are there any books yet that make sense of our current time?

the book of mormon

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Read Dead Demon's de de de de Destruction

Not a novel but it does what you're describing better than any book published in the last few years

>>9576164
How to Bomb the US Government by Million Dollar Extreme

Marxists control academia, popular media, and the intelligentsia, and they manipulate white people's empathy (particularly women) into extreme self-hatred.

Everyone needs a religion, and so for many atheists liberals, they have taken on the religion of egalitarianism. This is why they are so "crazy" about it; it is a major part of their identity and spirituality and are thus offended when it is challenged. It's not like they have anything else to fight for.

>>9576164

24/7 exposure to news on our phones has turned us all into fucking lunatics. the human brain is just not build for it. we are addicted to outrage

>>9576231
This is true.

>>9576164

I don't know man. I wish I knew. If you go back ten-twenty years things seemed more comfy and we were enjoying all these cool innovations. Now literally everything seems to have a political subtext.

>>9576186
asano a hack

>>9576240
it's not, you're an ideological cuck looking for an easy way out. you see the falsehood of the mainstream neoliberal narrative but you adhere to the next easiest one offered. grow up.

>>9576260
>no one actually thinks this

>>9576282
>you see the falsehood of the mainstream neoliberal narrative but you adhere to the next easiest one offered.
damn

>>9576282
This is not true.

>>9576255

This just sounds like you grew old senpai.

There is a weird sense, that time is running out. People feel like they desperately need to do something, or stop something, before it's too late.

>>9576164

The 1990s may as well have been 100 years ago. Remember when everyone was going crazy over Beanie Babies?

>>9576370

What are fidget spinners?

>>9576370
beanie babies aren't cool anymore? :(

>>9576219
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>9576172
what was his final thesis? What lies on the other side of this epoch?

>>9576436
hyperreality

for baudrillard we are already in the endgame
the question is how long until collapse 10 years or 1000

>>9576439
But how will "hyper-reality" affect the economy, people's psyche, children's view of the world when adults find nothing to satiate their kid's impulsive wants and instead shove IPads in their faces to shut them up... that's the moment we collapse. Once everyone doesn't have anything to life for except mondane lives of monotonous drudgery and stress, the mass suicides will start, Wall Street will crash, countries will go down in drunken stupor. It's all outta sheer boredom. When will we find a new fix? Cuz fidget spinners will be our demise.

>>9576394

Figdet spinners isn't nearly as big of a phenomenon. The Beanie Babie craze was just unprecedented. People were going NUTS over those toys.

>>9576164
There isn't, but now I want to write it.

>>9576164
my diary desu

>>9576164
Plenty of internet articles about that and I'm pretty sure some books too.
But you have to look in the alt-right-ish sphere. Because like it or not, right now they are the better critics of the current state.
The other side, roughly speaking, has too many people who don't even understand why Trump won.

>>9576164
Are you free to go down to McDonalds and get biggest Big Mac value meal? You're free.

>>9576164
May 1972 National Geographic

>>9576164
I really don't cosnider all this things the significant marks of our time.

Not trying to sound edgy. But it's mostly just because all the normies are on the internet now.

>>9576164
>he thinks trendy flavor of the month fads are important enough to write books about
Just ignore it.

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Gravity's Rainbow, of course.

> He is the father you will never quite manage to kill. The Oedipal situation in the Zone these days is terrible. There is no dignity. The mothers have been masculinized to old worn moneybags of no sexual interest to anyone, and yet here are their sons, still trapped inside inertias of lust that are 40 years out of date. The fathers have no power today and never did, but because 40 years ago we could not kill them, we are condemned now to the same passivity, the same masochist fantasies they cherished in secret, and worse, we are condemned in our weakness to impersonate men of power our own infant children must hate, and wish to usurp the place of, and fail....So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

>>9577144
this. stuff that's prevalent on the internet doesn't constitute reality as a whole.

>>9576164
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The
Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon

>>9577165

It does when everyone is ON the internet.

>>9576172
Where do you start with this guy? Would you consider a difference betweent early and late Baudrillard? Or are they continuous?

>>9577171
90% of Internet users are concentrated on Facebook, viewing other people pictures and leaving oblivious comments

>>9577171
Ye but see, I constantly state that my penis is 7.5" on the internet when really it's 5".

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Try The Hidden Truth. It's a red-pill alt-hist science-fiction thriller conspiracy story with cyber-security and an interesting perspective on why the elites try to run the world the way they do.

>>9577171
He's right. Watch after a terrorist attack. Everyone experiences a kind of PTSD. If this isn't proven by science it will be.

Private lives don't exist anymore. Everyone thinks aloud. But something's gotta give because Trump has taken memes as far as they can go. Basically, it will get worse.

>>9577149
>trendy flavor of the month fads
>surveillance of everything, widespread postmodernism, widespread nihilism, nationalism vs globalism, late capitalism

cant wait for these fads to end next month 2bh

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>>9576164
>i'm sick of this world and it feels like the only way to freedom is understanding
Allow my a slight rant.

READ THIS FUCKING BOOK SERIES.
Everyone holds up the fucking Iliad and the Odyssey as what everyone should read for Greek literature. They are just the ancient Greek version of Harry Potter, popular fantasy tales people told for entertainment and to inspire the kids to be warriors when they grow up.

No one ever says "You should read Plato's Republic" even though it's probably one of the most important history defining works of literature ever created and most people who live in republics don't even understand what a Republic is or why so many new countries keep trying to establish ones.

And I know what you are thinking. "I don't want to read a boring political book from 2000 years ago".

I'ts a series of books about a bunch of people sitting down and trying to figure out what Justice is and in doing so they end up going into great length about how to create a perfect society. That's it. No long winded political dialog, no "Workers of the world unite!" just a bunch of people trying to answer the question "What is justice?".

Houellebecq

>>9577262
is bloom's translation good? maybe i'll get a french translation

>>9577322
I would recommend Benjamin Jowett's translation but iv heard good things about blooms translation as well.

My Twisted World

Revelation

>>9577655
kek

Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide is a decent continental-lite look at NEETs and spergs and why they sometimes go apeshit

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>>9576164

YES! Every opportunity to post Nick Land is a good opporunity.

>That is the magic of the dialectic, or of logical perversity. When only tolerance is tolerable, and everyone (who matters) accepts this manifestly nonsensical formula as not only rationally intelligible, but as the universally-affirmed principle of modern democratic faith, nothing except politics remains. Perfect tolerance and absolute intolerance have become logically indistinguishable, with either equally interpretable as the other, A = not-A, or the inverse, and in the nakedly Orwellian world that results, power alone holds the keys of articulation. Tolerance has progressed to such a degree that it has become a social police function, providing the existential pretext for new inquisitional institutions. (“We must remember that those who tolerate intolerance abuse tolerance itself, and an enemy of tolerance is an enemy of democracy,” Moldbug ironizes.)

>The spontaneous tolerance that characterized classical liberalism, rooted in a modest set of strictly negative rights that restricted the domain of politics, or government intolerance, surrenders during the democratic surge-tide to a positive right to be tolerated, defined ever more expansively as substantial entitlement, encompassing public affirmations of dignity, state-enforced guarantees of equal treatment by all agents (public and private), government protections against non-physical slights and humiliations, economic subsidies, and – ultimately – statistically proportional representation within all fields of employment, achievement, and recognition. That the eschatological culmination of this trend is simply impossible matters not at all to the dialectic. On the contrary, it energizes the political process, combusting any threat of policy satiation in the fuel of infinite grievance. “I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green and pleasant land.” Somewhere before Jerusalem is reached, the inarticulate pluralism of a free society has been transformed into the assertive multiculturalism of a soft-totalitarian democracy.

Just read Fanged Noumena, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Dark Enlightenment stuff OP.

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>>9576436
Not much! Baudrillard was not optimistic about the future of culture. He sort of espouses his own aristocratic-Nietzschean sensibility of despair and seduction, I suppose. It helps to be a brilliant literary stylist.

I suspect for Baudrillard there is no 'other side,' just increasing distance from reality. To the point where he says too much meditation on these things can become psychically destabilizing...

So bad scene for Marxists, slightly more interesting/fatalistic/enigmatic for Marxists-turned-Nietzscheans. Sort of a diarist of semiotic apocalypse. Worth reading.

>>9577179
System of Objects is some of his best early work, if you want to see a high-powered cultural critic in action. Around the time of Symbolic Exchange & Death he starts to go in new directions and towards all things simulacral. His later works are enigmatic and fun (and germane) but it's all part of the continuum of the man's thought. He becomes more and more deliberately opaque, hyperbolic and provocative as his career goes on, but it's basically continuous. I guess you could say he was trying in this weird way - it earned him the ire of a lot of other intellectuals - the Marxiest Marxist around, to the point where he was basically on his own planet.

Still tho. All claims of being a deliberately obscurantist writer are misguided, to my mind. He was just seeing this tidal wave of irony and advertisement boiling out of mass culture and having his own prescient thoughts about where it might lead. Hyperreality is a strange kind of term but perhaps it's because we're just using to living with it today in the age of the meme. So I don't know.

But he's worth checking out. Leave Simulacra & Simulation for later, just get down with the Marxist stuff and then watch how that unfolds. And read Seduction too, that's a good one.

>>9576164
mundus millennialis.
from on low.

>>9577262
This.
Also, The Republic is really inspiring in terms of getting you out of some "numbness" and actually read (or whatever intellectual activity) and do some exercise.

At least it helped me for about...2 months :^D

>>9576282
wrong

>>9576231
correct

>>9576237
mostly correct

>>9576164
>implying we're not still in the Romantic era
You could find an analogue for each of the things you've listed in a book written in the 1800s. Any "le voice of a generation" novels are essentially just adaptations of Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Even the concept of a being part of a "generation" is a Romantic invention.

>>9576164
>it feels like the only way to freedom is understanding
ignorance is bliss

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>>9576164

Don DeLillo
Edward Bunker
Philip K. Dick
Michel Houellebecq
Sam Pink
Lucy Grealy's As Seen on TV not her other shit
John Brunner
probably some others

>>9578761
Berardi, right? I enjoy listening to him. I think he's more in tune than Zizek.

He gave a lecture like 3-4 years ago and he says "The reality is the 'white race' is coming back" meaning white identity politics is coming back and everyone in the audience just laughs. It was in Canada, too. Go figure.

>>9578897
Thanks. I was thinking of getting System of Objects or Consumer Society to start. I never really fell for the obscurantist meme. I hate Derrida and Heidegger but I still understand them. Usually if I find something to be critiqued with something's obscurantism, it ends up being because their philosophy is wrong fundamentally, and that error sets them off into a dead-end.

Anyway, thanks for shilling Baudrillard.

>>9578897
where is the nietzschean stuff, what books?

>>9579162
That's right. He takes the (I think) Deleuzian notion of deterritorialization and sort of inverts it, describes how certain people in highly anomic cultures (Nordic, Korean) will return to identity markers like race.

>>9579191
The latest lecture by him that I listened to he was referencing Breszkinski lecture where he hints at the possibility of increasing social tensions civil war and Berardi took this very seriously, and he's right to.

Not sure I fully understand D&G but I think him and Brian Holmes are great and ask good questions.

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>>9579173
No probs, I'm usually found shilling the man wherever he pops up. One of my guys. Was going to put a mention in about TCS but you're already on it.

>hates Heidegger
damn

>>9579174
He talks about Nietzsche in Fragments. And a little quick Google magic produces the following:

> For Nietzsche, the death of God reverberates a sense of void, which he is pushing up against in response— every muscle twitching to live and go. For me, this points to the way in which his work has not quite come to know the very secret, that is, the primacy of appearances, which he himself acquaints us with. As for Baudrillard, this state of so-called completed nihilism does not hearken an occasion for any sort of ̳overcoming‘, as foretold by Nietzsche (nor does he invite a recovering of anything lost), but rather calls us to something else. It is on this terrain that Jean Baudrillard, not so immersed in cynicism, irony and nihilism as he allows us to think, but rather with a flair for magic, will be our guide in the enacting of something different. Perhaps nothing might yet be challenged and seduced, and things might be caused to exist. ―For nothing exists naturally, things exist because challenged, and because summoned to respond to that challenge. It is by being challenged that the powers of the world, including the gods, are aroused...it is by the challenge that the game and its rules are resurrected.

https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/3276/McCartney_Jenny_MA_2011.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

John Green is working on it

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>>9579173
>I hate Derrida and Heidegger

>>9579236
>>9579385
Heidegger is garbage. Admittedly I went through a big Heidegger phase but now I can't stand him.

What's useful in them? Nothing.

>>9579452
It's funny cause Heidegger would vehemently contest the fact that philsophy should be valued on the grounds of utility.

If you can't see how Heidegger (after having "a big Heidegger phase" no less) shaped the way (continental) philsophy is currently discussed, there's no point in arguiing. And I'm too tired now,

Derrida is just fun.

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>>9579191
would you mind links?

>>9579573
You can read the book in an afternoon, idk whether you could find a PDF though

>>9579646
I meant to the lectures

>>9579646
>>9579839
unless they're a book and not online?

>>9576406
The Taliban are the heroes of all transsexuals

>>9577262

>Greek version of Harry Potter

The most idiotic opinion I've seen here.

>>9576164
>book about the internet
no thanks

>>9578998
This.

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>>9579452
Probably because I've always had a latent mystical/esoteric bent and Heidegger was my gateway into that stuff. I like existential psychotherapy and he's part of that too, through Medard Boss and others. So to me he's "useful" in the sense that he reminds me of the important of listening to others, who in turn...you get the idea.

But that kind of stuff isn't everyone's cup of tea. And I'm basically full-blown theologyfag now.

>>9579841
Sorry that was the other guy, I haven't seen Bifo's lectures

>>9579926
>The most idiotic opinion I've seen here.
I'm not literally comparing it to Harry Potter. I'm saying it filled the same cultural role harry potter fills today. I story you can tell your kids that they will enjoy. 9 year olds of the period won't get the republic but they would get the Odyssey.
And yes it was a lot more then that. Yes it known by everyone in the ancient world as a great story, yes it influenced a lot of people yada yada yada. I was just making a broad generalization, that is not the main point of my post.

>>9576219
Unfortunately this

>>9576172

Worst thinker in the last 200 years

>>9576282
Hey, it's a person who isn't a faggot. Good job!

Is there anything that tries to do this that isn't tied to Continental philosophy?

Anything by Vox Day