/lit/ - Literature

it'll conclude it alright, when the book-burning starts.

>>12351821
>concludes with obesity

>>12351831
can't we burn women instead?

Imagine this:

A country so powerful that even its very flag enrages the foreigner's eye; a state so successful that it inevitably becomes a scapegoat for the wrongs in every subjected culture.

Thank God I'm an American.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

>10,000 years
I too enjoy reading Atlantean poetry.

>>12351833
no, the people who run this country don't want that.

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>>12351834
This but unironically.
Every euronigger and chink on /int/ loves to shit on America for any reason they can think of. Given, most Americans are fat, but that’s really the only definite thing they can pin down.
>B-Bbut much culture!1!1!!!1!!!
What culture? Most of Europe and bugmanland has been raped by anti-intellectualism for decades and the result is that the deepest their “culture” goes is old buildings and dead men who lived there.

>>12351834
So much rationalisation here for the fact that every European with a quantum of thoughtfulness despises the culture of America as everything fake, overblown, thoughtless, false and worthy of disgust.

America has a few achievements, but they go against the grain of American vulgarity and mediocrity (Emerson for instance).

America is a fantastic case of a nation founded on idealism ending up a nation of criminals and canaille.

>>12351887
here they come :)

>>12351887
>Is this subtext for a yo mummasofat joke?

I met a traveller from an antique land...

>>12351887
>muh culture
If you Europeans are so sophisticated then why are you literal slaves to American culture now? If you detest it so much why does everyone over the pond want to visit America, watch American tv, listen to American music, read American books, and want to learn English? Stay mad eurocuck

>>12351872
>fake news is destroying culture
It really isn't.

>>12351878
Sorry to break this to you, American friend, but the only country on Earth reaching the decadence depicted in the film "Idiocracy" is your own.
The world loves you for Disney World but hates you for being a bully. Intellectuals laugh at your own intellectuals but you have your head so far up your ass you still think you matter.
Your legacy is not a quest for freedom, but of niggers rapping about fucking some hoes and school shootings.

>What culture? Most of Burgerland has been raped by anti-intellectualism for decades and the result is that the deepest their “culture” goes is old buildings and virgin men who lived there.
ftfy

>>12352098
English is not an American language you fucking nonce

>>12352108
yet another example of national relativism failing.
I know it's hard to swallow, Geoff, but America is a very successful country and has invented the modern world.

I'm here to help you.

>>12352108
>no u
That’s the extent of your argument. Tell me when niggerville invents the internet or lands a man on the moon and I’ll listen
>>12352113
Yes it is dumbass. Just because we didn’t make it doesn’t mean it’s not our language. Also love how you can’t refute my other statements

>>12351821
Can anyone recommend me a good American author? I've read Lovecraft, Steinbeck, DFW and such and they were enjoyable in their own way, but is there any author that is actually on the same playing field as the Europeans, Asians and South Americans?

>>12352140
>culture is technological advancement
Sweet example of your underlying logic, ameritard.

>>12352140
I'm not interested in providing a refutation since everything you've said is blatantly untrue and you already know that.

>>12352164
Neither is old buildings and niggers laying in the gutter

>>12351872
what does he mean by elements of permanence?

>>12352098
This is like arguing that American cuisine is great because McDonalds is a thing. You excel at producing mass market garbage for your average wageslaving prole, that's about it.

>>12352098
Most American exports have the shelf life of milk. Yes, the average idiot watches the Kardashians, but nobody in 20 years will ever remember them. Meanwhile, European cinema, music, literature, television, etc. is still praised. The pinnacle of American television is Mad Men, which glorifies 60s consumerism. Meanwhile, Europe has amazing works like the Prisoner and Dekalog. Then Europe has Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Godard... America has nothing that can compete. And America's greatest author, Melville, is generally considered to be an intriguing look into history but ultimately dry by most real intellectuals (born, raised, and educated in Europe).
USA will be a footnote in human history. USSR, in its short existence, will have far more interest poured into it, as it won both the space race and the cold war.

>>12352215
Never argued it was great. Argued that your people are idiots too

>>12352245
Most people anywhere are idiots, it's the products of intellentsia that show the true capacity of a nation.

>>12352243
Did the USSR win the cold war?

>>12352331
Yes. Only Americans believe otherwise.

>>12352331
Russia's government is run by people loyal to their host nation, as does China, Vietnam, and so on. USA politicians are legally loyal to Israel first and foremost and the USA second. You can't even run a business or get hurricane relief in USA without pledging to support Israel. It's the most authoritarian state in the world.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/us/aclu-lawsuit-texas-israel-anti-boycott-law/index.html

>>12352366
>Russia's government is run by people loyal to their host nation
Cringe. Russian government are loyal to nobody but themselves. They'd sell the country to to jews tomorrow if it meant more personal wealth power.
т. paшн

>>12352392
>paшн
The fuck this is

>>12352440
sminem runes

>>12352440
"Russian" spelled in Cyrillic

>>12352331
Not as long as Canada owns the Arctic. And we barely take part in the surveillance except as private operators, and that's mostly in due protection of honor. Mostly end up legal jargon I imagine, but that we are most assured of winning.

>>12352453
>>12352451
>pyccкий

>>12352366
Russia is an oligarchy with several foreign interests working in its government
Vietnam is on the same level as the Philippines and South Korea in terms of pro-American influence nowadays

>>12352366
Read this

>>12352159
Pynchon

>>12352528
That's "Russian" in Russian, brainlet.

>>12352599
I thought it was a liberal boomer/ autistic STEMlord meme.

>>12352668
Sminem in Russian please. Can I buy bear feet boots in Russia?

America is home to the most important movement of our time: free software

>>12352729
You meant podiatric cuisine.

>>12352735
The UNIX philosophy demands efficiency.

>>12351834
>destroy other countries and kill people for money
>LMAO U GUYS R JUST JELLY
Man I wish I could be a proud american too... Lmao

>>12352714
Cминeм. You can get dishes from bear meat in Siberia and specialty restraurants, but it's quite gamy and pungent and more of a novelty than a delicacy.

>>12352102
Not that anon but you are mistaken. All the major networks and most papers are propaganda, designed to keep you from using your own brain to decide what you believe for yourself. They give you an opinion, at very best they frame facts.

>>12352729
This, despite it being entirely unrelated to literatute, America doesn't necessarily represent anything so much as a scapegoat for a different ideology. Bored and sick of reading Stendhal and binging early 2000s stand up so let me wax a little: America is essentially a set of rules that allow America to be a negativity of a country. It is landless, in the sense it has no precedent, it is historyless, cultureless (it's an ammalgamation of other cultures), timeless with its neophilism, and finally people-less. Americans share no genetic heritage, it's a half culture, a contract between idealists and capitalists that reads like Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Man is stripped to his raw potential, and raw potential is essentially the wanton use of resources in a way that is either mercilessly rapacious to that resource in question or the user of said resources, and then set against one another in the form of corporations. America is so hard to pin down because there's nothing to pin down. "What is an American?" Is as meaningless as asking what is a citizen? Believing in the dream, is enjoying the ride, which is at the core of Fear and Loathing, a binge trip to the epicenter of the American psyche is an Inferno-esque journey to a void of all things but pleasure, and this pleasure machine is merely the accretion of capital and then its wholesale advertising down the gullets of consumers as apotheosized commodities. What terrifies people about America, is that America exists on purpose. Unlike other nations that have accrued a lifetime of accident, America is the raw will of white devils exacting their apparatus of desire on the world and extracting all of its wellsprings of worth for ephemeral ambrosia, in exchange for bondage, genocide, proxy warfare, and all the while making it a place people dream. The paradox is its nature. God bless it.

>>12351821
I wonder what the literature of Gobekli tepi was like

>>12352762
Oh, I don't want to eat a bear, just wear his feet as boots.

Whose flag is on the Moon?

>>12352954
Do you have a telescope? There's nothing up there anyway, massive wastes of money and resources, very united statesian to be proud of that.

>>12352243
>USA will be a footnote in human history
are you actually retarded

>>12352776
yes I get the real facts from four-channel.co [sic]

America is a prototype for China. A failed but profitable one, however.