/lit/ - Literature

>>22872733
You literally can’t own guns

Any good books that will help me learn Architecture? I want to understand how to build a house.

>scatological
There is nothing logical about shit.

>>22529219
Accusations of tyranny are often used as a pretext, yes, but it is not just that. Compare the phenomenon of "captain of industry" capitalism with vulture capitalism and you see the same dynamic. A purely parasitic, oppressive and destructive approach to the populus generally indicates a tyranny. Plato has a good section differentiating the various forms of government in the Republic - he compares the typical city, which is in fact "two cities in constant war against each other" (just like the possibilities that we are discussing) with the perfect or true city, a unified and organic whole, a well-oiled machine. But there are different levels to all things. A tyranny properly speaking, as defined by Plato, is a kind of race to the bottom, where a predatory and parasitic elite destroy the polite in order to derive temporary material benefit. The absolute antithesis of this is a polity where a true elite governs soberly, according to moral principles. Most states tend to fall somewhere in the middle, and upward and downward shifts are also possible.
If we are considering the modern West, I think we are experiencing a situation somewhere between a libertine democracy and a true tyranny, which are the two lowest levels in Plato's schema. Obviously it is a bit complicated because of the plutocratic nature of the West and the various repressive tools that have existed and have been honed for at least over a century. I think we're reaching the levels of mob cannibalism and parasitism appropriate to true tyranny only now, however. This still doesn't mean that we should disregard possibilities which, though no longer existing for us, can and do exist in different eras.

>>22491674
Anon...

Satistics, without even as much as mentioning different races, are able to identify patterns most likely exhibited by specific races. You could be completely race blind and still make decisions based on statistics that would isolate races from eachother. This is empirical evidence that there is a difference between people.

I find it hard to believe the degree of hubris in science fiction writers to think they could create a universe with life better than God himself. I went onto the Worldbuilding stack exchange, and it was a big mistake. Threads upon threads about alternative biochemistries, superhabitable planets, perfect organism design, but it all fell upon closer critical analysis. For the ultimate boon for those who follow the word of God, the creator, the Monad, the first and the last of all things within his sphere of love and creation, is that life can only exist in the way it does now. Any alternative variable causes a dysfunction cascade, which is why transhumanism and the mRNA technology are so dangerous. I hope that science fiction writers are aware of their heresy, and find the Lord soon.

Reading philosophy just made me dumber, I'm gonna trust my instincts from now on desu

I used to have a friend named Edgar.

>>21844469
I can't parse why you think there'd be some specialized technique for understanding Plato that could only be learned in grad school

Is no one here going to mention that this Jewish dude is literally doing the le happy merchant pose?!?!

Post your
>Favorite female author
>Favorite black author
>Favorite female philosopher
>Favorite black poet
You have one right?

>>21585998
If this isn't bait just fucking end it anon, holy shit.

>>21233887
Darren Shan, apparently there are REAL vampires out there?!

Is traditional Christianity the first example cosmic horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiJauhz664

>Americans read Gogol as tragedy

Any other philosophers like Joseph Valtharius? Particularly any that don't want to make me put a bullet in my head?

>>20127645
Γιατί μιλάμε ελληνικά;

>>20092869
>Pynchon worst novel which is why I never read it
t then how do you know?

>Lot's daughters

>den entgegengesetztgerichteten Bezug

>entgegengesetztgerichteten

>ent-gegen-ge-setzt-ge-richteten

I listen to audiobooks and then later tell people I read the book. Do you do this?

evil backwards is life

>>19313657
Is your behaviour psychopathic?