/lit/ - Literature

>>17804455
Great pace.

I read +20 books this year but not a single one left a lasting effect or brought catharsis

>>13744458
Yes, Kaufmann tried his best to make him as a appealing as possible to the masses and everytime Nietzsche attacks morality he simply puts foward a more "secondary" interpretation about "le self overcoming of the individual" which is not far away from Nietzche's ideas but in many cases he puts it foward so your average pleb thinks Nietzsche is just some super self-help philosopher.
If you also read any of his Nietzsche books he is always trying his best to milk people to buy his stuff, saying "you read more about this in my Nietzche Biography"

>>12231525
Dont try to attack the "personality" of people who support anti-natalism, i also want to have kids if the chance ever comes, but i have to agree that there are very little counter arguments agaisnt anti-natalism and almost none if you even mix it up with nihilism.
There are adults that prefer to live lifes of utter misery but think everything is worth it if they have kids because of memes like "passing down muh genes bruh" and "leaving muh family name n saving le human race" despite not understanding that once they are dead, none of it will matter and all if anything your genes and family name will be gone in a matter of 3 or more generations.

>>11887947
It really isnt that far from happening if you ask me. We may even seen it happening in our life time.
Drugs like cannabis and other pharmaceutical products are already being legalized in most states and some countries, also with the help of mainstream culture, top 100 music artits and celebreties in the industry pushing their ideas into everyone, a large chunk of teens already do take these kinds of drugs even if they are ilegal, it will only be a matter of generations untill today's bosses and politicians are replaced with people with these same ideas, and it only takes an intellegent one to use it as "weapon" of mass control.

There are several expirements with the use of these kinds of drugs on people and how a person that a person under the affects on them puts their brain in a "highly sugestionable" state, meaning people will more happily be influenced and change their opinions.

It in fact amazes me how huxley predicted so much shit about our future and everything is pointing towards what he said it will happen.
Not only in this aspect of drugs, but also many others.

Smut? Fan fiction for retards? Buzzfeed articles?

Back in school I never paid much attention in our English classes, how/where can I learn more about it without coming across as a full blown retard?

>>9560542
seems to be some high-IQ neoreactionary publication
Kantbot has a piece there under a different pseudonym
http://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/26/chapo-traphouse-will-never-be-edgy/

Post stories, rate stories, call each other names.

https://charliechitty.wixsite.com/theaxemancometh

What is the best time to add the turmeric in your curry?

>>8960581
*record scratch*
It's a bit "Camus-esque"

Why are white males so much better than everyone else when it comes to literature?

Obviously they are going to be better at math and engineering, but I thought that womyn/PoC would have a fighting chance with books

It seems like that which we call the Past is only a construct. All written accounts from a certain time are treated as a kind of marketplace from which we only take what is congruent with our collective given impression of said time while ignoring the rest.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly

Either one of these seems less fanciful than, say, trebuchets being used in warfare or even existing at all.

What's the difference between post-irony and new sincerity?

I just saw the former term being applied to Million Dollar Extreme

http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/12/million-dollar-extremes-adult-swim-show-becomes-collateral-damage-trumps-victory/

>Figuring out the intentions of the ironist is easy: whatever is being shown is being mocked. But the post-ironist folds over on his own sincerity with exaggeration, using the ironic not just to ridicule, but also to enjoy the absurdities of what he genuinely appreciates.

Seems to make sense. Is this the typical definition? What's new sincerity?

Do gas lamps 'quiver' like other flame sources? Or are they just as steady as light bulbs?

I mean like those nostalgic ones they have on historic city streets

This.

>Adult fans of Harry Potter
why is it always fat autistic shitlibs

>>8679305
>Moorcock confirmed for read LotR once and intentionally misunderstood it
No, he was paid to slander it and give, pardon me for using this word, pseudointellectuals, some traction for their regurgitated false rationales.

There is seriously a conspiracy against Tolkien. His message is too potent not to gain widespread attention, including the attention of important people. It's totally against the interest of every industrialist. In their view it needs to be fought.

Anyone who has read and understood Tolkien knows that he is on a level far above his contemporaries. And yet he is constantly lumped in with the others. This is the intended purpose of the critique of people like Moorcock.

The elite interest wants to drown out the rallying cry in a bunch of insane racket. They want to discredit an antidote to their maddening media machine. And Lord of the Rings seems to be the best of very few rallying cries.

>who are "they"
>no such thing as conspiracies (or agenda)
>omg lol its about midgets and wizards r u serious
^the intended effect of the media
the vast majority of people are actually this retarded. don't act like it's human nature or a coincidence or something.

>>8667861
Hey, guy, leave him alone.

I am looking for books that are atmospheric, creepy, dark, and mysterious. Like a very well-written creepypasta.

I like House of Leaves a lot. Anybook/author recs?

>>8586923

>Lit Major Falling

Studying Lit, there is your first prob'lemmo.

>It frightened me too much as someone in there late 20s hanging around 19 year olds.

Boo, hoo, welcome to the real world kiddo, college isn't some split up public education school system where usually only ages x through y have contact, your gonna meet people WAY past their lat 20's hanging out with younger people, happened when I was in college, had an old lady hang out with us in between classes sometimes. You sound kinda pampered and I bet you have baby hands that have never done any real work.

>No one to converse with similar ideas and interests. If there is I don't know where they are, I feel too small in the large open campus and too introverted to make my way and sift through the many people wondering about that seem at least moderately happy. Happier and friendlier than I.

You come off as one of those people as, "I am social, but I can't be social because of other people". I'm also really getting a deep under-tone tinge of SJW self-righteousness going on here.

>Do I travel around the world and write on my own?

Why and how?

>I can barely leave my house every other day though, its getting worse. How can I have self guidance?

Sounds like depression, get help, no meme puns intended.

>I feel like I need people to constantly hold my hand but I have very few of these wonderful people in my life. I don't want people to hold my hand though, independence seems like a far off goal. Not even autistic, I just feel like I am regressing back to child. I don't want to feel lost and scared.

Do research, find associate degree that pays well, go to comm. college, get that, then work and get independent. If you wanna go to finish up your Bachelor's, then you'll already have your Associate degree. Do writing on side as hobby.

>Can someone help? In anyway. What books show a similar situation perfectibility non fiction. And all honesty I just want to read and write but becoming a writer in a world of them seems daunting. Is it okay to think writing will make me happy when in the back of my mind I know it wont. Selfish is what I think of myself when that's all I want. Does medication help? I think if the chemicals in my brain fake me being happy I could actually accomplish something but I do not know. Sorry for the rant I know not personal blog, I have never done this before.

Therapy??? I would begin at a comm. college FIRST, drop it NOW, before you incur a shit ton of debt. With a degree that is barely useful in ANY industry, change your major. Any moron can write a story, or write an email, this isn't the old age of illiterate fools. Do writing as a hobby, I was an art major and switched quickly when I got my head out of my ass and went for something more useful and realistic. Keep your feet on the ground.

Cont.

>Can't read in apartment because roommates are screaming about sports
>Can't read in library because it's filled with troglodytic apes
>Can't read in park because of black people

Does a quiet place for reading actually exist?

How's the short story coming, /lit/?