/lit/ - Literature

>Have you hated your mother today?
>Christian Altruism: The Selfish Meme
>How Rome Was Raped By Jesus's Penis of the Spirit, Contracting a Deadly Virus
>Typical Jewish Un-Jewishness
>Barack Obama: Supernigger
>Universal Ethnocentrism Supernigger

I would also like to hear from anyone who has read it. I've scrolled through the .pdf file and it looks like it has some interesting ideas about culture and history. It certainly has a shitload of academic references. I would like to know if it's actually good, or if it's just a crazy pseudo-academic crank thing, or if it's somewhere in between. I'd also like to see a synopsis.

It may actually be that rarest of birds, a work of "outsider philosophy" with some merit.

>>6067199
That's why I'm curious. All I've heard is that it's interesting. Nothing more than that.

sadly i have not read this, but lately the genre (if you can call it that) of suicide notes has been of great interest to me. are there any existing compilations of notable suicide notes, or does anyone have a few they'd care to recommend?

>>6067153
I read parts of it when it hit the news a few years ago. I got the 2edgy5me hypernihlistic solipsistic tone right away. I remember he wrote as though no other thinker equaled his sense of clarity and novelty, and he definitely had a hard on for sociobiology texbooks. It was wrought with errors and incoherent ideas.

>>6067371
Unfortunately that's what I was afraid of. Given his dedication, I'd hoped for better. It's hard to find an intelligent man with that kind of conviction.

>>6067529
Indeed. Phillip Tetlock would have decribed him as a Hedgehog, rather than a Fox.

reading now, pretty interesting

>>6067153
>quotes phaedo about philosophers resignation towards death
>ignores the fact that Socrates comdemns suicide right in the start of the dialogue

>>6067232
Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday may count as a suicide note - it's an autobiography, it's a description of a world the two World Wars took away, a world centered around beautiful arts. He killed himself with his wife after he delivered the manuscript to his editor.

I read parts of it.

His individual insights were occasionally pretty good.

There's one part where he says that the Norman conquest was the most important development of the past 500 years, which I thought was kind of silly and he didn't make much of an effort to prove the assertion.

>>6067153
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/27/book_details_motives_for_suicide_at_harvard/

>In the end, no one really knows what led Mitchell Heisman, an erudite, wry, handsome 35-year-old, to walk into Harvard Yard on the holiest day in his faith and fire one shot from a silver revolver into his right temple, on the top step of Memorial Church, where hundreds gathered to observe the Jewish Day of Atonement.
interesting

>But if the 1,905-page suicide note he left is to be believed...
holy moly

>>6068616
>500 years

typo?

>>6068616
>norman conqeust
>past 500 years

>>6068624

>“Every word, every thought, and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless,’’ he wrote. “The experiment in nihilism is to seek out and expose every illusion and every myth, wherever it may lead, no matter what, even if it kills us.’’

dropped

The first 30ish pages are among the hardest truths I've read after which I lost interest. Suicide notes in general are a tricky form of literature since there's usually no third parties involved, any editor would have told him to scrap the tales about vikings etc and stick to the central issue at hand.

not worth a read