/lit/ - Literature

>"If therefore, it is wished to avoid disharmony, dullness and oppression in all social (and literary) contexts, each problem must be regarded as unique, to be settled by right choice based on instinctive good principle, not by reference to a code or summary of precedents.... Positive right choosing on moral principle must supersede negative respect for the Law which, though backed by force, has grown so hopelessly inflated and complex that not even a trained lawyer can hope to be conversant with more than a single branch of it."
- Robert Graves

>"As soon as the particular effects are foreseen at the time a law is made, it ceases to be a mere instrument used by the people and becomes instead an instrument used by the lawgiver upon the people and for his own ends."
- Friedrich Hayek

Does the inherent conflict between nature of law and the nature of human or social problems make law more, or less, effective? Is law the best method of guaranteeing justice? Do social structures and conditions affect the need/lack of need for law, or is its conflict with human nature universal?

IIRC it exploded due to some stories about miracles that went viral during the Middle Ages, and wasn't nearly as significant before that

people needed some excuse for this
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>>5995844
>ravaged by bots posting spam
>implying it isn't normally

>trigger warning CSS
baawwwwwwwww
that doesn't impede anything, /pol/ just gets butthurt if you poke the slightest amount of fun at them

>false dubs making replies and links not work unless you manually deleted a digit
heh

>20 constantly changing word filters for common words
>why can't I post one-word replies with overused memes any more?

>/pol/ was unusable
I was there, it was functioning basically as normal except with a dense muck of "END OF /POL/" shitstorm threads floating over the proceedings

>moot's own posts during this period
>like the one where he said only losers watch anime, etc.
egads you people are new

>>5995868
sorta depends on the issue

Judith Butler obvs

bell hooks and Audre Lorde are among the writers whose entire range of ideas seem most broadly accepted by the people seen as "SJWs", and come off as least dated

w/r/t race, Said and Fanon are significant

Simone de Beauvoir I think is relevant to the "gender is a social construct" thing, as well as much of the ongoing agenda of socially-oriented feminism

a lot of the "this seemingly innocuous thing actually helps entrench invisible systems of power" is basically politics read through Foucault

mods

https://www.academia.edu/3718022/Zinaida_Gippius_and_the_Mystical_Anarchism_of_the_Silver_Age

>>5995824
How do you rip off GURPS? Isn't that the system that's designed to accomodate any world ever?

>>5995689
I still don't get this. How did moot "firebomb" /pol/? He tested a change people used to want to a system that didn't do anything there, a change that now applies on all boards. Since people were paranoid he decided to blatantly troll them with "trigger warnings" and some word filters. the only thing that impeded normal posting was /pol/'s decision to panic, and [s4s] taking advantage of it.

Holy shit, you guys developed an e-celeb problem so bad it got covered by the Daily Dot?

>>5971724
when I say a play's "about" a thing I don't mean it's "only" about that thing. lol

>>5971697
"dots"?

is it the glow of dying suns itself that is being blinded, or should there be a comma there? (in which case it's still an awkward juxtaposition)

"to which we have returned"

I really like what you're doing with sound, though.
>"doomed and dirt-bound"
>the whole boots line
>"skulls smack the mud"

>>5971726
genocides are not typically "sung".

"psychic cough" is great, too much of the rest seems cliché ("climb limbless through the landfill") or prosaic ("some other obsolete tyranny")

>>5964693
a lot of avant-garde window-dressing, but the statements (all totally unrelated to each other) mostly seem to pan out as edgy clichés on the level of OP's, and not even phrased much better ("An archangel, mutilated." "Where is God?" "Rotting inside. you know they are." "half faded residues of your teenage years" the entire last stanza)

>>5965837
"deathly nip" unintentionally hilarious. too many lines here seem like pointless elaborations on previous lines spun out to fit the format.

>>5965853
"the flood's all drew/the babble shook the roots from out her clasping" easily best 2 lines ITT

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>>5967182
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>>5967192
these all the same person? extremely strong use of line breaks. Touche seems a bit trite and abstract, especially for what it's dealing with. the October one has some really nice sound stuff going on but a lot of archaisms that kind of threw me. the Ulster one and the rape one are both great.

>>5967203
This just seems like using a lot of words to say something really simple, with forced alliteration.

>>5969654
I wonder if "disconnected" is the right word in the first line. "cloud roiled" is also awkward.

>>5971678
5 lines of rattling off hallucinatory-urban-dystopia clichés really necessary? I like "poised to end our thirst" and "Shrapnel surgeon" though

So does the monstrous reveal itself in
Each contradiction, or is that just where
it hunts? Its goal to fill the alien space,
desecrate the temple, a hockey puck.
Or is contradiction itself a thing
that can only be seen with strong, slightly
monstrous eyes, temple-guarding lions?
There seems to be none in muscle or wind
or anything unused or self-using.
And from this principle seems to issue
the rumour of a secret diction which
can speak through feelings without hurting them.
But is feeling an original sin?
One time I got uncomfortably zen.

>>5966703
>Dark Enlightenment artificial-nostalgia memers acting like Shakespeare wrote in a stable feudal society, not one that was itself undergoing rapid modernization
>doesn't realize Lear is a play about modernization

>>5958197
>interested in psychological basis of modern extremism
>posting some Chapters-Indigo-tier pop bullshit
>not posting Wilhelm Reich - The Mass Psychology of Fascism

but anyway, this line of investigation could just result in OP's narrative getting abstracted and wooden. OP should do what the first guy said and immerse themselves in fascist spaces, but read theory as a supplement/way of keeping the abyss from staring back too much. Ultimately, OP coming to insights of their own based on their own experience would be more interesting and productive than repeating someone else's.

I'm working on a similar thing right now, actually. Good luck, and may the best writer get published first!

>>5957618
some good stuff in here but I have to wonder if you have any examples of the kind of coverage you're straw-historianing towards the end. I mean... who besides /pol/ types commends the colonial ventures in Africa and India on grounds of "statebuilding"? Colonialism created failed states or deeply troubled ones (India) at best, this is uncontroversial. Heavy, guilt-ridden coverage of the history of colonialism is widespread in most history departments, if not as untouchable (thanks to the lack of a convenient left-right convergence) as similar coverage of the Holocaust. And what mainstream Stalinist historians?

The Book Market. Multi-branch used bookstore in the habitable part of Canada, cheapest fucking books ever but with tons of obscure academic-tier stuff, as well as weird pulp genre shit you'd find nowhere else. No organizational system whatsoever, they just cram the maximum possible amount of books literally anywhere they'll fit, but the staff are usually able to find a specific thing if they have it (don't ask me how), and apart from that it's a great place to browse if you're looking to discover new books you'd never even hear about and walk away with like 5 of them for $20.

Stop being edgy and use a schedule. I learned this the hard way. (Give yourself some deliberate wiggle room for spontaneity, though.)

Are you Canadian?

Do any libertarians specifically bother with opposing determinism on a philosophical level? Most determinists understand that we experience life as if we have free will, and ergo for instance still do things: freedom from perceptible influence is still arguable as a psychological and socioeconomic benefit, even if not freedom as an ontological fact. Your stance on determinism doesn't change the fact that you'd probably rather live in a country with civil liberties than under Stalin... right?

>>5931257
>functional tier
Anarcho-syndicalism
>inb4 MUH CHOMSKY

>nice supplementary theory tier
Mutualism

>risky tier
Anarcho-nationalism
Anarcho-transhumanism

>edgy tier
Anarcho-capitalism
Anarcho-primitivism

>magical thinking tier
Agorism

>so broad as to be meaningless tier
Anarcho-communism

>category mistake tier
Anarcha-feminism

How does it compare to Consumed by David Cronenberg?

>>5930526
Deconstruct the ideal of (mental) virility you seem to be basing your opinion of yourself around

>>5932676
OP is trolling, but this is a good question.