/lit/ - Literature

>>21035355
Yeah really insightful question.

This chart is extremely fun to peruse by the way.

A lot of religion focuses on some version of this. Buddishm and Gnosticism, for example.

>>21035355
>low brow is the only one actually smiling
Pottery

>>21035355
Just be yourself

Behold -- the perfect man!

>>21035370
For an example you can give an example.

>>21035370
/thread

>What is to be feared is not the slackening of humanity in a life of luxury, but rather the desiccated expansion of what, in the guise of the all-natural, is social – the collectivity as the blind rage of making. The naively mandated unambiguity of the tendency of development towards the raising of production is itself a piece of that bourgeois nature that permits development only in one direction, because, integrated into the totality, ruled by quantification, it is hostile to the qualitative difference. If one thinks of the emancipated society as one emancipated precisely from such a totality, then alignments become visible that have little in common with the raising of production and its human mirror-images. If uninhibited people are by no means the most pleasant, and are not even the freest, then the society that freed itself of its fetters could arrive at the thought that even the productive forces are not the final substrate of human beings, but are rather the historically specific form of this substrate under commodity production. Perhaps the true society would become bored with development, and would out of freedom leave possibilities unused, instead of storming alien stars under a confused compulsion. What would begin to dawn on a humanity, which no longer knew urgent necessity, is just how illusory and futile all the arrangements hitherto created to escape privation have been – arrangements that used wealth to reproduce privation on an expanded scale. Enjoyment itself would be touched by this, just as its contemporary schema cannot be separated from industriousness, planning, imposing one’s will, subjugation. Rien faire comme une bête [French: Doing nothing, like an animal], lying on the water and look peacefully into the heavens . . .

>>21035370
Not to mention Christianity taken at its word ("Be ye perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect.")

>>21035355
the Nicodemian Ethics by Aristotle are literally all about this, dumbass

>>21035454
That's speculative idealism.

>>21035355
How is being a Lodge member more lowbrow than simping for Planned Parenthood?

>>21035370
I was not aware Marcionism had any other commandment than "don't worship the kike God"

>>21035481
That Planned Parenthood actually means planned parenthood. As in, conscious intent of building a family.

>>21035355
>The Game

>>21035355
I just lost. Well played. Inserting it in 1950s US beatnik class satire.

>>21035389
Criticism of criticism of pulp and comic books >>> criticism of criticism ~= comic books and pulp

>>21035481
>>21035499
What about a lodge where they hunt children?

>>21035355
Very entertaining chart OP, thanks for sharing.

>>21035355
A thread died for this

>>21035389
So to translate, random collections but cohesive consistant drip, gamer chair, his favorite vape and phone case, watches movies with you not just normie shit, eats reasonably well, craft hipster beer, listens to podcast but based ones, owns an anime figure, crypto currency, works for the state department?

>>21035400
Oh and he finds industry plants charming and entertaining but only so long as they have their own vibes to express

>>210355
And his favorite book?

>>21035593
>>21035596
Need to read D&G and Autonomia instead of that.

>>21035481
Supporting planned parenthood is lo-key eugenics, being a mason is being a subversive element

>>21035355
>Why is this topic so unpopular?
Because becoming perfect requires a LOT of changing yourself and working on flaws you don't want to admit to yourself.
>yet we are still on the spiritual part of it which is very sparse too.
There is a huge amount of literature of the subject. It should be easy to find, there is an entire genre dedicated to "self-help"

>>21035812
>self-help
That's about adapting in a consumerist predatory world. It has nothing to do with materialism or truth at all.

>>21035363
I think it's meant as a joke cause it's arbitrary and kinda dumb. As if ballet was anything more than an excuse to stare at petite women in skintight clothes.

>>21035355
you can become perffect by seeking out things which bring you anxiety
anything which you are not naturally adept at. or feel insecure about, you should run towards. there will be a lot of pain, a lot of sculpting and moulding yourself until you become seamless. you must experience a lot, see a lot, talk to a lot of people and think for yourself , think long and deeply, get rid of all your friends, leave most of your time in solitude to think, suffer, overcome great suffering and you will have become god at the end. and then you will realise it was all for nothing

Bump!

What brow am I?

>>21036589
I think you're mostly just an alcoholic.

>>21035975
Why would anyone want to stare at petit women in skin tight clothes? They’re barely even women most of the time.

>>21035355
>be me
>upper-middle brow and in need of recreational diversion
>put down my dry martini and stand up from my empire chair
I lost the game

>>21037391
Fair enough, you're probably right. I think I will make myself a mojito.

>>21037424
Philistine

>>21035363
Fpbp

>>21038793
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>21035389
>craps
Based

Low Brow wins.

>>21035530
>>21035543
The motherfucker. I haven't lost in years.

I think this is a pretty tempered mix of things to enjoy desu

>>21035355
Contemporary

>>21035355
Do Americans really not get that this satire on their own class system?
No one actually fits into those neat little categories

>>21039217
Firstly taste isn't class, its a partial cultural demarcator of class, but isn't fundamental.

Actual bourgeois don't bother with highbrow culture, they fake it to "fit in" because they're sociopathic murderers pretending to be in Executions.

b) Cultures of class are impossible for Americans to see clearly because they're stupid cunts and blind to their own terrain of struggle.

iii) IDGAF always wins these battles as long as you can seemlessly meld between a conversation about smarking into French criticism. And appear and naturally expect everyone else to follow.

Dustin Rhodes has done more for queer rights by cutting his face with concealed razors than a thousand marches.