/lit/ - Literature

>>21545196
>he is small, short, broad, thickset; an agreeable, hearty face; a very white skin; his entire body, and principally his hips and buttocks, absolutely like a woman's; his ass is cool and fresh, chubby, firm, and dimpled, but excessively agape, owing to the habit of sodomy; his prick is extraordinarily small, ‘tis scarcely two inches around, no more than four inches long; it has entirely ceased to stiffen; his discharges are rare and uneasy, far from abundant and always preceded by spasms which hurl him into a kind of furor which, in turn, conducts him to crime; he has a chest like a woman's, a sweet, pleasant voice and, when in society, the best-bred manners, although his mind is without question as depraved as his colleagues'; a schoolmate of the Duc, they still sport together every day, and one of Durcet's loftiest pleasures is to have his anus tickled by the Duc's enormous member.

>>21047089
>readily converted to Christianity without too much of a fuss
Not only does /lit/ not read literature, /lit/ doesn't read history either!

>>20842274
Marvel films peddle moralizing stories of objectively good heroes beating up objectively evil villains with the good guys always coming out on top. The violence in these movies is dramatized to the point that it has almost no relation to the violence people have to endure in the real world. It is a deliberate softening of the brutal means by which clean-faced heroes like captain America or superman achieve their peace. In short: a lie.

The Iliad, by contrast, is a story of grim war where both sides are shown to be equally brutal and desperate (except Achilles of course, who's godlike bloodlust is unrivaled); each have their own completely legitimate reasons for fighting. Neither side is consistently characterized as "good" or "bad." The violence is sudden and disquietingly lethal yet Homer never uses it to establish the moral superiority of the victor like we see in superhero films; Homer, ironically enough, has more ethical awareness than the "civilized" minds behind our modern heroes.

TL;DR: comparing the Iliad to Marvel is like comparing Call of Duty to Full Metal Jacket

>>20566726
I have no idea what you're on about. Your entire argument depends on me accepting your personal observations about spiders, which I can neither confirm nor deny. Here's a few things I can say though:
Firstly, the drugged spider webs aren't as stable as the normal one. Sure they "cover more area" but the single strands are much more susceptible to breaking when not reinforced by other strands. I'm not sure if this is much of an issue for the spiders in your house, but it certainly would be for one in the woods.
Secondly, even if I go along with your idea that smaller insects get caught in the single strands and the "fatter" ones get caught in the overlapped strands, there's absolutely nothing to guarantee that the small insects wind up in the single strands and the "fatter" ones in the multi-strands. It's important to consider this in terms of probability, and probabilistically the normal web has a much better chance of catching insects of all sizes across the entirety of its area.
It seems to me that you've started at the conclusion that "drugs are always good" and have tried to create arguments in favor of the drugged webs without any regard to the efficiency of the normal one.

>>20500362
Real nagas know what it be

I want desperately to sake some sense into the people I used to speak with, I pray for their well-being and that they come to agree with me. I wonder if it will come to be so.

>>19729080
>Le gender roles literature
Nobody wants that shit. My work is religious and nationalistic in nature but not pro-any gender. This is the way of the future.

>>19574567
Yeah but only mildly /lit/
>Oprichnina
>Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
>Russian Silver Age
>Modernism and avant-garde in Russia
>Iconography in Vajrayana

>>19486456
>he's thinks he's profound for posting c. 2013 political commentary on 4chan[nel]

Does anyone have one of those guides on to read nietzsche?, i started with "thus spoke zaratustra", didn't understand shit it was like reading the bible, i already read the twilight of the idols and im about to buy "genealogy of morals" or "beyond good and evil". any guidance on how to get this dude better????

>>19152805
>Why must we fight? Can't we all just be proud of our people and appreicate one another's people's accomplishments without getting into shit flinging contests?
Yeah anon you've come to the have the same gripes I do with this site.

>>19082457
Welcome to /lit/ - Literature, enjoy your stay

>>19035845
Based monke

There is a tendency on 4chan to elevate lazy thinking into an ethical position. To say that intuition is superior to analysis. Of course, since intuitions differ from person to person, this 'ethic' functions not as a guide to understanding the world but as a means of justifying pre-existing understandings (it does not give us a method for how we can come to know truth, it just implies that we already either do or do not have it). It is not a statement about the nature of reality or how one ought to behave, but a justification of present behaviours and present beliefs: in other words, it exists to validate the legitimacy of the propositions one already holds while dismissing any need to justify them (which is why this attitude is most appealing/effective in echo chambers where most participants already share common 'intuitions', which in my view are not intuitions as such but received opinions: many 4chan users have in fact experienced radical shifts in their 'gut level' opinions over time, especially in their transition from 'default' milquetoast social liberalism to some form of contrarian radicalism).

What is interesting is that this is often couched in a rhetoric of traditionalism, despite the fact that religious and philosophical thought throughout the Middle Ages and Hellenistic antiquity (as well as in other 'traditional' civilisations and cultures) has generally been sceptical of sense + intuition and devoted most of its intellectual activity to communicable logical and empirical analysis. It is also, paradoxically, often paired with a self-righteous self-image of oneself as guardian and exponent of Truth (which is reminiscent of Nazism and its anti-intellectual exaltation of primordial-cum-scientific 'truths'; Italian Fascism is less appealing for the /pol/ user, since Mussolini was un-dogmatic and believed Fascism was by nature radically relativistic: Fascist myths were conscious constructions and were more like activities than items of belief, were not genuine schizo fantasies like what the Nazis believed. Since the /pol/ user has no genuine 'polis' or community he is cut off from the possibility of action so he must sanctify himself via proxy activities which take place entirely in the mind: he is only 'dynamic' insofar as he believes differently than what the status quo tells him to believe. In other words, belief for him is not about creating accurate pictures of the world, but is a therapeutic substitute for political activity).

This is why 4chan users are so hostile to being asked for sources for their claims or being accused of logically fallacious argumentation. Their intuitive rejections of commonplace beliefs often have something to them, but instead of building upon these and articulating them they double down on irrationalism, to the detriment of both their own self-development as well as the possibility of constructive effective and convincing critiques of the system they are alienated from.

>>18820973
I will never read your blog.

>>18806715
I like some, but not all, of it.

>>18803937
I'm becoming a bit too recognisable

>>18774723
>validly construed

He's a moron. Validly is an adverb not a fucking adjective. Surprising lack of fastidiousness for such a preening poseur as Peterson.

Currently reading Moby Dick

>>18736105
>Why does the left write so much better than the right?
This is not even true and saying this is a sign of being poorly read. Consider Dostoevsky, Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Mann, Bloy, Borges, Gottfried Benn, Mishima, Hamsun, Celine, Waugh, d'Annunzio, Gertrude Stein, DH Lawrence, etc. Literary modernism was almost perfectly evenly split between writers on the Right and the Left. And if we look backward we see that people like Pope, Aphra Benn, Wordsworth, Johnson, Dryden, Hume, etc. were Tories. Cicero, the greatest stylist of ancient Rome, was a dyed in the wool conservative. Of all the arts, writing has perhaps the highest concentration of reactionaries. I say that as a social democrat.
>when you read newspapers of both sides, the quality of writing is instantly discernable
Maybe in Anglophone world, with its mutant degenerated tabloid version of "conservatism". I doubt this is the case with Le Figaro or whatever. That said there are lots of evil neoliberal publications with fine writing.

>>18715244
Seems legit.

>>18501479
So going clockwise
>going "green" aka energy crisis because anti-fossil fuel and anti-nuclear
>paying farmers to destroy crops
>not taking your meds
>more government/police
>racism with extra steps
>more culture war
>union shenanigans
>masonic shenanigans

>>18222308
I'm not defending cities. I've said nothing in praise of cities whatsoever. I'm attacking someone who is anti-urban on the basis of their moralizing babble.

>>18130097
Can we get a definition of intellectualism here or are you just mad that you got filtered by Husserl and co.?