/lit/ - Literature

Is it worth reading?

Read this my nigga.

Leftards be like
>Yoooo check out Mark Fisher
>Check out Capitalist Realism.. seems like there really is no alternative..
>Check out "Ghosts of my Life," Mark Fishers hauntology speaks volumes about modernity, novelty is dead, culture is dead, blablabla
and then they be like
>Fukuyama? LMAO ZOMG HE WAS SO WRUNG LMAO 9/11

Meanwhile actual Fukuyama, 1988 (before communism even fucking fell):
>“The end of history will be a very sad time,” he wrote, “I have the most ambivalent feelings about it." He lamented the passing of the heroic age of mankind: “The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one’s life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by. . . the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.” History had ended in the prefabricated, conformist lanes of suburbia. “In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”

K-punk knew about this side of Fukuyama. He addressed this in Capitalist Realism (a booklet that seems like every leftist has read) and acknowledged Fukuyama as an unfortunately now-confirmed prophet:
>“This malaise, the feeling that there is nothing new, is itself nothing new of course. We find ourselves at the notorious ‘end of history’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when Fukuyama advanced it, the idea that history had reached a ‘terminal beach’ was not merely triumphalist. Fukuyama warned that his radiant city would be haunted, but he thought its specters would be Nietzschean rather than Marxian. Some of Nietzsche’s most prescient pages are those in which he describes the ‘oversaturation of an age with history’. ‘It leads an age into a dangerous mood of irony in regard to itself, he wrote in Untimely Meditations, ‘and subsequently into the even more dangerous mood of cynicism’, in which ‘cosmopolitan fingering’, a detached spectatorialism, replaces engagement and involvement. This is the condition of Nietzsche’s Last Man, who has seen everything, but is decadently enfeebled precisely by this excess of (self) awareness. Fukuyama’s position is in some ways a mirror image of Fredric Jameson’s. Jameson famously claimed that postmodernism is the ‘cultural logic of late capitalism’.”

So why do leftoids still reject The End of History and the Last Man?

Is Mark Fisher correct in saying that today's students cannot and will not focus adequately even in elite positions? What he mentions is 2008 level and already bad. Even though especially on the internet it seems like almost nobody has a sufficient attention span, students seem to me like they sacrifice a lot of time for their careers and I don't think they have fried attention spans

PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONEY THAN ME IM GOING INSANE AHHHHHHHHHH

ITT: books that appeal to oversocialized leftists

Looking for stuff like this that will make me give up

>waah I can't stop checking my phone every 5 minutes
>waah I don't like contemporary music
>waah everything is capitalism's fault, I am not responsible for anything
Why are leftists such pathetic crybaby incels?

>>17736882
Capitalist Realism

This is just Spengler for trannies

My socialist friend wants me to read this. How bad is it going to be if anyone read it?