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Why does he assume that if bureaucracies are staffed with educated professionals and given autonomy that they'll just magically do their job? It's as if he never considers that bureaucrats are not fucking robots and are capable of immoral behavior. Obviously, he talks about corruption in the book, but it's not a part of his actual model of bureaucratic autonomy and capacity. It's all just
>muh clientelism.
Did I miss something?
Rule of law and accountability mechanisms exist to reign in corruption. He talks about those at length.
He misses how the elite's demand cheap labor has caused all liberal democracies to import millions of third worlders.
This in turn threatens to undermined Western culture, and will result in the collapse of the West and liberal democracy.
He's stuck in the 1990's, his big moment of success.
Fukuyama has been discredited so many fucking times it's not even funny, he's really not worth reading. He's far too idealistic.
The End of History pissed me off so much when I read it, what a fucking idiot. How dare he appropriate that title from Hegel.
>>7710319
It was really just The End of History. He admitted he was wrong and his other work is respected.
I enjoy this book, what does /lit/ think
p good. i wouldnt get a reference to it tattooed on my forehead, but its a good read.
>>7710157
This is accurate.
Jailbird on the other hand- that's forehead worthy Vonnegut
>>7710169
Should i start with Jailbird then?
I'm trying to understand ones identity better. What is is, what it means to us - the whole shebang.
Have you read, or do you know of any books that can help me with this? Psychology treatise or novels, it doesn't matter.
Frisch, 'Stiller' or 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein'.
>identity
>what it means to us
what?
>>7709922
The Odyssey has identity as a central theme (the Iliad too, but I'm less familiar with it). However, heroic identity is quite a bit different than what you're looking for, probably.
Is there more to life than being weird and shitposting (both on the Internet and in real life)
This is a serious question
No, literally every other aspect of life is imaginary.
How can anyone really say that?Of course there is, go outside or read a book
what's your idea of 'being weird', OP?
Are there any books I should read before reading these?
Hegel - Phenmenology of The Spirit
Heidigger - Being and Time
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Stirner - The Ego and Its Own
>>7708930
If you want to have any hope of understanding anything in OP, you had better have a very solid understanding of Plato and Aristotle, at least the cliffnotes version of the Miletians and Heraclitus, a basic grasp of Christian theology, and a decent understanding of the core rationalists and empiricists, their arguments and why there is a split. This leads you into Kant, who leads to Hegel, both of whom you must understand to have a hope of understanding Heidegger (you also kind of need Nietzsche for him, and probably...
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>>7708945
Thanks a lot. I did an A-Level on philosophy and we covered a lot of Aristotle, Plato, Hume, with a bit of Kant (to criticize ontological and cosmological arguments), but never really read a lot of the Greeks (but I did read Hume). In terms of what to read first, do you have any suggestions that could help my understanding?
>>7708930
> very solid understanding of Plato and Aristotle
This post, but the above point isn't as necessary as you'd think and this one >decent understanding of the core rationalists and empiricists
is under emphasized. Kant credited Hume with waking him up philosophically.
What the fuck is this guy talking about?
You'll never know.
The meaning is highly subjective, other than that its just really beautiful words combined with esoteric allusions.
yer spirit is a desert sonny, red rock no rain and whatnot
basically the modern world sucks cause nobody believes and there's no illusion of a point anymore, and the bourgeois are a buncha pretentious hollow men a-and some shit about tarot lmao
>>7706744
Come in under the shadow of this red rock and I will show you...
Hey /lit/ I read this Roberto Bolaño short story yesterday and thought you all might enjoy it. I've read 2666, By Night in Chile, Antwerp, and some of The Unknown University. Have read the first few stories of Last Evenings on Earth, which is there this story is from. This story is my favorite so far, with Sensini a close second.
http://www.enriquevilamatas.com/escritores/escrbolanor3.html
>>7706423
>and thought you all might enjoy it.
why did you think that? do you even know the first thing about my tastes in literature, much less the other half a dozen or so anons reading this?
post some fucking Bruce Sterling postcyberpunk and shove that magic realism up your ass.
>>7707165
I enjoy Bolano, even though I've only read a bit of him. Can't say that I'd enjoy Bruce Sterling, based on how psychotic some of his fans are...
>>7707165
holy shit. calm down.
Does anyone here read this guy? I strongly urge you to do so if not. I'd like to hear your thoughts on his particular type of social critique. Relevant to those of you are interested in everything from post-structuralism to modern cultural criticism!
bump because you won't regret it
he's "social criticism" as sam hyde is to comedy.
I didn't write this one (just stole it off this one site), but feel free to tear it to shreds as an exercise/opener.
Waves lap at our toes tick by tick
And we just can’t stop falling for
The hour hand’s insidious trick;
Melted chessboard’s eroding core
From those wretched quartz lips,
Second by second, slow,
A sundial’s ichor drips
We’re all buried up to the brain
While earwigs march along the plain
Past windmills made of hopes unclaimed
Stars bleed from galaxies unnamed
From the mind’s soup rises a beast most...
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all these houses have been abandoned
left by desperate people
food still on plates
i enter and sit in anothers room
clothes lying around
work unfinished
i leave and look up at the sky
stars a random mess
to the next house
repost from earlier thread
>>7699026
I can't tell if this is a failed attempt at a metrical poem or just vaguely metrical looking free verse. Either way, it's not good.
>>7699026
all these houses left
desperately--
food still on plates
clothes lying around
work unfinished
the stars a random mess
Can /lit/ tell me why the $ comes before the number and not after?
>>7711729
Who told you that it does?
>>7711729
Because the decimal point when combined with the dollar symbol brackets the number off, making it harder to fraudulently add digits to cheques etc.
>>7711754
What?
Who was the best poet ever and why was it Keats?
ITT: Englishcucks think they have anything on Italian poetry once again.
Boy I'm having a giggle.
Timo K. Mukka
>>7711690
Name one Italian poet from the last century as good as Hart Crane.
Non-native English speaker here. I haven't taken any course on writing and I was wondering if it's possible to write good shit without any structure whatsoever?
yes
don't do that
>>7711676
You mean that I shouldn't learn any kind of structure and should write however the fuck I want?
>>7711705
It's much more interesting for you to learn structures and subvert them. Read Gogol. Structurelessness is simply a further subversion. Doing it well is considerably harder, I should warn.
Who writes ekphrasis here?
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the...
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One of my own (first draft):
A Peasant Woman Digging [name of the painting]
Faceless mother, have you rested?
Rough and wood-scratched hand
Turning rocks out to sweeten the fields
Are curled from use, and crows-feet
Merge with work-scars, the first in
Your hair like gold-dust.
Take your evening Sabbath; your fields
Have flowered early, and the wheat will
Still be there to harvest in the morning.
>>7711644
*the dirt in/Your hair
Goddammit.
Guys I was wondering if I could get some help. I suck at grammar, and I need to pass this shit. Please help.
This is the error correction part for clarification
If I'm interested old Germanic lit, should I learn Old Norse or Old English? Which has a wider/more interesting array of literature?
Old Norse and don't forget your fedora
Old English for those epic stories
Old Norse literally has nothing
