/lit/ - Literature

Actually the Saudis are preparing for the future quite rapidly all of a sudden. I know they're not all of Islam, but it's something to think about.

>>11286854
Herschlag and David Byrne did a fusion dance

>>11286863
how

>>11286854
>book is set in the future
>characters arent white

>>11286854
>thing in real life doesn't exist in fictionalized world

wow such profound insights do you have a patreon I can donate to?

>>11286854
>book is set in the future
>nothing changed

>>11286869
neo-lib programs, austerity, feminist reforms. the new crown prince is a progressive capitalist. the problem is that islam will end up like 21st c christianity, one faction will be domesticated and basically degenerate another will be insane and double-down on regressive idiot social policies. religion is not malleable the way people think it is, spirituality is but not formal doctrines for organizing millions of humans.

>>11286854
With advancement in living standards and education, religion dies out. The Islamic countries will advance like everyone else, or disappear into irrelevance as failed states once the oil runs out. Progress can't be stopped, my nigga, only slowed down.

>>11286854
>Book is set in the future
>Doesn't immediately stop reading it

>>11286890
>With advancement in living standards and education, religion dies out

>>11286890
Tell that to Eastern Europe and China.

>>11286901
>>11286902
L O L

>>11286923
Define religion for me.

>>11286923
>USA
As always, the eternal burger

>>11286930
America really is one of the vilest nations in the history of the world, the day America as we know it ceases to exist will be a cause for great celebration.

>>11286932
America is not a nation, America is a mindset.

>>11286890
Yeah Islam doesn't work like that.

>book set in the future does not contain an autistically detailed encyclopedia of what religions, orientations, and fur affinities exist in said future
>author must have decided those things disappeared

>>11286944
If you want to kill the offspring, poison the womb.

>book set in the future
>world isn't ruled by china

>>11286987
>Books set in the future
>World isn't governed by one world government and people work together as a collective race

>>11286902
Eastern Europe was a backwards shithole that was modernised too fast, so it went back to being a shithole after socialism failed. They have a problem with female rights for a similar reason, since there was suddenly equality, a feminist base never developed, once the rights were gone, it was too much of a shock and accepted.

>>11286949
Most Islamic shitholes are still shitholes with a power-structure from the 18th century.

>book set in the future
>one world government because people "advanced past nations"
>no religion because of "progress"
>lack of diversity completely unexplored by author, everyone just acts like Americans but some of them are named Mbwange so you know they're cosmopolitan

Brainlets ITT: disregard geopolitics edition
The middle east oil boom is over, America will be energy independent by 2020, it leave China to own the middle east and use them for their own needs. It's why the Russian pipeline is going through Iran and the nuclear deal is happening. America won. And "Islam" (brown people) isn't and won't expand because of this.

>>11287009
I hope Xi is smart enough not to get sucked into dealing with Arab nations, because if he isn't China's going to be in for a whole heap of shit.

>>11287011
He is, China is being forced to deal with them to meet their energy needs.

>>11287015
Honestly should just make a deal with Russia and get oil from them. Putin's ego might not allow it, though.

>>11287009
there isn’t enough oil or gas to make us energy independent

>>11287009
>America will be energy independent by 2020
Why in the everloving fuck would you say this?

>>11287019
Russia is already dealing with them friend, there was an announcement for a $55bn pipeline to China about a month ago

>>11287022
>>11287023
>what is shale oil

>>11286998
most eastern europe countries were far ahead in women rights than the west

>/lit/ is full of amerifats
>politics, shitposting, /pol/ and Christianity posting increases.

>>11287047
/lit/ is a Catholic board, friend.

>>11286854
>book is set in the future
>capitalism still exists instead of fully automated luxury gay space communism

When will they learn?

>>11286932
America is the greatest nation every conceived on this pitiful earth.

>>11287073
i read this as pitbull earth. im getting off 4chan for a while

>>11287035
Due socialism but they barely developed them naturally.

>book is set in the future
>life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness the goal of all civilized races
>peace, freedom, democracy, the nuclear family coexist with ubiquitous weapon ownership
>everyone has Anglo-Saxon names even the aliens

>>11287089
Yeah, dystopias are pretty popular for sure.

>>11287085
socialism was very natural in the balkans

>>11287093
In Paradise Lost Lucifer considers Heaven a dystopia. He's wrong

>>11286854
If wouldn't be a problem if the jews weren't sending them into the west so their kinsmen in Israel and grab more land and face fewer enemies on the ground. It's not like jews haven't done this before either.

>>11287110
>book set in the future
>Judaism magically disappears

>>11287132
That's the real problem. Arabs are retarded and could be repelled or kept in their sandbox with ease if there weren't jews creating wars in the middle east, using NGOs and our governments to import them into our countries, and using the media to call whites racist if we don't like this arrangement.

Jews are the main problem here.

>>11287110
>>11287132
>>11287160
hilarious posting as always friend

>>11287196
>>11287160
samefag

>>11287208
The most honest people on the internet are the ones trying to explain to your dumb ass how big of a problem these kikes are.

>>11287245

>>11286888
Saudi is placating westerm audiances and fools like you lap it up. Also they cant control billions of muslims, a bunch of beduoins needed turks and persians to run their empires.

>>11287009
ah yes america willingly gives up its control over the middle east. Why the fuck would you think that?

>>11286890
>believing this

>>11287196
>>11287208
>>11287245
>>11287265
alI me

>>11287298
It checks out.

>>11287031

Earth is going to turn into mars, isn't it?

>>11286854
>What is Dune

>>11287820
One of the things that made Frank Herbert great is that he realized that religion would grow more important in the future, not less.

>>11287031
something insane that the corporate and financial elite have been meme'd into by the right wing deep state who own the oil industry and always have. That's why Trump denies climate change, he is owned by a class of finance, real estate, defense and oil industry assets, as are most of the republican congress now. You people have no idea, all the neo-neo-austrian-keynesian frankenstein economics cargo culting that the lolberts and neo-libs have done is insane, this is basically a recapitulation of the greed of the 80's, deregulation of finance, oil, the enivronment. The US petrodollar is the most suicidal economic strategy we could pursue and the puppet lecher is going to push this through in his two terms, along with dismantling all the protections for the white working class and accelerating neo-liberal social-darwinism. You will bury yourselves

>>11286895
kek

>>11287820
The exception that proves the rule?

>>11287821
Yes, telepathy and predestination and the be-all-end-all resource will totally be important in the future.

>>11287102
He's actually right.

>>11286882
fucking cheerleaders

>>11286923
>(((HDI)))

>>11287009
Muslims found a new way to expand and I don't even need to say what it is because we both know

>>11286854
>>Book is set in the near future
>>Islam controls much of Europe

>>11289794
>Muslims found a new way to expand and I don't even need to say what it is
Their cousins are running our nations and letting them in, it's no secret. You let in one semite and give them power, they let in more semites.

>>11286888
They just don't want to end up like Venezuela. They're more worried about what will happen when the oil runs out desu

>>11286987
did you mean to write "India"?

>implying Islam won't fall victim to western degeneracy as well

>>11287089
>>book is set in the future
>>life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness the goal of all civilized races
>>peace, freedom, democracy, the nuclear family coexist with ubiquitous weapon ownership
>>everyone has Anglo-Saxon names even the aliens
Where did it all go so wrong?

>>11286854
>Book is set in the future
>Religion still exists

>book set in the future
>humanity still exists

>>11286854
>The future is actually good and not a dystopia

>>11286888
>one faction will be domesticated and basically degenerate another will be insane and double-down on regressive idiot social policies
I'd hate to see the "insane" version of insane Islamic Fundamentalism i.e. Wahhabism, i.e. the state religion of Saudi Arabia.

>>11286987
this pic's cool as hell. saved. and yeah this will most likely be the "Chinese" century, assuming war doesn't happen and their economy doesn't collapse

>>11292734

That's what you see right before they shoot you in the back of the head.

>>11287208

>>11286888
>Saudi Arabia is all of the Arab world
The rest of the middle east would have already wiped that place off the map if they were the USA's bitch

>>11286854
>Book set in the present
>The Olympian pantheon magically disappears

>>11286854
What I want most is a future where people are genuine, not held up by words in a book.

>>11286932
s e e t h i n g

>>11294841
Ugly dyke

>book set in the future
>McDonald's magically gone

>>11295125
>Puffs smoke in your face

>>11286854
of course, before humanity can advance the lesser religions must be purged

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>>11292734

>>11286884
> book is set in the future
> society is still made up off assholes

exception: Greg Bear's "Queen of Angels" and "Slant". i could stand to live in a society where everyone is therapied.

>>11286854
>Book is set in the future
>Islam magically dissapears

Don’t we already have a utopian literature thread going?

>>11287058
You sure about that?