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Steve Bannon reads Moldbug, what's your excuse?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-books-reading-list-214745
>They are not mainstream thinkers, but their writings help to explain the commotion that has defined the Trump administration’s early days. They include a Lebanese-American author known for his theories about hard-to-predict events; an obscure Silicon Valley computer scientist whose online political tracts herald a “Dark Enlightenment”; and a former Wall Street executive who urged Donald Trump’s election in anonymous manifestos by likening the trajectory of the country to that of a hijacked airplane—and who now works for the National Security Council.
>Bannon, described by one associate as “the most well-read person in Washington,” is known for recommending books to colleagues and friends, according to multiple people who have worked alongside him. He is a voracious reader who devours works of history and political theory “in like an hour,” said a former associate whom Bannon urged to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. “He’s like the Rain Man of nationalism.”
Many political onlookers described Trump’s election as a “black swan” event: unexpected but enormously consequential. The term was popularized by Nassim Taleb, the best-selling author whose 2014 book Antifragile—which has been read and circulated by Bannon and his aides—reads like a user’s guide to the Trump insurgency.
>Asked in a phone interview this week whether he’s had meetings with Bannon or his associates, Taleb said he could not comment. “Anything about private meetings would need to come from them,” he said, though he noted cryptically he’s had “coffee with friends.”
>Curtis Yarvin, the self-proclaimed “neoreactionary” who blogs under the name “Mencius Moldbug,” attracted a following in 2008 when he published a wordy treatise asserting, among other things, that “nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth.” When the organizer of a computer science conference canceled Yarvin’s appearance following an outcry over his blogging under his nom de web, Bannon took note: Breitbart News decried the act of censorship in an article about the programmer-blogger’s dismissal.
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>Moldbug’s dense, discursive musings on history—“What’s so bad about the Nazis?” he asks in one 2008 post that condemns the Holocaust but questions the moral superiority of the Allies—include a belief in the utility of spreading misinformation that now looks like a template for Trump’s approach to truth. “To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable [sic] demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army,” he writes in a May 2008 post.
>Moldbug, who does not do interviews and could not be reached for this story, has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary, according to a source. Yarvin said he has never spoken with Bannon.
>Thanks to an entree from Thiel, Anton now sits on the National Security Council staff.
>Will Trumpism work, Anton asks? He’s not sure—but he argues that it’s worth trying, given the alternative: “[T]he ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.”
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>>9075761
>"the most well-read man in Washington"
>urged to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
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Nick Land for secretary of cybernetics when?
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>'There are sightings of Pepe d'Escaubitte [...] "What, that bloody Frog again?"
M&D p420
What did Ruggles mean by this?
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>>9075588
chequed
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>>9076554
Kek'd
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>>9075588
oh nuh uh....
>checks
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Bookmark or dog ears?
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>>9074599
Bookmark or you'e a heathen
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How difficult is it to find a piece of paper to put between the pages and not damage your possessions?
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>let friend borrow book
>he returns it with dog ears
fuck you robert
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alright /lit/ you're having a kid and can only have them read one book. What book is it?
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I don't want my kid trying to be God
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>>9074162
Complete Shakespeare or Don Quixote
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I already have a kid and I've already read her multiple books. Eat my shorts.
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Do you like him?
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>>9074009
yes
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>>9074009
Obviously
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Why
>author uses exclamation points
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>author uses a different type of quotation bracket for each and every different languageYes that's me pls no bully
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>>9073943
So just about every author before 1900
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'Fuck you,' she shouted.
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Reaching page 500 of this thing (last episode I read was Jim's dad fixing the mattress). I'm kind of upset. Is something going to happen or what? The first 200 pages had some really interesting bits, even touching ones. But atm it just looks like a masturbatory sequence ad infinitum.
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>Is something going to happen or what?No.
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>>9073135
is this really that bad? i read a few hundred pages a while back, does it truly never get better than the initial short storyesque squawking guy?
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>>9073135
>He fell for the Infinite Jest meme
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In your best prose, write about the beauty of the male body. Or whatever you girls do.
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PEENUS
WEENUS
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>>9072576
my cock is like the lovechild of a snake and a mushroom
my cock is the TREE OF LIFE
my COCK IS GOD
MY COCK is GOD
SUCK MY COCK BITCH
SUCK MY FUCKING COCK
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>>9072576
>females
>writing
pick one
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ITT: BOOKS ONLY MEN TRULY UNDERSTAND
>post em
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You posted the wrong cover
Someone please post the Wordsworth
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>>9072444
>tfw no one to discuss manly literature with
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>>9072444
Far right wing literature? Could be nationalism, antiemetic, etc.
Trying to broaden by view. Only thing that comes to mind is Mussolinis essay
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>>9070572
Do you accept anti-white sentiments and anti-woman writing?
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http://www.thefallofwesternman.com/
and Duke
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Mishima, Hamsun, Celine, the list could go on.
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>Retrospectively, this triumph of the transsexual and the travestied casts a strange light on the sexual liberation of earlier generations. That liberation, far from being, as in its own self-image, the irruption of a maximum erotic value of the body – with an elevation of the feminine and jouissance (the masculine having rather reserved for itself up to that point the field of power) – will perhaps merely have been an intermediate phase on the path to gender confusion. The sexual revolution will perhaps merely have been a decisive stage in the journey towards transsexuality. This is, ultimately, the problematic fate of every revolution. By releasing all the potentialities of desire, the sexual revolution leads to the basic question: am I man or woman? (psychoanalysis has at least played a part in generating this sexual uncertainty principle). As for the political and social revolution – the prototype for all the others – by giving human beings the use of their freedom and their own free will, it will have led them, in an implacably logical process, to wonder where their free will lies, what they ultimately want and what they are entitled to expect of themselves – a problem previously quite unknown. This is the paradoxical outcome of every revolution. With revolution begins indeterminacy, anxiety and confusion, but many other pleasures too: choice, pluralism, democracy.
>But there simply is no democratic principle of sexuality. Sex is not part of human rights and there is no principle of the emancipation of sexuality. Once the orgy was over, sexual liberation could be seen to have had the effect of leaving everyone searching for their gender, their sexual and gender identity, with fewer and fewer possible answers, given the circulation of signs and the multiplicity of pleasures. This is how we subtly became transsexuals, just as we secretly became transpolitical – that is to say, politically indifferent and undifferentiated beings, politically androgynous and hermaphroditic. Having subscribed to, digested and rejected the most contradictory ideologies, we now merely wear the masks and have become in our minds, perhaps unwittingly, political cross-dressers.
written in 1987
when did french philosophy become this based?
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>>9070113
The sad thing is some actually think like this.
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>>9070113
I like how your post ends as if you choked on all the foam coming out of your mouth in this fit of autistic rage. Truly great stylistic trick.
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Which book?
What is the most beautiful thing in the material universe?
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Literature.
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>>9066642
hot girls rimming each other
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A pile of garbage.
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alright /lit/ I need book recs for my U.S. history class. I'm doing a book report (lol) and need a historical book written around 1470s-1870s that ties in with the U.S.
My first pick was pic related, but I really really am hoping I can find something better.
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>>9079472
What do you mean by historical book? Any book written in that time frame, or one focused on the history of the USA?
If the former, the best piece of literature written in America during that timeframe was Moby-Dick, but it doesn't have much connection with American history. Other good literary choices would be Poe, Whitman, Fenimore Cooper and
If you want something non-fiction, try the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which represent the development of Transcendentalism, the first particularly American school of philosophy. If you like military history, I enjoyed Jefferson Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, which presents the Civil War from the point of view of the CSA's president (I'm not a Dixieboo, I just thought it was an interesting read).
There's a lot of good choices.
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>>9079590
Thanks, currently looking in to these. Yeh, definitely non-fiction, definitely more historical which I forgot to say. Something that really ties in to American history. For example, a book written by Columbus or Jefferson would be easy mode but I'm looking for something a little more comprehensive than such as those.
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>everyone is too busy getting baited by self-declared pseuds shitting on greek philosophy to drop by and hit me with some recs
Cmon faggots you're better than this.
based. american. nonfiction.
Go
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So it's pretty much established at this point that people with certain mental illnesses (depression, bipolar, substance abuse) are more creative and make much better writers, right? All of my all-time favorites fit that descriptor and my peers and people I respect greatly all agree on this fact.
My question to you is this: What kind of balance of talent/valetudinarianism makes for the very best? How much is just talent, and at what point do you get too ill to produce anything of real value?
The real reason I'm asking is because I have all 3 aforementioned afflictions and I should dearly like to be a great author someday.
Thanks.
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swallow the eudaimoniapill
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>>9079379
Self-pity is bad, friend.
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>>9079379
>correlation is causation
No.
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What are some things that are kafkaesque?
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kafka books, some of them
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>>9079130
my diary desu~
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>>9079130
What if instead of a giant bug it's a tiny person?
>I awoke in my bed that usually my feet would hang over as the top of my head touched the headboard, but this morning my feet were very warm. Yes, I could feel the wool on top of my toes. However much to my curiosity, the blanket that I was so used to now seemed to weigh an awful lot. I tried to throw it off of me, but every time I would toss the blanket It would still be on me. I threw more and more of it, eyes still shut and thought "has my blanket grown a dozen times its size? When does it end?" I peeled my eyes open with my brow furrowed to witness the strange truth. The end of my bed looked like it was 50 meters away. The room opened up like a large hanger for fleets of planes. In comparison my body seemed so insignificant that I was overwhelmed with a penetrating feeling of helplessness. There immediately was a pounding at the door that deafened my sensitive ears. The booming pulses resonated through my body paralyzing me.