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[Anonymous No.11097400]

Books that predicted the future.

[Anonymous No.11097407]

>>11097400

[Anonymous No.11097408]

>>11097400
you go first OP the traditionalist right wing conservative Christians are a dying breed in america

[Anonymous No.11097413]

>>11097400
Digits: the book

[Anonymous No.11097422]

>>11097408
you say that like it's a bad thing, a sick dog needs to be put down

[Anonymous No.11097424]

>>11097422
dubs confirm

[Anonymous No.11097427]

[Anonymous No.11097430]

>>11097408
there have never been true christians in america

[Anonymous No.11097441]

[Anonymous No.11097444]

>>11097424

[Anonymous No.11097459]

It totally works. Trust me.

[Anonymous No.11097469]

>>11097408
You're only a traditionalist because the algorithm allows you to be

[Anonymous No.11097473]

>>11097444
checked

[Anonymous No.11097482]

>>11097469
>>11097422
>this book predicted the future
>no it didn't the future is nothing like that
>good why would you want that you sick fuck

[Anonymous No.11097538]

Reflections on the Revolution in France

[Anonymous No.11097577]

>>11097407
Lmao 2 hours from now.

[Anonymous No.11097598]

>>11097441
Underrated

[Anonymous No.11097599]

[Anonymous No.11097652]

>>11097444
excellent

[Anonymous No.11097658]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.11097670]

>>11097400
t. roastie

[Anonymous No.11097723]

>>11097658
Can I hear your take on this? Politics-wise to me what we ended up with is a less literally aesthetical progressivism. I think DFW deserves a solid B+ for prescience in that department.

[Anonymous No.11097734]

>>11097723
I have never read it.

[Anonymous No.11097738]

>>11097723
Not OP, but I'll chime in: Netflix binge-watching, for one

[Anonymous No.11097741]

take the Tedpill

[Anonymous No.11097793]

Whatever by Houellebecq should be mandatory reading for everyone.

[Anonymous No.11097906]

>>11097444
checked hard

[Anonymous No.11097927]

>>11097427
It didn’t predict 1984 accurately.

[Anonymous No.11097951]

>>11097738
>>11097658
>Nobody predicted the culture of smartphones

[Anonymous No.11097985]

[Anonymous No.11097994]

Dune
mass automation will induce insanity through unemployment resulting in the Butlerian jihad

[Anonymous No.11098040]

>>11097994
>insanity through unemployment
oh yeah not toiling to make someone else money is such mind-wrecking torture. if nobody lets me clean their toilet today i will snap

[Anonymous No.11098049]

>>11097951
why is the picture mirrored?

[Anonymous No.11098057]

>>11097951
The real trick is extrapolating from smartphones today. What is to come? Some sort of widespread backlash; or maybe a more seamless integration of the device into everyday life’s interactions?

Actually, one amazing thing nowadays is people in high school are far faster tappers than typers. They type essays out on their phones; and smartphones are allowed in class, for that’s where all their textbooks are nowadays.

I was the last graduating class not allowed to have phones out. Not to mention growing up having my parents say “no phones at the table,” and, well, now look at us. It’s a chilling shift.

[Anonymous No.11098062]

>>11098057
>soma

[Anonymous No.11098083]

>>11097444
wew

[Anonymous No.11098089]

>>11097400
Its about the present in Muslim country's.

[Anonymous No.11098277]

>>11097400
SF writer Frederic Brown wrote a story "A Logic Named Joe", about a crazy future where everybody had a computer in their house, and they were all connected together through telephone lines, and you could ask them any question and they'd all confer to find an answer.

One of the computers broke down and started telling the family's children how to make explosives and such. the protagonist had to find that computer and fix it before the problem spread to the other computers. weird, right?

[Anonymous No.11098282]

>>11098089
But Muslim countries have always been like that

[Anonymous No.11098288]

>>11098057
>people in high school are far faster tappers than typers
That means that they are bad typers, not good tappers

[Anonymous No.11098395]

>>11098040
this but unironically

[Anonymous No.11099414]

>>11098282
Yep, even communist Afghanistan was exactly like the Handmaid's Tale.

[Anonymous No.11099514]

>>11097741
correct

[Anonymous No.11099523]

>>11097408
This.
>>11097422
>>11097469
Both of you need to fuck off. That anon merely pointed out The Handmaid's Tale didn't predict the future.

[Anonymous No.11099526]

>>11097400
I hate evangelicals but the idea that they were ever going to establish some sort of theocratic, totalitarian state (or that most of them even wanted to) is extremely retarded.

[Anonymous No.11099545]

>>11098282
Are you serious? They've only been like that since Sharia law was enacted. Islam isn't homogeneous across Middle Eastern history. I mean, it's shit, but it's not all the same, and hasn't always been there.

[Anonymous No.11099554]

Is The Handmaid's Tale the most wrong dystopia novel ever written? 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and other dystopia novels got some things right whereas The Handmaid's Tale was totally silly when it came out and has gotten progressively sillier over the years. Although it wouldn't be so silly if it was about Muslims instead of Christians.

[Anonymous No.11099567]

>>11098089
The Islamic Revolution in Iran, to be precise

[Anonymous No.11099594]

The Chronological Prediction of Every Significant Event That Will Ever Happen by Nostradamus Nostrilamus, 1500's

[Anonymous No.11099662]

>>11099523
>Both of you need to fuck off. That anon merely pointed out The Handmaid's Tale didn't predict the future.
>That anon merely pointed out
>That anon
Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Occasionally, very occasionally, white knighting your own trivial comment may go unnoticed, but 99% of the time, even though nobody can be bothered to point it out, everybody knows it's you. There are only six of us posting, and one of us is a janitor who can see your IP address.

[Anonymous No.11099700]

>>11099662
I'm neither of those anons and I just want to point out that this is the second time in this thread someone has proven a point wrong only for someone to ignore it and startinsulting the anon.
>Handmaid's Tale predicted the future
>No it didn't
>Why would you want it to you sick fuck?

>That anon didn't support Christianity, he just proved OP wrong
>Wow samefag much?

You're a cunt or multiple cunts

[Anonymous No.11099706]

>>11099554
This,
Atwood is clearly in denial when she talks about Christians as having a more imperialistic bent than Islam. Christians are known for converting /cleansing people through their books, Muslims are known for being forceful and appearing infamously terrorist like.

My bet is that Atwood secretly knows what's going on but feared being Rushdie'd to oblivion.

[Anonymous No.11099713]

>>11099706
>My bet is that Atwood secretly knows what's going on but feared being Rushdie'd to oblivion.

this applies to most leftists

[Anonymous No.11099732]

>>11099662
Damn son, you really don't want to admit you were wrong about The Handmaid's Tale. Your off-topic shitposting is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.11099744]

>>11099706
I've read Atwood's book on literary criticism, Survival. Honestly, yeah, she was a bit of a firebrand in her early years, she probably agrees, why do you think she lives on Pelee Island so much now? Not for the birds, but to survive, to be away from {{{them}}}.

[Anonymous No.11099809]

>>11099744
She uses Piexoto as a means to educate us to become less academic and more sympathetic but there's nothing to be sympathetic about in her characters.

It's like people telling you to want to fuck a fat chick. There's no convincing, she meant to write a feminist book but she merely explained why not to bother through fatalism.

[Anonymous No.11099987]

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[Anonymous No.11100814]

>>11097741
unironically a prophet

[Anonymous No.11100830]

>>11097427
upvoted

[Anonymous No.11100900]

>>11099994
Herman's Idea of Decline in the west was much more accurate

[Anonymous No.11100922]

Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf ("The Jews had brought the Negroes into the Rhineland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardisation")
Oswald Spengler - Decline of the West
Ted Kaczynski's manifesto
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
James Burnham - Suicide of the West

didnt read the other answers before writing my reply, these are the most obvious ones.

[Anonymous No.11101527]

>>11097400
oh yeah, didn't you check out the latest Christian movie to win at the Oscars? Fucking Catholics control all the culture in America. Feminism is such an obscure thing.

Sad!

[Anonymous No.11101558]

>>11097400
Welly Becky's books

[Anonymous No.11102325]

>>11097444
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.11102331]

>>11098057
>far faster tappers than typers.
I don't believe this.

[Anonymous No.11102344]

>>11102331
They could probably become faster typers if they spent any amount of time actually typing. Smartphones are designed so that apes can use them.

[Anonymous No.11102387]

>>11097599
This, but unironically.

[Anonymous No.11103218]

>>11097444

[Anonymous No.11103222]

>>11097444
Upholder of the dubs confirmed

[Anonymous No.11103240]

>>11098040
employment is the only source of identity and community for the majority of people over 25.

[Anonymous No.11103270]

>>11103240

fucking feel this. getting together with a bunch of acquaintances and all we can ever figure out to talk about is work.

desu im probably just spiteful because i havent amounted to shit.

[Anonymous No.11103277]

>>11102387
moreso in volume 3

[Anonymous No.11103282]

>>11097408
Op was probably talking about Islam

[Anonymous No.11103300]

>>11103270
It's not really a bad thing entirely, it just sucks nowadays b/c less favorable employment opportunities plus it's frowned upon to take pride in your job unironically. You can be a scientist, or a farmer at home and at work, but nobody is a retail worker outside Walmart.

[Anonymous No.11103303]

>>11099706
Didn't she say "star wars did 9/11" in an interview once? I think she's just loosing her grip on reality in her old age, which is less of a political opinion and more of a bodily function.

[Anonymous No.11103320]

>>11103300
Very few people take pride in their work though. I had a friend who worked in a store by my apartment and he said he hated that he never had to do any sort of preparation for it, he would just get up, throw some clothes on and walk to work to see what the day had to bring. Sometimes there were good moments according to him but a few times his days would be pointless and boring and he’d think to himself, what was the point?

[Anonymous No.11103581]

>>11103240
>only
what is the church you disgusting capitalist

[Anonymous No.11103675]

The Demon Haunted World. Sagan predicts fake news and pseudoscience conspiracies, and kinda tangentially the echo chamber aspects of growing tribalism, or at least the "feels over facts" that's the basis for it.

[Anonymous No.11103761]

>>11097441
Thread

[Anonymous No.11103771]

>>11099994
>>11100922
Still wish they'd release a new unabridged version of Decline.

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[Anonymous No.11103796]

>>11103581
>tfw I only met one person who was training to be a priest
>korean guy
>ask him what about the church attracted him
>he says his brother is a successful drafter and the priesthood was decent employment they would approve of
>literally never mentioned his faith once, didn't even seem particularly religious
Capitalism eats everything anon; Christianity was a light snack, packaged and fetishized.

[Anonymous No.11103797]

>>11103796
>*they being korean guys parents

[Anonymous No.11103924]

>>11097400
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale?ac=1&from_search=true

reviews are of a certain persuasion.

[Anonymous No.11104096]

Anything by Houellebecq

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[Anonymous No.11104133]

>>11097400
Brave New World in literally every respect except for the prevalence of helicopters. I don't mean figuratively. I literally mean every respect.

[Anonymous No.11104134]

>>11097413
My Dubs: the book

[Anonymous No.11104135]

>>11097927
Gotem

[Anonymous No.11104225]

>>11097441
This. I wanted to post the same.

[Anonymous No.11104230]

>>11097793
Should be required for everyone on /r9k/.