Unamuno?
>unironically reading spics
Stop this.
El manifiesto de Unabomber
Abel Sánchez
he's right y'know
>>9179276
About?
>>9179276
I bought it. No convince me to read it please.
>>9179507
*now
is this a fcuvking joke
Pound?
>>9179265
WUZ
Is it wrong to want to have a child just so one can raise them to be a well-dressed poetry expert? Or a "patrician" or dandy in general.
Get lost PEDO and KILL YOURSELF before you harm anyone
>>9179215
>Is it wrong to want to have a child
Yes
>>9179215
>Philip Larkin.jpg
Dude you already know the answer
ok /sci/ let's make a list of mind-stimulating internet resources. Either video, podcast, or text
I'll start with some classics:
>waking up with sam harris (podcast)
>waitbutwhy
>Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
>Quartz
>PBS related
>THUNK (really really underrated)
>Nerdwriter1
>TED
I'm not going to say scishow news because it has become really shallow and click baitish
Shit bait.
sage.
no need to wake up when you're woke 24/7
>>9179205
>it's a "/lit/ pretends to be not interested in popular audio/visual content" chapter
There's this book about defeating modern feminism as a man, how you should treat women...how to exert control etc. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. Can someone help me?
>>9179175
It was basically some book on how to be "Alpha"
>>9179175
The Art of the Deal
absolutely The Gorilla Mindset by Saint Michael Cernovich (PBUH)
Many times, when reading a chronology/genealogy/critique of a person, political movement or idea, I've noticed the essayist (often a person steeped in academia and philosophy) will try to establish a psychosexual etiology of the subject. Most of all when the author is trying to establish an *ultimate* origin or motivations.
Why is this so? Is this a legacy of Freudian psychology? And more important, is it enough? Can really every ultimate motive be explained by sexual impulses? Is there no space for the environment, the human soul, and chance?
nope. in the end, our deepest drive is to secure the continuity of the human race. infact, having an orgasm or giving birth are the only two instances you don't go into survival-mode, even if your life is in danger. which shows that biology values procreation higher than the individuals life. you can hone your character and enlighten your soul all you want. at the roots, you just want to spawn babies. the sooner you acknowledge this, the better you will be able to handle it and guide that drive with reason
>>9179139
Come on man... Reductio ad Phalluatious
Why didn't Ligotti and Alan Moore sue?
>>9179136
Because they're not Harlan Ellison.
Ligotti's too much of an autistic shut-in to care. he's probably just happy he's selling more books.
>>9179359
Can confirm. I bought a book by him just because of this show :v
Hello friends, I am going to be living the life of a NEET for the next 4 months, and I was hoping to become literate in politics and philosophy during that period. Just wondering if you lads had any opinions as to where I should start, and where I should go from there
Evola - 'Ride the Tiger'
Schopenhauer - 'On Women'
Luther - 'On the Jews an their Lies'
>>9178976
> I was hoping to become literate in politics and philosophy during that period
You know you will spend it doing nothing.
Just masturbate, play video games and watch stupid shit online. Be realistic about how you're going to spend that time, so you don't end up disappointed or bitter.
If you had any interest in this stuff, you would already know where to start. You don't need to be a NEET to know about politics and philosophy.
>tfw she is yet to respond to my letter and poem
>>9178954
she did respond, anon. that qt just detonated a nuke out there on the horizon
must have been some dope shit you wrote
>>9178954
The heights itself are enough to make a man insane.
Try serenading her with an acoustic guitar cover of "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz.
>tfw became extremely poor for the sake of achieving literary authenticity
>tfw started to do medical experiments for money
>tfw one of the recent trials I did fucked up my vision and balance I signed the waiver not to expect compensation
>tfw probably going to have to sell my liver soon to pay rent
Please make it stop
Lmaoing at ur life read atlas shrugged
Can't be that soon if you've been making this exact same post since 2015
>>9178936
>tfw one of the recent trials I did fucked up my vision and balance I signed the waiver not to expect compensation
What kind of hellhole do you live in?
I was paid the equivalent of 400$ for letting a couple of doctors continuously shoot me up with IV morphine for 8 hours while they did some bloodwork and ran some numbers on it.
>tfw you find out The Thinker is actually Dante
really makes you think
>>9178934
Bullshit. That theory never made any sense.
>>9180290
Bullshit. Your post never made any sense.
>>9180306
Bullshit. Making sense never made any sense.
Post a book you're reluctant to read and other try to convince why they should or shouldn't read said book.
Here's my pick: I love To Kill A Mockingbird (I'm a pleb) and I'm hesitant to read this knowing Harper Lee never wanted to really publish it.
I choose this because I have no interest in or reason to learn programming. It's not really my field and I expect the book is rather dry even for those who like that sort of thing. Besides all that, it's Advanced programming and not Beginner programming which would be the logical place to start if you want to make any sense of it, but I've not read that either.
I'm hesitant on reading Les Miserables because it's 1400~ pages and I'm not sure how long that'll take me if it's a slow challenge or if it's thoroughly captivating like Don Quixote.But I want to read it before I see the live show in London this Summer.
>>9178898
why would you even read this if you weren't at least curious about programming what on earth are you doing my man
>>9178746
Yes; will you, though: no.
Also,
>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
>Dr Zhivago
>Brief Encounter
>anna BRIDGE ONNA RIVER KWAI!
>A LEAN NIGHT!
Yes.
Read it 3 yrs ago.
Now am studying the RCW