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>>8825554
Generals are for rejects, create a thread about some specific topic.

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>>8825566
Fair enough. Let me ask some more specific question then:

Does Eastern philosophy BTFO Zizek? Why doesn't he like it? I know it's because the Bhagavad Gita sanctions violence, but is martial-arts violence Musashi-style really the same thing as political violence?

See pic related: it's my boy RG. What I like about RG is that he will say the problem, as always, is violence; and this is because mimetic desire compels everyone to follow the self-destructive logic of the duel. In Clauswitzian terms this makes sense to me: but is kungfu or martial arts violence the same kind of violence that someone like Zizek say can be understood in Lacanian terms? Maybe it isn't.

I agree with most everything RG says. Except that the martial arts violence I want to talk about here may have nothing to do with myths, texts, or even politics itself as the sniffler understands it.

On top of that I am wondering how fucking boss Confucianism is in general, since hyper capitalist Western civ today is just 114% libidinal economy to me and headed for one disaster after another that I don't even care about anymore. Chinese philosophy looks good. Maybe not China itself but the thought most def. Also Musashi.

The last Eastern philosophy thread was very interesting until some absolute cunt shit it up with something that probably should have been reported. I'm picking up where that left off.

Let's talk about violence, anons. And kungfu. And samurai shit. And what it all means.

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>>8825623
*more Taoism than Confucianism. Positivist STEMfaggery welcome also. Go ahead and shit on the Tao all you like, I'm behind 4000 monks over here.

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>>8825203

>>8825203

As long as we agree Orin's chapters were the worst. But really, I found Don or Hal's to be the best, I just found the narrative in them pretty fun.

>>8825217
it's weird I really didn't like Don. I didn't mind Orin.

>>8822030
Suena demasiado romántico e cliché...

>otras personas que han sufrido de lo mismo decirme que lo mejor que se puede hacer en estos casos es olvidar, y en caso de que eso sea imposible, bloquear.

would they really say that....

I'm not spanish, but it's not poorly written, the theme you pick—and I don't know if you're writing from experience or not—is the typical heavy-emotion a new writer would force into their prose, to get a forced emotional response from the reader, but truth is the reader likely won't respond much to it and just keep reading, somewhat detachedly, I think, at least that's me.

>>8822030
If the spanglophone world doesn't have a John Green yet, be that John Green.

>part of a short story i just wrote
It is said that when two opposing equal forces meet each other they neutralize. What happened when Mark went to live with Susan was a slow process of sculpting, of erosion. Much like a blade is diminished as its sharpened, both of them molded the other into a more sophisticated form by virtue of butting heads. And in the end their flaws were blunted whilst their virtues were polished. They became gentler people, their reserves of bile and spite, though considerable were not infinite, and greater still was the motivation that pushed them to get it out and get rid of it all. Once they threw at each other everything they had to throw they could finally start to pick up the good things. He learned from her to be more considerate and empathetic for those who had it worse than him, and she learned from him to not get caught up in her own indignation and resentment towards those who didn't have it quite as bad. They grew up, as people does

>>8820962

snakes in the toilet

western civilization cannot into indoor pooping

plz morgan freeman save us

"no"

Here's a couple I've been sitting on:

1/

>small town florist, loves his job, prominent in the community
>car accident in town, someone he doesn't particularly like dies
>roadside shrine of bouquets is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen
>finds the funeral thrilling, feels guilty afterwards
>some time later another death in town, this time a youngster he knows quite well drowns in the river
>this only magnifies the tragedy porn
>starts trying to encourage fatal accidents; icing roads, damaging lights, buying alcohol for teenagers etc.
>steady stream of funerals and graves to adorn wih flowers
>number of deaths attracts suspicion
>the net is closing, knows he's fucked
>police find him hanging in his shop surrounded by flowers with grieving messages from the townspeople all in the same handwriting

2/

>MC is an antisocial, prospectless 18 year old who goes to work in place of his ailing grandfather
>he's a bingo caller in a UK seaside holiday town
>town is dying, only a handful of elderly regulars at the bingo each night
>MC is initially patronising to the old biddies but they take a shine to him
>hears through them all about the olden days and his grandfather's entrepreneurial youth
>MC gets a bit le wrong generation
>after visiting the hospital he comes to realise that his romantic view of his granda's past is as false as the bingo ladies' fetishisation of his own youth
>granda tells him life is a bit shit in any era, you just have to get on with it
>granda passes away
>they have the wake in the bingo hall
>full house
>moved by this MC resolves to take life's shit with a smile on his face and try to make a few friends along the way

A young map prepares to be the first person every to drink a hundred gallons of semen in one sitting by fasting, praying, and playing with his balls.

Shitbag, but his tactics work.

If he didn't write any memes I do not think about him whatsoever

Rules for Radicals is the mighty whitey fantasy where a middle- to upper- class white guy, called "organizer", becomes the lord and master of the "have-nots", and directs them into political action by radicalizing them under the pretense of liberating them.

It's a very short book, and very dense, full of examples of successful and unsucessful rebellion.

The organizer needs curiosity, irreverence, imagination, a sense of humor, a bit of a blurred vision of a better world, an organized personality, he needs to be a
well-integrated political schizoid (because he must not be a true believer in his cause, he is only pretending to liberate people), and an ego, among other skills.

Alinksy writes like a short-sighted, power-tripping megalomaniac, particularly in the last chapter on the proxy tactic, which is a delusional escalation that resulted in the inevitable spectacular failure:

https://randomthots.org/2012/05/21/rules-for-radicals-by-saul-alinsky-the-genesis-of-tactic-proxy/

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>>8842548
Kierkegaard. Cool.

Sounds like an interesting class desu

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>CTRL+F
>Stirner
>0 results
All memes aside, some Kierkegaard isn't a bad idea.

>>8842454
It can work. Your subject matter is a hell of a story so please write it, however you must.

>>8842454
Yes. I find great works are usually third-person, though.

>>8842461
I say this because I want to personalize the story to the reader -- so much so that every time something tragic or traumatizing happens to the first person, it's as if it happens to the reader.

I want people to know how terrible it all was. I mean, I'm not doing first person willy nilly because I suck at writing (I probably do though), but rather I just want the readers to really experience what happened in those schools, and what happened to their children and their children's children because of it. At least in part.

I mean at the end of it, I want people to at least shed a tear from reading it, or may be just feel a tug in their stomach at how fucked up the whole thing was.

I know this takes a lot of skill to do that sort of thing, but it's something I'm willing to spend years on, so I want every detail right

>>8842378
Yes.

Being there, here, out.
For H, the being (yourself) is something open, as opposed to the modern conception (muh alienation, muh self consciousness)
We depend on the being

lad lsd lool

>>>/co/

>>8842433
I should have pointed out that I wasn't asking for comics, but any book in general.

>>8842360
>make jews mice, germans cats- biological prey/predator

real deep
what animal were arab Palestinians?

Anything by Poe

>>8841912
The bear?

>>8841919
Not Pooh.
Edgar Allan Poe

Pretty unambiguous.

You can tell how young lit is with the flooding of threads on babby's first philosopher.

>>8841803
He's trying to make those with herd mentalities feel bad.

All of them.

>>8841731
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science

>>8841731
None because that's a pussy move

>>8841739
Maybe OP's a chick or gay

>>8841608
Just take the redpill.

Come to /pol/ and join our ranks. We have all the answers, the untarnished Truth

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>that entire OP

>>8841608
>become an intellectual
>I'm someone who likes YA
Choose one.
For the first, you'll want to start with the Greeks.

>>8841446

Next month

>>8841446
Pretty sure you can get it digitally without much trouble. What do you need a physical one for?

I found it at a library. If you do find it, good luck WIDE LOAD