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>Is there any real reason to read philosophy
This is a philosophical question.

>>7886020
understand the basics that everyone builds upon and it's like a key to unlocking all different kinds of thought

it's also good to understand why you think what you think.

start with the greeks.

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yes yes very astute of you, philosophy has no practicable justification. here's a lollipop for your penetrating insight

>>7886018
But he is just a meme.

>>7886026
if hes a meme then fine but dont imply pynchon is anything but pure brilliance

>>7886018
Who dat? R Crumb? Take that shit to /co/ instead of /lit/.

>David Foster Wallace
>Biology

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>lewis seekay
>the human condition

>David Foster Wallace
>Anthropology

Most novels have only one author, rather than the entire team it takes to develop a game. And there ARE 4chan posters writing novels. /lit/ is fucking full of them.

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>>7885965
>/lit/ is full of them

>>7885969
I didn't say any of the novels they were writing were good.

>>7885890
Write about how Vaporware A E S T H E T I C S are making Nigerian tweens homogay.

The influence of the Jews on mass media and culture.

The strategically disadvantageous relationship between the USA and Israel.

>>7885842
the sad thing about camus is that he actually believed it.

>>7885842

They call the mindset generated by extreme pain "ecstasy" for a reason.

>>7885842
I know what you mean anon. I felt the same way when I read it.
I would really say that Dan was trying to do was get - I did well, but the death penalty, which the whole affair was contrived reality and I passed out.
Sorry for bad English, amYiddish.

because reading is boring and browsing this shitty place allows you to funpost

>>7885655
>reading is boring

>>7885649
why is that image so high fucking resolution?

My bedroom desu

There are none. You have to form ties and floating communities with people online who share your interests.

>>7885525
the internet

Why haven't you read Faust

>>7885512
>tfw <10% of this board has read faust

>>7885512
Cuz I'm a cuck. Should I read it now?
>inb4 you should read it regardless of V.
I know, and I will. I just want to know if it's necessary or I can keep on with The Pinecone and read it after

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I'm enjoying it a lot. Although his descriptions might seem prosaic, they are actually ver musical and vivid. The theme of pantheism that springs from the self is beautifully managed too. I'm 256 lines in, but I can see now it's poetic dimensions and achievements.

>>7885367
Fareed Zakaria is a plagiarist establishment hack

is it good, op? he gave the commencement speak when i graduated from college and he did a very poor job.

>>7885157
Exit game

Like any other addiction, either get some willpower or die

>not treating reading like a video game
>not leveling up by becoming better read and knowing more philosophy

'no'

>>7885126
I know you want it.

>>7885123
Full quote
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
—Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann

You've just read his best.
Libra and Running Dog are the followups.

>>7885058
Underworld is a freakin' masterpiece so long as you love his style. Anything from early on except for Ratner's Star is great. Most of the recent stuff is average, except for Point Omega. That is great.

Thanks for the recs guys.

>>7884931
I'm jelly, I've been wanting to read more of him. I don't know about the no true self idea, though; in his book on Stigma there's a certain amount of acceptance that there's a real self; even if the kinds of selves he imagines are socially, or wholly, constructed selections, the divisions of kind and consequences of stigma/normalcy are portrayed as real.

>>7884944
i mean self in an objective sense. identity and appearance is pretty subjective stuff. as goffman shows, it tends to vary by setting. for example, you don't act the same way you do in a bar as you would at work.

you're spot on about the whole stigma thing. sitgma and deviant groups are definitely real. even if the self is constructed, the consequences of the existence of the concept of self have immediate impact upon reality, especially that of cultural and social groups.

Read a bit of it in second year uni, it's an interesting book and it definitely shaped how I think but I have to admit texts as dense as this are tough. Back to r/books for me I guess

>>7884688
sauce?

Man, boobs are pretty great.

what were we talking about

>>7884716
Feet>tits tbqh