/lit/ - Literature

>>23059328
>after several troll answers
My recommendation to construct an altar to Dionysus and request his blessing was completely sincere.

>>22367201
I think he was correct about the pattern leading up to the present, though since he couldn't possibly foresee a shift in the pattern he might not be correct about the future.
So if the pattern throughout history has been (for example):
>1,3,1,2,1,3,1,2, etc...
You would logically assume the next number is one, but what if that is just the beginning of the pattern and really the next number in the sequence is 4 and the sequence has more to it than anticipated?

I've been reading Ellul's Technologial Society and he raises the idea of "technique" and how it is a historical anomaly. Up until now cultures and societies had a more spontaneous and organic approach to thought and evolution. IIRC Spengler said that when culture becomes civilization the culture calcifies and the cultural organism ceases to be elastic and spontaneous; but up until now it has never been so all-consuming as "technique" and it has not been global.
Technique is like the lifeless period of old age on steroids - and modern medicine and life support. Either this is it and "the system" wins - we all live in the pods and eat ze bugs - or there is a complete and total system failure that makes the bronze age collapse look like a 3rd grade science project volcano.
The only other option is some kind of a miracle and a harmonious synthesis is reached between technique and the human spirit.

>>21832524
Errrm, isn’t this precisely the appeal of fascism on the internet?

Wish I had some smokes. however American Spirits are disgusting. Personally I smoke John Players, Next, and occasionally Benson & Hedges. As well as dope (marijuana in all its forms).
Right now I'm reading (re-reading) Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, and am about to bust open a fresh weed vape. Currently drinking a tepid coffee from McDonalds too. Cheers muddafukka

>>20636175
I ended up messing things up with her like a retard and now she lives 1000 miles away with a bf while I haven't been with a girl since her years ago.

What book should I read if I'm a 25 year old virgin working a comfy but boring office job that I don't really like but I don't really know what I'd want to do as an alternative? How do people figure out what they want to spend their lives doing? Any books about that explore someone who sort of just slides through life not knowing what it is they want to go do in the first place?