/lit/ - Literature

The book that kills the chud

Why does /lit/ hate this book?

Why are we against him again exactly?

Why shouldn't I like him? Is it because he is one of those atheist materialist fags or what?

>BTFOs traditionalists, anti science cucks and Christians all at once
heh, nothing personnel kid

Oh no no no /pol/ + /leftypol/ bros you told me everything was getting worse and that liberalism is for cucks...

this is our generation's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, God Delusion, Godel Escher Bach, The Selfish Gene, A Brief History of Time, The Road to Reality, The Ego and Its Own, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Origin of Species all rolled into one.

i'm in awe of its erudite dismantling and reconstruction our systems of value and the causal narratives we have wrongly construed up to this point. the precision with which it obviates the archaisms of theistic and non-enlightenment morals and metaphysics makes its staggering critiques of such systems definitive and final. its unprecedented execution of evolutionary-psychology grounded epistemology is unparalleled in accuracy and profundity. it is a physicalist triumph and tour de force which puts all immaterialist accounts of existence squarely in the garbage bin. the statistics have spoken, and one cannot argue with the data.

i need to buy more copies of it and send them to my co-workers, leave them ostensibly forgotten upon subway seats, and nested in the mailboxes of unsuspecting theologians

this is our generation's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, God Delusion, Godel Escher Bach, The Selfish Gene, A Brief History of Time, The Road to Reality, The Ego and Its Own, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Origin of Species all rolled into one.

i'm in awe of its erudite dismantling and reconstruction of the whole explanatory narrative of value and the causal narrative we have wrongly construed up to this point. the precision with which it obviates the archaisms of theistic and non-enlightenment morals and metaphysics makes its staggering critiques of such systems definitive and final. its unprecedented execution of evolutionary-grounded epistemology is unparalleled in accuracy and profundity. it is a physicalist triumph and tour de force which puts all immaterialist accounts of existence squarely in the garbage bin.

i need to buy more copies of it and send them to my co-workers, leave them ostensibly forgotten upon subway seats, and nested in the mailboxes of unsuspecting theologians

this is our generation's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, God Delusion, Godel Escher Bach, The Selfish Gene, A Brief History of Time, The Road to Reality, The Ego and Its Own, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Origin of Species all rolled into one.

i'm in awe of its erudite dismantling and reconstruction of the whole explanatory narrative of value and the causal narrative we have wrongly construed up to this point. the precision with which it obviates the archaisms of theistic and non-enlightenment morals and metaphysics makes its staggering critiques of such systems definitive and final. its unprecedented execution of evolutionary-grounded epistemology is unparalleled in accuracy and profundity. it is a physicalist triumph and tour de force which puts all immaterialist accounts of existence squarely in the garbage bin.

i need to buy more copies of it and send them to my co-workers, leave them ostensibly forgotten upon subway seats, and nested in the mailboxes of unsuspecting theologians

>>15420003
for the /lit/ trifecta

B-but people prior to the 1600s were literal cavemen

>>13559434
Read this

Finished reading Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.

>page 166 – "Human life has become more precious, while glory, honor, preeminence, manliness, heroism, and other symptoms of excess testosterone have been downgraded.”
>page 169 – “Their norms for everyday conduct shifted from a macho culture of honor, in which affronts had to be answered with violence, to a gentlemanly culture of dignity, in which status was won by displays of propriety and self-control.”
>page 220 – “Today, women make up a majority of university students.”
>page 225 – “the values of Western countries have been getting steadily more liberal (which, as we will see, is one of the reasons those men are so angry)”
>page 235 – “Better-educated girls grow up to have fewer babies, and so are less likely to beget youth bulges with their surfeit of troublemaking young men.”
>page 252 – “As a feminist-era husband”

>page 297 – “There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defect. They’re called women.”

Insults men and praises women. How isn't this sexism against men? Argues that manliness is backwards, but multiple times he refers to great scientists as conquerors of famine and disease.
>page 247 – “only the callous would deny that the conquest of disease, hunger, and illiteracy are stupendous achievements”

Is it autism?

Reading this book feels like I'm tripping through cognitive dissonance. What other books can give me this feel?

>>13472838
This one will do for you. Steven Pinker is very sexist and misogynistic towards men, but describes women as good and caring. Just another example of our great clown world.

>page 166 – "Human life has become more precious, while glory, honor, preeminence, manliness, heroism, and other symptoms of excess testosterone have been downgraded.”
>page 169 – “Their norms for everyday conduct shifted from a macho culture of honor, in which affronts had to be answered with violence, to a gentlemanly culture of dignity, in which status was won by displays of propriety and self-control.”
>page 220 – “Today, women make up a majority of university students.”
>page 225 – “the values of Western countries have been getting steadily more liberal (which, as we will see, is one of the reasons those men are so angry)”
>page 235 – “Better-educated girls grow up to have fewer babies, and so are less likely to beget youth bulges with their surfeit of troublemaking young men.”
>page 252 – “As a feminist-era husband”

I suspect he has issues looking at his own balls while taking a shower.

>page 297 – “There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defect. They’re called women.”

Argues how manliness is backwards, but multiple times he refers to great scientists as conquerors of famine and disease.
>page 247 – “only the callous would deny that the conquest of disease, hunger, and illiteracy are stupendous achievements”

Is it autism?

Reading this book feels like I'm tripping through cognitive dissonance.

okay this shit slaps