/lit/ - Literature

>>23264126
>DNA
This is actually an extraordinary piece of evidence against Hancock. You can say "Oh, their architecture all got eroded and they just cultivated whatever grain and vegetables were locally available" but you can't account for DNA. If a single civilization existed that could travel the globe and establish colonies around the world, then their Y-Chromosome Haplogroup would appear throughout the world, appearing in an even scattering of every population that exists on a landmass where they settled. However, what we see with DNA sequencing is a clear and unmistakable one-way diaspora of emigration out of Africa, through Europe and Asia, and into America, without intermingling in the interim between this dispersal and the industrial revolution.
Y Group Q, which exists among people from Northeast Asia, Siberia, and across North America is one of the 'youngest' of these groups, and it diverged at least 17,000 years ago.

As much as he can waffle about traditions changing or monuments being eroded, you can't voodoo your way out of genetics. It takes tens of thousands of years for enough generational mutations to develop that create an obvious difference between two groups of people. If the population of every pre-industrial nation on earth consisted of, say, 25% Polynesian people for some otherwise inexplicable reason, then sure, but that isn't even remotely close to being the case.

Graham Hancock is wrong. Every postulation he has ever made has been definitively proven wrong. Continuing to believe in his lost empire is akin to having an imaginary friend: nobody can force you to change your mind, but all you will ever accomplish is fooling yourself.

>>21606906
Nicka what are you doing reading books

>>20767846
nuh uh, honey. That's wicked retarded. Just keep it in the original ancient Greek and drop a footnote translation. That's the way pretty much every single translation in the past several centuries have translated Latin expressions in dialog.

>>18760836
>in fact, you'll find they often have provocative themes and complex characters

>>17963717
It's "like" a pyramid scheme. But so long as the pyramid keeps getting bigger and bigger we'll be ok!

>>17743710
>read atlas shrugged

>>16331011
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
>Intraspecies conflict for resources/territory/mates does not exist in real life
>I will just turn my back to this unknown guy, give him a chance to crack my skull like a ripe grape, and take everything I have

>>10632917
>Pound was an asthete meme
How can one man's talent trigger so many

>>10475280
>made by an American for other Americans to discuss American culture

Not really.
Late Stage Capitalism is cancer. Maybe it was fine in the past, but now it needs to adapt to modern life or it will be replaced. We need to get our collective shit together before /sci/ figures out this technological singularity thing.

Or maybe the world is purged in nuclear fire and nobody wins.

Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to live through entire socio-economic collapse.

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>>10092347
As a faggot of old lore, I find these hard to observe.

>>9625804
>Tfw everyone knows I'm going to break up with her, so I hang on just to fuck with them

If you can make it through him trying to explain the whole field social science with a few name drops, you find out that metamodernism is basically just ignoring real problems and forcing optimism by creating our own fun instead of the old industries doing the hard work for us. People doing stupid shit and saying they were just pretending to be stupid, making a curtain from printouts of Emma Stone from a design you found on Pinterest and putting it up to hide the homeless guy pissing on your $2,000/month Brooklyn studio apartment window, and posting #feedtheHOMELESS on Twitter are all metamodern activities.

He talks about how metamodernism is post-irony but I have no idea where the hell that's coming from since there's almost nothing more ironic than a musician going on stage and pretending to be an idiot. I guess maybe its unironic because know one knows if there's a joke to get, but again that just sounds like equally retarded willful ignorance. At the end he also makes this weird implication that Donald Trump wouldn't have gotten elected if more people were metamodern, entirely ignoring all of the metamodern fake news and memes that got mainlined into the public consciousness this election cycle (not Pepes, but all those nicknames and Twitter rants left a mark).

TL;DR for the TL;DR, he's bullshitting to try and make the watering down of entertainment quality to memes and shitty EDM acts sound like a cultural trend that will save the world.

OP, maybe you're new to lit, but we have an unspoken rule here.

>Never ever shitpost Tokin' when Butterfriend is on the board

She is already shitting it up & will sperg all night now. Thanks!

>>6886997
What did you expect from a private tracker?
Those are always run by fucking dumb faggots.

ITT: blind weenies walking on the freeway

LMBO

>>6565341
>not understanding that Vonnegut is great gateway literature
JK I know you're trowlling u fag

>>5350561
>Lughnasa (It means the Autumn Harvest festival in my native ireland's ancient celtic culture)

I love lughnasa, but I hate Mondays.

>>4984134
>How much did it cost?
>All in all, I spent a little over $1000.

>>4637802
No, and I don't think I need to. I think monologues are underused in modern writing, but this is so trite, underwhelming, and poorly thought out that I can't believe Greene wrote it. I've heard him speak a few times and he seems like a pretty intelligent guy, and I like giving writers the benefit of the doubt, so maybe he was trying to convey a character who was too young to process the idea of mortality and slipped into the quasi-nihilism enjoy kids like to latch on to? Maybe this is all satire? Or something?

>>4607562

>using xkcd to attempt to argue that scientists aren't soulless spergs

>>4526206
I take books to dinner. I like to take myself to a nice dinner, read and relax, then walk to the movies through back routes in my little town and smoke a joint on the way.

It'a super fun. So yeah, do whatever.

>>4504213
>Jardan's father dead instantly