/lit/ - Literature

>>13550743
Which one is it

I am going to continue to drink and shitpost

>>9076590
Yeah, it's true. It's why Trump is this crazy rallying point for so many; Make America Great Again really just means re-opening it up for political theatre on the grand scale once again. Even if he accomplishes nothing more than that...well, what the fuck. I don't really think he has a concrete plan, he just timed the political market very well, stepped in, maximized his possibilities and now he'll attract investors of every stripe to carry on from there. In the meantime he burned the Republican party to the ground, while watching from a penthouse that would make Louis XIV do a double-take while the Democratic party does likewise to itself.

Tech-comm really is the future. Everybody knows that the future is not in 20C social theory but in science, finance, and tech. Even I know this and I've basically wasted my life thinking about poststructuralism. All that shit seems totally played to me now (although I do think it is necessary to read to see how we got to this point). But whatever, really. I salute your tech-comm savvy tho. And those things that you have identified all to me are really crucial things that Trump can do.

>>9076600
Anissimov seems to have dropped off the radar. I didn't read a whole of lot of his stuff; he seems to have been a heavyweight in the reaction scene along with some other guys but they were a little before I started looking at them. He had some weird meltdown or something I guess, and that Laliberte guy similarly disappeared. MM shut down UR and now the whole thing seems to have passed to Social Matter/Hestia/West-coast trads/whatever. And now Spencer/Friberg/those guys.

Sam Harris is right. The more the left refuses to have uncomfortable questions about borders and cultures, the worse things will get. Trump and Merkel are functional allies in this thing. The cozy 90s-style globalism is just untenable in the current political climate b/c I think the economics it produced pushed it to extremes. The ideological conflicts we see playing out are mostly internal conflicts about the meaning of liberalism, which are ultimately questions of romanticism (as RF says, 'the individual stands anterior to society'). But nobody stands anterior to catallaxy.

They used to say about capitalism that it could be slotted into any culture without really harming that culture; now capitalism has transcended and become the planetary condition. The US, China, and Russia all run on versions of state capitalism. This is what I think is such a fucking disaster for left politics: there is no real alternative to capital, only political situations *within* capitalism. And so all of those old national/tribal allegiances suddenly matter again after we were told for a generation and more that they didn't.

This is why Peterson matters too...he's neither on the right nor the left, but he's definitely opposing left stuff without going full redpill. No wonder he looks so thin and frail.

>>8445691

socialism is the last step of capitalism, and the first step of communism but does not apply in any practical sense to, neoliberal politics directly today.

>>7535862
reddit tier jokes for a reddit tier thread. God this board has gone to shit.

Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?, I. Hacking
Screenplays, P. Auster
Culture & Value, L. Wittgenstein

>>7334706

>>7198356
>not wanting to be remembered as the guy who single handed translated futanari space opera LN