/lit/ - Literature

>>23310512
>Could you produce for me a bucket of consciousness? Like, go take consciousness in a bucket.

>>23269433
>nooooo magazines should only promote authors that offer an insular and narrow perspective and worldview
>it's not fair that people different than me have an opportunity to tell their stories!

>>23251182
>IF TRUMP IS ELECTED IN 2024 THEN AMERICANS WILL NEVER VOTR AGAIN

are there any books about the crushing weight of being an NPC?

I used to have an interest in history. But the more I learn about the past, the more clear it becomes that I am just a pawn in the game of the events occurring in my own time. Let's face it, Donald Trump is the main character of all of our lifetimes. We can sit around pretending like we are thinking important thoughts and making great progress on our little pet projects, but the fact is -- there are people out there who can literally alter the course of the human species every single day and command the thoughts of the population with a few words. That's such an incredible embodiment of what it CAN mean to be a human - how can we possibly measure ourselves against people like that?

>>23022697
ok chatGPT

>>23020850
>If you are an NPC P-zombie to begin with, when you die there is nobody actually being destroyed

im starting writing a book about my boring life
something something like black's you cant win
got inspired by burroughs junky to write some bullshit considering i feel pretty depressed about my life despite being still a young man in his early 20s
any advice?
soon as i finish it im gonna publish it here anyways, not like i want any money from it, so, what good txt website do you recommend for me to transcribe it?
the book is gonna take me almost 8 months, as i plan on finish it before my birthday
thats it /lit/ anons
have a nice day
:)

>The way you rank up in this world is being wealthy and a technocrat and a successful social Darwinist that has a bunch of friends and fucks a bunch of hot women or whatever

>>22884716
>there is no "story" outside of the words on the screen.

>>22877702
>Classical was never for the masses, nor should it be. The diatribe that you so vehemently rail against is really what people want, there is a forward progression in music in that popular music further and further drifts towards the ideal of the common man. Boulez, Webern, Xenakis, Schoenberg, Grisey, Messiaen, etc. are both incredibly well educated and talented, which is what pushed them to create avant garde pieces, and as it stands today, avant garde classical stands at the pinnacle of western art music; it is also unlikely that there would be any revival, the arts, philosophy, literature, etc. are all mostly dead, art has become totally commodified and intellectual institutions are underfunded and the universities are now essentially daycares and it's only a matter of time before non-practical programs such as philosophy and the arts are cut. It's sad, but it's the way it is, and the avant garde didn't kill it, rather it was the last cry of the artist as the arts become commodified and democratized for the masses.

>>22861789
>I think this poster is a great reflection of the majority of the opinions ITT and that are active in the general sphere of culture within at least the United States (though it certainly applies to the "western" portion of the current globalized post-nationalist project/superstructure we all live in).

>The OP asked for examples of "contemporary" music, and I think it's important to note how that's something A) not easily defined and B) not substantive to present a picture of that which has the most cultural "relevance."

>To the issue of the former, it is simply a futile exercise to try and define the temporal parameters of what constitutes "contemporary." In the same way that there are a lot of posters ITT that are absolutely zealous over the music considered "classical" (which spans current academically fungible notions of "eras" that span roughly from the end of the "renaissance" through the end of the "romantic" period, and coincidentally a lot of thee are defined with lifespans of composers which is just laughable), there are substantial amounts of people equally zealous over "contemporary" or "modern" (which is older now) music. The truth of this matter is that, through the ever evolving prism of technological access to "the archive" of musical documentation, it is now possible for human beings to actually create paths of cultural conductivity with the past into today, something which in a sense can create a greater flux of the temporal "relevance" of musics of many eras. Simply put, the access to the archive of documented music can in a sense inflate the perceived relevancy and importance of the past.

>As for the latter, the reality is that what constitutes "relevance" is also highly susceptible to differences based on criteria that render the term wholly unable to accurately portray what is important and what isn't. To the OP's question - several of the most recent Pulitzer prize winning "classical" compositions are largely tonal. So, if we are to take "relevance" as the cultural currency that is carried with prestige (which is what the Pulitzer - and all composers who crave it [trust me bro, I'm one of those because I recognize what it does for composer's careers] - does), then he is incorrect in assuming that classical music today is "atonal". But, if we take the brand of academic theorists and musicologists that are exploring things outside of "normative structures", then what you could potentially be left with is an altogether advocacy against traditional structure systems of "western" traditions. That said, it's actually almost always within the European ontological tradition of negating the past in favor of a more "appropriate" future. This is something even the composers that the OP and others ITT clamor for. For every Bach that is idolized, dozens of other composers are abandoned as they are "antiquated."

>To sum it all up, OPs a fag and his shit's all retarded. He (and other posters and people IRL) have no clue.

>>22826019
>You can't prove to me that I have free will.

>>22826444
>i like how the rest of your post is you seething about black people and jews while supposedly being a christian, which is hilarious. Your religion is jewish and soon africans and latin americans will make up the vast majority of followers of your faith.

What would you gift a normie? Feel like all my recs are too long or depressing

>>22701580
>There's no such thing as free will!
>t.

>>22623608
>That's all correct though.

>>22614593
>It's a meme, fag. get used to it.

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>>22103663
Your taste = poopie

>>22082283
NPCs may as well be the same person

>>21989220
>can't go 4 posts without shitting and pissing your pants about muh 21st century muh degeneracy

>>implying suffering is bad