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In your own words, explain Marxism
>>8051644
worship of an immaterial fantasy realm that appropriates the language of materialism in order to be taken seriously.
stupid shit for faggots and retards
>>8051644
Muh feels and gibsmedats
So which is it, /lit/?
I'd only pull the lever if the one guy told me too.
Just fucking pull it and be done with it
>o-oh but it would be ethically wrong because you s-stop being an observ-
Fuck you, pull it and look away.
If all philosophers in human history were put into a giant gladiator arena and they were to have a fist fight to the death, who would emerge victorious?
Who would die first?
They're all gay so they'd just fuck and die of aids.
Trick question(?), none would fight
>>8054262
>were to have
wow you are one of the biggest high schooler on 4chan
Is there a correlation between intelligence and attraction. Meaning ugly/unpopular people find solace in education because they never got pussy or had many friends.
I see a lot of self-deprecation on this board. If you were to post a picture of yourself, how do you think others would react to it.
>>8052798
i think this girl needs soap with salt/soda face mask more than feminism because she has acne
>>8052802
Stop avoiding the question with sexism.
you sound like a young fool. Delete this before the mean people come for you
which books will help me understand in great detail this whole new trend of SJWism / PC culture / cultural appropriation / etc.?
>>8052191
The Talmud
The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion
Rules for Radicals
The Unabomber Manifesto
>>8052191
Try the psychology section, look for stuff relating to projecting insecurities
>>8052211
why?
>he isn't fluent in Latin and ancient Greek
>>8051896
>he made a new thread just to pretend that he is
>>8051896
>he wasted years learning....
>learning what?
>Latin!
>haha what a dork. I bet he thinks he's so classy reading ancient inscriptions and knowing what legal terms mean
>Chad and I practice French together.
>OMG that's so dreamy. I'm meeting up with Brad tomorrow to go over the Spanish quiz
>>8051923
>Women
Tfw
>R9k
>spend 10 years avoiding Wallace because I think he's some final boss of literature
>decide to read up on him this week on a whim
>he was a literal meme retard
>Infinite Jest was B+ at best, same shit done by a dozen other guys in the 20th century except they actually worked out their ideas instead of just being a trendy celebrity with them
>Brief Interviews is exact same thing, just read Barthelme and ten other guys instead
>only a trendy celebrity because horrendous parody-of-themselves-tier writers like Barth, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Heller, and Franzen greased the wheels for him to be famous
>would have been nobody if (also a shit hack totally derivative of DeLillo fuckup moron) Franzen hadn't launched him to fame while at the peak of his own fame
>these famous New Sinceritiers didn't even understand him, even HE thought they didn't understand him
>unpleasant as fuck, just a weird dude who acquired celebrity status and then killed himself
>got mad at people constantly for not understanding his "project", kept getting memed at interviews all the time
>admittedly even he, himself, didn't understand depression and addiction
>every coverage of his """""""""ideas"""""""" is 90% composed of WASN'T HE QUIRKY???
>SO QUIRKY!!!!
>surrounded by yes-man morons (opinionless voids) everywhere
>respectable publishers at the time and Zadie Smith sucking his dick all the time
>even though no one understood him and only because of his """"""ECCENTRIC""""""" personality they'd scribble down "His ideas come to us as if by revelation. He is a divine god and I want to suck his cock."
>literally a meme
>literally a retard
>just the shitty Dos Passos of a bygone generation
Alright, no more joking around. DFW fanboy people are fucking morons. Joyce, Pynchon, John Green, I kept forgiving and forgiving and forgiving you people for worshiping actual autistic children like these fucks, thinking Suicide Boy was going to be some top secret American suicide like Full Metal Jacket. And it's just more shit. You are actually all morons.
This isn't banter. If you are a DFW fanboy, or a fan of any bandana-wearing cuck, YOU are a MORON
i wonder what it's like to be so mad that you type out a whole bunch of quirky nonsense in green quotes
Agree in full except for the inditement of Pynchon and Joyce, who are both not only excellent but certified by the fact that they are basically worshiped by academics.
DFW is autistic
>>8051553
this
OP is right about almost everything.
Why did no one tell me how good this was?
>>8051505
What is this?
how much Xanax do you do or meme rap do you listen to?
>>8051505
lol
How do I write like him?
>>8051257
Be an ivy-league educated genius. Smoke dank and watch cartoons.
>>8051259
>Ivy-league educated
>Cornell
Ebin meme dude
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what does /lit/ think of Jung? probably more than anyone else, this man has shaped my approach to philosophy and opened the door to Hegel for me. never see him discussed here, however.what's the consensus on freud?
>>8050394
Jung tried to water down Freud's ideas. If you bring up Jung in an academic setting you may get laughed at. Jung's ideas are almost completely unverifiable. Most parapsychogists wack off to Jung while most psychotherapists look at Freud as the great forunner of their field. The difference between the two can be boiled down to their theories. Freud believed that psychical processes could be boiled down to physical processes. Jung believed that there was some kind of uber-mystical importence to the unconscious...
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>>8050394
His theory of archetypes is excellent. It is a great resource for finding the commonality in figures. The different mythic pantheons down to low brow fiction and even in how historical figures are portrayed often reveals an archytypal base.
Archetypes, while people like to believe that they exists in man, are actually man's tendency to experience similar symbols to those of others. Thus we see reccurent themes (Sun, serpent, ressurection, etc.) constantly in all cultures and times.
By examining one's...
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>what does /lit/ think of Jung
Best time to experiment with sex and drugs.
>21st Century Literature thread
The classics are good, but there is also some really good, serious (i.e not YA) post-millennial literature that seems to have been overlooked by /lit/'s resident "patricians". Does /lit/ have any fav 21st Century authors (that aren't John Green)?
For example, pic related is Junot DÃaz - look him up.
Junot Diaz's accolades are the result of political correctness run amok. Utterly turgid writing punctuated by references to the lowest forms of popular culture.
Helen DeWitt
Diaz is meh
>21st century short story
>it's written in second person
Casual literature conversation
And
Questions that don't deserve their own threads.
Who are some good contemporary authors?
I couldn't find the book "early greek philosophy" mentioned in pic related on the internet and because I'm a NEET I can't buy it, I did found "The presocratic philosophers" by the same author Jonathan Barnes, if someone here has read both could you tell me if the content varies too much between the two books? Also, Does anybody knows of a site where I can acquire books for free instead of having to google "book name pdf"? Thanks everybody
I would like to recommend Strindberg's Inferno to everyone on this board. It deals with constant stress and anxiety, genius and desperation, as well as a crackling family life and the certainty that men and women will never function together. There is also occultism and bohemian (that is, poor) life in Paris. It's short and easy to read, and has probably been translated to your native language, if you for some reason don't like reading in English.
ulysses reading group/discussion chat
come meme about ulysses https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPUJMn17c
>>8043347
hello goato
>>8043347
hello goato
hello goato
I usually wait until there's already a couple of threads about him, but what the fuck. You know the drill, /lit/. Gimme some of your best memes. Anything about John Green should go in this thread. Shitposts are welcome. Non-shitposts are also welcome. You don't even have to hate the guy. Just come on in and make yourself a nice cup of coffee. There's creamer and sugar somewhere around here as well, if you're not fine with having it black. I think Janice left some donuts somewhere, too. Might be in one of the drawers. Yeah, I know, that's a dumb place...
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bumpin for hatred.
>John Green
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Chesterton edition
>Favourite Chesterton novel
>What do you like about it
>Why is he the only happy surrealist?
First for brent weeks, sanderson and rothfuss
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>>8040799
Is there a Napoleon of Notting Hill audiobook somewhere?
