>He had lunch last week with five novelists he admires —

Can you imagine the absolute clusterfuck of handing anyone 'so /lit/, so highbrow' any kind of material power?

>>8988162

>Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)

>And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?

Obama has stunning insight, and he managed more in his youth than you will in your lifetime, you sad, pathetic piece of worthless shit :^)

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>>8988191
>this fabricated letter featuring the insights of a teenage pseud will surely prove that my hero doesn't have shit taste
Don't you have a Jonathan Franzen novel to be reading, pleb? Maybe an Oprah book-of-the-month? I like my latte with extra foam

>>8988198

>Implying smug self-satisfaction arising from the fact that your taste has been meticulously crafted to align with Harold Bloom's isn't the faggiest fucking thing of all time

Le ebin poshlost pleb philistine xD i know all the words am i part of the gang now guise?? xD

>then
>leave school and self educate and do shit
>win nobel prize
>now
>have 7 years of university and optionality retaining half hearted careers like state legislator, university instructor before going in to politics and not even writing your own speeches

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>>8988214
>le retard baby memespeak xD rebbit fag harold bloom
You are so fucking mad that I can't understand a word you're trying to say. Stop and count to ten, then try again

>>8988191
where is this from?

>>8988191
which is funny because Obama is the living personification of bourgeoisie liberalism. He might have been a somewhat cool dude in college before he morphed into a basic normie dad. I guess the democratic party just sucks the life out of people.

>>8988247
No other way a black man would have been elected unless he was a stooge.

>>8988162
Obama is affirmative action personified.

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>>8988233

forgot pic

>>8988191
I don't understand, is he saying Yeats and Pound were ignorant and not fatalistic like Eliot because they supported fascism?

He should read Killing Hope by William Blum, Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, and Kill Chain by Andrew Cockburn

And, of course, Chomsky.

>>8988276
Supporting Hitler and Mussolini is bad/wrong.

Yeats and Pound supported Hitler and Mussolini, they were bad/wrong for doing so.

They were conservative.

Eliot was conservative. But he didnt support Hitler or Mussolini.

I can admit there are good conservatives.