/lit/ - Literature

>>18100871
>tried listening to his Hermitix appearance a while back
>sounded too much like Homer Simpson, I kept laughing too hard

>>18033167
"quickest suicide methods," Googled the Squirrel in his mind browser

>BIG BUSINESS GOOD

>>17679144
>gnostics were heretics for not being gnostics because christians are gnostics but not actually gnostics

>>17617805
the fact we're even talking about them. why aren't we talking about the problem of gloopdegloop?

>>17510130
>big word man mean this

>humans are the center of everything because I live in a city

Why do I have to suffer urbanite lizard people shitting up a discipline as noble as philosophy? When did these reptiles get in?

>>17252009

Reading this thread is actually disgusting.

>only foreign films and arthouse directors
>exactly like the pseud threads on /tv/
>lynch
>Kubrick
>tarkovsky
>tar

I'm cringing. You are all exposed.

>>14015546
>Book has text in it

>>13312560
>china is flourishing
>losing ariable farm land by thousands of miles every year
>overpopulated country causes large and disgusting dirty cities that cause tons of pollution
>most of country is doing extreme factory work due to loss of land and limited job growth
>giant dust storms from the growing Gobi desert launch into Shanghai all the time
>low water reserves worse than California
>he thinks Mao's policies weren't retarded as well
>four pests policy
>backyard furnaces
>chinese famine during great leap forward


Fuck you and fuck your meme ideology.

>the meaning of life is to create meaning

I don't get how a publisher would allow themselves to publish a entire book that's one huge begging of the question.

>>11421099
>neoliberalism

lefty/pol/ in charge of insults.

>>11412697
>This is pure anti-history

No it's not faggot.

The "Noble savage only worked 2 hours a day and laid around fucking and had no property" meme was created by Marxists like Marija Gimbutas.

Nobody actually believes this is true, except of course, Communists, neo-Malthusian psychos like you and Ted Kaczynski.

I essentially read essays, and I enjoy it. But it seems like 3 months after, I wouldn't be able to explain to a friend the important theories and concepts that were in the books. Do you have a method to improve your understanding and memory ? Do I just need to read the book several times ?
I thought about writing a resumé of each chapters I'm reading, but it just seems like a lot of work and effort, and some books have too long or too short chapters.

>>11095061
>Coining shit means she said anything new that hadn't already been said better by Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant.
>conflating normativity and perspectivity
>thinks logical fallacies actually proves anything about the universe or humanity and isn't a closed system
>implies that Reason™ is the ultimate expression of humanity; doesn't even know what the Münchhausen trilemma is

Rand is a mediocre thinker and a mediocre fiction writer. Deal with it Randroid.

>twitter
So basically twitter owns his book then
What a cuck!

>utilitarians