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>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

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

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 you're really after is 武侠 shit like Crouching Tiger, just watch a bunch of 武侠剧 and maybe listen to a radio drama of 水浒 or 西游. That'll build up a concrete kung-fu vocabulary that'll enable you to read stuff like 雪山飞狐 (better than crouching tiger) and maybe eventually 水浒.

Last note: bail on the thought of ever reading 红楼梦 and probably 三国 in the originally. Too fucking hard. But the other two are fairly approachable.

Just read 金庸. Chinese literature is garbage.

>>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.

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 arent racist, thats post ironic right there. stop fucking posting lowercase silly cadence shit on twitter and thinking its new. literally everything you could possibly conceive on fucking twitter was chimpanzee-typewriterd by fyad and fyad offshoots in 1997, ITS ALREADY BEEN FUCKING DONE

STOP IT

EVEN THIS THREAD, STOP

WE GET IT

IT'S LOWER CASE AND SILLY CADENCE

YOUR IRONY IS ON THE LEVEL OF WILL FARREL MOVIES. SAY NIGGER RIGHT NOW OR FUCK OFF

wtf 'postironic' is

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 says there is next to nothing.

But that just means you continue reading him for the motivational boost instead of doing things.

He's like a very edgy drug

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.

>>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 maybe it because of the endorphins from said gym session I said sure
30minutes later she showed up too my house and picked me up.
Soon as I got in the car I thanked her for picking me up and said she looked beautiful
I cringed immediately after the words came out of my mouth but Like I said endorphins had me feeling okay in my skin
I didn't say much in the car because she was playing music very loudly I recall the Artist was called g-eazy or something like that
Anyway we arrived at her house which was empty since her parents were out of town for the week.Soon as walked in the spacious 2 story house that would make my mother very jealous. she went straight to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of hennessy and 2 red plastic cups. As you can imagine nervous thoughts in my head arrived at the conclusion that today I might be finally losing the thing that I never got to do in high school. keeping a level head I only focused on not dropping spaghetti

I like it
100YOS is a great read

Never fails to induce erections.

>>8016710

Luis Borges king of it

>>8016652
call me ishmael

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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

>>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.

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 proof which is explicitly dwelling even more in induction serving hedonism.
Now, with the failure of philosopher to find their truths, objectivity through the ratio, the asian doctrines feed nothing but the eternal hedonism of the humanity through their exoticism to the pleb who loves to think that she is a rationalist.
The good news is that the asians themselves are nothing but pure heodnists, but at least they do not pretend to know the secrets of the cosmos through the formals systems, about the nature (like the typical modern) or the societies (à la hegel) that the liberals and libertarians keep paying for form their scientists.
Of course, nobody wants to hear about the religious contemplation, but the religious guys do note that people are interested thanks to the discovery of the asian religions that the secularized middle class thinks as secularized religions compatible with the liberal mores (they are not and it explains the lack of result : as in our religions really, the morality of these religions must be applied before even beginning the contemplation, precisely because the morality helps the contemplation and because the contemplative life is has the output that the moral life, as rejection of hedonism, is the right in the end).
Asians can claim that they have a detailed manual to be better heodnist and in the end to even stop being a hedonist. Whereas the western pleb still dream of getting a fantasy structure that make hedonism compatible with their fantasy of altruism.

The change from a liberal structure above the individual is not possible in a liberal democracy, since there will always be somebody against you and it is would be poorly implemented (and you cannot force people to change just to change themselves, but you can only touch their ''legal rights'' or their wallets).

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now mine:

Who is the Mars Volta of Literature?

why is my life bad?

>>8017452
that question did not deserve a post.

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 my grip, or the wind is too strong,
but my scarf, the wing, the noose,
un revuelo rojo en la vista azul
it slips my grasp and is lost forever
in the tumbling wildness of the Tierra del Fuego.

>>8016044

ITT: White CIS privileged males sprouting bullshit they've read from some "obscure" poet to make their "hard life" seem interesting.

>>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.

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