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>>7731062

>>7731074
i lol'd

Osamu Dazai

I'll report back to you once we get to him in one of the courses I'm taking this semester. From what I've heard though I'm somewhat feeling as if I will dread reading through some of Oe.

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>>7728074
Oe was a meme tier writer of genre fiction with no discernible talent!

Please stop.

>>7743531
No, the world must know his greatness! Don't you try to stifle his genius!

Ah yes, Isaac Asimov and his great philosophical works, quote unquote. Because when I think philosophy, I think Asimov.

In truth, your nonstop drive for escapism has been replaced with issues that make you feel something other than meaningless bliss.

The horror! The horror!

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>>7743129
>In truth, your nonstop drive for escapism has been replaced with issues that make you feel something other than meaningless bliss.

Actually, it's more that traditional science fiction had philosophy at its core. Take Asimov's robot works for example. In those works the philosophy concerns the nature of humanity(the most popular and over explored area by now). We ask ourself if we are merely flesh machines or something more, yet we know that robots are simply machines. The question then becomes how much a machine can "feel" and if it can be alive. If it can, then what does that mean for a human?

Modern science fiction is more concerned with smaller questions(if they bother with philosophy at all) like racism, sexism, or social imbalance("cleverly" hidden behind aliens/cyborgs/mutants which are exposed to transparent analogies of said issues), and a surprising number feature a female protagonist devoid of flawed humanity, almost as a fetish(not in terms of sexual fetishism but rather as a strange form of objectified perfection and popular-rebellion) for the author's desires and personal view of the world.

The issue is that traditional Science Fiction either makes you think, OR functions as self-indulgent escapism. Whereas modern Science Fiction is so heavy-handed and transparent that it reads as almost self-congratulatory, and the pure escapism is out of fashion(which is ironic considering how self-indulgent the fetishistic "thoughtful" stuff has become).

>We ask oursel[ves] if we are merely flesh machines or something more, yet we know that robots are simply machines. The question then becomes how much a machine can "feel" and if it can be alive

>Modern science fiction is more concerned with smaller questions(if they bother with philosophy at all) like racism, sexism, or social imbalance

And which of these is more "relevant" to today's society? That is the very basis of escapism; we know that, for instance, strong AI is a fantasy and, at the same time, that major barriers to progress like cultural, social, and economic differences are ongoing and very real.

"But what does relevance have to do with anything?" you say. And there you fall for your own trap: Your "philosophical" considerations of strong AI, and rocket ships, and colonizing Mars, and all the things Asimov writes about, are a conflictless fantasy that has no, zero, bearing on today's world except for the most hardcore futurist.

If you want easy, predictable stories that will pander to your worldview and ideology, just say so. Don't beat around the bush by indicting SJWs.

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>All that normie stuff
>Literally zero power level

1. Sword Art Online
2. Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
3. Mushoku Tensei

t. random weeb.

>>7741123
You could've at least tried to pick good LN

>>7741091
Autobiography of Red and Red Doc.
The Hearing Trumpet
Petersburg

This post LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

>>7731323
lolita, its about cute 8 year old 2d waifus, you wouldn't understand haha

>not just saying its about a pedophile

overly modest cucks are hilarious

>>7740229
Killing yourself.

>>7740229
You sound like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndW5uiwexL8

>>7740229
You're a standard deviation below me, fool, and you're lonely because you're a cunt and act like a faggot when you're not directly being a cunt. It's not your intelligence that makes you lonely, it's the fact you're a loathsome twat.

>>7742842
Most of the people I know since people love talking about their jobs.

When it was just a hobby I'd say, like, 30%? We don't talk about hobbies as much as we talk about work strangely enough

All of my close friends. I show them it too.

>>7742842
Most of my friends.
I normally write erotic short stories of any kind,just inspire me and I'll have an entire plot inside my head.
I don't normally do it because I want to,I only write them for a really special friend.
She says that my stories are amazing and the ideas I implement on them are great.She likes yaoi aka boys love.
>inb4 faggot

Let me finger its ass

>>7742548
benis in vagina

>>7742548
>public school
found your problem right fucking there plebasaurus faggasaurus.

That's it.

Borges
Marquez
Guevara
Bolaño

Arlt
Borges
Vargas Llosa
Marquez
Cortazar
Puig
Bolaño

you dont because females cant be rapists, only white cis men frmo the patriarchy can be

>>7742664
Marriage in [Current year], the rape of a man's freedom, livelihood, wealth and access to his children in their inevitable divorce.

Females can't rape because they don't have privilege + power.

I like it if it's a book I've already read, but nine times out of ten it's some unreadable cursive scribble that only the person who wrote it could read

While browsing through a thrift shop I found a really old version of IJ and when skimming through it I saw that the previous reader had made his own footnotes for his notes.

First I thought it was some faggot trying to meme but at closer inspection they were really cool, he/she had her own interpretations and in his/her footnotes were references to other books trying to delve deeper into why that person interpreted it that way.

It's such a shame I had zero cash on me. I could have studied the mind of that person and even find a new way to look at IJ.

It was in another state so I couldn't have returned with cash either because I left for home the day after.

>>7737071
This is the shit I'm fucking talking about, thanks man

>>7740722
Write a lot and work at a prestigious school.

1. Be an intellectual.

2. Do things in public.

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>>7740722
i'd rather be a pubic intellectual, IF you know what i mean.

>>7740447
the manuscript found in saragossa.

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>>7740447
In your deleted /mu/ thread didn't you denounce objectivity? Getting mixed messages here, my man.

>>7740449

Objectively Patrician

>wake up, shower, breakfast, wait for the bus
>read for 30 minutes in the bus
>spend 5 hours at uni classes, ocasionally reading articles on my phone
>read for 30 minutes in the bus back home
>Lunch
>browse 4chan or social media for 45 minutes, maybe try to write something
>read for 1 hour, maybe try to write something
>eat something
>read for 30 minutes in the bus
>russian class for 1h30m
>read for 30 minutes in the bus back home
>dinner
>browse 4chan or social media for 45 minutes, maybe try to write something
>go to bed and read for 1 hour
>sleep 5 to 7 hours
Also tons of coffee, green tea and self loathing because of my laziness during the whole day

>wake up
>have breakfast
>read/play music for a hour
>browse internet (4chan)
>maybe read again
>go to work at 4
>come home later
>eat
>browse 4chan
>sleep

>Wake up
>Take the bus
>Do my college shit
>Come home
>Lunch
>Read
>Dinner
>Read
>Gym
>Read
>Sleep for 7 - 6 hours