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Do you think he was onto something in regards to Western society?
I think violence is sort of a new past time in the US. Whenever there's some shooting or disaster people eat it up. The media couldn't be happier, the liberal left get to scream about reform and new laws, the right get to scream about their rights and get super defensive and in the cluster of it all the actual event and victims are forgotten.
>>7990727
Our major problem is a lack of violence, not too much.
>>7990734
ok well I already know 4channer all crave violence
>>7990727
>violence is sort of a new past time in the US
Violence has been on the decline in the US for decades. I personally think videogames as a release of aggression/zombifying factor are to "blame"
Is pic related any good?
I've read some plato and some aristotle, but I'm wondering if I've missed anything that could be pointed out by an actual scholar rather than my own interpretation.
What books, other than those written by the philosophers themselves, are good for explaining the views of a given philosopher?
Any will do, it doesn't have to be plato/aristotle
>>7990712
RE: the Herman book, it's not very good. It's a pop book, with a pop understanding of Plato and Aristotle, which uses a bunch of assumptions about the characters and lives of each that are really based more on modern assumptions than anything that's either attested or in the texts themselves. The worst is this dumb assumption that Plato dismisses experience, which is simply not true and which is brought up over and over again as a starting point for all inquiries in the dialogues, and this peculiar take...
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What's the last bit of fic you read?
Go away Paul, nobody here wants to see your pale nips and book of pop-teir morality plays.
>>7990927
>pop
you mean top
>>7990927
Paul.. On /adv/ he is known as Brandon.
He is literally on every board and causing havoc. I'm honestly intrigued about what he does in his life apart from 4chan.
I've never been this intrigued by the idea of a novel before. I can't stop thinking about JR and I haven't even read it yet. I don't even own it for that matter. I've been looking everywhere in Toronto and I can't seem to get it. so I've ordered it.
can anyone who's read it please give me their two cents on it. in detail please. I'm really excited to read this.
>>7990690
>I've been looking everywhere in Toronto and I can't seem to get it
tfw copped the last copy from Indigo
I haven't read a lot of it but it's almost entirely dialogue which can be followed if you're paying close attention. It gets really fun, actually, because Gaddis has a great ear for dialogue.
>>7990747
that's funny I never even thought of going to a book store that sells new books.
>>7990690
I've said it before (>>7983229), it's one of the best, most insightful, prescient and funny books I've ever read (almost a laugh a page). Here's a sampler, from when things really start rolling.
What's the literary equivalent to Migos?
bukowski
>>7990666
wrongu satan mane
dr Seuss
memes or not?
>>7990641
I would change the N to an S on Socrates and the T to an F on both.
Socrates was more of a senser than an intuitive. Nietzsche was more of a feeler than a thinker. I would even consider changing Socrates from a T to an F.
I actually had a neuropsychologist tell me meyers-briggs tests are corporate-oriented bullshit just a couple days ago. He said something along the lines of "you can't call someone an asshole in the corporate world so you call them a 'judger' and not a thinker"
>>7990667
I repeated myself on that last sentence. Please ignore.
When it comes to foreign novels from an author do you like to stick with one particular translator or do you jump around to different ones?
>>7990640
Whichever I run into first. If I didn't like the book I may give another translator a shot if I find another copy.
There's a quote from this book that said something like "things that no one remember never existed". Anyone knows where this quote is located?
>>7990629
I dunno read the book
>>7990629
Translate it and look it up on Google, Gutenberg has the full original novel on site
The other crit thread hasn't yet hit its bump limit but i know that once a crit thread reaches over 200 posts there rises this anxiety in us that no one will read our posts and will only check out the ones closer to the top or the posts with the most replies. This is true for me at-least.
Heres mine anyway. Its called Raping Her Heinrich.Edgy i know.
If your gonna crit, ignore the spelling, grammar and punctual errors because the application i use is traysh and it doesnt gimme the old red/green squiggeld line under wrong words or phrases
http://pastebin.com/VbzJkX8k
>>7990598
Note also that the paragraphs haven't been finalized and its a mile from being complete. i just want to show off i suppose
