/lit/ - Literature

Another bit from Memoirs of Hadrian, for good measure, since this thread seems to have derailed a bit.

>But I hesitated still about where to place the tomb. I recalled that in ordering rites of apotheosis everywhere, with funeral games, issues of coins, and statues in the public squares, I had made an exception for Rome, fearing to augment that animosity which more or less surrounds any foreign favorite. I told myself that I should not always be there to protect that sepulchre. The monument envisaged at the gates of Antinoopolis seemed too public also, and far from safe. I followed the priests' advice. On a mountainside in the Arabic range, some three leagues from the new city, they indicated to me one of those caverns formerly intended by Egypt's kings to serve as their funeral vaults. A team of oxen drew the sarcophagus up that grade; it was lowered with ropes to those subterranean corridors, and was then slid into position to lean against a wall of rock. The youth from Claudiopolis was descending into the tomb like a Pharaoh, or a Ptolemy. There we left him, alone. He was entering upon that endless tenure, without air, without light, without change of season, compared with which every life seems short; such was the stability to which he had attained, such perhaps was the peace. Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

I saw the light today. Not by chance in the lamp isle at the local hardware shop, last Tuesday. A Philips Hue Go, model number 798835. 6 Watts, up to 300 lumens (kind of modest, I must admit). Compatible with all smart home applications under the sun; "Okay Google, living room green" as far as I know. Internet of things, internet or no things, to disconnect, turn on for eight seconds, turn off for two seconds, times five. Your voice through an ethernet connection to Saint Ghislain, and back as an XML-command, which the hub translates to machine code straight into the bulb. Ask the wife next door, she has entire conversations with the fridge, her son doesn't even know porn used to come in magazines. Don't expect it, it'll come around either way.

Alexa, lights off.

>>12668261
OP, you are a filthy runt.
I hope you are pleased with this stupid stunt.
Now shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt.

Cause i'm a gambling man
>also good deeds get rewarded in literally every religion so who cares if you don't believe as long as you are a good person.

>>12257338
>not reading The Plague and becoming more like Rieux

>>12244198
Useful for what exactly? Understanding some things about reality or about how the mind works or about how culture developed or how desire functions can help in living a better life, however we might define that.

>>12218604
>hoarding wealth = being successful

It is without a doubt that society is at a tipping point between one political regime and another. Without the rule of absolute law, capitalism would soon dissolve into communism. But what do we even mean by these terms? By absolutist law, we mean a moral guiding principle by which a certain sect of the population directly guides the actions of the many. Now, this principle isn't inherently bad, for now we have a power mechanism by which private property is established. We see that this principle is good for everyone, as it is within an object that the spirit can actualize itself within, if one is so apt to allow. But what of a certain body? Is this not in of itself property? If one takes into account an object which one uses for its own, one also can take its own body into its own. In fact, this seems to be the default stance—the personal body is one in which spirit manifests itself in its immediate form. It is this posture by which one becomes a thing-- they are unable to escape the confines of their own body; the spirit can't extend itself out into a body of work, or its own body of work. The body, however, has to maintain itself, so it naturally extends itself just enough to maintain this body.
One can now see how easy it is to subject a certain body to a communistic regime provided that it maintains itself as a thing. Within this state of being, it desires no more than to maintain itself, and to produce a base utility by which society can properly operate. What this means is that there exists a certain sect of the population which is only adapted to be able to carry out a certain task, and this section of the population can be subjected to communistic living. But what is communistic living? It should be quite apparent now that what we mean by this certain regime is one in which all being only exists for itself, and is somehow strangely adapted to exist incidentally for others as well. This can be achieved by cultivating a love for the abstract, which will eventually extend itself only into a certain object, thus the person subjected to this state of being fulfills a certain task with that object.

What does /lit/ do for money? Not everyone can be a NEET.

I've got a bachelors STEM degree and I'm trying to find something that'll let me write in relative comfort