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>>9363598
Nothing

Nick Land

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It took me a while to get a copy of this, no bookstores seem to stock it and I initially thought it was due to the provocative title (albeit, it wouldn't have been seen as provocative at its time of publishing). I began to read it and I just felt very uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong, it's beautifully written and I don't necessarily think it's a racist book, but some of the depictions of black people would certainly cause controversy if this was published today. Good collection of short stories but should be understandable why it would make someone uncomfortable. Wouldn't read it in public/10.

I tried to sit on a copy of war and peace and it wasnt comfortable

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Memes aside, it's a genuinely disturbing book. It's not just the direct violence either, but the ambiguity regarding the Judge, his origins and the devastation he especially leaves behind.

You man up and stop this stupid whining.

>>9362503
but that was always the 3 options. Those are respectively
A) Epictetus
B) Diogenes
C) Socrates

I know this its cliché but it takes time for the cream to rise at the top. Our role in the present is to find the jewel worth preserving for the future, among the rough. This is how its always been.

This is why I contemplate ending it all daily op

>>9361652

In a lifetime? Probably.

>>9361652
No, it takes me like a month to finish a book

what's a site like letterboxd but for books?

Better Writer. More nuanced political opinions.

Killed some time. Helps me sleep at night.

>>9359718
Gave me some great escapism while growing up in a broken home. Made me knowledgeable on a lot of subject which has made good impressions on people (teachers, counselors, etc).

I'm schizophrenic and submissive and my girlfriend is sexually dominant and narcissistic, so I write her long rambling phenomenological investigations via text message about how she's so gorgeous that my mind literally can't grasp it or subdue it under single satisfying concepts, and I'm constantly bowled over and frustrated by how stunning she is and how badly I want her

One time I had to go find a book of Goethe quotes to properly describe it and she sat on my face for three hours

>>9358892
w2c narcissist and dominant gf
sick of submissive girls

>>9358906
I just want a sexual goddess to smother me between her legs, instead it's all basic bitches who wear chokers and think saying 'hit me daddy!' is acceptable in bed

A screaming comes across the sky: Aiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

>>9357556
You have been disqualified.

>>9357552
implement*

>>9357377
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Dostoyevsky and other Russian literature.

>>9357377
I dont have one but my sister reads a lot of Tolstoy and Shakespeare

She was actually sad when I showed her Tolstoys opinion of Shakespeare

>>9353481
Considering his circumstances as a North American academic in this political climate, no, his "agenda" is entirely understandable.

>>9353487
>"agenda"
This is what i'm talking about, he gets these mindless followers who aren't any different from the SJWs he constantly criticizes.

>psychology
>anything but sham
MUH ARCHETYPES
FUCK SCIENCE
MUH TALES

i watched that film a couple of days ago.

i've never watched that film but i don't give a shit

I'm learning Japanese and just mastered hiragana and katakana, but I have no clue where to go from here. Wish I had some sort of japanese guide. I'm committed to it, nonetheless

>>9370534
if you own books like that you're better off not reading honestly

Just read you dumb faggot.

>>9370539


Why so rude?

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>Writing

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>write a sentence

>"how can you so nonchalantly dismiss my prose as 'hastily crafted by an over eager pseud looking to get a word in like a virgin awkwardly shoving his prick in without foreplay?'" he asked indignantly.
There, you got four. Top me.

>>9370309
I can't really imagine any currently emerging talents could have impressed him too deeply, and considering that seventeen years ago he thought that western culture was becoming hopelessly debased he's probably on the brink of despair by now. The man thought that children growing up reading Harry Potter was a tragedy, imagine if he were to learn that 'SPIDERMAN FARTS ON ELSA'S FEET FOR 15 HOURS' has 500-million views on youtube, almost entirely from children with developing minds.

>Do you think he's found any writers who give him hope
Just wait until he meets me

I feel bad for him because even if he finds hope in a new book he'll finish it in an hour and poof the depression comes back.

Why can't you move a boulder by talking to it?

Because he died and only posers argue with dead people.

>>9370308
Can he prove God exists with demonstrable evidence?

No?

Well he loses automatically.

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Neither.

Also, the governing philosophy in the USSR was Marxism-Leninism, not Communism.

>>9370015
Communism is an unattainable philosophy based on idealistic logical fallacies.

Capitalism isn't exactly a philosophy. It's more like, the way economies naturally evolve. What you mean is The Free Market, or maybe libertarianism, which yes, is better than that communism. But most anything is.

As for good books on the subject, the big 3 might be Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, and Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. Though I'd read Friedman's first, then Sowell's (which is heavily inspired in Friedman's) and the The Wealth of Nations (which heavily inspired Friedman's and Sowell's, but it's a couple of centuries old and thus a bit outdated - Friedman was trying to update it).