/lit/ - Literature

Look what they’ve done.

>>15079128
I did and?

Tacky, lame, dumb etc. etc.

they look like mongoloids. second only to burgers

>>15079039
jealousy

>>15079372
Burgers are anglos dumbass. Anglo means one who takes part in the anglosphere.

>>15079039
Quebecois, Irish, etc. posters probably

>>15079419
turkish and french

>>15079614
Doubt it, they wouldn't be on an English-speaking imageboard

>>15079039
Envy

>>15079372
Well there’s a reason you’re speaking English. Or trying to at least.

>>15079039
Anglo here, it's because autism is the most boring kind of mental illness and its basically our one contribution to philosophy.

>>15079039

>For this reason it should not be a matter for surprise that the Anglo-Saxon mania for sport gains ground day by day: the ideal of the modern world is the “human animal” who has developed his muscular strength to the highest pitch; its heroes are athletes, even though they be mere brutes; it is they who awaken popular enthusiasm, and it is their exploits that command the passionate interest of the crowd. A world in which such things are seen has indeed sunk low and seems near its end.

>One could show for instance that psychology as it is understood today—that is, the study of mental phenomena as such—is a natural product of AngloSaxon empiricism and of the eighteenth-century mentality, and that the point of view to which it corresponds was so negligible for the ancient world that, even if it was sometimes taken incidentally into consideration, no one would have dreamed of making a special science of it, since anything of value that it might contain was transformed and assimilated in higher points of view.

>Such is still more certainly the thought of the pragmatists, who make utility a substitute for truth and consider it at one and the same time under its material and moral aspects; and we see here too how fully pragmatism expresses the particular tendencies of the modern world, and above all of the Anglo-Saxon world, which is one of its most typical portions. Indeed, materialism and sentimentality, far from being in opposition, can scarcely exist one without the other, and they both attain side by side to their maximum development; the proof of this lies in America, where, as we have had occasion to remark in our books on Theosophism and Spiritualism, the worst pseudo-mystical extravagances come to birth and spread with incredible ease at the very time when industrialism and the passion for “business” are being carried to a pitch that borders on madness; when things have reached this state it is no longer an equilibrium which is set up between the two tendencies, but two disequilibriums side by side which aggravate each other, instead of counterbalancing

Because people only study literature when they're too dumb for science

>>15080039
Sounds like he was bullied by a jock

>>15080039

>From rationalism, religion was bound to sink into sentimentalism, and it is in the Anglo-Saxon countries that the most striking examples of this are to be found. What remains is therefore no longer even a dwindling and deformed religion, but simply ‘religiosity’, that is to say vague and sentimental aspirations unjustified by any real knowledge: to this final stage correspond theories such as that of the ‘religious experience’ of William James, which goes to the point of finding in the ‘subconscious’ man’s means of entering into communication with the divine. At this stage the final products of religious and of philosophical decline mingle together and ‘religious experience’ becomes merged in pragmatism, in the name of which a limited God is stipulated as being more ‘advantageous’ than an infinite God, insofar as one can feel for him sentiments comparable to those one would feel for a higher man. At the same time, the appeal to the ‘subconscious’ joins hands with modern spiritualism and all those ‘pseudo-reli-gions’ characteristic of our age. In another direction, Protestant moralism, having gradually eliminated all doctrinal basis, has ended

>This also makes it possible to explain quite naturally a fact which is noticeable in England and still more so in America, and which at first sight might appear rather surprising, namely the association of an exaggerated development of the practical outlook with the almost unlimited dissemination of all sorts of follies of a would-be religious nature, in which both the experimentalism and the false mysticism of the Anglo-Saxons are simultaneously pandered to ; this goes to prove that, despite appearances, the most “practical” mentality is not always the best balanced.

>it has recently led to the formulation of a so-called “ esoteric Christianity,” which is no less fanciful. This organisation of American origin, while posing as international, has become purely Anglo-Saxon in its leadership, with the exception of a few dissident branches of little importance ; in spite of all its efforts, supplemented by a protection that it owes to certain political considerations which we not examine here

>>15080039
How do you have time to write out three paragraphs, my pizza is getting cold you cunt

>>15080043
this is true but i like to pretend it isn't

>>15079039
if you're actually not that smart and actually don't care that much about really learning anything, but obsessed with being seen as such you can just flee to verbose german and french "philosophy" completely void of actual content and just insist people "don't get it". This description fits 90% of /lit/ posters in philosophy threads, note how tiny the ratio of actual philosophy discussion to discussion about philosophers or philosophy books is.

>>15079039
“Anglos and science” is basically the philosophy of Reddit. It’s how you get sissies like Bertrand Russell and Steven Pinker conveniently glossing over all the most brilliant parts of a philosopher like Nietzsche and spluttering inane crap like, “B-b-but, he inspired the Nazis! Who cares about all the writers and artists he inspired, too, and who cares he was one of the first modern Western philosophers with enough balls to directly attack Christianity and help pave the way for secular thinkers like us? And certainly we don’t have to respond to his critique of modern utilitarian Anglo philosophers simply taking what they want from Christian morality and leaving out the “God” part since it’s irrational. Anyway, if he was such an UBERMENSCH how come he was a sick weakling. Nietzsche BTFO!” It’s also where you get hacks saying that Heidegger was an obscurantist and *gasp* also a Nazi. Everyone’s a fucking Nazi! Even I might be a Nazi! Holy crap, I’m gonna go write an NPR article about the disturbing rise of the alt-right on disturbing websites like 4chan! Fuck, I’m sorry, I think this post has too much knowledge and is too good and too long for your peasant brain.

>>15080043
>>15080052
You gotta go back, lads.

>>15080039
>>15080045
This isn’t that bad and I may read a book by Guenon now just to see what he’s really on about, in all honesty.

>>15079039
We don't hate Anglos, people like Fisher, Pynchon, Wallace, Land etc get talked about all the time. Its Analytic philosophers like Russell that get hated on