/lit/ - Literature

What are some books with this vibe?
> In the whole vast domain of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom. As soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom, you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die, and how many are killed. But from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A power of violence at once hidden and palpable … has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. Thus there are insects of prey, reptiles of prey, birds of prey, fishes of prey, quadrupeds of prey. There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself. He kills to adorn himself, he kills in order to attack, and he kills in order to defend himself. He kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself. He kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.

From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound ... from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child - his table is covered with corpses ... And who in all of this will exterminate him who exterminates all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man ... So it is accomplished ... the first law of the violent destruction of living creatures. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.

All faggots idealizing the conditions of animal kingdom need to spend some time in a jungle, animals are not "cute" and "based", they're ruthless machines designed to kill and devour other animals.

Ok, this has persuaded me. Where do I start with De Maistre?

>>16259600
No real Catholicuck will ever be this based.

Holy fuck, I didn't know Catholicucks could be this based.

>>15923956
Based

And I thought Evola was the final redpill. Fucking based.

>>15393937
De Maistre fits, haven't read anything from him though

>>15383941
>>15383954
>>15386865
room temperature iq definitions of violence
>>15383928
your demand for a definition of violence is semantic faggotry. Violence is indeed the ultimate authority. The devoured are always subservient to the devourer. Humanity is at the apex of the food chain, and humanity is also the most destruction-capable organism. These two facts are not independent from eachother. This is why kindness is priceless.
pic related has been provided for supplement. I would highly recommend reading that book in its entirety, though it is not entirely related to violence.

>>15055535
He is an apex predator, so it makes sense for him to be a sum of all things man is capable of. The judge contains the utmost capacity of the terrible things man is capable of: reason, memory, physical strength, psychological domination, thoughts, speech, language, warfare, rape, etc. If you read pic related, the judge represents the apex of this gory pyramid JdM describes. To call the judge "the devil" is a shameful excuse. The judge is humanity.
>>15058640
agreed

Literature with this aesthetic?

>>14821454
You are a fool if you think those animals live a better life than any human, even the homeless, in any first world country. Also you were absolutely BTFO by >>14825559

>>14733637
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Check out this bird anon.
https://i.4cdn.org/gif/1581655077164.webm

Also read Maistre to quit being such a pussy.

>>13831856
Perfect, as I said. Now try doing this and capture the high-t mad sage vibe

>>13514722
>life is all but the sweetness between all the bitterness you find.
This is a very platitudinous statement that can only be uttered by a sheltered mind. You're failing to take into account the broader scope of the incalculable horror and suffering endured by conscious existence. All the myriad creatures (not just humans of course) that have been abused, raped, mauled, tortured, drowned, starved, etc. over the course of millions of years. It's not possible to do it justice with a forum post, but on a balance your comfortable first world "sweetness" amounts to nothing but a grain of sugar against a bottomless pit of pain and death.

Even masters of other languages sound better when average dudes translate them into english.

Humanity has to end sometime, I think it's about time we close up shop. Been going down hill way to long, even if we were redeemed the skeletons in the closet would be unbearable.

Natural revelation is bullshit.

>>12178181
I done went and fucked up here it is

>>11962526
elaborate and ornate prose=/= TOO elaborate and ornate prose.

When you get purple prose it just obfuscates meaning, good prose in this style paints a more vivid and visceral picture and uses heuristics to make things more relateable.

example

>>11273286
Isn't this just a De Maistre ripoff though?

>>11258859
You are like a little baby.

>never knew dad
>start reading at 4
>C student but straight A's in literature. couldn't get enough. the town library was my second home
>dropped out of college to help mom dying of cancer
>after she passed, lived in and worked from VW van for a year doing welding odd-jobs
>whenever i wasn't working my ass off doing dirty blue-collar work i was in the library reading eastern philosophy, epistemology, theology, and ethics
>someone i know moved to the midwest and recommended me for work there
>live out of my suitcase welding pipelines across the northern US. don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. what else is there to do in all the dead-end towns i got work in?
>READ, NIGGA, READ

every town I visit, I make it my mission to ask ten locals what their greatest fears in life are

I hope to compile a book one day, a sort of manifesto, about fear. what the most common human fears are, how deep fear is rooted in the psyche, the evolutionary benefits of fear, the role of fear in the present day, and how fear might be used in the future. no idea when i will write this. but it will be written

Antinatalism isn't actually antinatalist in the consequentialist sense. It's more of a personal virtue signalling. Realistically, some percentage of people becoming antinatalist isn't going to make humanity go extinct. If anything it merely leads to a temporary decrease in resource consumption allowing humanity to live on longer.

If you're a true antinatalist and don't just want to look virtuous the outcome to optimise for is the extinction of humans on this planet to happen as soon as possible. The way to do that is to actually take an accelerationist stance. To hasten the human extinction event a soft landing isn't a realistic option, we must crash this thing with no survivors. We must have more people, more capitalism, more speed! More pollution, more deforestation, more chemicals, more fertiliser, more nukes. If you want to get to the finish line of the species as soon as possible, don't slow down, start sprinting.