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I recently "acquired" your mother's favor

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Faulkner 57-62 was new in playin for $18

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Also got these at a local bookstore for 11 dollars. God bless used books

>>8007401
REAL men read analytics and are politically conservative. It's based in logic and rationality

Only effeminate Bernouts read continental cuckery. They aren't real men. It's based in muh feels and muh oppreshun

>>8007401
I'm pretty sure continental philosophers have to read him, analytical are too busy playing scientist to

>>8007401
>Do people who study philosophy on rigorous academic level actually read this guy?
No, they do not.

>Or is he more popular with dilettantes
Correct.

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Has anyone here ever visited John Green Stadium in Thames, London?

>>8004275
No. What's it bad?

i hate john green

>>8022055
Worst critique thread ever.

1/2

It was a cold July evening, and Montag walked slowly through the sidewalk. The sky was orange, almost night. Near where he walked, there were a small group of people sitting around a metal canister full of fuel, and lit. One of them, excitingly were telling a story, to which the others attentively listened. Near them was a stray dog, sleeping. Scenes like this were common, small families enjoying the evening to warm themselves and have fun. They weren't real families, of blood, but small groups of people living together, separated from other people. Montag also were part of a family, but a big one, living together in a fixed place. Some could say that the way they lived was "communist", but that is debatable. They all liveed together, each in charge of a specific job to benefit the whole family. Montag was in charge of hunting, to get food for the family. Even though he weren't the only, he went alone that day.

Although most of the population lived in that way, that is, without a leader or group of leaders, fact that characterizes anarchism, some still lived in groups with leaders, but they were small, not remarkable, groups, practically unnoticed by most people.

The anarchism was installed in this country (and when I say country, I refer to the geographic localization, a chunk of land divided by natural or artificial borders) after an insurgency. Previously, the state imposed a dictatorship, which lasted several years. A rebel group, with many divisions throughout the country, organized an attack to the main points of power of the state, overthrowing the dictator and other big figures. Afterwards, they utilized a very smart method to completely eliminate leaders. Utilizing strong propaganda, through news, radio, and television, they stimulated the population, who for years nurtured strong hatred towards leaders, to attack every figure that represented power near them. The propagand was just the initial impulse, basically some kind of "permission" given by the insurgents, since everyone had at least a single reason to hate their leaders and executioners. Some, because they lost dear friends and family to the state assassins, others, for being separated, and some simply because of the lack of freedom of expression and action. Soon, what followed was grotesque carnage and savagery . The leaders, who used to hang rebels in public square, were scourged and humiliated by the people. Some, crueler, after days of torture, burned them publicly, to the joy of the people. All these acts, so absurd and inhumane, even today aren't briefly mentioned by those who participated. They fear themselves for what they did.


>>8022059
ok

>>8022077
2/2

Although the coup d'etat was well planned and executed, before and after there was great confusion. Firstly, what would be done after the elimination of the state? Never had them witnessed such fact. The masses believed that, following the example of other overthrown dictators, the republic would be installed and they'd live like other countries. But the insurgents wouldn't allow such fact. They didn't elect a new presidents, but installed anarchy. The main reasons for anarchy to be chosen are still confusing even today. If you ask some, they'd say that anarchy was chosen because it is the natural state of men. Respectfully, I deny this affirmation and teach them what I think to be true.

The main reasons were, the ignorance and excitation of everyone towards the debunked state. After so many years imprisoned, living like birds in cages, controlled by the totalitarian state, the growing chorela towards the powerful minority led to a blind and ignorant hate. When you hate all kind of power, the inexistence of a form of power seems to be the perfect thought. Soon, blind by the thought of living free, they installed anarchy, and abhorred those who wished for order in society. Nevertheless, as the Grand Inquisitor said, "Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom".

When you break up with your boyfriend he deserves an explanation.

>>8022034
He wanted to tax my tea.

>>8022034
w-we just don't fit together ;_;

Old people's attention spans aren't "rotten" because they don't use the technology that rots their attention span because they are old people you massive stupid faggot.

>>8021813
Nature+Nurture determines everything.

Yeah, they haven't fried themselves by pounding down coffees, taking huge bong hits, and playing CoD and Halo while checking social media in between matches for entire summers at a time.

However, they're old. Their forms have been alive longer than these albeit attention-deficit youngsters, and that "nature" factor weighs more heavily than the likely temporary damage (sometimes permanent, I'm not arguing that) youngins have done to their attention spans by playing exploitative video games and getting a rush out of their peers liking their profile picture.

Fuck off.

>>8021516
Don't worry, after you re-read it a few times it will stick and everything will start to make more sense. You do re-read your books, right?

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>>8021516
You know that wonderful empty page in the very end of the book? After reading any book I fill that page with everything fascinating i've found about it, including insights from critical articles, so i have a mini recap of the plot and ideas. Once I open that page, it usually all comes back and I can almost completely recall what the book was about.

>>8021571
Please post some picture examples

>>8021485
What do you want to do as a career?

>>8021489
I'm pre law right now, but my main goal is to get a job in the government

>>8021500
https://sites.google.com/site/whystudyphilosophy/

Only if you care that much about Ayn Rand's ideas. If not, you'll hate this because it's long and boring.

>>8021262
literally tl;dr

>>8021266
is there any story or is it just her shilling her ideals?

like my dick

>>8021106
Because it's pretty much the earliest known work of Western literature

Yep. That's why. Old n long. The extensive field of research behind Greek literature and culture, of which The Iliad is the centerpiece, is more or less entirely focused on explaining just HOW a poem can be SO old and long.

are you retarded

>>8020983
That property shouldn't be private anymore you dumb fuck.

>>8020983
Private propert is different from personal property. Your phone and sextoys are personal property. Theyre yours. You own them the same way you do now.

Private property, in this sense, is the means of production. Factories and whatnot. Marx says people shouldnt own these means of production since opression, imperialism and so on and so on *sniff*. Basically not allowing classes to form.

Campaign Trail '72

>>8020935
I've only read Fear and Loathing. I got Hell's Angels but haven't read it.

I like his way of storytelling. His way of writing has become much more relevant these days. It seems that you can't bring news without entertainment. Thompson able to provide a scoop with something for reader takeaway other than pure facts.

Well I think I'm just an idiot who doesn't like to read news

>>8020935
Personally read F&L in Las Vegas/On the Campaign Trail, Hell's Angels, the Kentuck Derby and the Curso of Lono.

One of my favourite writers, I've read F&L in Las Vegas about six or seven times, I'm writing an essay about its correlation with Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, shit's a blast. I recommend you read anything you can get your hands on, more or less everything's available online in pdf format, there's no excuse to avoid getting it if you like his writing.

I think he was maybe one of the first to truly understand the value of (self-conscious) perspectivism in journalism - he certainly was (and remains, as far as I'm concerned) the only one to do justice to the idea - everything after him just isn't on par, when it comes to the beauty of his writing/the depth of his observations. Only one to come close is Joan Didion, and even then, she was much too disaffected to really do the format justice.

>>8020903
bump

>>8020903
Just read the P&V, don't listen to the /lit/ memes it's a solid effort

I doubt anyone here has read both translations and the Russian version so they can have a valid opinion.

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Bumping with a classic

>>8020908
that is indeed a classic

>>8020856
bump