/lit/ - Literature

Nick Land

Jean Jacques Rousseau predicted the fall of the French aristocracy.

Arthur de Gobineau predicted the rise of the US as a global power, the independization of India, globohomo, among other things.
I think that makes dead authors read-worthy. It gives them authority when talking about the current era.

>>21496975
I love Peter-kun for his overweening pessimism :3

>>21496975
Lord of the World by Robert Benson.

>>21496975
Ted

Unironically Guenon

>>21496975
I can see the point but why does it matter much if any writer predicted the future? What value does it give to your present reality? Even drunk insane homeless people can predict the future.

>>21496975
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf. He predicted the following would happen if he did nothing or lost. All these were being talked about in the Weimar Republic, well before Hitler entered politics.
>Negroisation of France first then all of Europe
>Globalist agenda supported by Jewish/world finance
>Fed a diet of goyslop to reduce the maximal potential of the human body
>Destruction of all forms of ethno-cultural pride and unity
>Break down and atomization and then leveling of society and the family structure
>complete disregard for sexual taboos, child predators and pedophillia and the encouragement (via abuse) of homosexual
>complete destruction of Europe, its people and its heritage

Also, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, forgery or not, it accurately predicted the 100 years of society. As Evola said.

>>21497265
>>Fed a diet of goyslop to reduce the maximal potential of the human body
People have never been as healthy as they are now. That's why so many of us are tall today.

Gramsci

>>21497269
They are dying of diseases of excess and diet. In the West the top three causes of death are heart disease, cancers and sub group of obesity releated conplications like hypertension, diabetes, etc. These are a product of diet and lifestyle, all of which has been destroyed post WW2. It is not about simply being taller, they are bigger because they consume more calories. Their hormones are utterly ruinous and in most cases are eing disrupted by all manner of negative actions, not to mention the sheer volume of microplastics in your body. At last estimates the average person consumes a credit card sized lump of plastic a month.

>>21496975
Gk chesterton drops some gems every now and then.

>>21497286
Go back to /pol/, you larping faggot

>>21497368
omg calm down it's just his opinion I thought you guys liked free speech

>>21497269
>press X to doubt
They're feeding us literal shit these days. Ever heard of microplastics, they're even finding them in breast milk these days. So no people might be healthier in general because of advancements of science but see the number of obesity patients in the USA.

>>21497368
What exactly is a larp in that comment? Nothing said there is incorrect.

>>21497265
Based

>>21497269
>People have never been as healthy as they are now
>t. shlomo

>>21497368
>Everyone i disagree with is from /pol/

David Foster Wallace
Hegel

>>21497368
>Gets BTFO
>g-go back to /pol/
Kek

Houellebecq
>predicted the yellow vest riots
>predicted the incel phenomenon
Dostoyevsky
>predicted the USSR

>>21496988
>Arthur de Gobineau predicted the rise of the US as a global power, the independization of India, globohomo, among other things.
IIRC he predicted Canadian independence, the Nordic welfare state compromise, and Thatcher style economics persisting in English speaking societies too

>>21497286
>People are dying at 50 of heart diseaae instead of at 18 by famine

The West is over.

>>21497560
Spoken like a man of culture.

>>21497286
>People dying of cancer and heart disease at 65
>People dying of famine at 20

What would you rather have? The person you're responding to is right and you're a dumb nigger.

>>21496975
René Guénon

>>21497638
>>21497647

There is a desirable ground between absence of foodstuffs and mechanically reclaimed foodstuffs. Stable food production is easily possible with focus you disingenuous kike-beaks. Factory food farming is poisoning the people and the land, they have successfully collectivized the farms without anybody realizing.

Smaller local farms with seasonal produce is the way. Try to engage your cum-addled brain.

>>21497744
Based

>>21497265
>complete destruction of Europe, its people and its heritage
This ones rich. You faggots are so delusional
>h-he was actually defending Europe from the Jews by starting the deadliest conflict in human history on European soil and killing millions upon millions of his European "brothers"
How do you fucks rationalize this? Do you honestly just not think about it?

>>21497760
Because every single nation that subsequently declared war of Germany had a huge presence of jews within the parliamentary cabinet. Each one campaigned strongly for the declaration of war on Germany, using their financial tools to lever political action.

>>21496975
The Machine Stops by EM Forster.
Full decomposition of the academia, globalisation, technological addiction, destruction of the family unit, and many specific details regarding technological development, like the internet, video-conferences, digital tablets etc.
It was written in 1909

>>21497269
Imagine being this dense. Can you even?

>>21497792
should just get a tripcode already

>>21497930
Get a defensible position.

>>21497988
oh, i wasn't the anon arguing with you. one might even say we've established a mild friendship over the last month. just thought you might as well get a tripcode instead of having to post that image of rockwell all the time.

>>21498020
My apologies then, what is it we have discussed in the past?

Trips have always been and will always be for fags. I enjoy posting anti-liberal ring-wing figures.

>>21498045
wwoym thread week ago. wasn't a prolonged discussion. a dispute over the possibility of unity or global redemption ir something, i can't remember

>>21498071
Very cool, man. Well, hope life is going well for you pal. I'm down to engage again if you want, on any broad subject.

>>21496975
Heinrich Heine in some of his prose, especially in On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet

>>21498105
i'm too sick at present to engage, but i'm sure we'll brush up against one another again eventually. better an organic dispute than a manufactured one

>>21498120
Saddened to hear that, pal. Hope you get better.

>>21497888
>the greatest punishment is homelessness
>man must defeat the sun to control the climate to perfection
Just started reading this based of your post. This short story is incredible.

>>21498181
Also
>ideas are considered the highest thought
Literally reminded me of fun fact loving redditors

>>21497157
The only correct answer in this thread

>>21498256
>beware of first-hand ideas!

>>21497269
t. lard ass

>>21497760
Explain why Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland but not the Soviet union when it invaded Poland at the exact same time.

>>21498411
Explain why he invaded Poland in the first place.

>>21496975
Nietzsche was incredibly accurate in his predictions, particularly regarding democracy.
Heinrich Heine foresaw nationalsocialism

how much of it is prescience, and how much of it is influence? is it possible to properly distinguish the two in this? would that which they predict have happened had they never made the prediction?

>>21498484
Because the Soviets were going to invade Polandand having a Soviet puppet state on their doorstep was a terrible idea.

>Telegram to British Ambassador dated 8/25/39, August, before the Invasion began.

>The Fuhrer declares that German-Polish
>problem must be solved and will be solved. He is
>however prepared and determined after the solution
>of this problem to approach England once more with
>a large comprehensive offer. He is a man of great
>decisions and in this case also he will be capable
>of being great in his action. He accepts the British
>Empire and is ready to pledge himself personally
>for its continued existence and to place power of
>German Reich at its disposal if his colonial demands
>which are limited and can be negotiated by peaceable,
>methods are fulfilled and in this case he is prepared
>to fix the longest time limit.

What did he mean by this?

>>21496975
>Britain will never be like it used to be again!
Reading history one comes to this conclusion about everything and everywhere. God, trad-bitches are tiring

Alan Watts predicted smartphones, social media, and the mental health crisis in the 60s.

>>21497202
>What value does it give to your present reality?
It potentially gives value to your future reality if they have predicted past the present too

>>21498606
I don't know, this excuse sounds pretty terrible in my opinion. You could just argue that if he knew the USSR was going to invade Poland, then why not just wait and prepare for it? Make the Russians look like the world villain and now you've got an even better excuse to declare war on them. He could have even attempted to form a treaty with the Poles and create a defense strategy. Instead he decided to do the opposite and pull the first move, attacking and killing the poor Poles and thus making himself the enemy. As you can see your excuse doesn't hold up very well, and the real reason for his aggression is just that he hated the Slavic people and also wanted a bigger, more powerful Germany.

>>21499069
>I don't know, this excuse sounds pretty terrible in my opinion
The US and the USSR nearly went to nuclear war for this very same fucking thing. How is it a pretty terrible excuse? You don't allow people to fire rockets right in to the heart of your nation. The only difference was yield and range.

>>21499073
>You don't allow people to fire rockets right in to the heart of your nation
Did I say he should do that? No I said wait for the Russians to attack his neighbor and then launch his counter-attack with the aid of the Poles. It doesn't take a genius to understand that he would've garnered a way better diplomatic status this way too, this would've basically forced the other powers in Europe to recognize the USSR as the real baddie.

>>21499123
I'm going to guess you don't know a great deal about European history post-WW2.

>>21496975

Lyndon LaRouche

>>21499158

>>21497792
> “ Jews “ tell Hitler not to invade Poland
> “ Jews “ sign defensive alliance with Poland
> Hitler orders invasion of Poland
> “ Jewish “ allies of Poland declare war

Those meddling kikes! Hitler dindu NUFFIN

>>21497269
>People have never been as healthy as they are now
Not true - life expectancy has started dropping in the US

Baudrillard
DFW
Kafka

>>21498117
Same. Heine was brilliant. I'm not seeing several obvious ones either.

>Huxley
>Orwell
>Rand
>Plato
>every American who argued against central banking and taxes

>>21497280
Of course Gramsci looks right. The elites follow his doctrines.

>>21499704
>c19
>vaccines
>cancer inducing products let into the market by the FDA/Big Pharma.

>>21499944
This was before Covid, it was due to diet and lifestyle. The big comorbidity for covid was obesity and all related conditions. Fat people died at rates higher than old. Which is hilarious and rare as fuck for a disease.

>>21497286
>It is not about simply being taller, they are bigger because they consume more calories.
This. Imagine conflating height with health. The Ancient Greeks were probably on average shorter than us, but far healthier.

>>21499974
All the ancient world was healthier, but had they known what we have painstakingly learned now they would be superhuman compared to us. We ignore all our knowledge on the human body and maximizing human potential, worse yet many people actively disbelief calories in, calories out is true. That their body can somehow operate without regard for any known laws of physics.

>>21497647
>>People dying of famine at 20
This only happens in Africa because of... You know what.

>>21499981
You dumb

>>21500145
I would rather be healthy and stupid than smart and unhealthy. You, however, appear to have suffered dual misfortunes and become both unhealthy and dumb. Not only that you appear to have separated your warriors from your scholars.

>>21500160
there's a giant bullseye painted on your back when you post shit like that

>>21500160
>You, however, appear
I appear to have pointed you in the direction of a book that could help with your affliction. This is all I appear to be, and that's why you're completely wrong

>>21497157
Industrial Society and Its Future has caused a lot of seething and coping among the human race

>>21496975
There was a writer in the 50s who saw the direction sexual politics was headed and predicted the trannypocalypse. Not in some vague way, they quite rightly predicted that we'd have trans kids and trans acceptance and a massive surge in people becoming trans. Can't remember the name, however.

>>21497269
The height increase is just growth hormones in all the beef and milk. The dutch are currently getting shorter because they banned some hormones from being used on dairy cows some ten or so years back. Medical science has gotten much better at keeping coffin dodgers sucking social security, but overall morbidity has absolutely skyrocketed in the last 50 years.

>>21497647
>>21497638
>>People dying of famine at 20
When the fuck was the last time anyone died of famine outside africa, china, or the ussr? Industrial farms are a very new thing, long, long after any american starved due to lack of broader agricultural output. People in the US used to get all their meat and produce from within 5 miles of where they lived in the 1950s, as in that's the range in which it was produced, not the distance they had to drive to the grocery store. Our food has gone to complete shit.

>>21497327
And he can be quite funny while doing it too.

>>21500784
>People in the US used to get all their meat and produce from within 5 miles of where they lived in the 1950s

It was also of far higher qualitiy. Grain was supplemental during winter monthe only, not their whole diet. The meat was also aged (hanged) for typically 60 to 90 days too. Now the desired result is obtained in 30, unless you pay a high premium for 'dry aged' beef, which was once the standard for choice cuts. The 30 days of hanging is possible because of both cow diet, hormone manipulation of the animal and increased chemical treatments of beef.

Big Ag and Big Food have spent billions of dollars muddy the waters of the term organic. They have largerly succeeded too. But eating chemical free, organic food free of any treatment that ends in -cide is the greatest way to achieve a healthy existance.

People bemoan onions and estrogen in food then scoff down half a dozen mcgoyslops and a soda which does more damage immediately than occasionally eating a block of tofu or using onions sauce.

>>21497744
Can tell you've never read Carlyle btw.

>>21496988
>Arthur de Gobineau

If you think aristocrats are a warrior master-race then you've never met any. Their emotional development ends at age 12.

>>21497269
Testosterone levels are 50 percent lower than in in 1970. It drops one percent per year. The same stat for male fertility, sperm count is also 50 percent lower. We are not healthy, we are half the men we were in the 70s.

>>21501892
I wonder if their experience of the world would feel completely different from mine purely based on hormone levels.
Even my dad looked stronger and older at my age despite being a dyel.

>>21501946
One thing I've heard is that testosterone makes challenge feel rewarding. That would explain a lot about the current world.

>>21501946
>>21501956

Aggression, physical exertion, fighting and adrenaline encourages test production. Do you engage in these things with any frequency?

We all know how to increase test, but many would rather not do it and instead pretend that an intellect is just as good and attractive. Rippletits is right when he states something along the lines of our society being strength based, not intellect based.

>>21497703
>Guénon
who? never heard of him?
Where should I pencil him in between Evola, Nietzsche, Kant, Shopenhauer, Goethe, Locke, Lermontov, Blake, Paine, and uncle Ted?

>>21499944
Holy checked, nice full house

>>21501404
What's wrong with onions?

>>21502200
Was a typo, onions is what i meant. Onions are fine, great for meal prepping.

>>21502266
Are word filters back?
Onions

>>21497265
>starts the war that brings Europe fluttering forward into decline and destroys the power of an entire fucking continent
Wow what a fucking legend. Well done to Lord Faggot and his legacy of making nationalism taboo, forcing guilt upon European powers and letting the burgers control the world, fucking amazing job.

>>21502273
Garlic?

>>21496975
You don't need to be Nostradamus to know things are going to get worse. Only a delusional idiot would be an optimist in current world.

>>21496982
Came here to post this.

>>21499938
I'm honestly amazed at how Rand's silly caricatures of petty administrators drunk on their own power turned out to be reasonable capitalists compared to what Managerialism has actually produced.

>>21502475
I was in disbelief the minute I experienced the, "middle management is synonymous with incompetence" meme in real life. I almost walked off the job

>>21496975
DFW Unironically. Sorry, Dave.

>>21496975
Nobody. It is impossible. If you claim someone did then you are twisting facts to fit into a narrative.

>>21502318
Europe was in decline since the First World War, the second one was a result of the first. Had he not achieved what he did, we may never have known that the greater society envisioned in the literature of National-Socialists existed, let alone possible.

There is nothing to stop it happening again, in light of this it appears the conditions that preceded his arrival in Germany are being repeated in half a dozen Western Nations. To the extent that all media and existing state controls are being used to absolutely prevent this sentiment from coalescing in to a mass Fascist or National Socialist movement.

Maybe not in a few months, nor a few years but i think within our generation we shall see it.

>>21502520
God bless the chosen few to break the wall, brick by brick.

>>21502530
Join the cause, people are gradually coming to understand that it is the only way to address the growing problems we face. There is no democratic meams to fix what we are seeing today. The democratic process is part of the overall problem and ultimately one of the chief causes. The values and traditions of Classical Liberalism are incapable of fixing the pitfalls it has created, it suited our needs for the 19th and 20th cenutry. Much like Christianity, but that is a seperate discussion.

Now, as we march in to the 21st century we face new problems that were not envisioned by the those noble men who envsioned a fair and just society because nature and the world is not fair and just. Blood & Soil, or some variation of it is the only way we can survive the next several hundred years and be in a stronger position than we are today. To do otherwise is to lie down and die.

>>21496975
>Optimismus ist Feigheit.jpg
A lot of the right wing writers such as Spengler.

>>21502200
s.0y has some chemicals that mimic mammal estrogens in the body, but not in any huge quantity. It's not like japanese women all get breast cancer or japanese men all have bitch tits, so clearly onions is fine as a supplemental part of the diet. (Miso soup is made of the stuff and they have it constantly.) The thing that gets people is that s.0y components, particularly s.0y lecithin, are put into a TON of different foods. Check the labels on all the processed foods you buy and you'll be amazed at how much stuff has at lease a little bit of it added in.

>>21502053
what are the obviouse ways to increase testosterone? I already workout and take cold showers.

>>21497269
Our medicine has improved, not our health. Everyone gets to live in miserable condition

>>21497269
I'm old enough to remember the 80s when fat people were an extremely rare sight.

>>21504208
Get 8 hours sleep
Drink plenty of water
Avoid all endocrine disruptors
Avoid all plastics
Father children with a devoted woman
Physical contact
Acting confidant


I've heard a good deal that competition and winning is a great way to boost it. In all honesty the above are all enjoyable and you should do them regardless of other benefits.

>>21502273
>Are word filters back?
sѹ boy question

>>21502266
>>21502273
>back
>hyboretard is the newest of newfags

>>21503012
True, although I am a monarchist and not a fascist I appreciate the sentiment. The future will be bright, truth ultimately always wins, the oligarchies will be destroyed one way or another.

>>21497368
Post wrist fatty

>>21504846
>>21505468

I have not had cause to type that word in years, roody-poo.

>>21505532
What mechanism keeps the monarch working longterm? The modern conception of a monarchy appears to be a foreign one brought on by the import of Christianity with Charles the Great. Instead, the pre-Christian Germanic noble ideal may suit you better. The noble and peasant are of entirely the same racial stock and legally no different save for the nobles are predestined for leadership roles as they have cultivated traits, behavior and mindsets that these more difficult positions require.

A nobility based on aristocratical ideals, wherein the best and brightest of the race are elevated to the top while those who fail to perform (over generations) are released of the burden of the noble and a more suitable canditate is placed there instead.

>>21496982
What exactly is his position? Ive not read much of his or Moldbug, who i deduce is part of the same movement? Ive read 2nd hand that it is some sort of Stakeholder Capitalism, basically what Klaus and his NGOs are doing but somehow different?

>>21506478
Yale was always built to be a jew response to the WASP ivy league (not that the latter is a good thing either)

>>21506478
>the same movement?
Nobody really cares about nrx anymore

Allegedly this Peter Zeihan who has a new book out I've seen recommended and on Rogan's latest predicted Russia invading Ukraine a while ago. I haven't read his books but am listening to him on Rogan and while I like that he uses things like population and resources to make his predictions I find he goes off the rails when talking about countries regimes. Also I find the way he talks to be extremely grating.

>>21496975
>Prescient writers
Definitely Oswald Spengler.
>Predicts the long term ecological damage caused by machine industry and Capitalism.
>Predicts the decline of western birthrates.
>Predicts that culture will eventually turn into various genres with no significant or grand meaning to society as a whole.
>Predicts the rise of ‘Caesarism’, which in today’s world is synonymous with the rise of Populism.
>Predicts the consequences of giving away Western technology to foreign and hostile nations.
>Predicts the abandonment of the gold standard in order for Faustian (Western) man to create more and more profit. Thus, more and more inflation and debt.

>>21496975
>Prescient writers
Definitely Oswald Spengler.
>Predicts the long term ecological damage caused by machine industry and Capitalism.
>Predicts the decline of Western birthrates.
>Predicts that culture will eventually turn into various genres with no significant or grand meaning to society as a whole.
>Predicts the rise of ‘Caesarism’, which in today’s world is synonymous with the rise of Populism.
>Predicts the consequences of giving away Western technology to foreign and hostile nations.
>Predicts the abandonment of the gold standard in order for Faustian (Western) man to create more and more money. Thus, more and more inflation and debt.

Nietzsche

>>21505849
I simply believe in the 'rule of one' with a hierarchical pyramid shaped command system, plus I love the aesthetics and think its spiritually correct. It doesn't have to be some carbon copy of a medieval european hereditary system. What you describe here does sound good, I'm simply too lazy to write a big effort post right now, but my preferred system would be someone similar. I'm not exactly a follower of Moldbug (I think he's very good at convincing people that Monarchy is a legitimate governmental system for the modern age, but I disagree on many aspects of his vision), but his description of the 3 types of government I think is perfectly accurate, there is ultimately only Monarchy, Oligarchy and Democracy: rule of one, rule of the few, rule of many.

>>21506478
I havn't read enough Nick Land to comment on him. Moldbug basically believes in a materialist/atheist elective monarchy which has a board of directors who have 0 power beyond judging the monarch and making sure he doesn't go nuts (idk how this works out exactly, dont ask me), while the monarch goes around picking out talented young men and giving them the funds and carte blanche do go around fixing shit and working efficiently in a startup or military-esque fashion, rather than relying on gargantuan slow moving bureaucracies. He loves to talk about FDR's regime or the Washington/Hamilton regime as a realistic ideal for Americans too strive for in the future (not saying those are examples of his ideal systems, he just thinks they are 'good enough').

>>21496975
dostoevsky and orwell weren't enough?

>>21497286
>>21497368
These

>>21497286
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You are just regurgitating propaganda you think "must be true" because it sounds like a convenient explanation for why you're unhappy in your life.

>>21501768
Wtf I’m an aristocrat

Based fash-anon, I thoroughly enjoy your posts.

>>21510352
What are you talking about? I have been able to improve my life tremdously by altering my diet and lifestyle. I am stronger, healthier, more active, better able to focus far more easily. Further, my memory, my ability to problem solve and speed at which i process information have all improved remarkably.

All because of diet and lifestyle. Try it, see what improvements you can make.

>>21510757
Not that guy but what particular diet and lifestyle changes do you recommend, anon?

>>21508927
>>Predicts the rise of ‘Caesarism’, which in today’s world is synonymous with the rise of Populism.
This is pretty wrong, considering politicians have almost no power, while various institutions of the administrative state have all of it.

>>21499132
He's right though - if Soviets were the entire root, then Poland and Germany could easily establish and anti-Soviet alliance.

But Nazi leadership was straight up more interested in annexation of polish territories than with containing Soviets, and at the same time Poland was not interested in alliances with either Germans or Soviets, as they hoped to play a neutral buffer between the two harvesting all the benefits of trade and transit between the two without actually having to commit to a side and risk war, all while being supported economically and politically by Britain and France (which also had no political forces interested in a Poland allied to either Germany or USSR).

The conflict here is not that Germany wanted to save everyone from the Commies but nobody listened - a position as laughable as that of believing that Soviets just wanted to save everyone from Nazis but nobody listened. Instead it's that Poland, Britain and France wanted an independent Poland with Germany and USSR locked in a perpetual indecisive cold confrontation, while USSR and Germany both did not want an independent Poland, and were gearing up for a hot conflict.

>>21510797
It is not difficult, you don't need to have your hand held through this. You know what you are doing that you should not be, you know what you are not doing that you need to be.

Eat clean, eat modestly, be active, reject what you know to be poison. You don't need me to tell you this.

>>21510878
Alliances are fickle, read what Hitler spoke about in Mein Kampf about his thoughts on foreign policy. Alliances of convienience and mutualism are meaningless.

>>21510928
>Alliances of convienience and mutualism are meaningless.
Worked for Allies and USSR to fuck up Germany, you know,

>>21511001
That was mutualism, both made incredible gains by forging a brief agreement with no lasting bonds of ideology, blood and values. Hence the decades long Cold War that followed. Only alliances based on something more than economic, profitability and material gains can survive. As he dictated in Mein Kampf, obviously the enemy of my enemy can briefly be beneficial.

Picrel, its why the Commonwealth has endured so long and is only weakening now as those resentful minorities, previously defeated, gain power and work to destroy what was build over them.

How about rockstars
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU

>>21511089
If you want prescient internet articles, go read what Steiner said about the global spiderweb back in the 1920s.

>>21511676
>Steiner
This genius is the ultimate answer to the thread and I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet.

>>21511676
Him on the “Ahrimanic consciousness” (probably showed up in some way in this discussion of the “global spiderweb” too, I remember seeing it once as well but my memory is vague) is overall a very apt prediction of the Computer Age and trends like transhumanism. It’s probably been mentioned in this thread but I think Guenon, in Reign of Quantity, also had surprisingly prescient thoughts on “the mechanization of man” which also prefigured the Internet Era.

>>21512397
>>21511676
Not to mention Schwab’s/the WEF’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and writings, videos, and webpages on the Great Reset, as well as WEF-linked and Schwab’s friend Harari on transhumanism and the mechanicality of man.

Sensationalized New Age source but still an interesting summary and look at Steiner’s thoughts: https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/rudolf-steiner-secret-societies-the-ahrimanic-deception

One of those two could easily be taken as “incarnation of Ahriman” Steiner speaks of.

>>21496975
setting aside the fact that it’s shoddily written and grotesquely, gratuitously violent, the prediction for the direction America was headed in made in this book written in the 70s is the definition of “prescient”

I know some that /lit/ and general culture hasn't caught on to yet but I'm not going to share them.

No Burroughs...

Naked Lunch predicts AIDS, stomach tuck (describing the procedure in depth before its invention and the cultural attitudes that surround it), and radical islamic suicide bombing.

Naked Lunch and Burroughs in general is never talked about on this site for whatever reason—too radical?

>>21514063
Naked Lunch just wasn’t for me. I do think Burroughs is a talented writer though. Does he have any non transgressive stuff? The Yage Letters, unless I’m getting him confused, interest me

>>21504700
Checked, but you forgot sunlight. In an indoor, sedentary world, most of us don't get nearly enough sun exposure.