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Silence

I miss when she'd pee in my mouth too

>>9626976
>muh feefees

>>9626976
A system that thrives on rugged individualism would probably fail by not being able to make effective use of all of the people who aren't rugged or individualistic. What happens to all of the regular nobodies in Starship Troopers? People who aren't hardcore enough for civil service don't vote and are implied to be happy enough without it, but how society works on their end isn't elaborated on at all really.

It's a book written for young adults about the benefits of individualism over collectivism though, only modern memelords have started touting it as a fascist manifesto or something else equally retarded. It's not meant to be in-depth on that front.

>>9627010
the book explains that the civil service is a massively sprawling organization. I believe the specific examples used are something like even if you're blind and only have one leg they will find some kind of job you can do and put you to work.

>>9626920
daisy for running that one bitch over

>>9626944
Feels like this can't really be a wrong answer.
Also Gatsby for being a 20's nu-male

>>9626920
Everybody except Nick

ok? sage.

Stop smoking weed

Cool observation, friend. Which kind are you writing?

>>9626658
I'm not sure why it's hated but surely you don't find it compelling?

Because fuck you

because of the age range of 4chan. people here in general are young adults, and feel a need to prove that they aren't children anymore. the irony being if they were actually mature it wouldn't matter to them.

that printout is some serious bitch shit though I'd walk out of a store for them being passive aggressive at me like that.

Axl Rose's autobiography

>>9626485
Hardys Wessex Tales

>>9626485
Dubliners

First you Freud then you Hegel a bit until you're Sartre.

>>9626199
>SEP article
>how to read freud by zizek
>11th seminar

you don't

You don't

>>9625971
you arent missing anything, desu, senpai.

the only one i ever see quoted is "Orthodoxy"

The Shakespeare bits

it reminds us of the current world.

>>9625912
i think 1984 does a better job at that

why, too stupid to form your own?

>>9625414
man, shut the fuck up.

>>9625394
I liked the bit about allowing oneself everything. I now do whatever I want and have no guilt about it. It is wonderful

None of them. Watts is a nice guy to listen to, he is deeply sincere about his beliefs and his attitude is wonderfully positive and well meaning, but he is the Ken-sama of spiritualism.

>>9625338
Yeah, but everyone is the Ken-sama of spiritualism. As far as I can tell, no-one has figured it out. So might as well read Watts. He's fun and has some good insights, although of course in his own life he wasn't exactly a model Buddhist monk or anything.

>>9625379

Read primary spiritual texts, i'm sure he would agree. Like his talks on Zen? Read some Zen masters. Like his Hindu talks? Read some Hindu gurus. Like his Christian metaphysics? Read some Gnostics.

i do not have baths because i am not a woman

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>cleaning yourself by sitting in your own filth

I'm in the bath right now.

and how is it coming along op? can you read even a full sentence yet?

>>9625194
I'm learning to read Latin, half way through wheelock's Latin.

Coming along great. Reading the news most days and I'm reading L'Étranger at the moment.

>>9624236
Moist music.
definitely will have to read it though [\spoiler]

>>9624244
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3qOZUksxUU
In case you didn't get the reference.

>>9624236
Adorno's Philosophy of New Music

go back to /pol/ nazi

>>9620610
I'm not. never been to /pol/. I thought it looked like an interesting read. thanks for your input.

I tried it, it started out with some romantic reminiscing of a mediocre childhood.

Got bored and quit. For some reason great leaders make boring writers. Same was true for Napoleon.