/lit/ why do you hate william s. burroughs?
>>8758729
>gay
>liberal
>hipster
>degenerate
>druggie
Goes against the redpill
>>8758738
Name one good "redpilled" book from Burroughs' era.
>>8758758
>goes against the redpill
>reading comprehension
Why does Lord Byron look like shit in this painting?
>>8758698
really makes u fink
and in this one he looks like a rockabilly dude
I didn't ask you about your favorite drink
Who is the superior philosopher: Schopenhauer or Nietzsche?
Nietzsche in every realm.
Schop was way too pessimistic and sad that he was ugly to be a truly great philosopher
They're a good team, but the Neetsch is the one who makes the crowd go wild
even though Schopenhauer seems to have had more irl luck with women
>>8758663
the two write well. ( i think nietzsche have a more metaphoric poetry capacity. but schopenhauer calm is comfy in a strange way)
if your question is for who are near to "the true". i think none of them.
Tell this picture's story.
The chinks sailed onward on the faggy autumn day. The two men knew without so much a word that they would kill that nagging bitch before night fell.
>>8758657
Close up.
>>8758657
was a good day, but i feeling sad.
Is poetry fiction or non fiction?
>>8758639
What's the poem about?
>>8758639
those are prose genres and prose falls under poetry as a genre.
is a non fiction poem possible?
>2017
>still no Philosopher King
was Plato, dare I say it, wrong?
>>8758603
In regards to Utopia, yeah.
Western society allowed idiots too many rights and privileges, and therefore a perfect society is unattainable.
>>8758611
Exactly my point.
Modern universities are corrupt pieces of a corrupt system. Is there any way to succeed in modern life both economically and intelectually without going to a university?
>>8758530
Learn a trade and join a large company and rise in the ranks.
>>8758530
be so outstanding at whatever you do to the point that your work speaks louder than your lack of credentials.
its very possible but you have to be stupid lucky if youre not already exceptional. and chances are, youre not.
>>8758530
try the redpill
Fantasy
>Beginner's Guide to Fantasy:
>https://i.imgur.com/fOGNfWK.jpg
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Previous Thread: >>8751083
failure of a man who wanted to be wonderful at math but is now suicidal here
Give me some good math/science intensive books please
>>8758510
That's an ugly fucking picture, fuck you.
Make charts great again
>>8758520
Greg Egan's stuff might be worth a look
I recall at some point, maybe in Daybreak, Nietzsche saying that he for a long time entertained the thought that the philosopher is a symptom of decadence. That philosophy itself, which originates in ancient Greece, was a sign that we were falling into decadence, and despite how great the Greeks were, they are something that should be overcome.
It's interesting, isn't it? For those who have actually read enough philosophical texts to know exactly how much power they have, isn't it a little breathtaking to think that it is all really born of a disease of idleness and having too much complacency, a spiritual decline into inactivity (i.e. thought)?
Thought is very useful. We wouldn't have made as much, if any, progress in the past ~4000 years without it. And yet it seems like an unhealthy obsession. It's useless when power isn't associated with it.
This also got me thinking: people who think a lot, and all of us on here, the more we all think — don't we usually become softer for it? Because thinking is inactive, the more we do it, the less we are engaged with others' "warrior" energy (to borrow a term from pop psychotherapy) and thus we utilize our own energy less. Then why do so many thinkers turn very harsh, leaning eventually towards the right, establishing hierarchy with their principles and becoming very intellectually demanding of themselves and others? Is it just that energy which we can't get rid of? But doesn't that mean that there IS a healthiness about it?
Clearly I am confused, but I thought it would make for an interesting thread.
>>8758507
You don't sound like you've spend very long on this whole 'thinking' lark.
>>8758523
Elaborate. Note I'm partially playing devil's advocate just to strike a conversation.
>>8758507
I feel some people spend so much energy thinking as a symptom of feeling weak and not wanting to take action. Thinking isnt as much of a cause of not taking action, instead it is consecuence of fear. But thats just my opinion
What are some good books on the military-industrial complex and war economy?
>>8758498
"The History of History" by History
>>8758601
Forward by Past
>>8758498
looks like the death star battle
Who does he hate Buddhism and Taoism?
Is it because they're not mass murdering ideologies who chase beautiful fairytales?
>>8758496
That's it, I'm a Nazi now
Praise KEK!
>>8758496
What's wrong with fairytales? Fairytales can be true. Fairytales can be more true than the other shit we buy as 'reality'.
>>8758521
Ash my favorite Catholic *sniff* theologist -- Chesterton -- said *tugs shirt* "fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten" *sniff*
What i should expect with this book?
What is this about?
He rapes his sister pheobe.
Ulysses in New York City t b h
>>8758458
It's the kind of book that -- when you've read about 20 'serious' novels -- you'll call shit because you now think that you've become patrician and remember reading it in high school.
what the fuck did i just read
ripoff of the three amigos
CAFE CON LECHE
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>>8758421
instructions on doing a captcha
you thought it was banal and predictable
What was this guy's deal? Was he a cuck?
>>8758376
Yes.
>>8758376
>thinking of everything in terms of "cucks"
Maybe take a vacation from /r9k/
>>8758402
‘Dark Virgin,’ said the hairy Youth, ‘thy father stern, abhorr’d,
Rivets my tenfold chains, while still on high my spirit soars;
Sometimes an eagle screaming in the sky, sometimes a lion
Stalking upon the mountains, and sometimes a whale, I lash
The raging fathomless abyss; anon a serpent folding
Around the pillars of Urthona, and round thy dark limbs
On the Canadian wilds I fold; feeble my spirit folds;
For chain’d beneath I rend these caverns: when thou bringest food
I howl my joy, and my red eyes seek to behold thy face—
In vain! these clouds roll to and fro, and hide thee from my sight.
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy,
The hairy shoulders rend the links; free are the wrists of fire;
Round the terrific loins he seiz’d the panting, struggling womb;
It joy’d: she put aside her clouds and smilèd her first-born smile,
As when a block cloud shows its lightnings to the silent deep.
Soon as she saw the Terrible Boy, then burst the virgin cry:—
‘I know thee, I have found thee, and I will not let thee go:
Thou art the image of God who dwells in darkness of Africa,
And thou art fall’n to give me life in regions of dark death.
On my American plains I feel the struggling afflictions
Endur’d by roots that writhe their arms into the nether deep.
I see a Serpent in Canada who courts me to his love,
In Mexico an Eagle, and a Lion in Peru;
I see a Whale in the South Sea, drinking my soul away.
O what limb-rending pains I feel! thy fire and my frost
Mingle in howling pains, in furrows by thy lightnings rent.
This is Eternal Death, and this the torment long foretold!’
He seems to identify himself and Britain as a virgin being penetrated by dark, manly American revolutionaries, as well as subsaharan africans
What are his best books? Is he worth reading?
Wow, Julian is aging badly. Must be all the booze.
>>8758302
What do you mean?
>>8758305
Ricky still look young, i mean, he looks ok at least.