/lit/ - Literature

>>15114206
so, the idea is that any of these reactionary cucks would go for a picture of an instagram girl in a wheat field vs in front of a mall store would characterize her as degenerate? Pretty funny.
I'm working with a more refined definition of trad for the sake of my arguments here.
Women have actual solidarity in historically "trad" circumstances and flex a lot more on the ground power as a result which reveals itself as meaningful expectations for men and the role of masculinity, defense against unfair situations like deadbeat or abusive husbands, meaningful commitment in the form of universally understood as important relationship qualifiers (going steady, courting, marriage, what have you). "pink jobs" are of course somewhat unfair but they had the added benefit of providing a women-only space in which mentoring and advice can be shared, women really exercise their power within communities through these social circles formed by communal laundry, market-culture, childrearing, cooking, etc. If one woman was getting stiffed by her let's say alcoholic husband, he was hitting her or not providing enough for her or her children, he would quickly find himself shunned by the village as word spread among the women of his lameness.
vs modern trappings of empowerment which include the power to work like a slave at a precarious job, the power to put off satisfying human tasks like having kids and a family due to economic fragility, and the power to feel like you're competing for a loyal partner with "sex workers" on the internet who will take a fat cock up the butt, rim, deepthroat, and otherwise debase themselves for money to support their cocaine habits.
Basically I define power as the ability to improve your material conditions through group action, which women used to have and now do not.
that make sense? I'm pretty caffeinated just trying to have a real convo about culture out here

>>14582403
My plan to solve the environmental crisis involves having lots of kids, forcing them to do well in school while excelling in sport, teaching them shooting and public speaking in their free time, encouraging lots of social activity and normalcy. Like, if all the kids are playing some video game system or whatever, I'll get it for them. They can go to some parties, they can call me if they get drunk and need a ride no big deal as long as they're still good to each other, respectful to me and my wife, kind to their peers, getting excellent grades, making progress in their sports.
But, every few weeks, we have a family discussion about Uncle Ted, the evils of corporate environmental destruction, how the future is getting leveraged for modern day profits, and how the systems of control prevent the masses from acting.
Then, I'm gonna set them loose on academia and the underground. Mostly I want them to have fun but I think they'll know that their purpose is to save humanity from itself through their leadership, art, example, and possibly their destructive wrath.
You're welcome in advance.

>>12846159
You literally need to find a way to make enough money to buy a homestead somewhere far away from this whole mess.
I would honestly be down for /lit/ all deciding to do this in the same zip code and taking over some little town as our own haven of quiet reading and personal industry, trading various foods at a weekly farmer's market, meeting in church for discussion of philosophy, and congregating at a local pub once or twice a week for music, jokes, conversation, and drinks. We could all bring out own skills to this community and build something great. I'm in med school and plan on going primary care with OB so I can become the pillar of some small town somewhere. I'm eager to serve and contribute but I dread being immersed and surrounded in small town ignorance and the generally elderly population. But if we could all figure some place to go as our haven away from modernity that would be sick.
Maybe we could select some small town with a community college (so teachers can have jobs and our kids don't have to deal with shitty schools) and cheap land somewhere and start flooding it.

>>12794910
Portland, OR
there's a lot of hipster pseudism and yas kween diversity pushes.
Not that I disagree with the underlying values of egalitarianism and equality, I just find a lot of people opportunistically, maybe even cynically use this public trend to push their subpar work. I'm pretty fucking lefty but constant immersion in idpol stuff really wears on you.
Most people my age here kind of suck. Your average 2X year old moved here recently from some shitty town in the midwest or LA because they thought they were better or more unique than everyone around them and wanted to go somewhere they believed people would respect and appreciate their uniqueness. Imagine a general population of young people always performing. Gets fucking tiring.
One example- I was driving to pick up some meds for my gf she left at our house, and an unlicensed oh so spontaneous instagrammable "moment" lights and music bike parade blocked my way. For fucking fifteen minutes, young people in various stages of undress on bikes and other human-powered vehicles covered in glow and ravelight materials bumping techno kept me from getting back to my house to get something to help relieve a loved one's pain. I honked, they laughed at me. Just stop the fucking parade two or three times so cars can get through. The line of stuck cars stretched for several fucking blocks. They inconvenienced so many fucking people for their fun young people moment.
Anyway I'm stuck here for school and I've made some decent friends through that. I grew up here and all my friends from high school are also taking life pretty seriously, they've been forced to move different places for jobs and school. Less fetishization of uniqueness among us locals, for example we get haircuts that wouldn't get us fired. Meanwhile in the hometown we're surrounded by people who don't give a fuck about getting fired. Get a neck tattoo.
Hard to explain. Hopefully this blogpost didn't make me seem completely unsympathetic. Ready to graduate and move somewhere far more reasonable.

>>12704532
>AI in 5-10 years
Holy shit, you actually buy into the PR?
All the tech news futurism stuff is exaggeration and lies, they need to convince VC to invest in their startups. I thought everyone knew this.
All the AI articles are shady AF.
For example, they have it do stuff like scan doctors notes for keywords and DDxs (which we could do in the 80s) rather than purely looking at radiographs, and then publish it as a magical tool that looks at radiographs only. That was the most recent one about breast cancer I believe.
The primary goal is to keep the gravy train going a few more years, not to inform the public. By propogating this myth of "endless tech growth/the next big thing is right around the corner" you're keeping Bay Area property values ridiculously overvalued and preventing me from buying a low cost condo in sausalito so I have a personal problem with this behavior as well.