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Rejecting the God of his ancestors, modern man worships the People. Just as the God of our fathers is invisible, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving, so is the People.
Nobody has ever seen the People with his own eyes, yet many men believe in the People. The People is not something that can be empirically tested or physically measured, yet its existence is not questioned - children are brought up to believe in the People. The People is immortal, it cannot be killed; the People is infallible, it cannot be put on trial.
Many people have lived in service of the People, many people have died for the People's sake.
Modern men complain that our ancestors killed men in the name of God, but far more men have been killed in the name of the People. Instead of "God has spoken", they now say, "the People has spoken".
Just as our fathers worshipped God in the temple and tried to discern his will through prayer, so do the worshippers of the People hold plebiscites and referendums in order to discern the will of the People. Just as bishops and priests are the incarnations of God placed by him in positions of authority to rule the faithful, so are communist dictators and democratic representatives the incarnations of the People that the People has placed to rule over the citizens.
God has his prophets, priests, penitents, saints and martyrs, and so does the People. The God has his sacred texts and laws, and so does the People.
The People usurping the throne of God - this is what the servants of the People call the Revolution.
The People does not exist.
>have a great idea for a screenplay
>no clue how to write
this idea is going to go to waste. how long does it take to learn how to write ?
>>8230516
5-50 years depending on how much talent you have.
As long as you let it
couple weeks
/lit/ I was thinking about ending the summer later this year with some epic poetry and have been meaning to get to Paradise Lost for the longest time.
I was wondering if the experience would fall flat without reading the bible, any insight would help.
Reading the bible is critical for understanding the entirety of the western canon.
>>8230462
>entirety
Well I mean not classicism m8, and that is truly the most important part.
>>8230427
Paradise Lost is probably my favourite thing written in English. Just go for it. Definitely read the bible eventually, but you can still get a ton out Milton with some standard biblical knowledge.
>Kazuo Ishiguro on newsnight saying he wants all leave voters to explicitly say that they're not racists
Literature, not even once. and he's part of academia. What a cancer
>>8230383
what?
>>8230383
We won.
We aren't denying our racism anymore.
We have a mandate.
Walk on Jap. Walk on.
>>>/trash/
not lit
this is actually really boring and unfunny
>>8230353
Yes. Please stop posting about it.
>>8230353
Is it really, OP? srs question. Thinking about picking it up but I'm having reservations.
>>8230353
lol I know right. the only thing that ever made me smile was zaphod? Bumblebee?
What is wrong with writing a character who has no flaws?
Would be proper borz
nothing. as long as you understand no one will want to read about them.
Nothing so long as all the other characters are flawed.
>>8230312
And yet many people have read the Fountainhead.
Are shitposts literature?
Yes, if you haven't noticed what Hypersphere and TLOTIAT did.
yeah man
>>8230277
That pic was originally posted like 6 months ago
Maybe if you were up to date on your memes they would be
>tfw you don't even read books anymore because you can't bear to give up on Nicholas Nickleby and if you give it up then you'll be considered a definitive pleb
>tfw so much literature is self indulgent UNENJOYABLE no fun allowed bullshit
>tfw pomo trash takes this to another level
>tfw mccarthy is genuine trash with only the road being worthwhile
>tfw the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its lackeys (many of whom browse /lit/) treat literature as not enjoyment but as a fountain of wisdom
>tfw reading is as much a pointless worthless status symbol as travelling (lit is the pseuds equivalent of instagram whores)
>tfw laughing when watching the dying embers of reverse-fedoras praising religion as profound when Stirner lays it all out for all to see
>tfw stirner doesn't even say anything that a non common unpretentious person doesn't know, it's just that lit doesn't listen to any idea unless it has been presented by a published author
>>8230275
gotta be at least 18 to post here, friendo
>>8230275
Get off my board you stupid normie
>>8230275
>tfw retarded faggot frogposters literally unfit for life keep visiting from r9k and ruining /lit/
>reading
>getting close to the end of page (2/3 down)
>place finger on page
>flick upwards
>feel the roughness of paper against my fingertip instead of silky smooth glass
>why the fuck am I even wasting Gaia's precious air with my pathetic worthless breathing
Gaia's an earth not air goddess btw
>>8230262
What's this picture about?
>>8230262
>glass
>silky smooth
embarrassing.
What the fuck was this guy's problem? Why did he care about his dad so much? What's your favorite interpretation of Hamlet?
>Why did he care about his dad so much
>>8230197
Your dad just died and then your uncle goes and marries your mum next morning and everyone is ok with that. Plus, you're a hipster. You read books while walking around, dress in black, and make elaborate plans where making rage induced tantrum with sword in hand is preferable solution.
i'm thinking about subjects for the final work of my philosophy degree and i thought about something that could mix ethics with analytic philosophy
I know that Wittgenstein gave a speech where he talks about ethics as something "supernatural", G. E. Moore and his common sense also is near the ethics subject, Based Sokal and his Intellectual Impostures (though it can be far away from the ethics thing) and some Russell things, though he can get too political sometimes and i don't want my work to be a political centered thing
What can /lit/ recommend?
you're not doing a philosophy degree or you would know ethics is live and well in analytic philosophy, a vibrant field, not something you'd need to 'mix'
stop baiting, go read a fucking book
>>8230199
Jesus christ, i know, but in one hand we have the political-ethics and i don't want to get into that, neither into the science ethics. I want to see the meta-ethic sense, like Wittgenstein in his conference. Discussing the meaning and the value of ethics from an analytic perspective
>>8230199
Btw, my university is purely continental, here in Spain people is talking Lacan and bullshit like that, we only studied a little of Analytic philosophy and even less about the ethics of that branch
![MeditationsMarcusAurelius1811[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BXpm1Sf.jpg "MeditationsMarcusAurelius1811[1]")
Is Meditations any good? Found it in the wiki here.
I'm a business student and I really want to get into casual reading, especially over the summer, because I don't read enough as it is and I wanna improve my reading speed to help with school.
I don't think I'd be too into fiction. I just read the big short and thought that was pretty good. Besides my major, which is accounting, I guess other stuff I'd be interested in would be philosophy or psychology, or even other business concepts. Idk, learn me on reading please /lit/ ?
Descartes did it better
>>8230152
Meditations may not help you with reading but it will help you with living
Seriously, read one chapter occasionally, you'll learn and understand so much about life and the world that you will be surprise.
Dazai Osamu is likely the most tragic, committing suicide in the middle of writing a novel called Goodbye.
On another note, was James Joyce really schizophrenic?
Samuel R. Delaney is a gay, insane, pedophile with dyslexia that went from writing legitimate science fiction to poopoopeepee pepe tier gross out "erotica"
>>8230092
Joyce want schizophrenic he was just drunk.
And Irish.
>>8230554
>drunk.
>And Irish.
That's redundant.
Alright, so, this is absolutely killing me.
I'm looking for (the name of) a book I read when I was small'ish - back in the mid 1990's, I guess.
It reminded me a lot of Watership Down, in that the protagonists, as well as the antagonists, of the story were anthropomorphized animals, and the tone of the story was 'dark'.
A peaceful forest settlement of animals was 'invaded' by white/silvery monkeys/gorillas, who had fantastic ideas/technology. Just that, as time went on, these white or silvery monkeys/gorillas effectively enslaved the population, through violent means as well as through dependency. (Colonialism ho.) The book had a sad or bad ending - no freedom to be had for the forest animals.
What may be making this harder (for me; perhaps someone can draw parallels and realize what the original story is) is that I read the book in Dutch. It may even be by a Dutch author and not internationally translated... If so, I'm out of luck.
I've searched for years. Literally every few months tried searching again, but I've always come up empty-handed.
Does this story ring any bells for anyone? I'd be eternally grateful!
>>8230091
Darude - Sandstorm
(I know it too ;)
>>8230149
came up as a song
thanks but thats not it
>>8230091
Sorry don't know it. Although a popular book when I was growing up was Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which has some similarities. Might put you on the right track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Postmodern_novels
How many have you read?
15
All of the Ryu Murakami, JG Ballard, PKD, Burroughs, Eco, Pynchon, Calvino, and The Illuminatus!.
Barth and Vollman have been on my list for a while.
Also Dave Eggers on that list? Can we remove that? What a hack, I'll bet he put himself on there.
>>8230040
>Can we remove that?
Go ahead.
