Visionary or overrated trash?
Looks like an age'd Norm MacDonald to me.
>>9589012
Dude looks like a fag
>Gertrude
God damn, that is one ugly ass ladyboy
Sequel when?
>What's Worm?
Worm is a web serial, an online piece of literature which is basically a massive E-book.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
>What's Worm about?
Worm is about an alternate universe where superheroes exist, and is notable for being in a realistic setting while not being overly edgy or grimdark.
>Is Worm /co/?
Worm is /co/ because it relates to capes, and is unironically better than the vast majority of comics, cartoons, or movies about superheroes.
>>9588301
>Worm is /co/ because it relates to capes
Bull fucking shit, the board is called "Comics & Cartoons" not "Capeshit & Capeshit"
>>9588301
>realistic setting while not being overly edgy or grimdark
Oh so it's dull
>>9588301
>while not being overly edgy or grimdark.
Blatant lies... Worm is so edgy it'd make punisher cry, just like those batman fans crying on contessa week in WWW leddit
Uncomfortable because I feel uncomfortable at everything.
>>9588114
PrecariatIn before cofveve
>>9588146
Your trip made me nostalgic :)
remotion. use it. everywhere
Other than The Road to Wigan Pier, are there any other books that explain why the working class tends to not support socialism?
Any 20th century history book
>>9587998
there have been times and places when it did. weimar germany almost went full communist
but the basic issue is that "socialism" is a set of abstractions that require 115+ IQ to really wrap your head around on a theoretical level. working class people are mostly interested in people they know and middle sized physical objects in their environment.
there's no reason for a 95 IQ tradesman to believe or trust Marxism when he can't understand it - and he probably knows fully well that people like himself are not equipped to rule the world.
as someone who worked construction for 5 years, the idea that these guys are the people who should run society is a joke. sure there is corruption and abuse, but hierarchies exist for a reason
>>9588034
The real joke is thinking they could possibly do worse than the current gang of criminals and incompetents.
>hierarchies exist for a reason
Please.
Does /lit/ read a daily newspaper? If so, which?
I've taken to reading the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, my local paper, and the Economist. It's hard to keep up with, but I do feel more informed.
>>9587861
Fox News
Daily Stormer
/pol/
Stormfront
Info wars
literally all you need
>>9587861
Just /pil/ most other media are too Hebraic.
>>9587880
Just /pol/. Fucking auto correct.
More Jewish trickery
Can I just pick up The Canterbury Tales and start reading it, or would I need footnotes to explain certain archaic phrases and words to me?
I was thinking about grabbing Norton's edition to help with this
>>9587667
are you a white conservative male? Then you'll get it.
If not, just give up
This worthy Clerk benignely answer'd;
"Hoste," quoth he, "I am under your yerd,
Ye have of us as now the governance,
And therefore would I do you obeisance,
As far as reason asketh, hardily:
I will you tell a tale, which that I
Learn'd at Padova of a worthy clerk,
As proved by his wordes and his werk.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest,
I pray to God to give his soul good rest.
Francis Petrarc', the laureate poet,
Highte this clerk, whose rhetoric so sweet
Illumin'd all Itale of poetry,
As Linian did of philosophy,
Or law, or other art particulere:
But death, that will not suffer us dwell here
But as it were a twinkling of an eye,
Them both hath slain, and alle we shall die.
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/glossar.htm
If the body is a prison for the soul, then is the brain is a prison for the mind?
>>9587531
>If the body is a prison for the soul
It's the other way 'round. The soul is the prison of the body
t. Foucault
>>9587533
No, Plato apparently suggested that the body was a prison for the soul. Google it.
>>9587531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRq0oQZKArY
ITT:
1) Go to https://ineedaprompt.com
2) No matter what, write a short story of about 200 words about the prompt you get.
>>9586954
>A trial lawyer who is noisily delivering pizza to a blushing Elvis impersonator.
I'm not in the mood of writing a gay porn short story.
>A sick carpenter who is feebly uppercutting a gorgeous and smug hobbit in the Penthouse Suite of a Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
I guess this is a metaphor for how fantasy (escapism in general, not just Tolkeinesque) has taken centre stage, in beauty and in richness over the sick and ailing Abrahamic religions. Nah this is dull.
>A green-tinged and beautiful cross-dresser who is tiredly Netflix-and-chilling with a history professor.
Actually believable
Help me decide what to read next boys
>>9586945
my diary desu
>>9586945
plato and rousseau are the only things that arent garbage (yes, machiavelli is garbage)
>>9586945
Economic control and quality of manufactured product: Shewhart.
/thread
going on vacation this month--looking for something beautiful to read, recs?
Where are you going?
"The harmonic helix" by Albert Logan
>>9586910
Budapest -> Prague, then Scotland for the second half
How do we know what parts were edited by his sister and which not?
Are we really so certain that all of the antisemitic stuff can't be attributed to him?
he was definitely antisemitic, there's plenty of stuff in his letters which shows clearly that nietzsche was as garden-variety antisemitic as any other.
What is the obsession with jews? So they own a lot of the wealth and are deceptive; so what? Seems like bitter resentment from every other race.
Wealth is a game and they won it. They also don't influence as much as people claim. I can write whatever I want on here, for example. Get over it.
> They also don't influence as much as people claim
I'm curious. What makes you think this?
Realistically, how much is my novel going to sell? Its a "literary" dark fantasy/ low sci-fi book with themes of hate, manhood and religion
Post the first sentence of your novel here.
>>9586888
I didnt start writing it chronologically, but its most likely going to be a version of "Love hangs from my hand"
>>9586884
>thinks he's gene wolfe
barely no one is going to buy it most likely and if they do 95% will go to the publisher. You'll prob end up paying them. such is the literary life
who has read this book? do you realize how much places like 4chan are destroying our brains?
>>9586688
Haven't read it.
Sum it up for us in a sentence or two.
>>9586688
good honestly. How horrible it would be to find out that absolutely nothing came out of all this wasted time on the computer. At least I can console myself with the fact that it was damaging and can provide for excuses down the line. Like cigarette smoking, how awful it would be to find out that it was life that killed you rather than the cigarette
>>9586688
I have honestly learnt more from 4chan than I have from school
Why are conservative writers and pundits so much more convincing than their left wing counter-parts?
Is it simply because their arguments are better?
>>9586678
>because their arguments are better?
this is one of the reasons, yes.
Also conservatives tend to be smarter and more clear-headed than left wingers. They are also more virtuous.
You don't even know you're not conservatives but rather right-liberals
Pshewh. 3/10
>>9586691
Well, many of them have a sense of lineage when it comes to logic and reason. No doubt, Bill probably studied classical philosophy and some of the early modern stuff during his formative years. Having a Catholic education also kind of helps with that.
Just started pic related. Not as hard so far as I was warned. I have a few questions tho..
What exactly does he mean by dasein?
Is Being and Consciousness interchangeable?
What did he mean when he said that to understand and entities in being will help to understand the question of being?
>>9586496
Dasein is the kind of being that we are. Dasein is the being that takes a stand on its own being. This will make more sense the further you get into the book.
No, everything that is has being, but only some beings have consciousness. Heidegger is trying to get away from the traditional treatment of human being as isolated consciousnesses, so his existential analytic does not ground itself in subjectivity or consciousness, but instead grounds them.
I can't understand your third question.
>>9586496
Have you read Aristotle and Kant, my man? You're in for a tuff time
>>9586496
start with the greeks