/lit/ - Literature

>>23109139
It's the death of religion, i.e a belief in something better and greater than ourselves, only we need a replacement so the communist paradise on Earth has replaced the Christian paradise of Heaven. This is why communism kills millions of people, not necessarily because they're evil but because they believe it's their moral imperative.

The school shootings are clearly real and not some giant acted-out hoax. That said, I think it's absolutely possible and even likely that certain federal agencies are aware of what most of these people are planning on doing and selectively allow them to do it if it's politically advantageous rather than actually harmful to someone within the system, ie allowing a mentally disturbed kid with homicidal ideation to buy a gun and kill rural elementary school students before a midterm to drum up support for gun control vs honeydicking a bunch of hicks to kidnap the Governor of Michigan with no intention of ever letting them get anywhere close to actually doing it.

You're all wrong for viewing Buckley's deadly sin as having been his blunders with leftists like Chomsky. Buckley's first and primary sin was exorcising the Birchers from the party. Yes, the Birchers were weirdo crypto-fascists. That said, in a 2-party situation like America you NEED your party to have an extremist wing, that wing should never dictate actual policy but rather you need it to keep moderates from becoming turncoats. Democrats use this sort of strategy to its ultimate effectiveness, the leadership is not socialist but they are certainly not allergic to socialist fellow travelers. Buckley's mistake was that he destroyed the radical wing of the Republican party which made them ultimately toothless against the Democratic party which has always been more than willing to utilize its radical wing to its fullest extent.

>>18734072
>Soma Sema. So tell me anon, what do you achieve by lifting weights in the gym all day?
First of all, you don't have to sit in the gym "all day" in order to have a strong, capable, and aesthetic body. An hour or so per day a few days per week with a balanced diet and some cardio will make you stronger and better than any dyel layman. Educating your mind without training your body is as inferior as training your body without educating your mind. Either way you are an incomplete man. Lifting and running allows you to more easily manipulate your environment, it gives you discipline, it makes you healthier and more likely to age gracefully, it makes you more attractive and more likely to find a superior mate, etc. You really can't argue against physical fitness and defend intellectual fitness simultaneously, the arguments for either are identical because they are both inherently linked.

>>18571031

This is a blessed thread OP

Violescent
Synesthesia
Ambages
Achorite
Crepuscular
Skullduggery

Bonus words often used by Lovecraft
Antediluvian
Cyclopean
Sardonic
Eldritch

>>18475835
wtf are you doing to your books that they fall apart like this? I don't understand you people with your broken bindings and creased spines and shit. Unless you're buying mass market paperbacks you have no excuses. Stop treating your things like shit if you want them to last.

>>18460809
>they called themselves communist, their enemies called themselves communist, everyone with any authority today calls them communist, they derived their theories from Marx, but I say they're not communist so they're not
Please, tell me more about how everyone is wrong and you are right.

Listen nigger, I'll give you the quick rundown right now. I went to high school with Mike Mahoney. He's not smart and nothing he writes will ever be novel or new. He does have a certain sense of humor in a weird way which is what he tries to showcase in this book. The problem is that he also tries to make moral and philosophical judgements and he's way too stupid to do something like that in an interesting way. He became Vine famous because his sense of humor transferred well to vine and then he turned his Vine fame into Twitter fame and inevitably fell into the Frog Twitter side. He's literally a Tiktok fag 5 years early who wrote a book with great cover art to make up for the shitty actual content of the book.

Every time he posts himself cooking food it's just canned shit, not food he grew/raised himself. If this nigger isn't tending to fowl or managing a sizeable garden (ie not just a fucking planter lining his shack) then what the fuck is he doing all day. The fact that his videos have such good editing is suspect as fuck, where is he going nearby that has internet access to do all the cuts/sound in his videos? The guy clearly has some place locally that he actually lives at where he can do all this shit and once in awhile he hikes up to his shack with a backpack full of canned beans and books to chill. If you think he's been sleeping in there every night for years straight you're retarded.

Does a creative writing major have more depth than an English literature major in the history of literature?

A believe that the former has a better significant impact on people who want better writing capabilities, sometimes you'll find English majors who can write up a storm of essays and talk about the books they love so much in great depth but cant write a lick of fiction or poetry.

>that feel when your currently sitting on one of the 21st centuries defining piece of literature but are too scared to have it published

Books for this feel

>>17183602
why would she do such a thing?

>>15829775
>youtubers
kys nigger. read a book.

Who are the easiest philosophers to read?

Any books that might help alleviate my feelings of inadequacy?

>>15047816
Same.