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what are the most SJW books that were written before the invention of the word SJW
A Critique of Pure Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse and co.
"Marcuse claims that tolerance shown to minority views in industrial societies is a deceit because such expressions cannot be effective. Freedom of speech is not a good in itself because it allows for the propagation of error; Marcuse believes that "The telos of tolerance is truth". Revolutionary minorities hold the truth and the majority has to be liberated from error by being re-educated in the truth by this minority. The revolutionary minority are entitled, Marcuse claims, to suppress rival and...
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It depends on whether you mean leftism including its opposition to sexism and racism and such, or specifically the kind of lazy bourgeoisie pseudo-leftist liberalism that even leftists criticize today.
Just because someone is a skeptic or cynic and rejects any suggestions or answers in a debate that are absolutist in nature, does it justify not debating or not pursuing answers at all? I find that a lot of people who call themselves cynics are actually just people who are unwilling to engage in thought and are misusing that term.
I don't think you should let others should tell you which actions are justified, OP.
If you have fun debating, then debate.
I think it's impossible to not pursue answers regardless of your decisions though.
Perhaps Nietzsche should have attacked apathy rather than nihilism.
What are some books with a setting and prose as comfy as The Secret History? I found it a very enjoyable and smooth read.
>>8228283
Barchester Chronicles are comfy af bro.
is this an accurate reading of the Stranger, /lit/?
get out r9k
no, but it might sound correct if you only know the plot summary
>open a book you piously excitecum about reading
>The anticipation clams
>you begin breaking in the binding (for obvious reasons)
>Such a wonderful condition this book is it
>find SHARP, dog-eared page, also my paranoia trigger number
>probably looks. it hasnt even been ready yet.
>the book hads been not read.
I don't know who these people...
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Bumping so mods can delete
How does one sage again?
i shoved my jumper into my new book today.
whole first chapter folded over twice near the spine.
i understand why you can't type straight; it's a travesty.
Any books that provide a positive/heroic outlook on war?
Preferably pre-WWI
Literally any history and lots of rhetoric, poetry, and drama from ancient Greece and Rome. In the pre-Christian world, immortality was won through valor; wars were fought accordingly.
Diodorus:
>For the inheritance which the Spartans receive from their fathers is not wealth, as is the case with all other men, but an eagerness to die for the sake of liberty, so that they set all the good things which life can offer second to glory.
Caesar:
>“Why hesitate, Vorenus? What better opportunity do you want to...
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Post the greatest idea you've ever come up with
>>8227461
>stop jacking off so much
book made out of diamonds
What if I reached down my throat and pulled out my heart?
Opinions on this?
Decent, not great.
What is wrong with Krauts?
>>8227349
Still butthurt about the
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They're pretty good works of Science fiction.
And this, it's a series.
Maybe get on tinychat? I want to get the band back together. You know the place.
I would be interested in joining a band
>>8226958
>I want to get the band back together.
Kyle... I already told you man... I have a wife and kid now. Maybe we were just never meant to make it...
I'm wondering if anyone has a reading list or anything of the sort for some starting to study Sociology.
Mostly looking for philosophy related to early Sociology. Things from people like Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, etc.
Any recommendations?
>>8226911
Your list is already great. Get reading!
>>8226920
Can you recommend any specific works? I mean I have an idea of important sociological philosophers, but deciding which works to read is the hard part.
Threads on books that should be banned, I'll start:
The Stranger
The Catcher in the Rye
Infinite Jest
>Any book I don't like
ITT: Dumb things people that read books say
>"Well, just as long as it [reading Harry Potter/any young adult novel really] gets them into REAL books, it doesn't matter."
Is it dumb because you consider them real books or that it won't get people to read real books?
>">"Well, just as long as it [reading Harry Potter/any young adult novel really] gets them into REAL books, it doesn't matter.""
No kid is going to read Ulysses.
Why the fuck do you care about what kids are reading anyway?
I'd like to get your guys' opinion on something.
I wanted to write about a character whose background is that she''s a female who was basically raised by an older male who was not biologically related to her.
Is it in bad taste to not specify the exact ages of those involved or nature of their relationship?
I still want to show that the female character has very emotional feelings about said male and it would be implied that their ages differed by about 10 years, which would probably place her as an older child when he begins caring for her.
