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What would Tom Clancy make of modern politics? 2017-01-23 01:11:47 Post No.9012085
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What would Tom Clancy make of modern politics?
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Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.
So in The Bear and the Dragon, Jack Ryan, a wealthy ex stockbroker, gets re-elected in a landslide by running as a right of center outsider by presenting himself an "average guy", even though as a former CIA officer he is far from anything of the sort.
Under his presidency, the USA establishes a special close relationship with Russia, via President Ryan's friend ex-KGB friend Sergei who is effectively the most powerful man in the Russian government.
Ryan then starts a trade war with China (who are of course all a bunch of out of touch morons who don't understand how capitalism and trade works, which turns into an actual war when China decides to invade Siberia to steal Russian oil and America sides with Russia
Meanwhile at home Ryan throws out the entire US tax code, and appoints his friend who runs a massive Wall Street investment firm to write the new tax code, which eliminates all capital gains taxes and progressive bracketing in favor of a "fair" flat rate of tax for everybody. He also appoints strict-constructionalist judges to the SCOTUS with the express intention of having them overturn Roe v Wade.
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well you have thousands of what if books written about the future. One of them should relatively play out as in IRL.
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A tom clancy book brings up a totalitarian trying to overturn roe v wade?
I thought he wrote proto-call of duty patriotism action pulp, wouldn't portraying anti-abortionists as evil piss his target audience off?
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>>9012240
In this scenario Ryan is actually the good guy, first he had no choice but to be a totalitarian because he was the only government official left alive and had to rebuild the whole government on his own, then a couple books later he had a tame Congress made up of "ordinary working Americans" who would do whatever he asked.
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What are some good psycholgy books i should read?
The six pillars of self esteem by Nathaniel Branden has more or less saved my life, by providing the psychological tools i needed to fix my self esteem, accept my past and my dysfunctional family and so on.
Then i read 'The psychology of romantic love' and it further made complete sense of all my relationships and taught me what to look for from now on.
It has however also opened up my appetite, i have found the solutions to many of my (and other peoples') problems in a few of his other books. It's like 5 years worth of therapy sessions done in a few days of reading.
I'm looking to continue this journey of discovery but i don't know in what direction to go. There's so many books out there, some new, some older, some good, some maybe not so good, can anyone make any recomandations?
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Psychology is evil.
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>>9012060
Go hardcore with Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. No lie. You'll love it, buddy. Trust me.
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Anon, I'd say don't read psychology books for that. Go see a psychoanalyst. If you are reading these books to work on your own problems, please read on the concept of transference, you'll see there is a great difference between reading on something, even if inspirational and so on, than actually talking with another, confronting your own situation, learning to see its particularities and working on them.
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We agree that Lolita is objectively his best work, yes?
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Certainly not. Pnin or go home
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Wrong.
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>>9012046
it's not even top 5 plebo
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Was Tolstoy projecting his insecurities through Count Vronsky? 2017-01-23 11:40:28 Post No.9011951
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Was Tolstoy projecting his insecurities through Count Vronsky?
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How else could you explain his choice to make the ladies man (Vronsky) be bald? Its pretty unrealistic for a balding character to attract so many women, especially in Russian 'society' in the 19th century.
Discuss.
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>he thinks physical features are the only thing that attracts women
>projecting insecurities
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>implying he knows anything about Russian society in the 19th century aside from what little he read in Tolstoyevski and other /lit/ memes.
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>>9011951
Like other people say there's nothing unrealistic about physically unnatractive characters getting lots of women.
It used to happen all the time, who do you think were the attractive social figures in high society? it was all ages including many older types from military and government with high positions and a lot of charisma and knowledge, wit, etc. Just because you were old didn't mean you lacked charm or character, in high society you were prepared for all types of interactions.
fucking pleb.
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What book should I buy if I wanted to read Lovecraft's work?
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Probably one he wrote.
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My diary tbqh
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The Wordsworth editions of his works.
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Why do literary agents request LGBT works so much as if the most popular books aren't about straight people and most of the audience is straight?
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Obedience
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I blame the Jews
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>>9011874
because the kikes control it all
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What did the French do that ruined philosophy?
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Nothing. But see, that's where the problem lies.
They should have done something.
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Nothing. But they sure as hell triggered analytical anglo autismos.
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>>9011864
Obfuscate.
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Is Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald any good?
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eh.
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Movie was better. Pro-tip: all of them.
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>>9011849
>yes*
sorry, typo.
How do you find time to read when there are so many dank memes, and so many gifs to be clicked, and so many youtube vids to be watched, and so many video game streams to view, and so much shitposting to be had on pol, b, v, tv, and countless other entire websites?
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>>9011712
I don't read.
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Because reading is more enjoyable than any of those other things.
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>>9011712
found the time when I couldn't enjoy the other things you mentioned anymore.
Do you the think the widespread use of "pleb" and "patrician" on boards about fiction/media stems from an infectious desire to assert superiority/inferiority based on media consumption OR it a viable way to expedite conveying the quality of a work?
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>>9011625
Yes
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The former, and that's readily apparent to anyone who's browsed /mu/ or /tv/ for extended periods of time
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Here's a though experiment, /lit/:
A mathematician proves that a universal Turing machine is unable to simulate consciousness. The proof is airtight, peer reviewed, and formally verified.
What implications would this have for philosophy?
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>>9011614
YOU ARE NOT YOUR BROWSING HISTORY
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I just pooprd in my pants
POOPYPANTS hahaha
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>>9011614
he's not a mathematician he's a robot
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Who is America's foremost virtue signaller?
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Taynesha Coat-racks
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>Althusser
Dis nigga gonna choke a bitch one day?
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>>9011599
>Althusser
>America
Wrong thread ?
He did choke is girl, he was insane.
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Best anarchy-based fiction?
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The Dispossessed
>subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia
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>>9011574
You could read Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
It's fiction and the only thing that can debase its idiocy is anarchy
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anarchist "theory" in general.
also check this dubs.
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Why does he destroy her?
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Cause he's a Steppenwolf, kiddo.
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>>9011561
Because she was just a tool to jumpstart the beginning of his awakening. Compare her to the woman that he regularly sleeps with, who enjoys his company but knows when it's time for her to leave. The difference now is he must know when to leave.
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>>9011561
Pablo psyoped him
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Is this any good compared to her other books?
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>>9011549
i liked but i dont think i "got it"
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>>9011549
imho it's her best book.
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>>9011641
Prove it.