/lit/ - Literature

>>22518312
2017 is better and probably more accurate. I don't care for ornate pompous bullshit

>intellectually minded person stuck in a backwards shithole filled with blue collar turd flingers
Lit for this feel? For sure there's no lack of books stroking blue collar dick. Can't say I've ever seen this demographic properly called out.

If you're already read and experienced in occult matters everything in that document is old news, but true enough.

It's good for hylic recovery.

>>17336874
In a world already full of actual wizards, gods, dragons, and cumbrain sex-goblins

Seems a little ironic to dismiss Nietzsche, whose fundamental philosophy is that "facts are just a product of the will to power" by saying you're going to kill him instead of showing him the truth. Wouldn't that just be an expression of the will to power? Isn't it just saying that the truth is violence?

Guys, I've figured it out. Actually atoms are just a conceptual identity formed in our minds. For the concept of atoms to exist at all, there first needs to be a mind to posit their existence. Therefore, minds and experience actually come first, and to try to establish how a mind can come from atoms is simply backwards. It's like saying "steel, glass, and concrete are made out of buildings" - it's simply semantically meaningless. I think I will call this "idealism", because it makes ideals primary.

>>15588013
you literally cannot have a solution to something which has never been solved. Critique of Marxism as "it's not good enough!" are always brainlet tier because they suppose that if only Marxist philosophy could satisfy their unexplained, unspecified and imprecise desire for a "better" solution they would be on board with it, as if they were in a store shopping for an ideology.

You would understand this if you understood in any way how knowledge is constructed. There is no apriori knowledge of how to overcome capitalism within capitalism, because overcoming capitalism means acting outside of it, and apriori knowledge can only be analytical; contained within the system. You can only take overcoming capitalism as an apriori synthetic judgement and then try to invent something on your feet.

>>15537793
You are on a wrong path here. You would lower yourself to arbitrariness, the precise thing that you sought to escape. Do not have so little trust in your own power of reason. Why should it be incapable of reaching the Good?
>>15538251
I would honestly say that starting with Plato is not a good idea. Because his proofs seem idiotic if one cannot see their essence. He conceals more than he shows, he is deceptively simple. I would say that it might be better to start with early modern philosophy, particularly with Descartes. Although Descartes is also somewhat deceptively simple.

>>15512870
what part of "the world is for Capital" did you not get? You think the police exist to stop crime or something? They're for enforcing private property rights and keep the subjects of Capital in line. The primary task of governments is to manage the economy. In an abstract sense, it is the only task, anything that might benefit the worker is really just to keep them from burning the world down and make it their own. And of course, the corporation's entire essence is profit, the increase in Capital. These are all entities which serve Capital. People in this thread keep saying crap like "Capital is just things which are exchanged" (which is even accurate by a classical definition; commodities and money are what is exchanged. In classical Smithian/Marxian terms, Capital is the accumulated labour that is used for production of these commodities) or "Capital is M-C-M'" (sure, it is, but consider the implication of this if this process is what dominates the world) because they aren't thinking hard enough.

The world you exist in is run by Capital. It is not for people. The decisions that laws governments make, the wars they fight, the people they selectively punish. They're all either to directly manage, benefit, or feed Capital (industrial subsidy, transportation and communication infrastructure, monetary policy, trade wars, schools which are worker production factories) or to placate the worker so that they will continue to work (labour protection laws, public works).

Have you ever stopped to wonder why there are homeless people? Or that we have a coming ecological disaster on our hands that can't seem to be stopped? Or why there are so many people that are hungry, or without health care despite there being so much apparent wealth? Or why our technology and automation only gets better, yet somehow we have to work harder because of it? Or why public education is just a disciplinary daycare, and private education is an industry?

Have you ever wondered how it is possible for there to be so many problems, which means that there is so much work to be done, and yet, there can simultaneously be an employment crises? It's very obvious if you just think about it. The world process is not for People, it is not about solving people's problems. It is for Capital.

I'm sick of all this nihilism, cold materialism, and lonely atheism. Give me the comfiest religious books. I want to feel God's love and to cry. Augustine's Confessions?