Are you guys selfish about your insights? I mean on here. Since we're anonymous, we don't really get any credit for good posts. Putting effort into posts is rarely rewarded and often punished. I want to share my knowledge with people, but they don't seem receptive, and not receiving any positive acknowledgment makes me not want to.
On the other hand really, really great posts are acknowledged, but I feel like most of the time these posts have a kind of sensational aspect to them. That makes no room for the humbler, subtler insights that can help people understand various topics incrementally better. I often feel the need to sensationalize what I'm saying so that it will be more likely to be appreciated.
That being said, I never stoop so low to reduce it to a string of memes. That's the first step down a short road to willful retardation.
I want to contribute to the improvement of discourse on this board. At this point this largely involves the task of spreading my knowledge. Most people here are undergrad or early grad level. From my experiences, it's clear that the more educated you are, the less you want to bother with this board.
What are some things I can work on in the coming year?
Are you full of yourself or am I insecure?
>>7501947
This is a place of love and acceptance! Get out!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I couldn't agree more OP.
Why you no read Burroughs?
>>7501688
Because I'm reading Gass.
he's just another cisgendered whiteboi
>>7501690
The Tunnel sounds good. Recommendations?
what's the best place to start with Friedrich Nietzsche when it comes to existentialism?
Nietzsche isn't an existentialist, although some beta writers might try to claim he is
>>7501633
>some beta writers
i.e anyone who has any understanding of philosophy whatsoever
>>7501638
explain me what in the fuck about nietzsche is "existentialist" protip u cant
Back when I was a teen, I read books, but only when I had to for school. I stumbled upon the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
>inb4 young adult fiction
This book got me into the Greek mythology and such, and then further on into reading works by the Greeks, and reading in general.
What got you started?
>>7501562
>reading
I don't read. I'm just here to shitpost
>reading
Been reading since I learnt how to.
Does language shape the way we think or does the way we think shape language
language doesn't shape shit, but it does lead to shitty things like the way german philosophers are always on about "becoming" which just sounds gay in english, also failed uprisings like france 1968 or germany 1922 being called "revolutions" is stupid, in english a revolution is only a revolution if it's permanent, otherwise it's just a failed uprising
>language shape the way we think
this one
>>7501388
Language shapes the way we think. Our thoughts are bound to the symbols and words we know(most of us).
Why isn't this translated into English?
Too much arbeit
My professor said he was a proto-fascist and responsible for Nazism. There's good reason not to translate some works.
>>7501042
Assuming you are the same fellow from the last thread, did your professor explain anything about his views and Junger being responsible for Nazism? To what extent did he just use 'proto-Fascism' as a reason to shove Junger into the Nazi box?
>there's good reason not to translate some works
Restriction of knowledge and ignorance is not one of them.
Let's start a favorite quotes/poems thread
I'll start:
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by
deception.”
“If you win, you need not have to explain...
If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
"But who's to say the Devil is sole,
a single being with a single goal
For I believe the Devil is whole,
a part of every single soul"
"No bird soars too high if he soars with
his own wings."
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
"There is no limit to the human mind, only limits
to the human capabilities"
"We own a massive fortune but we can't afford a life"
"A man with no fear is a man with no ambition
But a man with fear and no ambition is a married man"
"The Devil may visit, but God lives here!" - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.
"Deserve's gotnothin' to do with it."
"You know what time it is, when the "relentless march of technology" starts to weary you? It's time to die."
"It's always a bright and sunny day on planet earth, it's just a question of having enough elevation."
"Star attraction, movie premieres, sports events, red carpets and gala openings: the eternal war between depth and appearances. But there is no war at all between them, since the purpose of depth is to create a stronger, and thus more beautiful, appearance; to transform itself into appearance. Those who scorn appearances and evangelize depth are precisely those who are incapable of much, if any, depth: the pseudo-intellectuals, which is why it is by no means an accident that all of them are ugly."
I'll start, in no particular order :
The Brothers Karamazov- Dostovjevski
War and Peace- Toltstoj
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevski
Notes from the Underground- Dostoevski
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee
And out of curiousity: how old are you ?
I just turned 20.
yeah i can tell you just turned 20
>>7499829
Blood Meridian, American Psycho, Matterhorn, The Forever War, Notes From Underground.
Usually I think lists like this are silly and pointless because nobody will read them or care, but it's a nice conceit to order your thoughts and reflect a little bit
>>7499829
Petersburg-Bely
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
V.-Thomas Pynchon
Herzhog-Bellows
The Pendragon Legend-Szerb
Is this philosophy, or literature, or philosophical literature?
Sophistry.
It is not.
>>7497272
Yes
I have nothing to say but I want to write.
That's never stopped anybody.
>>7497137
Then write, mate.
the whole point is that you make the shit up as you go
Who the fuck wants to talk about this masterpiece of a book. Get in here.
Just finished it yesterday, thought the end was great. By far one of the best books I've read.
Excellent book. One of my favorites alongside 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
>>7493658
who was yr favourite character?
>>7493670
My favorite character was Anna Karenina.
What's the greatest work of art of this century so far?
>>7489835
9/11
unironically either the wire or the sopranos
>tfw actuality can never exceed the experience you've lived in your mind
>dreams are more fulfilling than the best possible life
the worst part is my dreams arent even that good
>>7502793
literature
>>7502793
>Not incorperating fantasy into reality for an amazing and imaginative life full of whimsy
Full pleb
hello /lit/, it is i, the literary genie of great destiny
post in this thread to receive your ultimate literary destiny. if you post twice to receive another destiny both of your destinies will be invalidated and you will experience great misfortune...you have been warned.
I was browsing tumblr the other day and a gif said my destiny was to be a sissy cumslut, is that true?
>>7502282
What is my destino, O genie?
>>7502292
no, anon. you will write a generic biography of russian tsar peter the great. it will be used as a standard textbook in a few american universities for about a decade, but never be translated into the russian language
Why do women pretend to like books?
>why do women pretend to like things for social leverage
because they're machiavellian monsters
>>7502080
So they can decorate their rooms
