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Is Persona right in that reading books will help me become a more interesting and fleshed out person or is this just a meme to warrant the massive time investment in something as banal as "enjoyment" ??
Why do you read over partaking in other artforms?
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>>9671613
Videogames are being refined for a couple decades now. Movies for a couple centuries.
Literature and art have been around for millennia.
It's inevitable for them to provide you with the largest amount and highest quality of substance to fill your mind with. Your chocie whether you'd rather partake in art or read books. Just remember that you actually need to read books, not just about them, just like watching art won't get you anywhere unless you partake in it yourself.
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>>9672267
>Movies for a couple centuries
not quite
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>>9672282
bruh dont question the flow
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My Psychiatrist called me a gauche cunt. He said I was doomed to be forever pleb. I cried for like the rest of the session while he worked on some papers and before I left he told me to read Richard Rorty and China Melville.
What I would really like to read is some psychiatry books so I can beat him at his own game and humiliate him next session. Any suggestions?please nothing too jewish
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You're an idiot.
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>>9671567
>gauche
I had no idea the French word for Left meant unsophisticated in English. In fact, in a Platonic anti-sophist tradition such as our own that is a compliment. Left is also sinistra in Latin. Therefore us leftists are devil worshipping plebs. Feels good man.
Also, sue your psychiatrist for being apseudo-patrician. At least he dosn't recommend John Green.
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>>9671567
...Shakira, is that you?
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How do i avoid straying down the path of pseudointellectualism?
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Be male
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>>9671565
Check
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don't wear
>polos
>glasses
>hats
if you like some item at a store, don't buy it, dress like john green instead
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Are there any books on a philosophy that is pro working class, like traditional vanguard leftism, that also condemns rich white liberal they/them identity politics corporate nonsense?
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NRx
were you trolling for this reply or are you just obtuse?
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>>9671484
Das Kapital.
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>>9671484
>a philosophy that is pro working class,
I stopped reading there. There may be books that are what you want but they are bound to be retarded. the working class is shit
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John Green's writing again. 2017-06-23 04:13:58 Post No.9671371
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John Green's writing again.
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IT'S HAPPENING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hPlqfcyaI
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>>9671371
YAAAAAAS!!!
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what mental illness does he have?
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>>9671402
Being John Green.
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can somebody explain what is cultural marxism?
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>>9671325
The judeo inversion of western values.
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>>9671325
Ask your mum, i left it in her ass while you were asleep anon.
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Read some Adorno; he pretty much invented it. Basically it is the idea of revolution by other means and really it is the point where academic Marxists abandoned the proletariat and became useless.
For those of you who grew up in a country other than the UK or US, what books or authors did you study in school?
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Swiss here
We studied
"Besuch der alten Dame",
"Die verlorene Ehre der Katherina Blum"
"Der Fall Collini"
"die Panne"
"Draussen vor der Tür" Faust
(Sorry I dont know the english names of the books or if they are tramslated)
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>>9671526
*and the Steppenwolf
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>>9671526
Sounds to me like you read German lit.
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Does /lit/ do screenplays?
It's not exactly literature per se, but its a great medium for storytelling and arguably more immersive simply because it involves more sensory faculties in the process. A book only has one, the Mind essentially creates the story laid out by text. Film is much more digestible, to be played as white noise in a busy barbershop.
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There used to be a guy on the /lit/ IRC in 2014 called CIA_script_writer who was working on a screenplay he took very seriously that was just reworking the Bane memes. He was very sure it was going to get made.
I found a copy on my HD if you want to take a look
https://pastebin.com/AgRCrCP4
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i wrote a screenplay. im shopping it now. almost all feedback is:
>writing is really good, do you have anything else?
>i just cant relate to the main character. WHY do we care about his story?
people in the movies are complete plebs, which is why movies have been garbage for along time now.
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>>9671252
If you write a screenplay all the good bits will get changed by execs and directors.
Television is the writers medium
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Hi I am new here! Am a bit nervous to start right away posting but I really wanted to ask for some advice.
My biggest inspiration has been John Green and I was wondering if any of you could be so kind to tell me what is the best way to become like John Green while keeping my own style.
I've heard it is pretty damn hard to write a book and even harder to get it sold, so I thought I should copy someone succesful but maybe people here have other ideas. Let me know.
Thanks! :)
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lmfao
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>>9671242
Did you really not have anything better to do?
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>>9671242
Your mind is capable of handling an unknowable amount of variables. I know you can do it.
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Where to start with Nietzsche?
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>>9671184
Unironically Stirner
inb4 >you can't prove he was influenced by him he nevar even heard of him.
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>>9671184
Don't.
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GM
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When did you realize that you lack free will, that all alleged freedom of movement is contained within a predetermined space, that space cannot hear you wiggle or scream, and that you are bound to repeat the mental anguish of being unknown and unknowable for all of eternity.
For me in was Calvin and Augustine.
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right now
WHOA
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>he isn't aware of the realm of consciousness that isn't bound by immutable laws
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>>9671183
>if it feels good, believe it.
Why the fuck does nothing happen in this book all they do is go eat at diners.
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because its young adult fiction by a comic book writer
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>>9671089
Yeah but atleast in comic books they do crazy shit (pic related is a superhero who welds dead dogs to criminals' faces.) This is just boring.
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>>9671080
My Dinner With Andre but for young "adults"
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Is this enough prep before tacking Kant's first Critique? 2017-06-23 02:41:32 Post No.9671019
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Is this enough prep before tacking Kant's first Critique?
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just give up
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These threads are so stupid. You're doing anything you can to put off reading the Critique. Just read the fucking critique already, you're going to have to re-read the fucking thing a few times anyway.
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>>9671029
Why would I read the CPR with no background knowledge of what Kant's critiquing?
Its like telling someone to read an advanced microeconomics textbook without knowing the basics of economics.
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Candide, ou L'optimisme 2017-06-23 02:14:22 Post No.9670924
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I'm really busy recently, and I don't know why but I finally can take a break for the whole day tomorrow.
And I just want to know if it is worth my time to invest my precious free time on Voltaire's works; or to be exact, should I read Candid or should I start somewhere else?
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Candide is a nice and easy read, it's short and funny
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>>9670938
That's good to hear senpai! Thank you very much. A lot of my friends have been shitting on me lately because I haven't read Voltaire and Austen yet. I understand the outrage on Voltaire because he seem to be a very bright scholar but Austen? I'd rather not.
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>>9670924
if you have a full day or even just an afternoon/evening, get comfy and read candide, voltaire will take you on a wild ride and you will probably have fun