/lit/ - Literature

Are any of you copywriters? How did/do you get into it?

I've been striving for a shorter workday that can improve my general writing skills so I can have time for other shit.

you first, OP

>>22958977
>why are you even here?
Have you ever used a magnifying glass on ants?

>if you evidently don't believe there are causative factors behind a society which can be analyzed
Of course you can analyze them. Your mistake is in that you think the food *somehow* manifests in the intestines. And that in places you've misidentified the appendix as said intestines.

Let's see.

>the extremely obvious reality of democratic politics incentivizing poor social outcomes among the lower strata.

News to me. Let's see what you have to say on the matter. Maybe you had some insight for me:

>generally speaking for instance the low mean IQ underclass of most developed nations lack the means to engage productively in economies that are increasingly information based

Why? Surely that will be backed up by more. This sounds interesting.

>meaning they have become in effect wards of the state,

Oh. I guess not? How does that naturally follow from before? Okay, I guess I'll go with it.

>leading to the proliferation of things like 'make work' and the welfare state, necessitating significant tax and social burdens on productive professional classes

The state just HAS to give people money. It's part of the system of democratic politics. Somehow. This would not happen in any other system. So true!

>Within the framework of a representative democracy, it's very beneficial for its political caste, because an unproductive dependent class is probably the most effective way of ensuring reliable voters.

Data I'm seeing (from both the PRB and Pew) says that most nonvoters come from low-income and non-college-educated households. BUT I HAVE FAITH. I'm sure it's just the politicians scheming. Political intrigue, you know. I watched House of Cards. I get it. Please tell me the real reason why, Anon PhD.

>Not only is this state of affairs convenient for the political caste,

Agreed, It's also a system so reliable, that they never feel the need to fake votes. Foolproof. God, if only we could take down "the System" and finally bring about "the Utopia".

>but very useful for the State generally, because it provides a convenient excuse for the perpetual expansion of the state apparatus via appeals to humanitarian or egalitarian rhetoric.

This would never happen under any other system.

>Such an underclass is also useful "on the streets," because they can be easily manipulated into exercising mob violence over pre-existing resentments held toward the productive professional classes. This justifiably terrifies members of the professional classes, and the implicit threat of violence helps keep them in line as financiers of the dispossessed underclass.

You're right. The poor are so fucking stupid that they don't even SEE it's the politicians doing this. They simply blame the rich. It's genius!

>>22756381
Man you're really putting my pride down here.

>>22615905
>Because you are recklessly expressing doubt about a stray person's willingness to commit suicide. Enough people are serious about it that your attitude is daft.
Yeah, this still doesn't really mean anything in regards to the point at hand.

>This is simply wrong. The world abounds with situations where people actively desire something, but see other needs, principles, or practical concerns as coming first.
Because they fulfill other desires, or are preconditions to experiencing desires. I go to work to earn money for a variety of reasons, but it is because I desire certain outcomes that I bother to earn the money instead of just being homeless and jobless. I might consider work to be a valuable experience in itself, and so ultimately desire to work.


>Yes, anticipating a desirable thing to come is an EXTREMELY common human experience.
Liking goyslop is common. Why should I care if it's common? I am attempting to determine whether or not it has any use.

>Many people derive as much pleasure from the anticipation as the realization of a desire.
That's unfortunate, given that it is not nor will ever be the realization of the desire. The desire will never be fulfilled by simply thinking about it. It's like playing a video game in your head.

>And of course for many people, anticipation would
be the only possible mode of enjoyment of death, since they expect it to be the total cessation of all things.
This makes sense, but ultimately inhibits full enjoyment of the experiences of life by dedicating time and energy towards anticipating something unknown as much as possible.

>Ones who believe in an afterlife, though, would generally get from it both a compelling reason not to kill themselves, and a very concrete reason to look forward to it.
This would be want of the afterlife, not want of death. Nonetheless, this too makes sense, but to be content or happy with it is not the same as the active force of desire.

>You really come off as a simplistic retard who has never experienced a complex emotion in your life.
>Fucking think before you start throwing out simplistic platitudes.
He says as he does so.

>>21786965
It is possible that, having lasted for so long, and being the oldest western literature, they will continue on. They may outlive whatever is written now, or whatever was written last century, or even in the last 1000 years. What is more, the commitment to learn a language in order to understand them guarantees that whoever learns these old texts will be committed to their survival.

After all, one or two books is enough to base a civilization on. A few thousand latin and greek books is enough for a lifetime.

based on what?

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