/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15612811]

Is there a valid explanation why women read children's books as an adult?

[Anonymous No.15612821]

>>15612811
Males do as well and why wouldn't they? If they're of good quality they will make for an entertaining and comfy read and you'll know what to give your children later.

[Anonymous No.15612841]

>>15612811
Because women are children

[Anonymous No.15612843]

>>15612811
Social conditioning.

[Anonymous No.15612845]

Because the last few generations have never experienced the necessary hardship to grow into maturity and proper adulthood. Men are in the same boat but replaced childish books with videogames.

[Anonymous No.15612856]

>>15612845
Interesting

[Anonymous No.15612901]

>>15612811
Some children's books are very good even by adult standards, Watership Down for example.
Harry Potter is certainly not one of them.

[Anonymous No.15612909]

>>15612811
I still watch cartoons for children. Not all the time, but sometimes I just feel like watching.

[Anonymous No.15612920]

>>15612811
Youth-markers are considered attractive on women.

[Anonymous No.15612935]

>>15612811
schopenhauers aphorism "on women". I dont agree with it because in my life experience the difference between women and men is smaller than individual differences (pic related). But you will get an "epic" /pol/-tier answer for that with schopi

[Anonymous No.15612993]

>>15612811
>Is there a valid explanation why women read children's books as an adult?
As opposed to grown men reading the Hobbit?

[Anonymous No.15613001]

>>15612935
>Compares human relationships to cereal consumption
Bugmen are a riot.

[Anonymous No.15613002]

>>15612993
/thread

[Anonymous No.15613093]

>>15612811
the answer isn't nearly as misogynist as you want it to be, OP

[Anonymous No.15613105]

>>15612935
>Oh boy, I can't wait to enjoy my cheerios after 73 different strangers have sprayed spunk all over it, now it's nice and tasty and delicious! Why would anyone prefer cereal that wasn't beat and worn out?

[Anonymous No.15613107]

>>15613093
What is it?

[Anonymous No.15613138]

>>15612811
There were some women in my work talking about what books they've read and given each other suggestions, all they really said was "yeah it was good" and never discussed the book beyond that. I'm guessing they way they view books is that it's another form of entertainment, like watching a series and suggest it to a friend then saying "how good some parts were" then moving on. Though I've met men who do this as well, I met a man who said he's been listening to Harry Potter on audiobook over the last few months to get himself back into reading, and he found Life of Pi too philosophical for him.

[Anonymous No.15613159]

>>15613138
>I'm guessing they way they view books is that it's another form of entertainment
Yeah what about it? You disgusting pretentious retard.

[Anonymous No.15613170]

>>15613138
Everyone talks like that. Do you think people at work have the mentality to discuss philosophical ideas of schopenhauer?

[Anonymous No.15613179]

>>15613159
Cringe

[Anonymous No.15613183]

>>15613138
>I'm guessing they way they view books is that it's another form of entertainment
As it should be

[Anonymous No.15613196]

>>15613138
Yeah, it's like I read shitty web fiction on royalroad between good books. It's popcorn.

[Anonymous No.15613278]

>>15613159
>How dare you question the capitalist consoomption complex you nerd!

[Anonymous No.15613294]

>>15612811
This has been known for a long time anon.

>One need only look at a woman's shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful companion. The greatest sorrows and joys or great exhibition of strength are not assigned to her; her life should flow more quietly, more gently, and less obtrusively than man's, without her being essentially happier or unhappier.

>Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted—in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word. Consider how a young girl will toy day after day with a child, dance with it and sing to it; and then consider what a man, with the very best intentions in the world, could do in her place.

[Anonymous No.15613315]

>>15613278
>oh no people have fun reading novels and recommend them to their friends, those mindless consuming sheep!

[Anonymous No.15613333]

>>15613315
>Why yes I read the same thoughtless formulaic novels over and over again for no reason other than to take up time, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.15613343]

>>15613159
I never said there was anything wrong with it, it's an observation relating to the subject of the thread. I don't see why you had to have an autistic breakdown.

>>15613170
I've met people that are interested in philosophy at work, obviously, not everyone is but a lot of people are happy to talk and discuss their personal interests if you are receptive to them

[Anonymous No.15613363]

>>15613333
Yep, nothing wrong with that.

[Anonymous No.15613368]

>>15612811
desu guys i know are worse for this, they wont read at all and just play vidya, if they do read its baasedfi

[Anonymous No.15613369]

>>15612811
Children's book as in? Harry Potter? That's just nostalgia. Most people read less than 10 books a year, if that, so it makes sense they reread the only books they were ever truly able to appreciate

[Anonymous No.15613378]

>>15613333
>I read the same thoughtless formulaic novels over and over again for no reason other than to take up time
Nice to know you do but i would suggest reading wider array of novels next time There is surely not a lack of them simply by looking at the history of literature.

[Anonymous No.15613381]

>>15613333
>Why yes I write the same thoughtless formulaic posts over and over again for no reason other than to take up time, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.15613394]

>>15613093
Misogyny doesn't exist. That word is use to demonize men who notice reality.

[Anonymous No.15613417]

>>15613394
Pigmillion was a misogynist

[Anonymous No.15613422]

>>15613369
>blablablablabla bla bla durr durr duh! duh duh hurr duh huh bla bla
That's what you sound like.

[Anonymous No.15613623]

>>15612811
Many men and women stop developing intellectually in early adulthood, but women are more likely to read for fun so they keep reading shit of a low intellectual level whereas intellectually stagnated men don't read anything.

[Anonymous No.15613630]

>>15612845
>older generations used to read more mature literature
Nice fiction. At no point in time have average people in the West (no idea about other cultural spheres) read quality literature.

[Anonymous No.15613639]

Women are hedonists and their enemy is boredom, effort, risk, danger.
Fortunately, men are desperate enough to feel relevant, dutiful, respected, valued so they are pushy enough to try to be noticed by women (because they fail to be relevant beyond women). and sooner or later, they cracks the bf-shield

Women know that chads and other robots are willing to help them, to have an easy life. The natural problem of women is that they get bored sooner or later with whoever choose to try to entertain them.
So women change their partners to avoid the rut and to create drama. men do not like to be changed, since they loved to be relevant for once in their life, they whine and hate women when women find other providers.
Of course, changing partners constantly becomes a bore too, so they want some fixed men in their life to give them emotional and material support, Rarely sex because women know that, no matter how good the lover is, it gets boring sooner or later.
When they are replaced, men become resentful towards women, since they lose the validation of their existence. They pretend that they can live without women and that they even are better than women, smarter, stronger (in forgetting that women do not need to be so, because men want to be so in place of women)

Knowing that they are not able to stop loving to be supported by men, Women love also to think that they need no man and that they live to help others >muh compassion. This is part of the tactic to enhance their pleasures: women think that they are good people in society, only to feel even more raw, more animal, more of a little minx, typically in private, when they are fucked properly by some beta ready to serve them sexually.

[Anonymous No.15613661]

>>15612935
Schopenhauer is /r9k/, not /pol/. Important distinction.

[Anonymous No.15613669]

>>15613394
Pic.

[Anonymous No.15613696]

>>15613661
Sick of fuckwits who think “On Women” has any bearing on the rest of his philosophy. Shows how much people on this board actually read.

[Anonymous No.15613703]

>>15613661
Schopenhauer is neither, which you would know if you had read him.

[Anonymous No.15613864]

>>15613630
People in general read more books. Watch the interviews of regular people back in the day in YouTube.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15613894]

>>15612811
Is there a valid explanation why men play video games as an adult?

[Anonymous No.15613909]

>>15613894
>Is there a valid explanation why men play video games as an adult?
I like a challenge, that's why I play Mega Man-likes and FIGHTAN games.

[Anonymous No.15613911]

Constantly complaining about women is slave morality

[Anonymous No.15613918]

>>15613894
Most stop after 30

[Anonymous No.15613941]

>>15613918
Video games on became a mainstream thing 30 years ago. We will still see if the people who grew up with them will leave them, and so far none have.

[Anonymous No.15614022]

>>15613639
Young sex is a pointless waste of time these days. Better to get married when you're in your thirties and spend your twenties doing whatever you want and building your portfolio. Nobody wants to be straddled with a child out of wedlock

[Anonymous No.15614038]

>>15613894

I can stay connected to friends I've known half my life that have moved across the country. I don't watch television, and I think the strategy and thought involved in a good game, while also getting to spend time interacting with old friends, is one of the most healthy forms of entertainment.

Better than getting drunk at a bar.

[Anonymous No.15614054]

>>15613894
Video games are a thinking mans activity. Doesn't take away from reading serious literature

[Anonymous No.15614107]

Men do it too. Plenty of guys on this board reading pulpy fantasy books.

[Anonymous No.15614117]

>>15614107
Fantasy books are actually good though and made for a mature audience

[Yeepip No.15614173]

>>15612901
Oh yes it is

[Anonymous No.15614209]

>>15614117
No they're not, it's mostly childish garbage.

[Anonymous No.15614240]

>>15613941
I'm 34 and stopped around when I was 29

[Anonymous No.15614265]

>>15614240
None was a bad word to use, the better one would be "few". Every day we are inundate with new articles of how men don't "en up" and stop playing video games or invest their time into something productive. And most popular video game channels on you-tube, for example, have people who are over 20 hosting them.

[Anonymous No.15614267]

>>15612811
God imagine licking her skin

[Anonymous No.15614278]

>>15614267
Why would you do that

[Anonymous No.15614373]

>>15614278
because I'm a heterosexual man

[Anonymous No.15614405]

>>15614107
I initially stayed in /sffg/ for years but have since tried to broaden my horizons; it helps that Hamilton's Mythology is easy to read and basically capeshit

[Anonymous No.15614543]

>>15613422
Ok?

[Anonymous No.15614568]

>>15613894
This. The ultimate cause of infantilization -- Capitalism -- affects both sexes equally.

>>15613909
>>15613918
>>15614038
>>15614054
Coping manchildren.

[Anonymous No.15614619]

>>15613315
this but unironically

[Anonymous No.15614620]

>>15614568
I bet you love HBO sequels

[Anonymous No.15614667]

>>15613138

>Though I've met men who do this as well, I met a man who said he's been listening to Harry Potter on audiobook over the last few months to get himself back into reading, and he found Life of Pi too philosophical for him.

Josh?

[Anonymous No.15614668]

>>15614620
The Home Box Office? Say what now, son?

[Anonymous No.15614687]

>>15613918

Not true, unfortunately. Whether they do or not depends on how engaging their professional lives are

[Anonymous No.15614785]

>>15614687
I'm starting to feel this way. I'm 23 and spent most of my life playing games. I watched the new PS5 reveal earlier and for some reason after watching, it was like a haze cleared my mind and the whole presentation looked like a way to keep my mind dull, occupied, and ready to waste money on the next thing that comes out.
I haven't touched a game since then and have been reading. I don't have trouble reading, I've always been a decent reader, but I struggle to keep my mind focused for more than 30 mins.
I also don't have a fulfilling career. I'm a student-teacher right now at some shitty rural school and I feel like I've been using video games to escape and cope with my mundane life.
I didn't really have a point with all this, just felt like venting.

[Anonymous No.15614792]

>>15613918
I'm courious for many years, if this generation will restart gaming once they are in elderly homes (or how ever those places are called in english).

[Anonymous No.15614817]

>>15614668
Hebrew Box Office and YES

[Anonymous No.15614837]

>>15614785
any relationships?

[Anonymous No.15614895]

>>15612935
I want to cum in his cereal bowl

[Anonymous No.15614919]

>>15614837
I've had plenty. I was blessed a bit genetically so I'm fair when it comes to looks. I'm also funny and intelligent enough compared to the majority in my rural state so I've not had a lot of competition. Big fish in a small pond type deal. They were all superficial though. Typically dying out around 6-12 months once I came down from my love fugue and realize that I actually detest the woman I'm with.
I'm currently in a long-term relationship with a girl who was a virgin when we met. I've been with her 3 times as long as any other relationship and still love her even after the first few months of love-retardation. So maybe this one will pan out.
Entirely possible she'll still cuck me one day, but that's the gamble of every relationship.

[Anonymous No.15614931]

>>15613639
you shouldn't be having sex unless you are married

[Anonymous No.15614938]

>>15614785
I watched that reveal too and it just seemed sad to me. The new stuff isn't interesting and the long-running franchises just feel like they're relying on nostalgia bait to get a rise out of people. When the best thing you have to show is a game released over 10 years ago that they seem to just be upping the graphics for, and judging by the screens will likely ruin the original's look, I can't take your attempts to sell anything seriously.

[Anonymous No.15614963]

>>15614117
>believing this

[Anonymous No.15614971]

>>15614919
you, being the brain damaged coomer in the relationship, are the one who will ruin it in the near future, and her along with it.

[Anonymous No.15614989]

>Nobody posted the C.S. Lewis quote
You all suck.
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

Doing fun things is fun. It's why fiction, in books and otherwise, exists in the first place. This may come as a shock, but most people don't react well to constant work with no recreation. This in mind, taste changes as we get older, and it stands to reason that we will start to enjoy different things over time. Typically, we will start to enjoy things usually considered adult. However, that does NOT mean that childish things will always 100% completely lose the capacity to give a measure of happiness to an adult, nor should it be remotely expected, even if only for a nostalgic trip. Nostalgic trips, it should be noted, become worth more as we get older, and less able to simply go out and make bad decisions.

[Anonymous No.15615017]

>>15614971
lol I don't even watch porn. Been with her for 3 years though, so I'm willing to hear your any baseless advice you have to give that you can draw on from two posts on 4chan on how to save my perfectly stable relationship
>>15614938
I'm glad I'm not the only one bro. They really do just rehash the same shit over and over with a middling upgrade in graphics. There's rarely any innovation. Most games just try to be movies now and get praised as works of art. The industry has been stagnant for awhile.

[Anonymous No.15615043]

>>15614989
>literally quoting Lewis approvingly
Cringe. Kys.

[Anonymous No.15615059]

>>15614989
he's a children writer himself. ofc he'll justify it. This is like a Scientologist justifying Scientology/

Show me a good quote who wrote in a different genre

[Anonymous No.15615067]

>>15614989
>most people don't react well to constant work with no recreation
Lmao. Go shoot some hoops, nerdboy. Do it or I'll smash your Funko Pops with a sledge hammer. Hahahaha, fucking faggot!

[Anonymous No.15615077]

>>15614785
>>15614919
>>15615017
Taking everything you say at face value, you sound like a Chad who failed and has no ambition. It highlights how the technological era we live in today dulls the mind and can halt the potential of anyone today. In recommend reading some lit that will unwire you from the modern world. Get blindpilled or kys

[Anonymous No.15615125]

>>15614568

Brain dead ideologue.

Replace, 'Capitalism,' with, 'Satan' and you realize just repeating a bogeyman word doesn't replace actually understanding things.

[Anonymous No.15615139]

>>15612811
Youth and childrens literature are worth reading from time to time because
-It's easy
-It can cleanse the palate between more challenging lit
-It alerts you to ideas youths are uncritically ingesting, or were at the time whatever book was popular.
-If it was popular during your own youth it provides insight into what concepts you or your peers may have inadvertently adopted.
- You should be reading out loud to your own children too.

[Anonymous No.15615147]

>>15615125
Satan doesn't exist. The whole Western world is living under capitalism.

[Anonymous No.15615166]

>>15612811
same reason grown ass "men" watch japanese cartoons and obsess over their "female" characters

[Anonymous No.15615227]

>>15615017
That's why I haven't been keeping up with their shenanigans for a while and if I ever tried anything new (without paying a cent naturally) it's usually serviceable but unexceptional or interesting but flawed with the former being much more common and few exceptions. At that point it's clear your options are to either try out older games, occasionally look through short obscure shit like RPG maker whatever just for the hell of it or stop playing completely when you feel the artificial nature of the medium hanging too ominously over your head. It's just unfortunate that they'll likely butcher muh Demon's sooner rather than later.

[Anonymous No.15615259]

>>15614265
youtube and clickbait don't actually reflect reality. don't try to view the world through the internet.

[Anonymous No.15615284]

>>15614785
Bro, you’re life will always be mundane if you have this mindset. Sure you are not Dick Tracy or Flash Gordon, but then again nobody is. And even if such people existed, their lives will still be filled with boredom: dick would have to do a lot of paperwork, flash would have to spend years of his life training to be an astronaut. It’s how you approach life, what you choose to see in it. Fuck, I am an attorney working in criminal law who preparing to become a DA and would kill somebody to be a student teacher. Always remember this, fren, life is good if you let it be good.

[Anonymous No.15615305]

>>15615077
Redpill me on the blindpill, frens. Explain it to me like I am a retarded rural nigger.

[Anonymous No.15615333]

>>15615147
Define capitalism.

[Anonymous No.15615337]

>>15615017
Everyone whose relationship fails thought it was "stable" in the first few years. You admit yourself to being a degenerate. Re-read previous post.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15615359]

>>15615333
Not even the point that was made.

[Anonymous No.15615365]

>>15615059
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing"
-George Bernard Shaw

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!"
-Terry Pratchett (obviously debatable for "wrote in a different genre", but if you don't think he's good, you can get out of my face.)

"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
-Douglas Adams (again debatable)

"When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan."
-P. J. O'Rourke

"Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the 'lion phase,' when they fight against all such prejudices. But there's another phase only a few achieve: the childhood phase. It's the highest phase, which requires one to consider life with the naïveté of a child, to play games, to be open to all kinds of influences, and to find one's lost innocence again. That's why I play games.”
-O.Z. Livaneli, Bliss

"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."
-Maya Angelou

"You are never too old to become younger!"
-Mae West

Counterpoint: Similar to your own argument, the "adult" writers are the ones most praising "adultness."

[Anonymous No.15615371]

>>15615333
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned by those other than the workers who built and run it.

[Anonymous No.15615397]

>>15615371
so everything, including all communist nations? could you, dare i say, think hierarchy is fundamental human?

[Anonymous No.15615460]

>>15615365
i don't care about what you guys are debating, but holy fuck these all sound retarded. like actual children when they attempt to be "deep."

[Anonymous No.15615462]

>>15615397
Never even mentioned the word "hierarchy", pseud.

[Anonymous No.15615476]

>>15615365
None of that justifies reading shit-tier YA novels.

[Anonymous No.15615519]

>>15615284
>even if such people existed, their lives will still be filled with boredom
I never really tried to think of it like that. It may be retarded but I feel the constant escapism, gratification, and mental occupation that video games and social media have given me throughout my life has made it harder to just deal with mundane reality and that there always has to be something going on, which is similar to the coomer, just without porn. I've spent too much of my life in a virtual fantasy. I appreciate the advice anon.
Do you have any recommended reading that can help me give me a better perspective on how to get out of this mentality?
>>15615337
You still haven't offered any advice. Criticism without construction is only good enough to wipe my ass with. Still, I appreciate the coomer insult because it made me reexamine my mentality a bit and see how it could apply to me. I don't watch porn and I'm not in a masturbatory haze, but I still have had too much instant reward in my life which has numbed my brain. You're still a fag though. Maybe next time offer some substance with your insult.

[Anonymous No.15615528]

>>15615359

It was exactly the point that was made. I was telling him mindlessly blaming, "Capitalism," and thinking he's understood the world's issues is foolish. He opted to just bleat the word capitalism again, like the Sheep he is. I look forward to seeing the communist pigs sell him to the butcher.

>>15615462

How brain damaged do you have to be to think someone using a word that is completely in context is stupid?

You just mindlessly repeat buzzwords (like pseud) and masturbate yourself over your intellect. You are garbage.

[Anonymous No.15615537]

>>15615371

So Feudalism is Capitalism?

Pretty much any and every great society in history is the problem, you say?

[Anonymous No.15615539]

>>15615259
You are ignoring the articles. YOU can claim they are immensity bullshit but they still exist and I personally know quite a few 30+ years old that game on the regular. a lot of then with their children but some still do it childless.

[Anonymous No.15615540]

>>15615462
>mad
anti capitalist ideologies typically are such due to their position against hierarchy, which is why they will never succeed in reality.

[Anonymous No.15615547]

>>15615528
I gave you the exact definition of "capitalism" and yet you are still blathering on about "muh hierarchy" like a raving lunatic.

>You are garbage.
Classy.

[Anonymous No.15615551]

>>15615305
It's basically pulling the curtain over your eyes and covering up the noise and sensory overload that the modern world assaults you with on a daily basis. Ads, social media, video games, etc. All these things keep the human brain constantly. Homosapiens are meant to relax and think in the wild most of the time. The blindpill lit tries to show you what is useless and should be cut out, while still participating in the modern world enough to have a life. It's a midway point to eschewing the triviality of modern civilization without forgoing your life.

[Anonymous No.15615563]

>>15615519
Why would I ever want to give you advice? If you got that impression then I'm very sorry. Clearly you aren't very good at examining yourself if you can't see your self-admitted degenerate behaviour.

[Anonymous No.15615564]

>>15615540
Hierarchy is a part of human nature, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.15615574]

>>15615537
Don't get cute with me, boy. We're talking about capitalism as it applies to the modern technology-driven world.

[Anonymous No.15615591]

>>15615547
you must be brain damaged quite a bit to not see the total relevance of hierarchy to the topic, especially relating to your obviously socialist/communist definition of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.15615597]

>>15615563
Oh well, I was just open to a discussion. Have a good day fag.

[Anonymous No.15615606]

>>15615564
That's what i'm getting at you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.15615619]

>>15615591
Capitalism gives rise to a certain hierarchy based on property rights. That doesn't mean hierarchy can't exist without capitalism. This is basic logic, my dude.

[Anonymous No.15615623]

>>15615574
>The entire world and all of history is the problem. They just need to listen to my fantasies and the world will be perfect, like magic!

It's funny, you can barely manage a sentence without using your favorite bogey man bad word, and you complain when someone else uses the word 'hierarchy' once in your presence.

I understand why, too. You're a colossal loser that can't deal with it, so you try to blame everything else instead. The word, 'hierarchy,' reminds you that nature has winners and losers, in the womb, and so you recoil at the mere word.

[Anonymous No.15615625]

>>15615597
There can't be discussion when you're blind to your own posts.

[Anonymous No.15615629]

>>15615606
Have you been drinking or something? You're not making any sense.

[Anonymous No.15615638]

>>15615619
no shit, retard. and?

[Anonymous No.15615651]

>>15615623
Admit it: you are at the bottom of the hierarchy, and would be at the bottom of any rational hierarchy. You are incapable of reason, on a par with a bag of dogshit.

[Anonymous No.15615656]

>>15615629
i literally said that ideologies rejecting hierarchy can't work. and here you come restating the exact same thing and insulting me as if i disagree.

[Anonymous No.15615664]

>>15615574
The point is that your definition is absurd.

[Anonymous No.15615668]

>>15615638
And so all your posts in this thread are therefore irrelevant, based on the fallacy that opposing capitalism somehow means opposing hierarchy. Were you dropped on your head?

[Anonymous No.15615674]

>>15615597
Stop acknowledging it my dude, it's just bait. I think you don't need any advice because you seem self-aware enough to work through. I recommend just cutting yourself off from the online world a bit and seeing what matters in your life the most. Not being overloaded with technology might free up your brain to draw its own conclusions.
>>15615625
>Clearly you aren't very good at examining yourself if you can't see your self-admitted degenerate behaviour
>aren't very good at examining yourself
>can't see your self-admitted degenerate behaviour
>your self-admitted degenerate behaviour
>self-admitted

[Anonymous No.15615679]

>>15615656
No one in this thread is proposing an "ideology that rejects hierarchy", you stubborn mouthbreather. How are you not getting this?

[Anonymous No.15615684]

>>15615674
meant to add this as well >>15615563

[Anonymous No.15615685]

>>15615668
I guess I just imagined all those socialists/communists endlessly discussing the evils of hierarchies.

[Anonymous No.15615687]

>>15615359
>tripfag
your opinion is less than worthless

[Anonymous No.15615699]

>>15615664
I literally just recited the original and only definition of capitalism. There is no other definition.

[Anonymous No.15615701]

>>15615687
Great argument you little fag. Got nothing sensible to say?

[Anonymous No.15615703]

>>15615679
>Hierarchy is a part of human nature, brainlet.
I'm glad we agree!

[Anonymous No.15615706]

>>15615574
>It's your fault when something I say is incoherent
>I'm not ignorant, everyone else is just dishonest!

[Anonymous No.15615718]

>>15615685
Opposing a particular hierarchy doesn't mean opposing all hierarchy. That's like saying the abolitionist movement was in favor of abolishing "everything". No, just slavery.

[Anonymous No.15615720]

[Anonymous No.15615728]

>>15615651

Very good projection. I love seeing your mind on full display. Now internalize that everything you just said is how you feel. That's why you follow an ideology that has it's primary hook being, "Equality."

How do I know this? Because I have engaged in reason the likes of which you would blush at.

[Anonymous No.15615737]

>>15615718
except that is not what they talk about. they complain about hierarchy generally. you're are lying if you would seriously claim otherwise. the abolitionist movement was explicitly about slavery. what a fucking dogshit comparison.

[Anonymous No.15615739]

>>15613138
Do you guys seriously read nothing but boring polsci and philosophy books?

[Anonymous No.15615740]

>>15615728
>I have engaged in reason the likes of which you would blush at

[Anonymous No.15615749]

>>15612821
Cringe
>>15612841
Based

[Anonymous No.15615762]

>>15615739
It's just shitposting, everything that's been said on this thread should be taken with a grain of salt. The only ones who only read difficulty books also only chew sawdust for fiber.

[Anonymous No.15615767]

>>15615740

You laugh in self defense.

I'm certain you hated math in school, and you think yourself capable of reason.

[Anonymous No.15615769]

>>15612811
I personally like how relaxing and oftentimes insightful it is. I read "adult" literature as well, but reading about people suffering (which is what's considered the mark of "adult" literature by many people) mentally drains me a lot, sometimes I just want to read something happy and innocent to recharge myself and feel better. I also love horror aimed at children, it can sometimes be more surreal and creative than "adult" horror, which I am also a fan of. Not sure about other women, obviously, it's just me.

[Anonymous No.15615775]

>>15612811
Because AA Milne was a baller.

[Anonymous No.15615777]

>>15615737
You are in the bushes eavesdropping on the hippie girls and you keep hearing the word "hierarchy" (or "abolition") and overgeneralize like a pleb. Get a hold of yourself.

[Anonymous No.15615791]

>>15615767
>I'm certain you hated math in school
I'm a mathematician.

[Anonymous No.15615794]

>>15612811
women read book for different purpose, they read to relate to characters and develop emotional connections, to feel good and safe.

[Anonymous No.15615810]

>>15613894
more women than men play video games.

[Anonymous No.15615815]

>>15615791
>shuffles deck
>pulls out card
I'm certain you hated English in school, and you think yourself capable of reason.

[Anonymous No.15615825]

This board is really not as smart as I thought it was...

=== A scientific look at women ===
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

In general, men have approximately 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than women, and women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than men. Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of – or connections between – these processing centers.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15734366

Men’s brains are 8-13% bigger in absolute volume.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969295/

Men have 5 more IQ points in general
>http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/psicologia/pei/download/Lynn2004.pdf

Men generally score the highest in the SATs
>https://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/conf_achgapwomen_allspach.pdf

…

Men make up 75% of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
>http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/womeninstemagaptoinnovation8311.pdf

…

Women are twice as likely to get depressed, due to brooding.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786159/

Women are twice as likely to develop an anxiety disorder.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2016-06-07-women-are-more-likely-to-suffer-from-anxiety-than-men/

(1/2)

[Anonymous No.15615829]

>>15612811
>Women are suited to being the nurses and teachers of our earliest childhood precisely because they themselves are childish, silly and short-sighted, in a word big children, their whole lives long: a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the man, who is the actual human being, ‘man.’ One has only to watch a girl playing with a child, dancing and singing with it the whole day, and then ask oneself what, with the best will in the world, a man could do in her place.

>Nor can one expect anything else from women if one considers that the most eminent heads of the entire sex have proved incapable of a single truly great, genuine and original achievement in art, or indeed of creating anything at all of lasting value: this strikes one most forcibly in regard to painting, since they are just as capable of mastering its technique as we are, and indeed paint very busily, yet cannot point to a single great painting; the reason being precisely that they lack all objectivity of mind, which is what painting demands above all else. Isolated and partial exceptions do not alter the case: women, taken as a whole, are and remain thorough and incurable philistines: so that, with the extremely absurd arrangement by which they share the rank and title of their husband, they are a continual spur to his ignoble ambitions. They are sexus sequior, the inferior second sex in every respect: one should be indulgent toward their weaknesses, but to pay them honour is ridiculous beyond measure and demeans us even in their eyes.

[Anonymous No.15615847]

Women are twice as likely to develop PTSD after a traumatic event.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56506/

...

Mothers are more than twice as likely to abuse their children as fathers.
>https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2012.pdf#page=16
>Stats for all years ->https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource-library/search#?topic[3493]=3493&ajax=1&sort=recent

...

Men are physically stronger than women, who have, on average, less total muscle mass, both in absolute terms and relative to total body mass. The greater muscle mass of men is the result of testosterone-induced muscular hypertrophy. Men also have denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15746999
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8477683
>Etc…

…

“Anon if this were true why haven’t I heard it before”
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Sex in society, is the highest form of social validation and acceptance, so many people base their self-worth on how much sex they have/have had. When you say sex isn’t important (or women) you can attack somebody’s sense of identity.

There’s a reason why:
-> cunt is the most offensive word in the English language.
-> there have been extremely few successful matriarchies in history.
-> 90+% of inspirational historical figures are men.
-> women feel like the world treats them as lesser to men.
-> it’s frowned upon for men to hit women.

Think about it.

(2/2)

>Also inb4 "incel" from simps or the resident cat-lady. Lads once you understand women they are so much more easy to fuck.

[Anonymous No.15615853]

>>15615825
>6.5 times the amount of gray matter
So what? Gray matter should be renamed "gay matter". If you love men so much, why don't you go get buttfucked by one?

[Anonymous No.15615864]

>>15615077
>Blindpill Reading Chart.png
is missing Stuart Ewen. May I suggest "Channels of Desire"

[Anonymous No.15615869]

>>15615829
>One has only to watch a girl playing with a child, dancing and singing with it the whole day, and then ask oneself what, with the best will in the world, a man could do in her place.
Lol, imagine Schopenhauer as your babysitter.

[Anonymous No.15615874]

>>15615853
Uhhh??? Hello??? BASED department???!?

[Anonymous No.15615875]

>>15615847
I have noticed that as a sexually inexperienced person women are the only ones who take issue with my choice of not having sex.

[Anonymous No.15615887]

>>15613911
It's ressentiment.

[Anonymous No.15615892]

>>15615519
The bad news is that you’re conditioned to seek gratification from video games. The craving will never go away (or it hasn’t for me). I am 26yo, stopped playing video games regularly when I was 19, but I still binged on a few games. Especially now during the rona. Two books that I would recommend are:
>the mind illuminated
>Flow
But more than a book I suggest taking a physical activity (sport, wood working, sculpting, painting) and set goals/performance indicators (read flow and you will know why I am recommending this). Make it fun, like a game.
Also, be prepared to be bored. >>15615551
Thanks, read “The Shallows” and “Capitalism Realism”, what else would you recommend I read next?

[Anonymous No.15615894]

>>15615791
>I'm a mathematician.

Witty comeback, loser.

[Anonymous No.15615911]

>>15615853
Lol that's an interesting cope (not really, after all "gay" is just another form of calling somebody virgin). In response let me ask you a question:

Why do you think the most advanced cultures on Earth made that a habit?

[Anonymous No.15615914]

>>15615829
>to pay them honour is ridiculous beyond measure and demeans us even in their eyes.

Such a great quote.

[Anonymous No.15615920]

>>15615894
COPE

[Anonymous No.15615928]

>>15613381
wojack niggers btfo

[Anonymous No.15615944]

>>15614785
oh wow you're 23 and questioning yoir life
good for you

[Anonymous No.15615952]

>>15615059
>>15615043
what books have you cunts written?

[Anonymous No.15615954]

maybe they're a parent and are reading the same books their child is reading in order to better connect with them and encourage reading as more than a requirement for education.

[Anonymous No.15615962]

>>15615847
Why post incel copy pasta in a thread about children's literature?

[Anonymous No.15615967]

>>15615944
is this sarcasm or not because im 24 and starting to question mine

[Anonymous No.15615970]

>>15615962
Attention whoring.

[Anonymous No.15615973]

>>15615911
cringe

[Anonymous No.15615992]

>>15615967
starting?
if people don't start questioning and resenting life by the dawn of puperty then nothing will ever become of them

[Anonymous No.15615993]

>>15615967
It doesn't fucking matter. You could start questioning life at 45, the only difference is time lost. The average human goes their whole life accepting everything at face value so you're already a step further at 24.

[Anonymous No.15616010]

>>15615967
I'm just being an ass. An important part of your early 20s, but it's normal movement.

[Anonymous No.15616029]

>>15614989
C.S. Lewis didn't live in a time where Harry Potter and Bazinga were considered the height of culture.

[Anonymous No.15616061]

>>15612821
Based
>>15612841
Cringe

[Anonymous No.15616084]

>>15616029
I dojt think anyone considers either of those the height of culture.
Do you just create these retarded ideas in your head to support an even more retarded argument? Show me one person who thinks that.
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.15616085]

>>15613918
About 15 years too late.

[Anonymous No.15616091]

>>15615749
Based
>>15616061
Based

[Anonymous No.15616092]

>>15612811

[Anonymous No.15616131]

>>15615537
>>15615664
No. The means of production in feudalism (land) are not privately owned in the modern sense - lords did not have the same property rights that CEOs - they didn't have the right to ownership cessation. On top of this, peasants in feudalism had the right to use some of land in a lord's manor to produce for their own subsistence. Serfs had to work a corvee for their lord, of course, but this does not change that "private ownership" does not describe at all the property rights anyone had under feudalism - property rights were distributed in a dispersed hierarchical manner, rather than granted in a bundle of all the property rights to one legal entity, which is what one means by private property.
Which is relevant to the argument being made. How does capitalism produce manchildren en masse? By commodifying things that under different relations of productions are not commodities, at a certain stage in the development, production caters to consumers desires and manipulates their desires through marketing. Thus when it is profitable to sell and market products that infantilize young adults it is inevitable that capitalists will do so. As abstract as the statement "capitalism creates manchildren" sounds it actually does refer to something concrete; the comparison between a purely imaginary cause, the devil, and an actual verifiable or falsifiable cause is unwarranted.
The first paragraph of this post is such an elementary legal definition of private property and elementary description of the difference between capitalism and feudalism that the fact that you didn't know that should tell you that you should not even discuss either topic at the present since you don't know what they are.

[Anonymous No.15616164]

>>15616092
a man wrote that

[Anonymous No.15616208]

I hate women bros.

>>15613661
Schopenhauer was right about everything.

>>15613394
The word used to be respectable, oddly enough.

[Anonymous No.15616214]

>>15616084
Even the pleb trash serials in the early 1900s were better than Bazinga. It's just that fucking bad.

[Anonymous No.15616428]

>>15616164
yeah?

[Anonymous No.15616479]

>>15612811

is there any validation as to why the president speaks at a 4th grade level?

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169

[Anonymous No.15616493]

>>15612845

pretending like boomers don't obsess over 20 year olds playing baseball and football.

Gaming is at least an activity, sports fans are doing nothing buy yelling at children from the stands.

[Anonymous No.15616521]

>>15616208
imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.15616533]

>>15616493

The gamer cries out in pain as it is struck

[Anonymous No.15616538]

>>15616092

A woman wrote this. Men are perfectly cogent of their emotions but (healthy, intelligent men) will never, ever display them around f*moids. Women have less emotional intelligence than men. Anyone who has spent time around both sexes will tell you this.

[Anonymous No.15616560]

>>15612901

the first three harry potter books are enjoyable light reads. I read them when i was about 20 and thought they were fun.

People who read a lot don't always want to read serious and thick novels. I'd say the more literate you are the more likely you are to read childrens books.

My wife for instance has her undergrad in english Lit major / minor in theology. She reads kids books and YA stuff almost half the time. She's read several thousand novels, more than anyone else I know.

[Anonymous No.15616569]

>>15613001

>so autistic he can't identify humor when it's literally spelled out right in front of him

[Anonymous No.15616638]

>>15615739
>Boring
Not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.15616652]

>>15615769
>people suffering which is what's considered the mark of "adult" literature
Interesting. What are some 'adult' literature that doesn't fit into that?

[Anonymous No.15616745]

>>15612935
If you're eating candy for breakfast as an adult your opinion is irrelevant

[Anonymous No.15616852]

>>15616560
I feel like children's books are preferable to YA, at least stuff like C.S. Lewis and Tolkien; granted, those are the best of their genre.
I personally just can't fathom reading another loser-with-magical-powers who wants to bone his hot as fuck tsundere female companion self-insert power fantasy.

[Anonymous No.15617559]

>>15613894
"video games" is a large enough group that you could explore different genres and not get bored
As I've gotten older, I've stopped playing FPS games and story driven action-adventure games (because video games tell fucking awful stories) and switched over to pure strategy games and simulators. The new Microsoft Flight Simulator looks more realistic than real life.

[Anonymous No.15617565]

>>15612811
All books are children's books though.

[Anonymous No.15617591]

>>15616852
>C.S. Lewis
>the best of anything

[Anonymous No.15617740]

>>15612935
Imagine eating Cheerios that 48 other men had stuck their cock in

[Anonymous No.15617761]

>>15617740
"Excuse me but I didn't order Honey Nut"

[Anonymous No.15617882]

>>15617591
which Jewtuber shit on CS Lewis?

[Anonymous No.15618015]

>>15616652
not the other anon, but it's not easy to find. There's a quote about suffering not being equalled in terms of moving people emotionally, from someone like Maupassant or around his time, but i'm fucked if i can remember the wording or who it was actually by.

[Anonymous No.15618030]

>>15616652
Finnigans Wake.

[Anonymous No.15618044]

>>15614989
Yes, I'm all for giving your brain a rest with Percy Jackson, but someone who has only read YA fiction and never a great poem has led a poor life.

[Anonymous No.15618065]

>>15618015
googling seems to only give one decent result on the first page - https://bookriot.com/2020/05/21/happy-literary-fiction/

But even then, by the authors own admission, while they have happy endings:
>These novels are not what I’d call feel-good books.

[Anonymous No.15618071]

>>15612821
Based.

>>15612841
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.15618078]

>>15613894
"""""Men"""""" on suicide watch

[Anonymous No.15618139]

>>15615365
Fun is relative though, isn't it? I'm reading the Metamorphoses right now, and loving it. It's far more fun than Bujold's Curse of Chalion, which i've paused halfway through.

People climb mountains, run marathons, tackle huge surf. It can be daunting, and it's often a lot of work, but at the same time it can be great fun. There's also the sense of achievement, isn't there? Nothing wrong with YA, but some of us get tired of easy wins, of eating bland fare over and over, of walking up a small hill only to realise it's not that high.

which leads directly to:
>Pratchett
>Good
Pick one.

Or better:
>Pratchett
>Formulaic
>Casually racist
>Obsessed with own cleverness

>>15615397
Of course hierarchy is fundamentally human, in the sense you imply. Even anarchists believe in hierarchies, they only object to the unjust ones. Make a point, please.

[Anonymous No.15618148]

>>15618030
fair enough, i haven't read it, though i have read Ulysses, and you've made me... think/see/realise? it's not really about suffering.
Well played..

[Anonymous No.15618156]

>>15617740
Damn you are dense, have fun never having sex because your standards are too high, incel

[Anonymous No.15618160]

>>15612841
Based

[Anonymous No.15618163]

>>15618148
The only character that suffers is the reader.

[Anonymous No.15618180]

>>15613138
This is true. People like my mother (50s) read weepy formulaic bullshit that somehow involves the holocaust. These are a sort of "womens book" in the same way there used to be films for women nicknamed "weepies." If she doesn't cry at least once while reading the book it wasn't "good" and she won't recommend it to a friend.

[Anonymous No.15618211]

>>15614022
Yeah man keep building that portfolio. Keep grinding. You'll make it out on top. You won't have to wage. Hustle. Thank God it's Monday. The freelance economy will totally work out for you above everyone else you are now competing with.

[Anonymous No.15618228]

>>15615359
Have children you cunt get off this board

[Anonymous No.15618254]

>>15616533
can you not think for yourself, poltard?

[Anonymous No.15618306]

>>15613639
>Women are hedonists and their enemy is boredom, effort, risk, danger.
I know so many men who are exactly like this. Who are out there fighting on internet over cape shit like batwoman, for example.

[Anonymous No.15618360]

>>15617559
I can somewhat relate. Other things become more of a priority as we age. Keeping up with games as an adult requires one to schedule time instead of ability to pick and play for hours on end when were adolescents. So, looking into new games becomes more of a chore and therefore one often sticks to genres and games that they liked while growing up. I too go back to popular TBS games.

[Anonymous No.15618426]

>>15617559
>As I've gotten older, I've stopped playing FPS games and story driven action-adventure games (because video games tell fucking awful stories)
Agree. I switch between Fallout 4/Skyrim (casual shit, I know) for gameplay and "adventure feel" alone because the story is garbage on these. I especially like these two because it allows me to do anything, whenever I want and to live vicariously through my characters ridiculous adventures. I can drop in, for 45 min, do a quest I want and then go back to productive shit rl.

>>15618360
Exactly. It's weird to start to feel the weight of aging and obligation though.

[Anonymous No.15618492]

>>15612841
SPBP

[Anonymous No.15620057]

>>15616164
Okay

[Anonymous No.15620095]

>>15612841
This is clearly the answer OP wanted, why are people still posting?

[Anonymous No.15620127]

>>15613894
its absolutely painful to think that you've finally made a post I can agree with

[Anonymous No.15620643]

>I hate women
Then embrace homosexuality. Problem solved. They become irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.15620678]

>>15617559
>video games tell fucking awful stories
That's my main problem with gay men right now. I like gaymen, but most stories are just horrible. There are gems like the Gothic games which are really well told, but most RPG are pure dogshit if you switch on your brain.

Can you give me recommendations for games with actually good story?
I like:
>Gothic
>Planescape Torment
>Kotor (le plot twist)
>Monkey Island 1&2
>Indiana Jones 3&4

I have no problems with hunting for good McGuffins if they are actually woven into the story and not just BRING ME LE THREE GOBLIN HEADS. Bonus points for stories wich are not just "get X" and then you get X and everything is fine. (Example: Monkey Island, when you have done the three tasks you were given the whole premise changes and it's not even about what you made you do these tasks anymore)

[Anonymous No.15620720]

>>15616521
I'm trying

[Anonymous No.15620732]

>>15613894
They let me do things I can't do in real life
I can't swing a lightsaber, force-choke someone, cand explore a medieval fantasy land, can't send armies into battle

The real question is: why do people shitpost on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.15620847]

>>15613894
men like things that used to be present in the world but are not any longer. For them, the only outlet for their nature is inside a fictional realm because they would be shamed or attacked otherwise.

[Anonymous No.15620871]

>>15612811
>>15612841
>>15612935
Men into their 50s and beyond watch kids movies with big explosions and superheroes
At least your average woman reads, and on average women have always been smarter and more cultured than men
Read Chaucer

[Anonymous No.15620984]

>>15620678
Did you play the original fallout games? Don't care what you think about anything that came after 2, they don't exist

[Anonymous No.15621047]

>>15620984
I played 3 and New Vegas. 3 was bad but New Vegas quite good, especially the reasoning of Caesar was interesting. Also they pronounced him correctly which made me happy.
I heard that NV was made by the same people who made 1&2, so that may be worth it

[Anonymous No.15621062]

>>15612821
Cringe

>>15612841
Based

[Anonymous No.15621078]

>>15621062
Well upvoted and downvoted my friend! Have this Tumblr Gold kind stranger!

[Anonymous No.15621086]

>>15618156
Sorry to inform you, but we are just higher value men and only deflower virgins. Im on 193 myself.

[Anonymous No.15621142]

>>15612811
they dont you are just a faggot living in the hellscape called the west

[Anonymous No.15621183]

>>15612841
This is true. There are a few sex differences among children such as greater egalitarianism, preference for dolls and pink color in girls, but most differences are small up until the age of 9-13. With puberty, which girls experience earlier, the sex differences start to increase drastically and girls, on average, stop in their development in around the age of 15, whereas boys continue to mature and grow substantially another 2-10 years, depending on the trait. Seemingly, human females have been selected to retain their neoteny which is in line with their natural subordinate role and people's preference for females that are easy to control and conscious of their reproductive task. Below is a list of traits in which concern arrested development in female adolescents:

>Women retain crying behavior of young adolescent girls as mentioned before

>In terms of brain metabolism, the adult female brain is on average a few years younger than the male brain (Goyal 2019).

>Women are more likely to initiate intimate partner violence, which could be related to childlike tantrums.

>Women are overall more neotenous in their appearance and behavior.

>Women keep a high pitched, childlike voice, resulting in a large sex difference in adult voice fundamental (d = 5).

[Anonymous No.15621923]

>>15620984
I played fallout 1 and it honestly didn't feel anything like what people said. It felt like there was very little to no variation in how the quests played out, I looked up a few quests on the wiki to see the different ways to complete because I thought I must've been missing something, but it really did just feel like most quests had one or two basic solutions. 2 looks pretty alright though.

[Anonymous No.15622460]

>>15613894
Mental illness.

[Anonymous No.15623252]

>>15612821
Cringe
>>15612841
Based

[Anonymous No.15623280]

>>15612811
Because Rowling is based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.15623670]

>>15616131

I see mostly semantic word games.

> property rights were distributed in a dispersed hierarchical manner

Still true today.

>rather than granted in a bundle of all the property rights to one legal entity

That's corporatism. It sounds like you have a problem with corporations being legal entities rather than private property.

>Thus when it is profitable to sell and market products that infantilize young adults it is inevitable that capitalists will do so

You have no understanding of fiat currency. The people who truly rule society don't have a profit motive. The reason they don't have a profit motive is because they control the creation of fiat. Therefore their motives are maintaining their own power. Undermining family dynamics of the lower classes is a key part of this objective.

The common complaint I hear from the left is that they aren't entitled to the full product of their labor. This is true in both feudalism and capitalism.

But you don't argue for truth, you argue to defend your failed ideology, which itself is another tool of the ruling class to keep you from ever actually being a threat to them. They keep your mind bogged down in Marxist word games so you can't see reality. You are so blinded by the behavior you see in your everyday life (where you only encounter people NOT of the ruling class) you cannot imagine people with an entirely different mode of operation.

[Anonymous No.15623679]

>>15616092
>We aren't inherently different

Whoever made that meme really is stupid and is direct denial of biology.

[Anonymous No.15624094]

>>15613661
Schopenhauer was against anyone that wasn't him or Goethe, because he was scarred by the suicide of his father and learned to ressent everyone because he was surrounded by such people, but he only became like that when he was an adult. And when he was an old, he regretted his decisions, he was so focused on will that he forgot you can't human nature no matter how hard you try as its intrinsic and nobody is a god. His philosophy is interesting but his thoughts on social issues are ehhhhhhhh

His ressentment is visible in that he hated everything from nations, that anyone famous to marriage
>>15616208
I implore you to read this
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43469632?read-now=1&seq=18#page_scan_tab_contents

[Anonymous No.15624102]

>>15624094
you can't change*

[Anonymous No.15624129]

>>15620643
Yes engage in degeneracy that every civilization since the Ancient egyptians and ancient greeks didn't, and was considered unnatural and immoral since the conception of humanity until now, even though we as human beings fundementally stayed the same and still intrinsically reject those practices, but through the erosion of human nature by psychological pressure and social rewiring learned to surpress it unwillingly

[Anonymous No.15624151]

>>15615825
>scientific

Nope fuck off with empricism and scientism
>>>/sci/

[Anonymous No.15624181]

>>15613138
There's a reason there are no great female philosophers even in today's age, because they just aren't made for that. Simple as that really, people should accept it that different people aren't meant for everything, Locke ruined everything with his "tabula rasa" bullshit

[Anonymous No.15624242]

>>15620871
>average women have always been smarter and more cultured than men
What did anon mean by this?
>big explosions
Nothing to do with children.
>and superheroes
This is more relevant but rarely extends to their 50s, and women are big into them as well now.

[Anonymous No.15624718]

>>15617559
I mostly play autism games now. Opus Magnum is a recent favorite (only got it this year). I unironically enjoyed Farming Simulator too.

>>15613894
Videogames are the least braindead lowbrow media consumption today. Sportsball, TV shows, schlock literature, movies, popular music are all strictly stupider than vidya (which doesn't mean vidya isn't stupid too, only less so).
Of course shitposting is superior as a time waster but not everyone can have elevated tastes.

[Anonymous No.15626335]

>>15612935
Why is it men prefer virgins?
I do myself, and I don't feel guilty for it all, but I can't quite explain why it's such an important thing to me.

It's partly because I don't want anyone's sloppy seconds, but it feels like the reason goes much deeper than that.

[Anonymous No.15626350]

>>15612811
>obvious slide thread (attractive woman in thumbnail, retarded question)
>250 replies

[Anonymous No.15626389]

>>15626350
You need to go back.

[Anonymous No.15626813]

>>15613630
There was definitely a larger reading public a hundred years ago, and if you went back to the 1600s practically everyone had a tract or pamphlet in his hand. People became literate for a reason, and even in the 1600s literacy rates were very high in Western Europe. They were higher than the literacy rates in some African countries today.

[Anonymous No.15626867]

>>15620732
>WOWZERS I CAN PLAY JUST LIKE MY STARWARS LIGHTSABERTS

why dont you just learn to fence instead of pressing x on a controller, i cant help but think that it would be way more entertaining and fulfilling than playing videogame glow swords

[Anonymous No.15626983]

>>15612811
People CAN read anything they want as adults, it's just a bit pathetic to not move on to actual serious literature or art.

[Anonymous No.15626991]

>>15624242
Maybe not superheroes specifically but I really wouldn't rate Bazinga, detective fiction or three stooges as much better.

[Anonymous No.15627015]

>>15612811
cumshark when

[Anonymous No.15627174]

>>15613894
runescape is fun

[Anonymous No.15627673]

>>15620871
>At least your average woman reads, and on average women have always been smarter and more cultured than men
hehehheheheheh thanks for the laugh!!

[Anonymous No.15627786]

>>15626389
xD

[Anonymous No.15628779]

>>15615284
What about people who existed and their lives were actually interesting? Hell, you don't even need to be an important historical figure. The literally whos who fought under Alexander or sailed with renown explorers must have led some pretty unique lives for their time. There's no sense of adventure anymore, at least not in this world and probably not in our system. Mars seems very boring and it's the only "safe" planet we can land on.

[Anonymous No.15628800]

>>15620678
I suggest Deus Ex, Thief 1+2, Bioshock 1+2. But honestly you should prioritize gameplay over story. If you want a good story go watch a movie or read a book. Games are more about solving problems and overcome challenges with some skill.

[Anonymous No.15628816]

>>15612821
>Males do as well and why wouldn't they?
Yes there are some biological males who will never grow up, they often identify as feminists. They are also very few.

[Anonymous No.15628863]

>>15615077
Would Lasch's work belong on this list?
I am about to read "The Culture of Narcicissm", because I thought it would belong on a list like this. I am just after reading Postman, and "The Closing of the American Mind" for reference.

[Anonymous No.15628885]

>>15628800
>Games are more about solving problems and overcome challenges with some skill.
Most are, yes, but that doesn't mean that it is not a good medium to tell an interesting story

[Anonymous No.15629388]

>>15616533
holy shit thanks for the laugh