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Why do people romanticize the working class? They're largely stupid, illiterate, malleable, bigoted, and religious.
Does this guy seriously think the inbreds in Topeka Kansas will want to participate in a labor revolution?
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A lot of intellectuals would rather be as ignorant as a peasant farmer but with an unshakable faith in God.
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>>9707370
He was a big fan of the revolution's ideals but, like a lot of people, was sore about it being a sham.
He studied economics and found capitalism to be unsustainable and detrimental. And here it is on it's last legs. But so is society as we know it.
Bourgeoisie authoritarians keep failing the revolution, and the cappies keep those working class dumb and pacified. So who's romanticizing? We either make good on the revolutionary ideal or we face extinction.
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>>9707395
it's so odd how even when leftists give up the imminence of the revolution they still retain the apocalyptic end-of-history attitude
stop immanentizing the eschaton
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As a women, I just want to say that your elitism when it comes to literature is sick and pathetic. I don't honestly see how any of you could possibly think that women are inferior artists, seeing as how women have been oppressed throughout history and prevented from even trying. Even if a women wanted to be an artist, their gender roles made it so that it was impossible. Try reading Ibsen, would you? This is all not to mention the fact that women today, even though still facing discrimination overall, are starting to beat men in the literary world. The vast majority of readers are women, the vast majority of poets and writers as well. All the best writers of the modern age are women. And the fact that you small-dicked virgins STILL try to hold onto the fact that a lot of the so-called "best" writers like Joyce and Tolstoy were just old dead white men writers, ignoring the fact that women and minorities did not have the opportunities that these rich kids did, and also the fact that women and minorities, now that they have more of a chance, are starting to beat all you so-called "genius" white males.
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>>9707358
why do traps always read woolf instead of vidal? is it a sub thing?
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Out of curiosity, who were the biggest cucks in literary history? Post fictional/semifictional characters or authors. Self-cucked (by choice or accident) persons are especially appreciated.
I'll start with two:
1. Anselmo from 'El Curioso Impertinente', Don Quixote (good example of self-infliction)
2. King Menelaus from the Iliad
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>>9707335
>using the word "cuck" unironically.
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Menelaus had his wife stolen and also beat the shit out of Paris in a duel. How was he a cuck?
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>>9707360
he was a cuck because another guy fucked his wife
next question
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>I like to read novels and philosophy
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>things that never happened
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>low quality pixelated feet
she clearly reads YA
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>>9707318
I too like to read novels and philosophy
>Removes black boy-shorts
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Anyone read any of his books.
Im going to buy one.
Thinking of either:
-The alchemy of finance
-The way out of financial crisis
Anyone read those or any of his other books?
Currently reading Intelligent Investor.
After that I will read Brave new world.
Also anyone read Decline of the West?
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>>9707268
I attempted to read one of his books with a globalist theme, but it didn't catch my interest, perhaps he was dithering and obfuscating the topic. Probably filled with neoliberal colonialist excuses.
Not recommending more than a surface glance.
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>>9707291
I think (((Friedman))) is the standard introduction to globalism that people are using anymore.
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If you're going to read that stuff, at least try to pirate it
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Dear /lit/,
I'm learning german have achieved roughly 20% fluency, or what I assume is about 3rd grade reading level.
Do you have any advice on quintessential children's books, audiobooks, or podcasts I should look into to help me?
Currently i'm looking at reading slaughterhouse five in german with an english copy nearby. I've never read it in english and the vocabulary might actually relate to relatable places.
with love, anon
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Should have asked that on /int/.
Try reading H
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>>9707229
Heidi*
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When I was learning Spanish I read children's books like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and the Divergent series. I would never read that stuff in English but it was nice to shamelessly indulge and it kept me reading.
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Can you recommend some good right wing French philosophers?
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Alain Finklekraut
With that name it's no wonder he hates people for no reason
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Antoine Albalat, he wasn't a philosopher but his books on teaching how to write and how to create your own style are probably the best ever made on that subject. He was also right wing and wrote nice reviews on various classical books.
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>>9707146
Is fine to dive right in or is there a particular staring point?
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So I just finished reading this one by Mark Manson and I'm reading "The Monk who sold his ferrari". Both great inspirational, life changing books with good advice how to live a happier life. I'll be re-reading them sometime soon and I was wondering if anyone has any good suggestions of books about psychology/spirituality. Thanks dudes.
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I'll refrain from giving my opinion on picture related
But The Awakened Ape might be something you enjoy
I hope you use these kind of books as inspirations or ideas and not force them onto yourself
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Purely inspiration. The whole idea of cultivating your body, soul and mind to achieve what you wish inspired me to go out running today. And I'll keep doing it for the rest of the week. I rarely force anything on myself, yet I find it calming to read books like this, they explain what I can't. And thanks for the suggestion!
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>>9707129
That's good.
For me Antifragile by Nassim Taleb was mind-blowing, it brought together a lot of different stuff together
Even though I disagree with him on several stuff the book has been very inspirational
I know a bunch of psychology books, some more popsci as the other. What interests you?
Personality, intelligence, attraction, creativity, political, cognition?
I think "wired to create" by Scott Barry Kaufman is light science but I did enjoy it, it was about the psychology of creative people and some behaviours that nourish it
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Recommend me a book, or article that will make me appreciate the beauty of math, /lit/!
Trying to get into that shit for an exam, and it feels pointless as hell
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Uncle Petrus and the Goldbach Conjecture.
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>>9707014
Care to elaborate?
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>>9707080
I recommend the book Uncle Petrus and the Goldbach Conjecture to make you appreciate the beauty of math.
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What does /lit/ think of Light Novels?
inb4 /a/ I know half of you are weebs and its still literature.
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Some of them are decent to read and a lot are trash. /lit/ doesn't like talking about them though, I've tried to make threads about them before and they just want to send you to /a/, /jp/, etc.
Which do you read, OP?
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Hibike Euphonium got released not long ago and I was wondering how the prose is.
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to be honest reading LN's keeps me reading more than normal books. yes I know I'm a weeb. I've tried reading stuff like gravity rainbow and the great gasby but it doesn't hold me attention like LN's do.
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BerenSTAIN or BerenSTEIN?
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>>9706878
It's stain but I pronounced it "stein."
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>>9706878
It's BURN-steen
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(((Bernstein))) but the kikes realized that the name was to obvious, so to make their propaganda more subtle, they used gravitational waves to warp the past and change the name.
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"The global ridicule in which the works of Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Deleuze had suddenly foundered, after decades of inane reverence, far from leaving the field clear for new ideas, simply heaped contempt on all those intellectuals active in the “human sciences.” The rise to dominance of scientists in all fields of thought became inevitable. Even the occasional, sporadic and contradictory interest which New Age devotees pretended to take in this or that belief or “ancient spiritual tradition” was nothing more than further evidence of a poignant, almost schizophrenic despair. Like others in society, and perhaps more so, they truly believed only in science; science was to them the arbiter of unique, irrefutable truth. Like others in society, they believed in their hearts that the solution to every problem—whether psychological, sociological or more broadly human—could only be a technical solution." - Michel Houellebec, The Elementary Particles
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i don't get it, how is this about particles?
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>>9706801
read the novel and find out
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>>9706801
There is no real referent to correspond to the concept "elementary particle". Essentially the project of solving social problems with technology, and the technocrats themselves, are destined to only create further social problems.
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Do you think Wittgenstein would be fascinated by the language game of memes and shitposting if could travel into the future for a while and visit 4chan?
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>>9706772
no. he would think we're all idiots, just as we know that we are.
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No.
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>>9706772
If dubs Cristiano Ronaldo commits suicide this year
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Can anyone recommend any books about doing amazing feats of endurance? Any books that describe the physical and mental fortitude required to complete insanely taxing tasks that will ultimately result in deciding your future?
For example I'm thinking like a soldier that's had his leg broken, but his buddy is unconscious next to him, so he has to drag him for 8 miles to safety through no-man's land. That kind of thing, that just embodies the horror and pain that can be wrestled with by the human psyche and eventually prevailed over.
Any recommendations?
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Its a bit entry-level tier but very good nonetheless, and kind of embodies what you're describing. The thing about their struggle is different than you're situation though. They in a war. They don't get to leave. They have to fight, or die. Ironic humor is surprisingly effective to deal with horror.
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http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/heracles.html
Hey /lit/
Do you read in your mother tongue?
I'm German, so writings that're from the period of German Enlightenment I will of course read in German since there's no real point in reading a translated version of it. Though, with works that're not natively in English, I'm not sure what to do. For English literature it's pretty clear that I will read that in English for the sake of learning and being able to experience it in the words of the writer. But if something, in example, has only been translated from Greek, does it really make a difference whether I read it in English or German?
What do you do? Do you read in your mother tongue or do you try to read everything in English?
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It seems completely obvious that I should read something written in Greek or Latin in my mother tongue. Why would I read it in english? The translations are probably weaker.
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I really enjoy reading books in portuguese, find it much prettier than english. French and latin are also nice.
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Well it does make a difference between Italian and English given that some puns in French etc. could be translatable, Italian uses gendered words and English has but a select few nouns (see "female Acheans not male Acheans" from Homer), Romance languages, Latin and Greek are closest to Italian than English as the above post says, etc.
I go for the English translations of the literature of India and East Asia, the translations are better in both quantity and quality, as India didn't have to obtain independence from Italy nor does Italy have Indian and Asian communities as sizable as the Anglosphere.
Of course I would read English originals in English unless it's very old stuff like Chaucer or older still.