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>>9140695
It's alright, I guess.

>>9140695
A good way to spot to pseuds desu senpai

>>9140695
Made me want to get more into /pol/'s redpill philosophy.

>aristocrat has opinions of an elitist c*nt

whoa, mad!

>>9140397
Get with the times, gramps.

Old fart desu

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"azz serves a cultural function in the music scene. It is a signifier for musical "adulthood." To embrace jazz is to don a kind of graduation cap, signifying a broadening of tastes outside "mere" rock music. This ostentatious display of "sophistication" is an insult, and I find the graduation cappers transparent and tedious. Certainly there must be interesting music one could call "jazz." There must be. I've never heard it, but I grant that it is out there somewhere.
Jazz has a non-musical parallel: Christiania, the "free" zone in Copenhagen. In Christiania, like in jazz, there is no law. People are left to their own inventions to create and act as they see fit. In Jazz, the musicians are allowed to improvise over and beside structural elements that may themselves be extemporaneous. Sounds good, doesn't it? Freedom -- sounds good.
The reality is much bleaker. Christiania is a squalid, trashy string of alleys with rag-and-bone men selling drugs, tie-dye and wretched food. Granted Total Freedom, and this is what they've chosen to do with it, sell hash and lentil soup? Jazz is similar. The results are so far beneath the conception that there is no English word for the dissappointment one feels when forced to confront it. Granted Total Freedom, you've chosen to play II V I and blow a goddamn trill on the saxophone? Only by willfully ignoring its failings can one pretend to appreciate it as an idiom and don the cap."

Selectorate theory reduced to pop sociology.

Does the Holy Bible count?

I won't say they are the best, but these one's I've read:
- Our political nature
- Predisposed
- The righteous mind
And the one in your picture.

>>9129115
it made me redpilled as fuck and hence made me realize that im inherently superior to 99& of the world's population

>>9129115
I am more empathetic and can make better 'on-the-spot' jokes .
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I've become lonely, isolated, and bitter.
I waste hours upon hours reading dumb shit written by fat white men 500 years ago, somebody just fucking kill me already.

Put on your finest leather jacket and fingerless gloves, put on some intelligent music like Deathspell Omega, crack open a cheap bottle of port and look him up on wikiquotes

>>9146410
>memespell omega
no thanks

>>9146410
kek

Mindfulness in Plain English

>>9146358
Ritalin

>>9146358
Emil Cioran.

>>9146329
"Pardon me"

Being

I don't waste my time responding to an old fool, and walk right through him.

bump because it is my first thread here

>>9146420
bilingual dick jokes

>>9146278
Dead and forced meme

It doesn't matter.

>>9145947
who's the raccoon loli?

That's what you get for not Thinking For Yourself you fucking retard

>>9145774
>expect a cyberpunk adventure
go read some shadowrun you nitwit

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>start reading this
>expect a memetic pomo work
>fucking 1100 pages of /r/funny tier jokes

>>9145795
>titled Infinite Jest
>expects to not be rused
lmoa

why you decided to take degree you have no interest in

>>9145544
>40 novels in 10 weeks

I like reading and this is way more than I could do myself, so that seems weird.

>>9145546
i don't have an interest in any degree but i'm a film addict and it was the closest thing on offer

At the moment, Private Eye and The Economist. I've got a trial subscription to the Economist but won't be continuing with it because it's too expensive for me at the moment.

>>9145456
n+1
bomb

i liked bomb better but n+1 was more bang for your buck.

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>>9145456
I just got a subscription to New Criterion. I like the NYRB. If I am going to read a liberal rag that is 50% hit pieces I'll read The Atlantic.

Pic related is my favorite.

>>9145404
>not by Alan Dean Foster
Damn, that's how you know it's a bad film.

Are pristine mint condition copies of L Ron Hubbard books common in second hand bookshops in the USA? I notice them all the time in Melbourne Aus

if you read more you wouldn't have this problem

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>reading
>effort
Physical labour must be literally impossible for you

>>9145174

>I don't understand how everyday society works anymore

>>9144931
A genius he was.

>>9144959
Indeed he was.

>>9144931
Why