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Why do people hate NEETs? Add some books to it and it seems like the ultimate literary lifestyle.
The hatred is really a bourgeois response to a class of people who are unable or, even better, unwilling to be employed, to work. And only the bourgeois cherishes a "strong work ethic", while the aristocrat loathes work and any value extracted from it.
>>7987718
The NEET is the proletarian's aristocrat.
>>7987718
>Why do people hate NEETs?
Because life is more than doing what you want. As a member of society there are responsibilities that we face and as NEET's use the system where it helps them, they don't put anything back into it. Creating more work for those who want something better for everyone not just a select few.
>Add some books to it and it seems like the ultimate literary lifestyle.
Sure, if that's what you want...
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>>7987749
>Because life is more than doing what you want.
Except it isn't.
Anything else is being a tool.
Favourite adverbs?
I'll start:
>Jewishly
>>7987443
Niggerly
>>7987469
I think you mean niggardly!
>>7987471
that means something else
"The greatest thinker of all times, in my opinion, is Aristotle. Everything, in his work, is defined with wonderful clarity and simplicity. Later, volumes were written to define the same things."
"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden."
Sam Harris is an ubermensch
>>7986001
Do all great writers study philosophy? It's so odd to think, for instance, that Holderlin studied Kant and took him as inspiration for his works. It just seems so antithetical, one's a poet and the other one a brilliant autistic bore.
I'm considering going back to college and double majoring in Classics and Philosophy. Is this a good idea, /lit/?
>>7985763
Only if you're independently wealthy and don't need to work for the rest of your life.
>>7985763
Do itttttttt
probably not
Englishfag here. What is the single most useful language to learn for marxists/leftists?
>>7984786
Esperanto
french or russian, depending on which branch of leftist thought and theory you're most interested in
german is probably 3rd but really only for the frankfurt school who should just read anyways
Is that a pair of panties or the thickest bush of pubes I've ever seen
>marking up a nice book with notes like this
Literally the best part of the book so far (pg 96-100 in delilios falling man) and this idiot who owned the book before me felt the need to pencil in "tmi" also at the back they wrote "there seems to be many characters who pop in and out in a seemingly chaotic way".
Not sure what other gems are in here. Thankfully not too much. Post yours. Good, bad, pleb
In my used copy of The Sun Also Rises some ignorant high school girl had penciled in the opening and closing years of World War I
>>7984756
If it's not a rare edition or just a really nice one, what's wrong with marking up a book?
>>7984783
I love that overly slanted romantic writing. That's funny. Some people keep memorabilia from past relationships, other people purge.
If left to my own devices, I will drink a bottle of wine alone in my apartment on Friday and Saturday nights while I either read 4chan or play video games.
How do I rewire my preferences such that reading a book sober alone on the weekends comes as naturally to me?
Can habits even really be changed?
What if I don't have free will?
>>7984469
The more you run the easier it gets. Same goes for mental exercise. Unless you're willing to endure a little discomfort you'll never be the literary type. Start small and work upwards.
>>7984469
Just pick a book and read
why is this so hard for people
i've been reading as long as i can remember, so i really can't sympathize with those who struggle
i tried ada as my first book after 30, it's hard
ITT: Writers who trigger /lit/
murakami
literally all of them
ITT: post the genre of the novel/story you're working on, then tell everyone why it's different to everything else out there.
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
Hook: The story is told by an idiotic narrator, who frequently interjects with anecdotes and footnotes that tell a second story throughout
>>7983689
That sounds like it could be interesting. You have any inspiration in particular? I feel like Catch 22 could help you out.
As for me:
Genre: Fiction/Realism
Difference: it's basically about a trip to Europe I took with some friends and a search for identity. Self-critiquing and all that. But I also bring in modern themes of globalism, social media, and other issues facing my generation, I'm 25 btw. I was kind of inspired by Hemingways The Sun Also Rises btw
>>7983689
Genre: Fiction
Hook: A man can't stop eating only cornflakes. He meets a dairy farmer that tries to convince him to try something else, like silverside beef.
>>7984211
Sounds cool but not very unique tbqh family, I feel like everyone here is writing something like that
Why is this allowed?
>>7983083
hipsters
It's not
>>7983083
it collects dust better
Do you think any aspects of pleb or Internet culture are actually pretty deep?
I like the quote, from that copy pasta, "Damn, I would totally have sex with you! Both you and the real you!"
That's a very broad question. What is "aspects" and what's "deep"? I'm afraid the label of "deep" depends too much on what one personally thinks is true or false.
On a meta level, it's very interesting to think about what makes memes (take big guy for you, for example) appealing. Memes are also a great outlet to enable people show their creativity for low effort. I have an uncle in television and I know that his work, since 20 years or so, is an extremely routine job and even if you produce new shows, there are hardly...
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I find pretty much all of it extremely deep (if by that we mean complex and far reaching), frankly.
>>7982222
As quads would likely confirm; 4chan represents the truest and most pure essence of modern males. I say males because there is no sex or race on 4chan. People are lonely and isolated, people use 4chan to make connections, people use 4chan to vent. People try to use this place to encourage their own self destructive behaviors, but randomly the community collectively checks someone back into reality. This place is a psychologist's gold mine and if noone uses 4chan for research they're idiots.
4chan you...
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Anybody else find that once they started reading regularly they became much less interested in video games? Not meaning to be pretentious either, I just don't find them as enjoyable anymore.
>>7981320
Pretty much any less-structured, less artificial experience than gaming makes games seem passe. I dropped games because I discovered fishing as a young lad and no game could measure up to even a lazy afternoon catching catfish.
>>7981320
dude same thing happened to me. the year before I started reading I spent 3 grand a gaming pc too. now it just sits there collecting dust.
I've been reading heavily since I was 12 and videogames became less and less interesting, although once I had sex I completely lost interest altogether.
I do occasionally play a game a year and they are all single player
Post a poet who is alive today (pic is Geoffrey Hill, check out his Christian Architecture poem). My second favourite is probably Henri Cole.
I know about those poets because Harold Bloom mentioned them.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48462
>>7980935
Did he? Nice to have my taste confirmed I suppose.
Post your accounts.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
fucking normies
>>7980066
why do you rate japanese so low
Meh everyone has me already
>I hate people who read in public.
Thoughts /lit/
I can't fucking do it
Who the hell cares
>>7979815
>I hate people who read in public.
Don't go outside than.
