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I'm writing a book (as are we all) but the thing about this book is that it's something like post apocalyptic:

a huge majority of humanity has died out, leaving a small population with enough resources for about 8-9 billion people (the "apocalypse" happened in the nearish future, but it's never explicitly dated, or explained)

Now, the thing is, is that I wanted to make an apocalypse that isn't dystopian or mad max style. Since there's so much of everything, nobody has to fight for anything.

The remaining humans sort of group together in "towns" that sort of evolve out of people repurposing parts of huge cities, and hippie communes in... wherever they feel like it.

Since there's such a surplus in everything, people can just go out and get whatever they want. So there's no reason to fight over say, money or jewelry or other material objects.

Electricity/ internet/ crops/ etc, those are still maintained (on a much smaller scale) by people who have nothing better to do/ get asked to do it, that sorta thing.

Now, of course there's still things like rapists and serial killers and additional things like apocalypse death cults, but the majority lives mostly peaceably in a mostly anarchic society.

(Bare in mind that this is about 10 years after the apocalypse- once populations start to rise and resources actually need to be replenished, this would slowly change)

My question is, how valid is this interpretation? I know that the debate on whether humans are inherently violent or peaceable has always been a hot topic [spoiler ]I personally believe humans are inherently good[/spoiler]. Do you think people could live like this in this scenario, or is this a painfully naive backdrop for a novel? Would you be interested in reading something like that?

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What have you gained from your knowledge of philosophy and literature, /lit/?

I want to better cope with life's external circumstances and have more peace of mind. I'm tired of worrying solely about myself and my own personal flaws, focusing on them has only ever depressed me and never inspired me to change much. I'd rather concern myself with the greater issues of life and pursue self development through the attainment of knowledge. From your experience, has education, specifically education in philosophy and literature, helped you in this regard? Are you more or less happy?

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Hi /lit/, I'm having trouble figuring out what to read next. I narrowed it down to pic related. Which should I read first? I was leaning towards A Wrinkle In Time but am not sure. Help a brother out.

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"If the entire Universe was destroyed, and only Finnegans Wake was left, you could rebuild everything back from it"
Did Joyce inspire to build a seed for the living world, time-space in a nutshell? Is this the most unique and accomplished book of all time?

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So according to Heidegger, living authentically means not just accepting what society wants of you, but finding your own "genuine" way of living.

Do you guys agree? How can one find out more about themselves when they're swamped with society's responsibilities?

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>Capitalism will not fall until everyone is gay, black or trans
What did he mean by this?

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Have you ever felt that you were able to understand the world better after learning, for example, thermodynamics, even in topics totally unrelated to chemistry and physics? Have you ever noticed that the "patterns & structures of thought" seem to repeat themselves in science, philosophy, and even literature?

What about encountering books that were substantial enough to affect your life after thinking and applying its ideas? Do you consider a certain text to be "foundational" for those in pursuit of knowledge?

I'm hoping to create a list of 15-20 books, in a variety of subjects, that will increase clarity & depth of thought, leaving autodidacts with the mental faculties necessary to tackle future challenges. I would also like to have this list of books be sufficient to achieve a cursory education for people looking to improve their knowledge beyond the dregs of their high school or college education, though this isn't as important.

I need to keep the scope limited to the fundamentals. There are far more than 20 worthwhile books, and this isn't a definitive guide to "the best books ever". Some fields like "economics" may already require proficiency in basic fields like history, mathematics, and philosophy, so it would be redundant to cover include them. Only the bare necessities should be maintained for brevity.

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Reading Ulysses for a university course and was wondering if anybody who has read it has any tips for approaching it/if we could start a short term general thread in which we all read Ulysses together

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>mfw entirety greek philosophy is easily disproven by science
>mfw people still read it

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>finding old creative writing stuff from grade/high school

just hand me a fucking gun

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Have these fuckers ever written actually good literature or do they just play starcraft every day?

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Picked this up the other day for 4 bucks for a friend of mine. He's into collecting older books. I was trying to figure out when this edition was published but I haven't come up with anything. Has anyone seen this particular edition before? I couldn't find a single image of a matching book. Any help would be appreciated.

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What's the best language to learn and why is it German?

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>Last night Mildred, my neighbor on the floor below, masturbated with an oboe. The oboe wheezed and squealed in her vagina. Mildred groaned. Later, when I thought she was finished, she started screaming. I lay in bed with a book about India. I could feel her pleasure pass up through the floorboards into my roo,. Of course there might have been another explanation for what I heard. Perhaps it was not the oboe but the player of the oboe who was penetrating Mildred. Or perhaps Mildred was striking her small nervous dog with something slim and musical, like an oboe.
>Mildred who screams lives below me. Three young women from Connecticut live above me. Then there is a lady pianist with two daughters on the parlor floor and some lesbians in the basement. I am a sober person, a mother, and I like to go to bed early 0 but how can I lead a regular life in this building? It is a circus of vaginas leaping and prancing: thirteen vaginas and only one penis, my little son.
What the FUCK did she mean by this?

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Are you feeling any hype surrounding this, /lit/? I haven't had time to sit down into an ARC, so I figured I'd wait until its release. It sounds damn good though.