/lit/ - Literature

post-feminism
post-fascism

By realizing you are only in a cage if you believe the bars around you have any meaning. Jaden Smith tier post but also semi-srs.

>simulacra

Buy a flip phone, go outside.

nuclear war

>>12889304
>go outside
>see national coffee chains pretending to be small-time local coffeehouses, complete with fake-brick wallpaper
>see billboards with pictures of beautiful young people in photoshopped settings with unnaturally white teeth and smooth skins
>buy a burger that never looks nearly as good as the picture of a plastic replicated "burger" behind the front counter
>go watch a movie where the actors spent the majority of their time in front of greenscreens and fight CGI monsters
>see people wear pre-worn jeans
>buy a bottle of shitty filtered groundwater pumped out of a local well with a picture of alpine mountains on the label
>still stuck in the matrix

>>12889362
>go outside
You can't go outside, "outside" doesn't exist, you're always inside of your head. You've been meme'd by the ****

>>12886920
Taoism

>>12889733
where do i start with him

>>12887068
except that's bullshit since we are being bombarded with pollutants in every city, carcinogenic chemicals on every street, electro-magnetic waves of every sort (5G is spectrum-based imperialism - /it/ wishes to expand its control to the entirety of the electromagnetical spectrum ), most western nations enforce mandatory injections for kids, you are forced to look at vile, insidious advertisements anytime you go out. Most people aren't free to eat healthy food, it's a luxury in most western countries (sometimes straight up impossible) There are live streaming cameras with facial recognition in EVERY western cities now, microphones in every lamp posts. You cannot go through a single 1k+ town in the whole of the western world without being caught on camera

sometimes you have to stop being a philosophizing faggot and face the facts.

>>12889809
Asking where to start with the famous philosopher Jeff Taoism is quite a question, anon.

>>12889914
There's no proof that 5G is detrimental to one's health and mandatory vaccines is spooky but the alternative is worse. Everything else is true though.

>>12889362
>not building a cottage in the countryside and growing crops, going fishing, reading by the fireplace, talking to other farmers

>>12890450
Not that anon but this is definitely my medium term objective. Plus it's gonna be the best way to survive the collapse.

>>12890458
Same. I still want wifi connection because I dont mind watching films/browsing internet/indulging in simulacra. I just fucking hate city life.

>>12890467
>I just fucking hate city life.
Yes, I hate it too, and ironically I'm grateful that I came to live in a hideous, noisy city because it's what woke me up and made me conscious that this is no life for humans, or animals for that matter.
At this point I'm just waiting for someone to buy this house so I can move to a small city/big town with my family, after that we'll see.

>>12890440
Did I mention 5G and vaccines being detrimental to one's health? No.
There is a third position, aside from being a docile science-loving sodomite or an anti-institution paranoid schizophrenic, you know.. Like not the basis of whether or not it is detrimental or beneficial to you. I've met a poor senegalese fisherman in Africa, who summed it up best; "Le Franc CFA? Bon ou pas, on en veut pas" This attitude is almost forbidden to the western, rationalized, man.

Both are still symptoms of the imperialist nature of the technological system. 5G aims for total, uncompromised dominance over the entire electro-magnetic spectrum - the untold, unforeseen implications are monstruous.
Vaccination campaigns are an all out war against the individual. I will not dwelve into this, as it must be obvious to anyone with an ounce of reason. This, of course, is overlooking the shady sides of the vaccine industry. Like Bill Gates, the son of a reknowned eugenist who worked on the founding board of the eugenist group Planned Parenthood, lauching massive global 'health' campaigns all over the world. Kek. I'm sure the son of a eugenist who actively worked towards the control of african-american demographics is a benevolent guy who is the exact opposite of his father..
Personal anecdote: I have met one of the most prominent doctor in my country. Extremely bright, joined med school at 14. She had a lot of high profile patients, like the prime minister. She falsfified vaccination papers. Make your own conclusions. But don't let the last paragraph take away from my initial point: Good or bad, we don't want vaccines, 5G, or mandatory -anything-.

>>12886920
start by being real dumb nigger. Start speaking the truth. Stop caring what other dumb niggers are doing and just focus on trying to be better. People are attracted to the light wherever it shines. That light is kindness, authenticity, and confidence.

>>12890503
No, yes, you're right. Good post. On the point of 5G, the only reason people give for wanting it is the same for, say, wanting a new cell phone when their current one works perfectly fine, "it's faster!"
EVERYTHING accelerates now, even the speed at which we get and read fucking memes.

One of the key takeaways from acceleration is that there's no exit except at the other end. That means we need to buckle up and "ride the tiger", so to speak. Find ways to make life more bearable. Religion is one of those ways.

>>12886920
by definition you can't escape the simulacra. you just have to wait it out and hope there's something better on the other side. until then, just dick around.

Im mad because the thread I was answering to died a horrible death. I think it may susciten an answer to OP's post.
12884929
He kind of did. Hegel is all about sistems, sistems require structure, which in turn means alienation. If you look at something, just by looking, you distance yourself from it, and so distort it til the point of reaching "machines of speech", refuting one another in a logical form created by them through making an object of the nothing that we surround or circle around through discourse. Kierkegaard's answer to Hegels system (and Hegel's igeniosity, meaning distorsion within his linguistic scheme) was concrete knowledge, historical here, the particular experience, etc.
I tell you, the question of futury is wether we choose ourselves absolutely or we get naked to the point of murdering the excrements of god (attributes), Kierkegaard or Nietzsche, Hegel just doesn't make sense anymore (he invented some useful words though)

>>12886920
Via a sense of humor, if one has it, since it's the universal bullshit detector. There are rare exceptions to that rule though, since the flip side to alienation is a lack of credulity when it comes to fictional projection. Francis Bacon's take on illusions is an example of that.

>>12889914
>implying nature wouldn't have a limb wristed faggot killed within a second
fuck off roastzie

Theres no way to escape the city, we are too far to go back,the world is urban and theres no changing that, and it only gets worse from here (the smart city will swallow us all)

>>12889362

>>12886920
have sex

>>12890450
Kaczynski was right

>>12890450
While that might escape much of modernity, the very act of returning to an earlier time is a simulacra. You are simulating what the modern world perceives as a past lifestyle, while in reality, that past lifestyle as perceived by us modernites never truly existed. Our view of a primative lifestyle is compared to and informed by our modern lifestyle.

>>12891413
>You are simulating what the modern world perceives as a past lifestyle
it can still be better than the current one, even if it is our perception of the past.

>>12891815
Whether it's better is irrelevant. The question is how to escape the late-capitalist hyperreality. "Going back" and LARPing as a pre-modern subsistence farmer is not escaping the simulacra, it's immersing oneself in them.

>How do we escape the post-modern simulacra?
It's literally impossible. Technology has advanced to the point where your education and mental ability are insufficient to grasp the physical processes that govern your daily life, and so things have to be simplified into easy-to-grasp but inaccurate analogies.

>>12889362
>see people wear pre-worn jeans
the horror... the horror...

>>12892085
But he is right, that's a perfect example of a simulacrum: A manufactured image of wear and tear. It's "fake" not because the physical wear isn't real - the fabric of the jeans really is worn down and torn - but because the physical deterioration implies old age and excessive usage that hasn't actually occurred.

There needn't be value judgement in making that observation.

>>12887068
of course the bars have meaning you dumbfuck

>>12889362
you're still inside

>>12892043
Damn what’s your advice then? Is this position/explanation your own or still debord/baudy?

>>12892043
I don't understand. How is living a traditional life still being trapped in the matrix? Can someone please explain for a brainlet?

>>12893160
bump

>>12890503
>5G aims for total, uncompromised dominance over the entire electro-magnetic spectrum - the untold, unforeseen implications are monstruous.
What kinds of potential problems? This is the first of heard of 5G.

>>12892043
Unironically, we need a WWIII.

>>12893836
Unironically, you need to have sex.

>>12893836
this but ironically

>>12893892
I had sex on tuesday. At dinner tonight with my mother she started talking about technological advances and where they would take humanity in my lifetime. I said WWIII, probably, & she looked like she was about to cry.

>>12891131
Disappointed, anon.

>>12893836
Yes but without nukes

i really, really, really, really, really, really, really wish this incoherent they live poster would fuck off once and for all

>>12894000
That may be true, but at least it's better than the shitty low effort text-on-object memes.

>>12893160
Because that isn't living a traditional life. Your idea of a "traditional life" only exists in relation to the "matrix", and is constructed just the same as it.

>>12893160
You don't live a "traditional life" because you don't actually receive anything that's been passed down to you directly from your parents (the definition of "tradition"). Instead you self-consciously live according to a constructed image of what a "traditional life" is supposed to like.

>>12886920
Assume that a better future is possible than has ever before been actualized, better than you or anyone else can imagine, both for you personally and for others. Now find a path from the reality of the present to the potentiality of the future, a job which takes skepticism and imagination on both ends, a job that is never completed. Expect a high probability of failure, finding this path will not be easy, it requires patience and self-awareness. If you do not have the determination to proceed with a high probability of failure, failure is guaranteed. To find an exit requires desiring it more than anything, to be willing to suffer unimaginably for it if need be. How much you are willing to suffer is directly proportional to your chances of success.

>>12886920
The fuck is this "we" shit, "how will *we* escape from this hell?" There is no "we" anymore; "we" is vestigial refuse of the past. It's an outdated delusion. Now, there's only you, and how you feel compelled to condition yourself to perceive and engage the simulation.

There will be no escaping from the simulation, escape from it is as futile as the idea of running or hiding from yourself, for it is within you and it is you, just as much as you are within it and you are it. This does not mean, however, that you are obligated to be content with the artificial borders and boundaries inflicted upon you from without: you may be in prison, but you are not a prisoner, and ubiquitous and overbearing though the walls of the simulation may be, they are not immutable, nor are they even truly solid at all. They can be breached, manipulated, passed through, disregarded; nobody is making you play along with all the banal minutia of this shithole clown world you are trapped in. There may be a gun being held to your head with the demand that you give up your shekels in exchange for a pie to the face, but that does not mean you have to happily laugh along at the stupid, cliched, soul crushing antics of the simulation.

You must learn first and foremost to fortify yourself emotionally against these antics, and the manner in which they are most apt to affect you. You must build within yourself an interior bulwark to weather through the despair and emptiness the simulation inculcates, the alienation, confusion, anomie, the sense of being without a real history, the dread of the past and fear of the future, the aching yearning for something new and different and better. You have to face what the simulation does to you inside: as you can never escape it, you will either learn to rise above it all, or drown in your own shit.

>>12889304
>go outside
>everyone is staring at their phone

>>12891413
>earlier time
You have to be an abject city-dweller to assume that quiet living in the countryside is antiquated and people who do it simply want to "go back to an earlier time".

>>12889362
This reads like some spoken word piece that has noisy flutes and two guitars in the background.

>>12887068
fundamental misunderstanding of simulacra.

>>12889732
literal retard

Read ironic literature like A Modest Proposal.

>>12886920
just enter a pre-modern simulacra nigga
just pretend you're not there haha

>>12893160
>>12894857
this, but also the very mode of acting out that lifestyle is bound in the simulacra. you learn about these “alternatives” via the internet and through televisual idealized imagery, you post about them on 4chan, you essentially roleplay a behavior you’ve learned and actualized from within. it’s just another form of VR w/o a headset and a littlw more sensation.

>>12895011
this is retarded. think murray suskind or jeff koons. open yourself to it and transcend into the simulacra. that is where heaven awaits. think of the agent from the matrix. the alternative is a lot worse and we cant appreciated how good we’ve got it/how fucked the past was despite all of our Enlightenment-tier romantic delusions.

>>12889914
>most people aren't free to eat healthy food

stop reading there you fat faggot, if you knew anything about health or fitness you'd know that the best diets are some of the cheapest. since the average poorfag does not even lift weights, they can eat subsistence calories and therefore an adult can thrive on less than $150 of healthy food per month (southern USA), some people much less. I know this because despite not being poor my diet is extremely cheap, much cheaper than it was when I was a retard and didn't know anything about macronutrients or TDEE. poorfags are just stupid and buy expensive shit because they are bad at priorities and math, I also know this because I used to be such a person who bought all types of processed food and mcdonald's like what people on food stamps buy. the absolutely medieval understanding of nutrition (and health, and fitness, and just fucking anatomy) that most people have triggers me to no end and is a major failing of the education system REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>12886920
Here's some things that I do...

>No smartphone
So often on the bus I take a few casual glances around to see how many people are looking down at their phones. I see the usefulness in it, and the joy of staying in touch, of consuming information they're interested though that doesn't necessarily mean it's useful. What I do is typically observe, think, or read. Maybe write down ideas that come to my head on the little notepad I have every time I leave the house. I've since filled one out fully (still got it) and the one I'm currently using is nearly finished, just a few pages left, I need to buy a new one.

>Smile to people on the street if you make eye-contact
This generally results in a smile back, sometimes it looks kind of forced, other times it looks genuine. Might add a "good morning" or something like that which if I do, they often reciprocate.

>If you feel compelled to compliment a stranger on something, do it
The worst thing that happened, I found, is that I complimented a guy who had a leather hat. It genuinely did look cool. He gave a rather cold and dismissive "thanks" or "okay", to be fair he was in the middle of a conversation with someone on the sidewalk which I technically interrupted as I passed by. Perhaps that's why he seemed displeased. Maybe I was particularly scruffy or unshaven that day too, never know.

>Offer a quick joke in passing
I've been experimenting with jokes, I was once painfully socially inept and awkward but in the past couple years I've been really striving to get out of my comfort zone, interact with people more, and as mentioned, try telling jokes from time to time. My logic is this: if I succeed and they find enjoyment out of it, FANTASTIC! If I fail and it dies, which it has on a few occasions, so what? Think they'll remember it the next day? Or a week from now? A month? A year? It won't stick around forever and I LEARNED from it. "Okay, that doesn't work, I still gained from the experiment." Now I get a grin and a laugh virtually every time I crack a joke, and it feels incredible! I'm sure much of it has to do with my confidence, articulation, cleverness, and I generally present myself fairly well. I don't wear sweat-pants or t-shirts or hoodies. Button-up long-sleeve shirts, either blue jeans or black jeans (I've been preferring black for months), and black leather boots. Leather belt keeping the pants up nicely and a wooden cross hung around my neck.

So there's a few things that I find helps me find joy in day-to-day life. Also, my flip-phone only cost $100 and the monthly cost is only $10-15 per month, depending on the plan I choose. That's Canadian dollars, too.

>>12891088
The 'smart city' will be conquered by decentralisation when automation and cheap energy make keeping people crammed together pointless. Cities only exist to concentrate labour.

>>12895451
Gonna try expanding on this a bit more, for better or worse...

>Show generosity
I don't always give money to pan-handlers, but I've been doing so more often. A loonie (one-dollar coin) or toonie (two-dollar coin) generally. Gave a $5 bill once. I also donate money to causes I believe in even though I myself generally live on less than $1500 CAD ($1120 USD or 860 British Pounds) a month typically, including rent/food/booze (I'm an alcoholic). I've donated to Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin), I bought a VPN through Count Dankula (Marcus Meechan (pronounced me-can not me-chan)), sent some to Terrence Popp whom I have much respect for (recently posted a video detailing an instance when he was pretty badly wounded in Iraq but managed to pull through and make sure he didn't lose any of his men), also donated a modest $5 to the Trump wall GoFundMe (and they've raised $2,000,000 from $5 donations alone which could be enough for one mile of wall all on its own), and also paid for membership with Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. I've always voted Conservative but I think Mad Max represents my views better than Andrew Scheer of the current Conservative Party of Canada.

>Don't tell lies
This one ties into my Christian faith, and also to what I've learned from Dr. Jordan Peterson who's likewise from Canada, in fact I've lived in Alberta too which is the Province he's from. All I can say is that, it works. Be honest and face any repercussions forthrightly, whatever they may be.

>Pray for your enemies
Alright I guess this one is specific to Christians (and perhaps Jews) since I don't know if Islam allows prayer on an individual basis or if it's only allowable during group prayer. Even with individual prayer, with their mat, facing Mecca alone... are they ever allowed to just 'free style' the prayer? To just say what's on their mind to Allah, to give personal thanks, to ask personally for help if applicable, or personally send out wishes that their God will help others? I imagine Muslims and Christians pray VERY differently, but anyhow, if not for my faith then I fully believe that I would presently be in prison and someone very specific would be in the ground. I do not say that lightly, and I am not trying to sound billy badass. I have had my eyes opened to the fact that I am capable of cold-blooded murder, with my bare hands no-less, and I'm thankful to God that I've been blessed with the wisdom of how that's not the answer even though it seems like the logical thing to do. Even the virtuous and selfless thing to do, to spare the world of him. Anyhow, I find that it helps, so I mention it. I just did it today, for the very man I struggle to not bring great violence to.

I've also been journalling for years, which can be enlightening sometimes though of course can also be saddening or depressing. Some pages bring me back to awful times in my past, but other pages, like February 27th, make me feel so grateful.

>>12895390
>if you knew anything about health
I won't elaborate for the sake of privacy but there is no way you know more than I do kek. You honestly sound like an autistic american who counts his calories(no offense). That's not what health is about. Anything wrapped in plastic is trash. The only thing I'll say is that I'm from the alps, and some very serious illnesses pushed my parents to become extremely knowledgeable about nutrition. They are literally avant-garde when it comes to health and food. My mom has been publishing nutrition literature for over 30 years. We've also lived in the US so I can compare. US food is an insult to human dignity. We strictly bought food off the local farmers market and various organic stores. Organic meat IS expensive all over the world, REALLY expensive. At least 2-3x as much as hormone-fueled "meat". You seem to think it's the education system's responsability to teach people how to eat correctly. kek. how could an institution teach you anything about authentic living? off with them.

You've been Heidegger'd my man. You can't beat the Alpine man at his own game of dasein and authenticity.

Bump

>>12894000
I like it, and its not incoherent

>>12895358

live your life with total honesty and humility. train your mind's eye to see more than just what's pleasant: every time you feel yourself being seduced by appearances, conjure up vulgar mental images that negate them - if you're watching a movie scene with airbrushed / simulated sex, for example, picture the nude female messily giving birth to a child (baby's head crowning, puddle of afterbirth on the bed, etc.) over time, this will make the tableau of hyperreality seem obsequious and alien, and will attune your expectations of things to "real life" subjective experience

ITT: bourgie "post"-left and whatever flavor of aut-right paternalist mass-shooterism is in vogue authenticity gatekeeping. Reminder that Baudrillard was a lazy crypto-normative faggot who wouldn't practice what he preached.

>>12895451
Very wholesome post

>>12896489
Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Tbh just don't give a fuck. Focus on something else and appreciate that for it's otherness.
Go to the military and feel pain for once in your cucked life.
Go and try to spread the lies yourself and if you fail and lose everything you worked for then accept it and let your name die out.

You can't escape them completely. Just move to the countryside (and commute if necessary) to minimise your exposure.
This isn't necessarily some kind of escape to a fantasy about 'traditional living' if you don't look at it in this way. It's a matter of selecting a decent place to live where you minimalize excessive stimulation and have the space to create an environment which suits your own tastes, not those of some imagined eighteenth-century farmer.

>>12889362
>he's still unawakened
>his eyes can't cut through the lies and illusions of hyperreality like a hot knife going through butter
You're right anon, you should spend more time inside training until you can open your eyes to the Truth

Bump

>>12889923
Are we talking about Jeff Taoism in here? That duder is my favorite!

>>12897093
Also tradition is a spook. Live your life.

same answer as always: marxism-leninism

>>12896439
what was the point of this post anon

ITT: Retarded /pol/tards who don't understand what "simulacra" or "hyperreality" mean and assume it's just a byword for their idea of "degeneracy", curable through "Christian values" and (ffs) joining the military.

>>12899792
Based

Bump

>>12893836
WWII was so horrible, I don't want to go back.

>>12889914
>There are live streaming cameras with facial recognition in EVERY western cities now, microphones in every lamp posts.
You're gonna need a credible source
Bongland isn't the entire west, and cctv cameras are rarely good enough for facial recognition.

>>12890521
The world is not complete until I can get blasted with the entire geneaology of all memes like a electronic blast wave compressed into instaneity. The electromagnetic energy required would vaporize my brain of course, but at that point it's superfluous.

>>12895390
You are correct
>>12895507
You are a fucking pseud and you fell for the organic meme, why don't you post some of the ""nutrition literature"" your mom has published? I mean actual scientific journals obviously, if it's not scientific you can fuck right off pseud

>>12889362
sounds like being an American is your problem

>>12899792
Just what I noticed as well.

>>12893822
More cell phone towers with a stronger effect on people's brainwaves making people crazier than they already are, and increase risks of tumors.
Cell towers are also suspected of being the culprit behind the drop in the bee population.
One protection against these may be silver lined curtains to hang on walls and windows with high amounts of electromagnetic penetration.

>>12896845
Yeah go and fight for Israel. Let (((us))) take care of everything.

>>12890503
>There is a third position, aside from being a docile science-loving sodomite or an anti-institution paranoid schizophrenic, you know
Sounds like you didnt reach it

>>12902209
>naturalnews.com

>>12895390
What are some essential nutrition books?

>>12899788
To make me laugh

>>12889362
>>12895249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOcNF1S2hk

>>12901548
Is it better in Europe? I dream of a place where people don't all seem dead inside.

>>12893836
t. poor sod who will be killed by someone who just pushed a button at some point.

>>12886920
u cant

>>12886920
have sex

>>12893836
Unironically, you should kill yourself.

>>12894000
schizojak, you're still seething because you bought every single Zizek book and didn't get a single thing out of them. You want memes to be a trash compactor that regurgitates conceptual art and marxist ideology, but that's not how memes work.
>>12896184
Based and ideology-pilled.

>>12903164
>schizojak
Whoops, zizekstak. I was wondering what happened to schizojak, and somehow that translated through...

>>12902266
https://youtu.be/vI-cFaL-a18

>>12903187
> puts an object that obstructs the entrance into the hive
> WhY DoNT TEH BEEZ LAND ON TEH SELLFON? iT mUST BE ThE RaDIaTIoN
Why would they land on a cellphone when they just want to go home?

I honestly think it might be over bros
We should have just gone and blown everything up during the Cold War

>>12889362
have sex

>>12893836
we need a real holohoax instead.

>>12903225
Why is there reportedly a decrease in the bee population.
>just the natural cycle of things [tumor sprouts from head]
On the flip side the only benefit to this is to connect people more effectively and thereby increase profits.

>>12895390
You're picking out one badly worded phrase and ignoring the entire meaning of his post. Pretty talmudic desu

>>12902772
If something like a third world war were to break out I would sign up to fight for a country I don't much care for at this point, be shipped to the front lines and get shot.
I know that's how it would go and I would still do it

>>12886920
By not doing pic-related and actually getting out there and trying to make some positive change

>>12886920
We don't, it's too far gone. The realization of a controlled noosphere is almost here, all the pieces are in place. I mean, of course there's the kill-switch to revert it somewhat back, nuclear war, but anything below that, won't work. We can only witness the refinement of our current cultural trends, fine-tuning of them until the eventual implosion of the humanity within us.
A term I've been mulling over, The Mandelbox Existence, meaning that no matter how far or in we go in the universe, the same representations will be found. Organisms within organisms, cells within cells within cells. Maybe once we amalgamate with the stronger conscience that is soon to be born, all cultural trends and movements dissolve, past will only live as a footnote of where we came from, not who we or it is. There is no escape, unless you're willing to kill billions.

>>12902209
>Silver-lined curtains
Who the hell can afford that besides the rich?

>>12903459
And it's still better than fighting for a politically posturing aggressor who has nothing to lose on their end, or fighting in some proxy war for your jewish imperialist overlords.

>>12903786
They're not actually that expensive and there is an interview with some woman who claims to suffer effects from it who does it. So shoo telecom shill.

>>12888251

The fuck is that guys problem in the pic?

>>12902689
I doubt it. Try Montana.

>>12895390
Based and nutrientpilled.

>>12886920

You can't, because the second you genuinely believe that there is one, you're fucked. Even trying to argue that there isn't one is self-defeating, because why would you argue against something that doesn't exist? Anything against the simulacra immediately gives it justification by admitting that there is at least a concept with enough presence to merit an argument against it. That's what anyone who believes in it will say, at least, and until another construct comes along to displace it, they're not really wrong.

All you can really do is acknowledge that there is such a thing and leave it at that, because the whole, "HURRR LYFE HASZ NO MEANING BCAUSE SIMULACRA MUH PANOPTICON HURRR" gets you absolutely nowhere. It's like worrying that the Sun is going to burn out in five billion years--alright, fair point, but where does that kind of fatalism get you?

I hold it to be true that there's worth and contentment to be found in life if you want to look for it.

>>12887068
retard

>>12895500
What does the page from February 27 say?

>>12889362
>>buy a bottle of shitty filtered groundwater pumped out of a local well with a picture of alpine mountains on the label

>>12891413
>You are simulating what the modern world perceives as a past lifestyle
What if I thrust myself into the wilderness without any forethought? If I go in without any preparation and just see what nature has in store for me. Death or survival, if I go with those odds, am I still stuck in the matrix? Disconnecting from the rest of the world completely is my plan, just me alone in the nature.

>>12895497
Cities of the future will just be towers filled with servers and drones and the occasional Indian/Autist. People will disperse and sort themselves into roaming bands of tech-nomads, subsisting off of same day Amazon drone deliveries, that merge and split off in to various boutique cultures lasting several weeks or months before being subsumed in to large flocks again. People will date and fuck who they want and who they love, but their gametes will be crypto-locked requiring the go-ahead from Tinder, which is now a eugenics program with full access to your genetic profile, to successfully reproduce. Children are kept in VR pods and play educational games for the first ten years of their life before being released in to the wild in batches to fend for themselves by forming their own swarm-culture before being allowed in to adult society.

>>12889809
start with the Tao

>>12897350
Transcendence is hyperreal its the most hyperreal thing out there.

>>12895451
>>12895500
thank you for posting this anon

>>12893160
because people were forcibly ripped out of their traditional lives when industrialization happened. it's not something you get to opt out of and even if you "do" it's at extraordinary personal cost

>>12902772
>implying that's not the option we're already living

Go live with wolves

Bump

>>12902209
Lmao bruh cell phone tower signals go straight through your apartment walls, blocking the windows wouldnt do shit.

>>12904859

Based af- terrifyingly so.

To OP:

Stop being spooked. It was always a simulation. We're just more afraid to see through it then ever. This is a subjective approach.

Objectively: either embrace the "joy of communication" as Baudi-boi called it, or anchor youself to the idea that it can be overcome. Someone else said something like 'admit how hard its gonna be' etc, someone else said Marxism-Leninism. These are fine answers. Escapism through rugged neo-pastoral individualism, as people have said, isn't escaping it but it will ameliorate its effects- probably to a tolerable degree I'd imagine.

Back to a subjective view; remember your not missing out on anything- how could you? Its a parade to hide the futility of it all anyway.

>>12895500
>I've donated to Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin)
stopped reading there

>>12899785
based and REDpilled

>>12904798
I won't bother providing it word-for-word, but I basically took the day off and went over all my sources of money (bank/prepaid MasterCard/wallet/Fiverr/Patreon), also mentioned that I got the rest of the money for the 7 paperback sales I made in person in a single day, and also some expenses I had to make. Ultimately, after it all, I still calculated about $1000, then realized something I'd forgotten to include so it turned out to be $1064. Even with that, I knew I needed to keep improving.

Then my landlord ended up buying one of my $8 paperbacks but just handed me $20, even though he knew the price was only $8. That made for 8 paperback sales. I note that February 2019 was (and still is) officially my 3rd most-profitable month (from an over 2-year period) and note how "I feel so fucking good, so happy... so grateful." Then, I got drunk. 11oz (about 330ml) of 75.5% rum, and I was sober the next day before then drinking again on March 1st when I had 12oz.

>>12904893
Glad you enjoyed it. There's still hope.

>>12906167
I appreciate and respect his Classical Liberal values, his willingness to speak his mind in the face of much opposition, and his sensible stance that a no-deal Brexit is the best option for the UK since the EU is corrosively authoritarian and doomed to failure. Looking forward to watching more Yellow Vest protests, live, next Saturday. The UK is leaving, Macron's a fool who should resign, Italy has already elected a Euroskeptic and anti-mass-migration Government, and more and more Governmental Parties are gaining traction who share similar traits including in Spain and Sweden. I anticipate Maxime Bernier here in Canada to get some seats in Parliament come October. The national embarrassment that is Trudeau j.r. will be kicked out and so the healing can begin. If I were in the UK, my party would be UKIP. I am in Canada so my vote is switching from Conservative to the People's Party of Canada, which sounds kinda Socialist but Mad Max is thoroughly Libertarian so he gets my vote regardless. He's going to do away with magazine restrictions. Fuck yeah.

/lit/ used to be one of the few boards where the mouthbreathers make up only 90% of the userbase. Sad to see how far this place has fallen that the people here can't even bother to read the wikipedia summary of "simulacrum", preferring instead of argue over bees and cellphones and spouting alt-right bullshit.