/lit/ - Literature

>>18613610
Hard to live an adventurous life? What a load of shit.

Get up off your couch and go outside. Literally go and do whatever takes your fancy. Go talk to someone, anyone, in any capacity. If you're scared of being rejected, then go talk to a bum. They'd be happy to talk to someone, even a weird freak like you. Listen to them. Invite them out for a drink. Get drunk. Smoke crack. Or don't. Just do something, else you'll die without doing anything.

Looking at all the chivalrous paintings posted ITT i cant help but ponder the plight of modern woman.
The women represented here, though most likely just as hysterical as their modern equivalents, were nonetheless chaste, demure and courteous, or nonetheless were under intense pressure to conform to those ideals. And to what lengths did knights and other admirers go to to prove their love and devotion! I am reminded of a particular story where in the 14th century a group of knights made a pledge to a group of noble ladies that they would hold one eye closed until they satisfied themselves in battle with the enemy of their Duke. With eyepatches affixed under their helms, they duly charged the enemy and were duly cut down due, in large part, to their foolish vow which crippled them on the battlefield.
No doubt these noble ladies were, at the time of promise, enthralled and overjoyed; and, at hearing of their suitors deaths, deeply affected. But the legend survived and reaches our eyes today.

How far we have drifted from that golden age of higher ideals. Yes, one may argue that the majority lived in misery, but that does not detract from the fact that higher ideals were aspired to. What have we today but the corruption of all that is worthy and pure?
To me, that is the epitome of aristocracy: the love for all that is sacred, all that is pure and unsullied by the corrupting influence of materialism and hedonism. It is the yearning of something beyond the self, something greater and yet not bewildered as an abstract, unknowable entity, but revered as a vivid, tantalizing state of transcendence.

Perhaps some anons would be interested in learning about RBTC?
That is, Routine Biased Technological Change. At the turn of the century academics noticed a worrying shift in labour dynamics that led to job polarization. By studying the types of jobs being eliminated and those being created they came to realise that it is mostly those jobs with large routine task inputs that are being done away with, while occupations with abstract and manual task inputs are growing in size and variety.
At this point it is wise to ponder what type of society we are trending towards. Objectively speaking, one can predict that those who are most capable will assume the well-paid abstract roles, that those are less capable will gravitate towards the numerous poorly-paid routine (service) roles.
In the context of immigration, nation-states should consider a policy of upskilling natives while using temporary workers from abroad to fill out service roles until such a point as these service roles are also able to be routinized away. However, there are three major barriers to such an economically sound policy: 1) not all natives are capable, in the cognitive sense, of assuming complex abstract roles; 2) immigrants, who are often intellectually impaired and most definitely incapable of mass assuming abstract roles, are given citizenship and voting rights (naturally, they will be opposed to a system that must necessarily disenfranchise them); and 3) our modern political religion will never accept the natural hierarchy between natives (in this sense, those of european descent) and those of foreign descent. If there is any doubt in your mind as to the third point, then please refer to any state-mandated policy that seeks to forcefully place ethnics into positions of power to reach some equality with whites.

>dont read books by niggers
>dont read books by jews
>dont read books by mudslimes
>dont read books by women
>dont read modern fiction
Is there anything else I shouldn't read? I don't want to pollute my mind and I by excluding the above I'm only able to read the best of literature.