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How easy would be to write sci fi novels about new age BS like the history of humans in the orion wars, the archons, the reptilians, the federation of light, atlantis, lemuria, schools of mistery.

Is like a gold mine for sci fi material.

You could be rich for writing such material.

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How come this guy is never blamed for "cultural Marxism" like his buddy Adorno (also Marcuse) when he arguably had far more to do with it?

Benjamin was definitely the most radical member of the Frankfurt School, he admired Lenin and Blanqui, drew his method for literary exegesis from the Talmud and kabbalah, loved modern ("degenerate") art and literature, called for apocalyptic violence, and is the only major member of the Frankfurt School who is still widely read and studied in academia today. If that doesn't sound like /pol/'s worst nightmare I don't know what does.

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What do you guys think about pic related? I found it to be much more interesting and nuanced than his more famous books, though lacking in "lyricism" for the most part. I think it makes for a great bildungsroman of political disillusionment, especially in the Looking Back on the Spanish War segment - I know it was written later than the rest of the book, but I think it should be considered an afterthought or appendix to the main text.

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do you listen to music while reading?

Presumably lyric-free music. What kind?

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I found this theory quite interesting, but sounds a little shady. Is it a meme /lit/?

Also, what are good books on it? Do you think it's true that the world is in a void of metanarrative, and thus, adrift?

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Any good books that deal with mysticism? I know Joyce found eastern mysticism interesting, but I was more talking along the lines of occult kabbalah

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>tfw realized literature is an archaic relic that never properly exited relevance with the applause and fanfare and crash of spectacle and cessation, etc.
>tfw realized the most intellectually honest form of living is being a consumerist bugman who watches game of thrones and has water cooler talks with other proles at my white collar office job then goes home to shop for windows and take buzzfeed quizzes on Facebook

When will you stop deluding yourselves? Typed this drinking a Starbucks frappe btw

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There's something that bothers me.

The more I read about diferent cultures, the more similar they seem.

Sure, a SJW about gay rights would be radically diferent than an ISIS warrior.

But on average it seems all humans on earth are slowly becoming just one single dominant culture, this mean having the basic western framework as a base where their culture on top shapes some basic diferences (language, food, traditionality).
But even if the cultures are diferent, it seems humans share the same basic aspirations, a home, a wife, some kids, get a job, maybe some want to become famous.

There's a shit ton of stuff we share as diferent culture, most males hate sluts, most woman want Chads, betas will be the same around the world, society will make fun of manchild hobbies.

A lot of millenials around the world would be into metal music, from latinos to muslims to japanese, some will like normie anime.
We even watch now the same soap operas from mexico or turkey or korea, even if you're huehue or from middle asia.

Sure, there's diferences, but it seems we all share the same basic experience.

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>tfw I can only write ironic purple prose because I lack any real poetic vision

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Books with god tier intrigue and plotting/conniving characters? from any genre

pic unrelated, this book was utter garbage

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Pick one of three:
>[pretend to agree with the statement uttered in the related picture to ensure a host of replies by people who need their opinions validated as much as me]
>[comment about how the related picture provokes a new perspective on thing]
>[feign ignorance and hide need for a circlejerk by asking an ostensibly innocuous question like whether it's true]

Have you decided on one? Proceed to
[Eagerly await the responses from people who are well-aware that I'm trying to elicit certain answers, but nevertheless are as needy as me and want to feed the same belief, as well as from the few who are autistic enough to believe that I am genuine, and pray to the God that no one starts talking about literature]

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Just finished pic related, should I read Gravity's Raindbow or Inherent Vice next?

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It's 2:30 on a Friday and I'm sitting in the Pyrenees Mountains drinking whiskey out of a plastic bottle while reading Camus and shit posting with my mobile hotspot.

How did you /live/ the /lit/ lifestyle today?

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If starting with the greeks and continuing with the romans, how long would it take me to reach the zenith of western literature (Joyce)

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>Is it per chance only people possessed by the devil that meet us, or do we as often come upon people possessed in the contrary way,—possessed by "the good," by virtue, morality, the law, or some "principle" or other? Possessions of the devil are not the only ones. God works on us, and the devil does; the former "workings of grace," the latter "workings of the devil." Possessed people are set in their opinions.

Does Stirner argue here that virtue is a spook and does not exist? Wtf is the true meaning of life then if virtue does not exist?
But earlier he wrote:
>The Greek poet Simonides sings: "Health is the noblest good for mortal man, the next to this is beauty, the third riches acquired without guile, the fourth the enjoyment of social pleasures in the company of young friends." These are all good things of life, pleasures of life.
Which sounds very much like virtue to me and represents my sense of virtue.
>pic related, virtuous men