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anyone knows about this?

Trying luck again. Pretty sure there's people from outside the uk/usa that use the site.

Yeah, I think so. I ordered a book like a month ago and it hasn't arrived yet, still no refund though.

They're happiest when they're doing work they actually enjoy....but the problem is most everybody is working some job they have no talent in and can't stand.

Work is fulfilling. Wage labour isn't.

>>9887392

Our society doesn't really value putting people in their proper place. Like, sure you're probably a great doctor just waiting to happen, but where you were born and your economic status needs you to be the guy who loads boxes of condiment packages at a factory for 35 years. Srry bout that.

blindsight

>>9886926
>>What sff books you felt blatantly forced subtexts in their pages?
Witcher. Although it's kind of hard to call it subtext when blatantly forced. I still liked it

>What sff books you read failed miserably at disguising that the author had an agenda?
Sword of Truth is probably the biggest offender.

>What sff book snuck past ideologies onto you, and you didn't realize it until much, much later?
Only because I read them at a young age, but Wheel of Time in retrospect has an entirely different view of women in retrospect than I thought.

Ubik

>>9886684
implies you can't have an asian name if you're white

>>9886684
should make people realise how sad identity politics are

I don't mind.

>>9886442
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction.
I haven't read it but the series of books is good in general.

(copy paste from old thread)

Anon with interest in fascism here


Nazism is edgy shit. Italian and British fascism actually had some intellectual and philosophical base and wasn't focused mostly on antisemitism. In fact, a popular view is that one of the reasons Mosley never came to power was that he focused too much on intellectual concerns that populism, and Mussolini deeply regretted allying with Germany towards the end of the war.

Recommended reading list:

Gregor: Mussolini's Intellectuals
Mosley: The Greater Britain, 100 questions about fascism, Right or Wrong( his magnum opus imo). If you want more of Mosley read 'My Life' by him and 'oswald mosley' by Robert Skidelsky, a good friend of Max mosley, Oswald's son.
Mussolini: All of his autobiographies are good reading (he had 3).
If you can read Italian then I reccomend Giovanni Gentile, Ugo Spirito, Corradini etc.
Georges Sorel (not a fascist but could be described as a proto fascist) - Reflections on violence
Plato is of course recommended as well.

Once you have read all these, move onto some Syndicalist works (later syndicalism had a lot in common with fascism.

Mussolini has some good essays and articles on fascism as well.

Once you have read all of these, I recommend reading the speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He clearly wasn't a fascist because the ideology did not exist until the 1900s, but he is a kind of proto fascist to a certain extent (at least according to Mosley)

Evola wasn't a fascist but his philosophy certainly had some links to fascism, but this is overstated a lot of the time. You can skip him.

A good tip is to avoid all German works on the subject. Post-war and pre-war German academics misinterpreted Italian fascism. Also try to avoid all works between 1946-2000. The emotion from the war was still raw and clouded the study into the ideology and philosophy of fascism (gregor goes into a lot of detail about this)

By the way, Mein Kampf is not necessary to read. German Nazism was not very similar to Italian/British fascism and the book is a bore to read (aside from some interesting insight into Pan-Germanism in the early 1900s).

In terms of Spanish fascism, Franco was not a fascist. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was but he didn't write any books (I believe). Here is a good anthology of the small bits he wrote
http://fundacionjoseantonio.es/doc/Antologia_en_ingles.pdf

In my opinion mosley's works are the best on fascism, but reading the italian works as translations may have affected that.

Happy reading!

>>9886542
I'm reading 'The Alternative' from Mosley now, kind of a challenge because English is not my mother language. Julius Evola is interesting as well. Not OP by the way, just interested in Fascism.

Can anybody recommand some books on European Nationalism?

Hitler

>>9886302
did he have sound arguments for this

>>9886299
Read 'Eating Animals'. I can't help you find some Greek derived philosophy on animals that sounds sufficiently lofty as to be venerated. Modern vegetarianism is very much a reaction against factory farming and climate change.

Ask yourself how you feel about an animal being forcefully made pregnant year on year for milk, it's male young slaughtered for tender meat after three months.

Or if you enjoy the idea of vast fields of excrement seeping into the water table.

Or even the thought that abbatoir workers are frequently shown to be reduced to sadism in revolt against the stressful, machine like operation that is modern day slaughtering.

>>9886294
>XYZ happened. Interpret this for me please
We're not in his head, we don't know.

>>9886294
A piece of shit that has brought my attention span down to a few seconds and is probably scanned straight to the FBI for blackmail purposes, but I'm addicted and can't quit for more than a few days no matter how hard I try

>>9886319
same
I can feel my intellect fading away the more time I spend online
esp sites like yt where you can get stuck for hours with absolutely retarded shit
the worst thing is that I know exactly how bad it is, but I cannot get myself to leave

>>9885412
It means acknowledging the fundamentally socially bound nature of all choice and action while at the same time remembering one's capacity to reject whichever social current one is riding at any given moment in order to choose another to which one might be better suited for any given reason. According to Heidegger at least.

>>9885412
Good question, anon. I want to give a better, more detailed answer, but if I had to take a shot at it right now, I'd say that living authentically consists of preserving what makes you "you" no matter the circumstances. In other words, holding on to a sort of inner freedom even when all the shit external to you makes you bend to its will.

Anyone got a good Authenticity reading list? I've read some Heidegger and Sartre, and I hear Fannon is also a good place to look to, but I want more.

>>>/r9k/

thataway friendo

>>9884603
Houellebecq isn't /r9k/ at all

>>9884609
He used to be /r9k/.

/r9k/ is /b/2.0 now

>>9884540
>what is a pun
Besides, the committee nominated him for his body of work, revival of folk, and influence on songwriting. Not that I agree, but it wasn't only for his hit or miss songs.

>>9884540
How does it feel?

>>9884540
>muh reductionism

>>9884050
there isn't. you're lying to yourself about having a self and the capacity to lie.

>>9884050
The only reality in which you can ask this question is a reality where there is something.

I see the's responses to this question a lot. Read it again, he is not saying 'prove that there is something as opposed to nothing', rather 'assuming that we agree that there is something ad opposed to nothing, why is this the case'

>>9882715
Can I pick Socrates 6 times?

>>9882722
No you have to choose 6 different people.

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here's your metal gear cast

socrates @ field leader
rawls @ communications
wittgenstein @ combat engineering
jl austin @ superspy
nietzsche @ heavy weapons
sunzi @ the guy with a plan

oh look it's the usual suspects

>>9880962
If you like the themes (war, death, loyalty, betrayal, righteousness, birth right, politics, identity, honour) and jumping through a lot of characters, then they're alright. Also "Game of Thrones" is the tv show, it's called "A Song of Ice and Fire". Note that it also has magic n shiet in it, but it blends well.

Oh and idk why people compare them to something like LotR, or other high fantasy. They are not comparable at all.

>>9880962
They're okay. Not as bad as their detractors say, but not Peake or Eddison or Dunsany or anything.

>is genre fiction worth reading
say that back to yourself, slowly

>>9879575
I've watched enough hentai to know whats gonna happen to that penguin.

>>9879575
>and Other Weird Stories

What?

>>9879575

>releasing a popular book with a trendy design

May be plebby but it sells and they get $$$$$$$

>he stops caring

>grew up in the suburbs
>had no friends growing up, spent all my time reading and studying
>got into a top 5 university
>was so disgusted by my lack of social skills, that I vowed to change myself over the summer before entering college by acquiring social skills, working in retail, forcing myself to interact with people
>did so, graduated, acquired finance job
>after years of making myself outgoing, start to slide back into apathy
>now maintains few friendships
>now sliding back into doing nothing but reading and studying when not at work
>loses all my friends

>>9873963
Read some Stirner