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>Deep thinking philosophers and authors.
Can you send me my check please.
>Thank you /lit/
>zizek that low
kek
put him above plato
>continental obscurantists on the bottom
Yeah, the list isn't biased at all. It's like your education of 20th century analytic philosophy stopped at 1920s.
Sage
Hey /lit/, which art form is the easiest to scam people and convince them you're an artist?
Pic related.
Not pic related because I think he was a scammer, just his art form is what I'm relating.
Doesn't matter what medium. Just add SJW ideals and everyone will love you.
I've never been quite sure what the purpose of art is, so I'm not sure how exactly you can fail to achieve it but make people think you did. The idea of tricking people into enjoying things is weird; if they think they enjoyed something, isn't that the same?
>>8016975
Modern art isn't a scam, it's a scheme to avoid taxes and keeping plebs out of billionaire circles
>Dream of the Red Chamber
>one of the best books from one of the largest countries with the largest populations on this planet
>hardly anyone I know even knows about it
Why isn't more said about Chinese literature and what are some of the more modern works?
Posting what I've saved from some threads about Chinese lit here: (each paragraph is a different post)
阿城《棋王》 is the best work of Chinese fiction I've ever read. Aside from one Daoist/mystic section about chess, it's very readable. 《孩子王》 is alright too.
鲁迅 is not very difficult and《阿Q正传》is hysterical (especially if you've ever spent any time with mainland Chinese)
《活着》is pretty easy. Neither 王朔's nor 莫言's books are difficult, but I find both authors juvenile.
If what...
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>>8016970
>maybe listen to a radio drama of 水浒
>and maybe eventually 水浒.
It's like the Chinese room problem has learnt how to shitpost.
>>8016991
I'm assuming the radio drama is an abridged version and not an audiobook.
20,000 leagues under the sea... worth reading?
And king solomons mines... 2 titles i rarley hear mentioned on this board
weird twitter is fucking garbage
there are five classes of people:
1 me and my actually postironic friends
2 people who think they are postironic but actually aren't
3 tumblr who thinks they are 2 tier, but are actually below 2 and even worse
4 reddit memes
5 my mom
weird twitter is like a 2.5 at best, mostly 3
tao lin is 3.5
i'm tired of reading shitty post-irony. get on a csgo server and say gay shit with other dudes, talk about each others cocks when you arent gay, thats postironic. say niggers constantly when you...
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wtf 'postironic' is
How did he get to be so famous?
Why does everyone seem to know Nietzsche when philosophers in general are mostly obscure figures cloistered away in libraries?
The really weird part of this is, he's never really been all that well embraced in academia. Most philosophy departments don't have a Nietzsche course like they do for say Kant.
Yet here he is, far and away the most popular philosopher ever.
because of his edginess
because people who are attracted to philosophy are people who are essentially insecure about what life is about and what to do about it and he's empowering and insightful enough to make even a v depressed person feel euphoric, even if it is only for a moment and he's vulnerable enough that you can't help but love him and feel like he's a mate who feels your pain more deeply than you and can express it more articulately than you and can find solutions better than you.
Having said this when it comes to practical real world application of what freddy...
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Do you consider reading the newspaper a good habit of literature?
yeah although the only good paper in the usa the ny times has been disgracing itself with desperate hillary shilling, but then again they also supported the iraq war lies...yeah, reading the nytimes will make you smarter, but only if you read it critically since its filled with propaganda bullshit
NY times and wallstreet journal are both about the same reading level. They're even owned by the same company, the main difference is that one's liberal and the other is conservative. Most local newspapers have an 8th grade reading level, but it's not bad to keep up on current events
>>8016821
is reading a newspaper better than digital?
I use BBC and Guardian news apps.
Write about a time when a person convinced you to do something you weren't sure about. What did that person do or say to persuade you? Explain how that person's advice helped or hurt you. Should you have made your own decision?
If you cannot think of a time you were persuaded, then write about a time you persuaded someone.
3 Paragraphs
Intro - Discuss element of persuasion
Body - Explain your particular situation
Conclusion - Draw a conclusion about being persuaded
>>8016724
You can do your highschool homework on your own, we believe in you!
>>8016724
1) tell your kindergarten teacher that you cannot do this homework because you disagree with Hume's solution on the problem of induction (the only solution that she'd even remotely possibly have heard of)
2) get infinite sex
3) coolest kid in the group, high fives by peers
>>8016724
"how I lost my virginity and smoked marijuana "
It was late afternoon and I just got finished from the gym. and suddenly I have received a text from a girl I was talking too from a online dating website called OKcupid.
She texted me saying "Hi"
I replied hey how are you with a smiley emoji face
She then instantly replied back "Oh Nothing I got out of work early today, Would like to meetup"
After reading her reply My heart started beating very fast" But for some reason...
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What does /lit/ think of Magic Realism?
I like it
100YOS is a great read
Never fails to induce erections.
>>8016710
Luis Borges king of it
Is writing in first person another way of projecting?
>>8016652
call me ishmael
as long as ur not writing from a woemans perspective its alright because honestly a womens perspective is probably the worst kind of perspect 2 have
I project very easily by writing in third person
>Pound broadcast four times a week from 1940 until Mussolini's arrest in July 1943, starting with the words: "Europe calling, Ezra Pound speaking." He blamed Jews for the economic conditions he believed had caused the war and described the US president as Franklin D Frankfurter Jewsfeld and the Chinese leader as Chiang Kike Chek.
>"You have got to learn a little, at least a little, about the history of your allies," he told his listeners. "About Jew-ruined England. About the wreckage of...
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>>8016443
He was right.
He was also one of the greatest poets ever.
We could say he was totally redpilled.
>>8016443
Jew hatred is as low-brow as it gets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKe600qHEAg
Do you agree with the School of Life on this one?
In a sense. The difference is that Western "philosophy-religions" such as Buddhism are practiced every day. You can go to a Buddhist monastery and listen to the wisdom of a monk. You cannot, however, go to an epicurean commune to live a life as Epicurus. Western philosophy is studied as a "thing of the past", while eastern traditions are cultivated on a daily basis. Thus, they are more easily approachable.
>>8016413
lel is the trivia about the whore true?
>>8016413
Okay so the video spouts the cliché that the West is worthy in some way, not at all too despicable, with the fantasy that getting a user manual for the western philosophies would make people happy. He fails to see that the misery of the West is that they more or less understand that hedonism is a dead end, whereas these people refuse to stop being rationalist and keep seeking a way to seek a definition of ''a valid idea'', with the most pathetic attempt being the most recent one: the empirical...
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QTDDTOTT
What font is this book in? It's sexy and I want to use it for my own stuff.
It's custom made, but here are some that are similar:
https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/results?ch%5B0%5D=T&ch%5B1%5D=&ch%5B2%5D=L&ch%5B3%5D=W&ch%5B4%5D=&ch%5B5%5D=i&ch%5B6%5D=M&ch%5B7%5D=I&ch%5B8%5D=E&ch%5B9%5D=n&ch%5B10%5D=&ch%5B11%5D=&session=0002b29957246ab10006531b00000c7e1&x=72&y=23
now mine:
Who is the Mars Volta of Literature?
why is my life bad?
>>8017452
that question did not deserve a post.
There is a beast lurking about
Shaggy 'n' cov'red in dark tendrils
It flashes it's bloody eyes at me
It is a fascimile of a smile
And it knows I know this
A while passes and so does the focus
The reprieve is short lived
It is always standing, always watching
Who watches the watchers indeed
The everlasting punishment of it's gaze
At times when it becomes much too much
Rest is granted, sweet oblivion comes for me
Racing onwards it fills me and
For a while I am complete
Then I wake to my watcher
Thusly the...
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WHY DO PEOPLE SAVE FUCKING THUMBNAILS
My scarf roja, lanar y cálida
that is wrapped around my throat
is a noose that ties me to the gibbet-lintel
of propriety. I rip it off;
it flutters in the wind like the wing of a blackbird
that bats with all his strength, and lets the wind
underwing for that he can fly away:
un punto negro en vista azul.
With one hand I hold the scarf high above my head
as the other grips the handle of the bicycle
and it catches the wind roaring in its playground
that is encircled by clouds
and it does a dance for that it hails its passing.
I loosen...
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>>8016044
ITT: White CIS privileged males sprouting bullshit they've read from some "obscure" poet to make their "hard life" seem interesting.
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Why do so many modern adults take pride in watching superhero films and reading YA?
>>8016020
My emotions matter, victim = hero mentality. Or choice.
Because its entertainment. I dont see how that's hard to understand.
They're still children or they're just retarded. Even as a kid I didn't read YA because it's schlock.
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What was the scariest thing you read as a child /lit/? And why was it Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?
Also general Scary Stories thread for discussion purposes.
I've come to vipe your vindows.
>>8015929
God damnit you just gave me flashbacks. That story is almost as creepy as the one about the hunter out in the woods who gets taken by the fucking Wendigo.
>>8015934
Oh shit the wendigo one was one of my favorites
