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Was "The Prince" satire?
No, but your life is.
No. Machiavelli was just an anti-liberal faggot
No, it was a job application.
I don't mean some hemingway or jack Donovan meme shit, I mean more like hardening the fuck up and doing what needs to be done, working hard, stiff upper lip, persevering, stuff. I've always read a lot of camus and whiney "what is le point" trash, but recently read The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams and had my mind blown. Give me more stuff like that.
>>7400902
yukio mishima - sun and steel
Epictetus - discourses and handbook
Get a girlfriend. Seriously.
Pop Culture and Philosophy:
Is it /lit/-approved?
*cruises in on a segway with pokemon stickers on it* Yes
There's certainly a place for it. Kind of strange that it's themed around specific brands though. If the philosophy were first and foremost it wouldn't be themed, there would just be a smattering of examples from multiple reaches of pop culture that would illustrate the philosophical ideas. When it's themed you know it's mostly about the brand, not the philosophy.
It was a shit book. They made George look like a total and complete loser in life in the book. George was my favorite character and I thought he was the most complex of the gang. He was the lovable fool, the book paints him to be a thumb-sucking loser who wets the bed at age 40.
who is the best writer in the spanish language?
Pynchon
>>7400851
If you mean native spanish speaker.
Cervantes
Bolano
Ruiz Zafon
>>7400851
Tu Mama
Why does is say Paradife loft?
A marvel of imagination and poetic granduer
Also kinda boring and gay teebeeaych familia
Long 's' used to look like an 'f'
Typo.
Is he the most reddit author there is? Muh old ones
>basing your view of an authors work on his retarded fanbase
leave this shit on /mu/
>>7400883
But Lovecraft actually is shit, reddit aside
>>7400895
I don't like Lovecraft either but your still a faggot with shit opinions for even having to use "reddit" as a signifier of your dislike of someone's work
ayo /lit/
is cyberpunk dead?
Yes, and with good reason. It was a shit sub-genre.
>>7400785
Welcome to 30 years ago.
well, it basically happened already
Philosopher Robert Nozick proposed the following thought experiment:
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, pre-programming your life's experiences?... Of course, while in the tank, you won't know that you're...
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in a heartbeat
criticisms of the experience machine are retarded
>>7400782
if the machine could stimulate or manipulate the brain and our memories in such a way that you forget you ever entered/heard about the machine then yes
>Pynchon isn't cannon
How the fuck is it fedora to declare that Pynchon, a male author, is not a
>large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare.
>>7400731
700 page tomes about eating scat, parabolas, and penises are not really canonical in my book.
pynchon is clearly a rocket you dunce
Is this the height of early 21st century philosophy?
>>7400717
I love that picture.
And her name is Analia.
