/lit/ - Literature

is TLP the most prophetic thinker of the past 20 years?

Writers like The Last Psychiatrist?

uh yeah im thinking he's based

Alone.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html

i miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>16721779
>>16721764
Bukowski was a favourite of one of the greatest bloggers of all time.

>there are worse things than
>being Alone
>but it often takes decades
>to realize this
>and most often
>when you do
>it's too late
>and there's nothing worse
>than
>too late.
-- Charles Bukowski

i miss him so much, bros

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

Website recently got password locked. I know a lot of people on here have been influenced by him, anyone know whats up?

>>15680161
Alone was more /lit/ than anyone who actually posts here.

>For these reasons, I am becoming convinced that the only real way to "personal growth" outside of direct action is through careful study of fiction. Of course stories may have an intended meaning, but a well written story allows you to ask not just "what does the story mean?" but "why do I think that this is what the story means?" As in The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus: "The story is the pool... what do you see in it? It's a reflection and a projection..." (3)
Was he right?

>>13735537
a lot of people who think it's great have not read many other books or are recycling opinions from well read people have made about the book. the appeal of it i think is that it is a book about THINGS and IDEAS but its really not great. you'll find that a lot of people are drawn to these types of books because they seem important and its good to like important books (see a poser like Pete Buttigieg and Ulysses).

read a book like dog of the south, you can't go wrong with Portis.

>>13514611
too many people are online and the stakes are much higher than they were in 2009. meme magic is real which means it must be controlled which means some order needs to be imposed on all aspects of the internet. this is what those early internet pioneers always wanted, their platforms are now the loci of seemingly powerful forces, but the real centers of control remain obscured. if the internet actually mattered you wouldn't be allowed to use it.

Some anon pointed out the other day that TLP's website is going to disappear this year, so I went ahead and made an archive of it. You can download the whole thing (1.4 GB):

https://mega.nz/#!jThGCQ4C!cA9PkNXd139CHL1y4dyvNAtAE2ij6E26r-z14UBmj54

Everything's there, and the current landing page for most of the links in there are included as well, except for Russian Wikipedia which for some reason would have taken up upwards of 10 GB.

Enjoy.

How come at every stage of my life, his writing just makes more and more sense?

>"But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."

>Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.

>"That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"

>I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.

What did he mean by this?

>>12974169
You're living in simulation, you're living in the Matrix, you may be, dare I say... a narcissist

Holy fucking based. Is there more like this? Yes, i've read Larsch.

>>12767325
>I warned you about narcissism bro!

>>11944308
TLP was the /lit/ equivalent of a more patrician Fantano, but alas, now all we have is Hotel Concierge. Still better than melonhead though.

>Mods are deleting TLP threads now
What the fuck is their problem?

>Read Last Psychiatrist
>Feel I finally understand it
>Read more writers
>Realize how it relates to TLP and how much I missed
>Read more writers
>Realize how it relates to TLP and how much I missed
Is he the most important non-nrx thinker of our time?

Is he dead?

What happened to him?

I can't take it anymore bros, I miss him so much. What authors can fill the void he's left in my life?