>>9345937
>falling for the mind emptying jew
No. That's just what the Demiurge wants.
>>9345937
some do i guess
I do inconsistently. It seems super helpful but I can't really get into it. I might try harder in the future though.
Pic related.
Reminder that, for humans, everything is mind, and theres nothing else than consciousness itself. This can only be realized by direct personal experience and has nothing to do with language.
Once you have realized this, all the speculations about how that consciousness arise, be them artistic scientific religious or whatever, are a model that the mind sends to that same consciousness, and are therefore ruled out from the start.
>>9345738
shut the fuck up
>>9345738
shut the fuck up
life will go on
>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
>The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
>By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
>Neo-China arrives from the future.
>Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.
>Retro-disease.
>Nanospasm.
What's the difference between techno-economic and techonomic?
not sure if you are being sincere about some concept for a novel but these just read as highly verbose and intellectually shallow descriptions of what is the state of today and where we're heading
>>9345595
What's the difference between a World War and a globewar?
What are the most fucked up books out there /lit/?
Pic unrelated
>>9345545
my diary is definitely in the top 5 desu
>>9345545
The Cement Garden
The Wasp Factory
Blood Meridian
120 days of sodom
Hogg
The Story of the Eye
The Painted Bird
Come up with an argument against hard determinism
Not an argument:
>muh feels
this show was awesome
>Top tier OP: Makes a fleshed out argument for the position and asks for people to argue against it
>Shit tier OP: "come up with an argument against position"
>>9345496
Just moments after the big bang it was predestined to be
Is an authority figure needed to redeem ourselves or is it possible to absolve ourselves from within?
>>9345440
I interpreted this as:
>"Do I need daddy's help to fix my fee-fees or should I actually grow up?"
The answer is simpler than you may think!
>>9345440
The problem lies with your use of the term 'ourselves.'
Statist authority figures are different from the individual mentors. Everyone needs an example or a model to follow. But there is some agency involved, that is to say, you should be aware of *choosing* the model which you follow.
People who say Follow Me are bad enough. It's worse, however, when you do it simply because they said so.
>>9345465
>The answer is simpler than you may think!
perhaps because you're simple-minded
What /lit/ should I read to become more versed in architecture?
>>9345405
Probably books that have to do with architecture. Just a wild guess, maybe there are some people who know about architecture browsing /lit/ who can give a better answer.
>>9345405
Ballard wrote two books loosely related: High-Rise (deals with brutalism), and Concrete Island (deals with urbanism).
>>9345405
Ask /his/, no meming
can someone please explain to me the distinction between his and other's, like plato's, processes of dialectic?
You won't find any answers here.
>>9345295
Hegel's dialectic is based on thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Literally just Google it.
>>9345334
yeah
Ever read a book and thought you could have written a better plot or scene?
Post them here.
>>9345195
>Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Capitalist pig deer Mulligan came from the shadows, bearing a bowl of Barbasol on which a looking glass and a razor resigned christianly
Atlas Shrugged
There's an "anti john galt" character that wants all the greatest minds to leave, and wants them concentrated in the valley, in order to kill them all with the sound weapon.
His goal is to be the only genius left and rule over the US, and then the entire planet. He's also anyi government and is seen as a third major player behind Galt and the state.
He thinks he succeeded but is made irrelevant by the coming second reinnessance and released human ingenuity and freedom of the common man. Galt proper knew this would happen and so never bothered trying to stop him.
>>9345231
I will allow it but ONLY if the new ingenuity includes an enterprising rock band that sings about freedom.
This is it lads. I've decided to kill myself. I can no longer live in fear and deal with my hypochondria. It's not worth it. I have a fair bit of work that I would like the world to see. I will be leaving instructions for my girlfriend to come here and give it to you guys. Try and get me published or take my work for your own or just read it. I really don't care. I'd just like someone to see it. Thanks guys.
>>9345190
Just go innawoods and run away from civilisation. Why kill yourself? There is more to this world than the shitty artificial one we are "trapped" inside of.
>>9345199
>OP = Hypochondriac
>First post: GO TO THE WOODS
Are you literally retarded
Why not give us the work now? Do you really think your girlfriend's going to be focused on uploading your manuscript to 4chan right after her boyfriends just killed himself?
If everything in a story is supposed to be advancing either the plot or character development, how does world building ever fit in ... or is the environment considered a character?
>>9345148
Congratulations, you've realised why genre fiction is garbage.
>>9345155
why does this apply only to genre fiction?
>>9345165
The "world building" meme that genrefags are obsessed with.
Recommend me a GOOD short novel, or five of them.
Please, I need this.
>>9345172
The Day of the Locust, The Turn of the Screw, The Blue Flower, Lady into Fox, Where Angels Fear to Tread.
Read the first one. Nathaniel West.
>>9345108
Typhoon by Conrad
Skylark
The Aran Islands
why is earnest hemingway seen as a symbol of manliness when he killed himself like an emo little bitch?
He didn't even fight in any wars and get ptsd, he just killed himself because he was worried and stuff like a sensitive, little bitch who can't take it
>>9345066
He was a communist spy.
>>9345066
His mom was mean to him, which is the most masculine thing a man can undergo. Haven't you watched the Sopranos?
>>9345066
he drove ambulances to the front in WW1 and was severely wounded, wtf are you talking about? At least put some effort in your shitposts
>Plato
>Hegel
This board is utter shit.
>>9344957
I'm guessing you think Jung is a hack too and everyone secretly wants to fuck their mothers and that natural selection by environmental pressures is the driving force behind evolution
>Implying you understood Plato
phil majors pls go
Any books on cuckoldry?
No memes, please.
>>9344929
It's by no means the main theme but Ulysses
I am currently writing a what-if fanfic play about Sancho being fucked while he was the governor of the ínsula.
It's in my diary, desu.