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I'm scared /lit/, dark times are approaching. Of the millennial generation, few among us read, few among us know the Classics, and few among us are engaged in a life long pursuit of ever greater knowledge.
Is intellectualism on the brink of death?
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Good riddance desu
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>>8375921
>Is intellectualism on the brink of death?
No. You just keep comparing the giants of the past 4000 years to a bunch of friends on twitter and dime-store novelists.
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>>8375921
Literacy and average education is at an all time high
Do you know any book-themed youtube channels that aren't absolutely horrible and only about shitty Fantasy YA?
Pic related: Better Than Food, covering some texts with actual value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsMYhmuyhU
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his videos are worthless two bit summaries plus brooding plus begging. the only reason why you'd watch them is cause he's a semon demon desu
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sometimes i like listening to his reviews in the background, but he is unbearingly pretentious at times.
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DADDY DIDN'T GIVE ATTENTION
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Why are you guys so obsessed with purity and virtue? Is this an attitude you've always had, or did you acquire it by reading a bunch of antiquated books?
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>>8375879
What else is there worth pursuing in life?
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>Why are you guys so obsessed with purity and virtue?
Are we?
I'm a just an pragmatic individualist with late night transcendental delusions
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They are worthy of obsession
Or should I be obsessed with hypocrisy and corruption
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current to read meme pile , what should I read next
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None of those are good places to start, so read a little bit of each and see which one you enjoy most, then read that one
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why don't you make a thread when you've actually read one of those books you idiot.
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start with the greeks
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I'm suddenly gaining an interest in fiction /lit/erature. So far, almost all of the fiction stuff I read was fantasy or post-XXth sad novels. I'm looking for classic novels, love stories, people in conflict with themselves, I don't know, something beautiful. What would you rec me?
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>>8375831
Something easy,
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>>8375840
jk just check out some plot summaries and find something that sounds interesting. Spoilers aren't really a thing.
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I'm seeing a lot of interesting political movements in the world today and I can't help to feel that is likely that a similar thing has happen before.
Maybe we are 20-30 year from something like the fall of an empire or something similar but you guys might know more, so what can I read about a similar historic period to know what to expect?
Things are pretty degenerate today so that might be a sign
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The whole west is in Weimar republic mode. So go and read Spengler if you have to.
>Things are pretty degenerate today so that might be a sign
Honestly, was there ever a time when it wasn't like that?
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>>8375817
Of course, but I think maybe the deegre of liberties present has been seen in other declining civilizations before. You know how this is we go from one extreme to the other in a few years
>against the day
>fall 2006
>inherent vice
>late summer 2009
>bleeding edge
>fall 2013
are we getting a new pynchon novel next september??????????
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>>8375787
you jinxed it, fuckwad
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>>8375787
No, I just spend all my time on here now
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>>8375821
Do you have anything in the works at least?
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Is there a bleaker poet? 2016-08-08 21:52:00 Post No.8375769
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End, Middle, Beginning
There was an unwanted child.
Aborted by three modern methods
she hung on to the womb,
hooked onto I
building her house into it
and it was to no avail,
to black her out.
At her birth
she did not cry,
spanked indeed,
but did not yell-
instead snow fell out of her mouth.
As she grew, year by year,
her hair turned like a rose in a vase,
and bled down her face.
Rocks were placed on her to keep
the growing silent,
and though they bruised,
they did not kill,
though kill was tangled into her beginning.
They locked her in a football
but she merely curled up
and pretended it was a warm doll's house.
They pushed insects in to bite her off
and she let them crawl into her eyes
pretending they were a puppet show.
Later, later,
grown fully, as they say,
they gave her a ring,
and she wore it like a root
and said to herself,
'To be not loved is the human condition,'
and lay like a stature in her bed.
Then once,
by terrible chance,
love took her in his big boat
and she shoveled the ocean
in a scalding joy.
Then,
slowly,
love seeped away,
the boat turned into paper
and she knew her fate,
at last.
Turn where you belong,
into a deaf mute
that metal house,
let him drill you into no one.
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>>8375769
>let him drill you into no one.
I'll drill that ass into no one lmao
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the images seem haphazard and sloppy (though most modern poetry is like that) but evocative. i like her a bit, she's more intense and interesting than her compatriots like lowell.
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Kobayashi Issa
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>he thinks metrics and rhymes are important
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Poetry is just shitty prose without metre , rhyme, wordplay, etc. Etc.
Regards
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>>8375747
Pic related is what happens when you throw out metre and rhyme desu
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>>8375747
>removes everything that classifies writing as poetry
>calls it poetry
>I guess, so, well, yup, uh...
>THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.
What the fuck did I just read? (Should I watch the film?)
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>current year
>not watched American Psycho
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>>8375777
I've just put off watching it for years saying I was going to read it first.
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>>8375742
While Christian Bale is who I see when I read the book, I think the film is worse. Obviously it couldn't be as graphic but something else is missing as well. And I hated the stupid chase at the end where suddenly everything is from the girls perspective.
I found these on my dad's bookshelf today
How did I do? Was my dad /lit/ in 1995?
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>No Ulysses
>No Gravity's Rainbow
>No Infinite Jest
FUCKING PANNED
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>>8375462
Please don't be rude about my dad
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My professor had us read the Ghost Road but not the others in the trilogy. Are they worth checking out? I did like what I read
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'Whatever exists,' he said. 'Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.'
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>>8375438
well, who said it reddit?
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>>8375461
gui'hds
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>>8375461
The one who will never die
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What is the opposite of Solipsism? Like believing that everyone is normal except for you and that you are broken or incomplete?
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The opposite of solipsism would be that you don't experience anything
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>>8375277
According to Wittgenstein, the opposite of solipsism is realism (from the tractatus), but somehow they can both be true at the same time.
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>>8375277
>What is the opposite of Solipsism?
It's definitely not believing that everyone is normal except for you and that you are broken or incomplete
The opposite of Solipsism, is Solipsism, and by that I mean: believing that "others" exists and that "you" do not. It's paradoxical psychosis dude.
>>8375292
>witty
This is probably the correct answer
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"I have finished works that will never be destroyed by fire, iron, time -- not even the wrath of God. When that day comes, let my life be ended: the better part of me will fly eternal to the stars, and my name will last forever. In all the world I will still be heard, and my fame will endure for all time." - Kanye West, 2014
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he is this generation's closest thing to Einstein.
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>>8375265
He's right.
Thanks to the set-up of the net, an 11 year old brazilian teenage girl lip-synching to Katie Perry will last until the end of civilisation.
Within our lifetimes you will be able to backup all the data that has ever been output into a physical space that fits in your palm.
The age of expiration, of decay and of the death of ideas is over.
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>>8375283
>Within our lifetimes you will be able to backup all the data that has ever been output into a physical space that fits in your palm.
Have you ever heard of Beckenstein?
You can't physically increase the amount of information contained in a finite space, and the amount of information we generate is growing exponentially faster than our storage efficiency.
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i want to read kant - what is necessary for me to read beforehand so that i'll understand him?
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Greek philosophy.
Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume.
Some familiarity with Newton philosophy and physics can be useful.
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>>8375225
is descartes unnecessary? what about augustine/aquinas?
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>>8375219
why?