/lit/ - Literature

What's your opinion on Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race? And would you happen to have any similar books to recommend?

>>17610727
He would probably cite actual lines out of this book without crediting it at all until anyone noticed, just like the writer of the show he was in did.

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>>17420624
Based, activistic, prosocial.

>>17215026
I'm actually not memeing, pic related offers some pessimistic takes on these questions. The "self:" an illusion borne of accumulated experiences; a memory recorder that evolved out of control and gained the delusion that it was a human being, acting, making choices, when in truth it was only spinning a narrative on top of actions determined unconsciously, materially, in a manner both indecipherably complex, and hopelessly, soullessly mechanical.

>>17198735
Return.

We've now reached the logical conclusion of his oeuvre

>>17093795
Ask him what made him change his position from "consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution" and "it would be best to cease reproducing," to "civilization was a mistake," which is actually a totally different point and never argued in this, his book.

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>>17074055
Read this, gamer

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>>17062290

Read this so you can properly orient your particular sufferings within the context of human consciousness as general suffering. It will make u feel better

>>17019980
You're ready. It's waiting.

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