/Lit/ Memes - Thread

[Anonymous No.11320753]

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[Anonymous No.11320814]

>>11320771
Cliff wishes he was mid-wit, he's a low-wit that is impressed by mid-wits

[Anonymous No.11320830]

>>11320814
Cliff moving to Detroit to do book reviews is the most coffee store hipster shit I've ever heard in my life. Let's see how long he lasts.

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[Anonymous No.11320840]

>>11320830
>Detroit

[Anonymous No.11320842]

[Anonymous No.11320916]

>reads Cioran once

[Anonymous No.11320921]

>>11320753
Who is this guy?

[Anonymous No.11320952]

>>11320842
The highest point in /lit/'s history, likely to never be topped

[Anonymous No.11320965]

>>11320842
I keep thinking about this. I would pay money for a finished version of this.

also, a "meme" is not a singular joke but rather a type of a joke. pls stop using the word wrong

[Anonymous No.11320978]

>>11320842
Hahaha the last passage kills me

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[Anonymous No.11321023]

>>11320753

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[Anonymous No.11321034]

>>11320753
Anyone has the Socrates, Aristotle, Nietzsche et al post?

[Anonymous No.11321037]

>>11320837

Patrician

[Anonymous No.11321042]

>>11321034
No, but I've got this one.

[Anonymous No.11321067]

>>11321023
That'd make a great banner

[Anonymous No.11321076]

>>11321023
I just want you to know that I laughed at that a lot. Thanks for the pic buddy.
(unironic post actually)

[Anonymous No.11321079]

D E O G R A
E O G R A C
O G R A C I
G R A C I A
R A C I A S

[Anonymous No.11321086]

>>11320842
I'm disappointed that niggardly was never used.

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[Anonymous No.11321104]

>>11320837
Is the last one Jung? Who are the first two? I’ve unironically wanted to write a scholarly/non-fictional work (comparing various forms of world mysticism, mythology and religions in a way I don’t think has been done in many other comparative religion/mythology books before) but also pull something like this because it’s based on reading I’ve been doing for years and I can’t be assed to go and re-get all these books I’ve checked out from libraries and get exact page citations and so on etc. I’d been reading these books out of interest, not thinking I’d one day want to write a book synthesizing them. The tradition of citation has also seemed to me not entirely necessary in some nonfiction works either. No matter how well-sourced it is, it doesn’t magically cause originality and greatness of ideas.

I mean, it could easily turn out as bad scholarship, though. But there seems something trite and unnecessary to me in the modern scholarly tendency of having an extra hundred pages in the back of footnotes of page citations of every book you mention. This seems more of the specialist’s tendency, instead of the tendency of one who wants to write more holistically, talking about broad trends/summaries of books. This was an autistic post.

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[Anonymous No.11321193]

>>11321099
That sun looks awfully hot...

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>>11321086
1st pic 3rd paragraph 5th line

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>>11321104
???

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[Anonymous No.11321334]

>>11321313
Kek

[Anonymous No.11321343]

>>11321023
kek

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>>11320842
>he doesn't want to be repetitive

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[Anonymous No.11321645]

>>11320842
>tfw just realised the little niggers make up a big nigger
>tfw dribbling brainlet

[Anonymous No.11321660]

/k/ does this live action role play vigilante loadout thing all the time, here's a /lit/ version I like to spam

[Anonymous No.11321694]

>>11321010
the mention of pharaoh gets me every time and always by surprise

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[Anonymous No.11321903]

>>11321104
http://www.jesus-for-all.com/fikr/pdf_3188.pdf
it's from The Divine and the Human by Nicoals Berdyaev

[Anonymous No.11321995]

This is my favorite

[Anonymous No.11322077]

>>11320965
Memes are objectified cultural capital. These images attached reflect the culture of /lit/. Going by your (vague) definition something like the YouTube "we are #1 but..." videos would be a meme, when in reality it's an object which produces a culture after itself, the exact inversion of a meme.

[Anonymous No.11322096]

>>11321448
based yesterday's thread poster

[Anonymous No.11322103]

>>11321855
is this loss?

[Anonymous No.11322112]

>This is now a Saddler thread

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[Anonymous No.11322138]

>/ourguy/

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[Anonymous No.11322298]

>>11322138
d-do you think he shitposts on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.11322329]

>>11322298
>He is Sadlerposting right FUCKING now!

[Anonymous No.11322343]

>>11322298
>>11322329
He said in one of his podcasts that he doesn't have the time to "get into" another website like 4chan. He also said that generally whenever he did see posts about him on here that it was mostly people making fun of him.

[Anonymous No.11322421]

>>11320753
OH SHIT HE'S HERE. EVERYONE ACT COOL.

[Anonymous No.11322425]

>>11322421
DRILL MY ASS MR SADLER

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[Anonymous No.11322444]

>>11320753
>>11322421
This isn't the only internet community that talks about him. Youtube and reddit also make memes about him.

[Anonymous No.11322460]

>>11320771
lmao this is just right wing ppo the author of the image was mad online about and like... chomsky and piketty mixed in

[Anonymous No.11322468]

>>11322444
>reddit

go back

[Anonymous No.11322469]

>>11322444
Show me the S-dawg memes.

[Anonymous No.11322474]

>>11321042
if u think this is funny ur underage

[Anonymous No.11322491]

>>11322474
>u
>ur underage

we've got a teenager over here

[Anonymous No.11322527]

>>11322426
from another perspective that looks like chick going down on someone :0

[Anonymous No.11322542]

>>11321313
fuck men

[Anonymous No.11322571]

>>11320842
The first text example is actually strangely well written. The other is just nonsense as expected, but the first one holds some legit value.

[Anonymous No.11322599]

>>11321995
This is equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking.

[Anonymous No.11322602]

>>11322343
You assholes scared him away!

[Anonymous No.11322609]

>>11322602
honestly it's probably for the better. This place can be REALLY dumb at times, and not even worth reading

[Anonymous No.11322629]

>>11322609
>>11322602
Boomers are incapable of understanding 4chan

[Anonymous No.11322635]

>>11322460
krugman and the peoples history as well

[Anonymous No.11322657]

>>11321098
i always find it funny reading the diagnosis's in the 1800's
Nietzsche's madness was supposedly caused by eating too much fresh fruit

[Anonymous No.11322659]

>>11320753
>>11321023
>>11321031
Fun fact about Sadler; he was born within 3 months of Jordan Peterson, DFW and Nick Land

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>>11322460
And Campbell, and Jared Diamond, and Stuart Mill, and John Oliver, and Orwell, and Marx and Engels, and Stirner...

[Anonymous No.11322781]

>>11321104
second is from the preface to Wittgenstein's tractus

[Anonymous No.11322825]

>>11321295
Yeah, I know about Eliade. I also know about Jung and that pseud Campbell. I’m looking at it from an angle different even from theirs, although loosely in their tradition.

[Anonymous No.11322851]

>>11321313
jesus

[Anonymous No.11322880]

>>11322527
no shit idiot

[Anonymous No.11322907]

>>11322880
That's not very nice

[Anonymous No.11322959]

>>11321903
>>11322781
Thank you. Just interesting and reassuring to know the precedents of influential intellectuals eschewing scholarly norms

[Anonymous No.11323049]

>>11321448

I love it when people screecap their own things believing they are funny.

[Anonymous No.11323055]

>>11321995

A masterpiece. Always happy to see it appearing again.

[Anonymous No.11323070]

>>11321104
The last one may not be Jung, but I remember him using similar footnotes, I think it was in his memories, so not that much of a scholar sin.

I also don't like the citation culture anon, but it's necessary.

Think about it this way. You go to the doctor and on the wall there is a certificate with his register number or whatever. Does that mean he is a real doctor? Not really, could be a false certificate and a false number, you'd have to check if the number is in official records under his name to prove it, but how many times do people do that? Almost never, but that's not important, the certificate is there anyway. Suppose you go to another doctor and there is no certificate on the wall and so you ask about it and the doctor says "ah, but I could put a fake one on the wall, right?". And he is right, but that's not the point and now you don't trust that doctor. Even if no one checks for the number, is good to give people the possibility of checking it. On a different note, does the diploma make him a good doctor? Not at all. Could an undergrad be a better doctor than he is? Not likely, but possible. But even so, to not have it there won't help anyone.

In the same way, citations are a way to leave crumbs for others to pick. Even if you know your subject very well and have studied it for decades, the reader doesn't know that. To trust that they will know it simply by what you're saying implies that the reader should put their chips on rhetoric. Think if you would like that if it was a different text.

Some great ideas come about without a clear source (not that they have no foundation, but that it is a wide and not specific foundation). Even so, use citations for all of the rest. It's not a something that reassure what you are saying, but something that opens the possbility for people to check it and then feel reassured about it, it is a way to open the dialogue with the past. It's a way for the reader to build the thought along with you. Think about a person finding your work 50 or 100 years from now and being able to locate it academically because you are talking to other thinkers before you.

It's also not only a tool for the reader but for the writer as well. In this painful job of finding references, you'll revist things that you know by heart, but now you're going to check the words with different eyes and gain insights on how to articulate your idea better. Better in the sense of better reaching those who, like you, are familiar with those works.

Does it make your text more true? No. Does it make your job easier? No. Do people masturbate to thinking they are citing great people and therefore they are great too? Yes, unfortunately. But even so, it's good to have them there.

[Anonymous No.11323079]

>>11322738
Quality meme

[Anonymous No.11323091]

[Anonymous No.11323334]

>>11320771
based af. i laughed

[Anonymous No.11323656]

>>11320842
>Was in that thread
>Made a high effort post
>Didn’t get in the screen cap
>Thousands of reaction images did
Yes. Yes I am bitter.

[Anonymous No.11323665]

>>11320753

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>>11323091
this is a good bit of an overstatement, but it is nice to put into perspective the relative intelligence of the early Academics

[Anonymous No.11324337]

>>11323656
what did your post say?

[Anonymous No.11324346]

>>11323070
Good point, thanks for the detailed post. This work is just notes and thoughts right now however, and currently I’m more interested in learning as much as I can myself and being sure about what I’ve learned before I presume to pass anything on to any readers. On the other hand, I read a book like Idries Shah’s The Sufis which WAS criticized for not having citations/even a bibliography but still became a hit and clearly shows the author’s wide reading. I’m not planning to just not tell what books I’m using at all, I’m more planning to mention what books I’m discussing in the text itself when need be and leave it at that.

[Anonymous No.11324358]

There's a great archive at eightchan/litpat/res/27.html

[Anonymous No.11324369]

>>11320842
Still waiting on the finished product.

[Anonymous No.11324702]

>>11322343
He didn't say the second thing at all

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[Anonymous No.11324745]

>>11324704
This picture makes me want to stop writing.

[Anonymous No.11324748]

>>11324704
lmao at the tape

[Anonymous No.11324874]

>>11322659
that's really fucking interesting. my dad was born that year too.

has anyone read outliers? makes ya think

[Anonymous No.11324880]

>>11324704
>uses page flags to make himself look smart

Guilty.

[Anonymous No.11324899]

>>11322659
Jhon Balance was born the same week as DFW and Chuck Palkachuck the same day

[Anonymous No.11324917]

>>11324880
That only makes you look like a teenage girl though

[Anonymous No.11324945]

>>11321103
Very nice, someone saved my shit... This is good motivation...

[Anonymous No.11324949]

>>11321104
>No matter how well-sourced it is, it doesn’t magically cause originality and greatness of ideas
The fact that you think this has ever been the point of endnotes outs you as uneducated. You've barely managed to avoid calling citation pretentious, but not by much

[Anonymous No.11324953]

>>11321995
This is the greatest of all time.

[Anonymous No.11324961]

>>11321313

A predictable outcome.

[Anonymous No.11324963]

>>11322268
What relevance does this meme have to his work?

[Anonymous No.11325002]

>>11321193

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>>11325002
Nice.

[Anonymous No.11325066]

>>11323680
>this is a good bit of an overstatement
Not really. Plato and Aristotle would have been unironically one of the smartest humans to ever live. It takes one kind of intelligence to build upon the work of others, but Plato and Aristotle laid the foundations for Western thought. Not counting the presocratics, who are still overly dependent on mythology.

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[Anonymous No.11325081]

>>11325072
This is getting a bit ridiculous

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[Anonymous No.11325207]

>>11324963
>He was a senior editor on the staff of the journal Plant Engineering for many years[8] before retiring to write full-time, but his most famous professional engineering achievement is a contribution to the machine used to make Pringles potato chips.[9]

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>>11320761
>alcohol
>weed
>drugs
hmmmm

[Anonymous No.11325574]

>>11320837

What book is that from the third image at the bottom?

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[Anonymous No.11325631]

>>11323091
>Well there were no fucking metaphysics before Aristotle
dropped. Aristotle was supremely dependent on his forebears in both the natural sciences and philosophy. fun pic though.

[Anonymous No.11325648]

>>11325400
I don't think ol Epicurus' location on the spectrum is accurate at all, he would be about the pinnacle of "we have food at home"

[Anonymous No.11325687]

>>11324704
>covering up the title

this dude is a turbo fag. the type of dude who wishes he was jewish but isn't degenerate enough

[Anonymous No.11325759]

>>11321995
>Does this sweet cane make of you an Abel?
holy shit

[Anonymous No.11325770]

>>11324704
this makes me want to burn books

[Anonymous No.11325799]

>>11321313
You know she's back on youtube

[Anonymous No.11325863]

>>11324899

Balance is clearly the master above all.

Moons milk

[Anonymous No.11325873]

>>11321313
>>11325799
I think we know what to do now

[Anonymous No.11325989]

>>11323665
kek

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>>11325873
Shower her with genuine positivity and support?

[Anonymous No.11326135]

>>11325873
It's time

[Anonymous No.11326152]

>>11321995
Okay this is epic.

But seriously rec me some poets that write like this.

[Anonymous No.11326166]

>>11323091
Isn't it more likely that he was just an above average (maybe even genius but not above, say, Hawking) guy with enough free time to pick a lot of low hanging fruit?

[Anonymous No.11326173]

>>11326135
Humanity is genuinely going to become more and more insect-like. Most of the West already is. No humanity, no existential struggle, just regimented worker bees or ants.

[Anonymous No.11326183]

>>11325066
Don't you think it's a bit of a huge coincidence that two among the smartest people to ever live just happened to meet each other in the same city?

How many people are alive right now who have Einstein-level intelligence? How many of them have made progress leaps in any field on the level of relativity?

[Anonymous No.11326206]

>>11325400
Fuck, I wish Camus was my dad

[Anonymous No.11326233]

>>11323091
>search this up in the archive because I missed that thread
>close to half the responses are “*snap*” or “lol what a Reddit post” or “fuck Aristotle anyway”

I want people on /lit/ to burn in boiling oil. Is it bad to be this contemptuous? There are people here whose deaths I would not count too great a loss. They’d be great fertilizer for the Earth. The more I come here, the more I am unironically becoming a genocidal totalitarian. Not based on race, but on stupidity and short-sightedness. I want the people who unironically post “lel only soibois care about classics” or “haha you’re such nerds no one actually likes reading Joyce and Goethe and Dante you’re just forcing yourself to to look smart” and stuff like that to be gassed. I want them to be slowly roasted alive. They’re not even humans, just automatons. They mean less to me than animals.

Anyone else get this feel?

[Anonymous No.11326250]

>>11326233
>spending so much emotional anguish on cheap bait

Is this your first day on the internet?

[Anonymous No.11326255]

>>11320771
This is 100% correct

[Anonymous No.11326287]

>>11326250
No, I’ve been on this board for years, and it’s become much much worse.

[Anonymous No.11326290]

>>11321448
That's not love, that's internalised hatred collectively giving itself and excuse to unleash death on humanity.

[Anonymous No.11326294]

>>11326287
>feed the trolls
>why are there so many trolls????

[Anonymous No.11326298]

>>11322738
nice

[Anonymous No.11326309]

>>11322738
lol

[Anonymous No.11326368]

>>11323091
Is this supposed to be humour or cringe? Because it's almost certainly cringe

[Anonymous No.11326389]

>>11326233
People aren't calling that post stupid because they can't understand the gravity of Aristole's intelligence (believe me, they can.)

They're calling it stupid because it represents and exceedingly shallow and naive view of philosophy and human progress in general, as humans were languishing about in sheer stupidity until the enlightened prophet Aristotle came to set them all straight and invent science and give us all $100.

Such a view is indefensible, it ignores the incredible dearth of philosophy, social, political, economic, hell even mathematical and scientific insight of humanity before Aristotle. How did humans build the pyramids, or the massive temples of Egypt? How did those "retarded god worshippers" manage to create massive networks of canals and irrigation in the Levant thousands of years before Aristotle?

The answer is incredibly simple - it's because they weren't actually "retarded", and actually managed to have incredible grasps of scientific and geometric ideas, all without the the tools us "enlightened moderns" take for granted.

[Anonymous No.11326394]

>>11325612
can someone explain this one to me

[Anonymous No.11326412]

>>11326389
as if**

[Anonymous No.11326420]

>>11326173
Maybe this is meaning of postmodernism, to become post-human.

[Anonymous No.11326433]

>>11326389
100% this. The post is funny, but really naive historically. Aristotle (and Plato, and any other philosopher) had a legacy before him, he had a whole school, he had "enemies". Thinking he was "the enlightened one" against a town of stupid sheeps (Athens probably was one of the most educated city in the world) is a dumb idea.

Which has nothing to do with Aristotle being a fucking genius. That's a fact.

[Anonymous No.11326439]

>>11320842
>I have stuff where it gets more dense, very stream-of-consciousness type thing

[Anonymous No.11326484]

all I got really

[Anonymous No.11326486]

>>11325873
pls no bully her

[Anonymous No.11326491]

>>11326484
great pic

my own OC here

[Anonymous No.11326499]

>>11326491
I also made this

[Anonymous No.11326635]

>>11326135
Who tf thinks of shit like this, how do I reach this level of autism?

[Anonymous No.11326655]

>>11320753
reddit, this board is not salvagable

[Anonymous No.11326922]

>>11325400
I think Wittgenstein was too autistic to troll desu

[Anonymous No.11326990]

>>11326394
According to Plato, Aristophanes made a farcical myth that said human males and females used to be combined into one body until Zeus split them up. The search for love is the search for finding that missing half.

[Anonymous No.11327069]

>>11321660
nice, made me kek

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>>11321023

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>>11327122

[Anonymous No.11327134]

>>11320837
I kind of like that t.b.h. Like, I prefer work to be cited (even if I will never economically investigate the citations), but I've also written pages with the only "references" reading like:

>See Huxley's Brave New World
>See Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

Etc. It's an unfortunate thing, I think, because writing induces a sort of autism of just assuming your audience will know what you're talking about, and when I was younger I found a lot of work was inaccessible to me just because I couldn't figure out what anyone was talking about.

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[Anonymous No.11327138]

>>11327122
>>11327129
lmao

[Anonymous No.11327144]

>>11322077
No they aren't you fucking idiot, they're just images (think image like imagination, not image like picture) that are shared.

[Anonymous No.11327155]

[Anonymous No.11327160]

>>11322657
No it wasn't, no one ever said that, it was supposedly syphillis contracted from a whore. The fresh fruit just exacerbated a condition in his digestive tract.

[Anonymous No.11327181]

>>11326420
No, it isn't, the fucking pseuds in this thread I swear.

>>11326173
Lots of pseudo-fascists have this idea as an ideal. The individual's desires become completely subsumed to a sort of borg-like super-consciousness (to some, this is the origin of race - working towards a particular goal, the biology is just incidental in that it provides emergent qualities that lead to groups having similar time preferences and desires - language does, too, and is arguably more important).

Huxley described the phenomena well. If you ever watched the animated Clone Wars series, I thought the horror surrounding this sort of thing was captured well when the Zillo beast escapes Coruscant and massacres a bunch of non-characters.

[Anonymous No.11327206]

>>11321313
I'm ashamed of myself for laughing at this. Also at least one of that guy's piss jugs is clearly a bottle of Coke.

[Anonymous No.11327210]

>>11327155
>be me
>entering local bookstore
>"hi there, what can i do for you?"
>"plebeian...i have come to enlighten you. please, show me joe-nathan france-zen."
>guy grabs the corrections
>hands it to me
>"that'll be te--"
>pull down my pants
>piss on it
>"sorry bud, was feelin just a bit off my vibe, ya dig?"
>staring at me in shock
>"y'all got any dune books?"
>find the brian herbert ones
>give him a $5 bill
>"Keep the Change."
>leave

[Anonymous No.11327211]

>>11323049
This t.b.h. it looked like a lot of dedicating samefagging in the replies.

[Anonymous No.11327265]

>>11320837
kek

[Anonymous No.11327333]

>>11327155
kek lmao roflmao

[Anonymous No.11327458]

>>11322635
Meme's right about Zinn though.

[Anonymous No.11327532]

>>11321103
>>11324945
lmao is this real?

I want to use this.

[Anonymous No.11327564]

>>11324899
>named balance
>died from a fall

[Anonymous No.11327583]

>>11322602
They did this too with that qt Alfsvoid

[Anonymous No.11327674]

>>11322460
>Mill, Orwell, Marx, Engels, Stirner, Chomsky, Atwood, John Oliver
>right wing
hmmm

[Anonymous No.11327712]

>>11326922
It has nothing to do with trolling. Wittgenstein would've ordered the coffee for himself with giving the children's thoughts any consideration

[Anonymous No.11327724]

>>11326491
bad
>>11326499
not bad

[Anonymous No.11327733]

>>11320771
this is just a repackaged pseudo-intellectual rhetoricians guy
i'm onto you

[Anonymous No.11327799]

>>11324899
>>11327564
>'when I find them I will remind them
>most accidents occur at home'
>dies from accidentally falling off a balcony at home
what DID he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11327818]

>>11320842
The peak of human literature

[Anonymous No.11327825]

>>11320771
How does one go past the mid wit?

[Anonymous No.11327840]

>>11320771
But this is actually completely true?

[Anonymous No.11327853]

>>11325648
Aristotle's and Epicurus' places should be swapped, IMO.

[Anonymous No.11327860]

>>11327799
This one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF3zZSK8oQ

"One day, you know, you're gonna fall, or I'm gonna fall, or something's gonna happen; and... anyway. Well, I'm very sad."

[Anonymous No.11327864]

>>11325873
God damn it's not a meme, she really talks as if she could burst into tears at any moment.

[Anonymous No.11327865]

>>11324358
Thanks Anon.
They sure loved them so Oblivion back then

[Anonymous No.11327876]

>>11326484
>all the little hints and references in the caricatures
>zizek snorting cocaine
nice

[Anonymous No.11327884]

>>11321010
oh man my sides

[Anonymous No.11327890]

>>11327860
so.. this is the power... of Thelema and Thai boy prostitutes

[Anonymous No.11327912]

>>11320842
11/10

[Anonymous No.11327941]

>>11325066
>presocratics overly dependent on mythology

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[Anonymous No.11328610]

>>11321023
MAKE THIS A BANNER NOW

[Anonymous No.11328627]

>>11327941
I mean, Thales would probably get a pass, but he said the world was made of water (Heraclitus too, but fire). Pythagoras started his own religion and Parmenides wrote his poem in the form of a cosmological myth, one revealed to him by an encounter with a goddess under the earth. There was a lot of mythology (be it pseudo-philosophy like the 4 elements or pseudo-religion like Pythagoras' cult) which bled into the presocratics. Socrates has his toe in it with the whole oracle story, too. Plato and Aristotle are the clean slates upon which we built the western tradition.

[Anonymous No.11328873]

>>11322077
Nah memes are just inside jokes that everyone is in on ya fuckin dweeb

[Anonymous No.11328950]

I love the guy and all but these Sadler memes are pretty weak. Its basically alluding to the fact we know him.

There I said it. I'm sorry I had to be the one to do it.

[Anonymous No.11329160]

>>11328950
I don't lurk /lit/ very often
can someone please explain to me the Sadler meme?
It seems pretty forced, just "read hegel" essentially.

[Anonymous No.11329165]

>>11329160
lurk moar

[Anonymous No.11329172]

>>11329165
I don't visit 4chan much any more. I'm an oldfag. I just saw that there even is a literature board and it intrigued me.
So this is essentially "Infinite Jest & pseudo-philosophy shitposting" then I take it?

[Anonymous No.11329174]

>>11329160
He just makes youtube videos explaining philosophical works namely Hegel's phenomenology of spirit. It is pretty forced but at least he is not the worst person to get exposure.

[Anonymous No.11329180]

>>11329172
Yeah its mostly just name dropping.

[Anonymous No.11329181]

>>11324337
It was a passage of Shakespeare with every noun replaced with the word nigger. I posted it before OP posted his first excerpt and left the thread in protest when I received no (you)s.

[Anonymous No.11329300]

>>11320771
How can a single image be so right?

[Anonymous No.11329471]

>>11325400
A John Mulaney joke?

[Anonymous No.11329548]

>>11322460
The Communist Manifesto specifically, without any other material Marx wrote, is midwit.

Just having a picture of Chomsky is just completely off the cuff nonsense though, midwits rarely actually read his core works which are incredibly dense and thoroughly argued.

[Anonymous No.11329650]

>>11325873
Nobody hurt her please, I can't deal to see another compilation like the last one

[Anonymous No.11330145]

>>11322880
>falling for the bait

[Anonymous No.11330241]

>>11320771
naomi klein's shock doctrine is actually good

[Anonymous No.11330258]

bottom image is freud you ill-read dumb shits.>>11321104
>>11325574

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>>11326484
Beauvoir and Sartre are cute in this

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>>11320837
BASED

[Anonymous No.11330738]

>>11324704
People mading at this are the true plebs
The irony layers in this pic can only be pierced by true high iq intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.11330761]

>>11321313
Damn that was a fun thread .She really talks as she will burst into tears at any moments,so fragile and pure looking... No wonder whiteknights get all tingly and upset about some people having fun with this thot.
>tfw you're never gonna make passionate sex with her and after that spoon with her smelling the mixed scent of her hair and sweat.

[Anonymous No.11330817]

>>11320842
I'd read it.

[Anonymous No.11330818]

>>11328627
Plato created a whole new mystic tradition with his realm of forms shtick.

[Anonymous No.11330825]

>>11326152
read animal farm

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>>11322103
are you a retard

[Anonymous No.11331106]

>>11320771
Why you putting Marx with my man Joe Rogan. Major disrespect.

[Anonymous No.11331177]

>>11326233
>close to half the responses
What about the rest? Why do you focus on the negative ones?

[Anonymous No.11331185]

>>11330854
Got me with Lexiphanic because it's just me.

[Anonymous No.11331220]

>>11326183
>Don't you think it's a bit of a huge coincidence that two among the smartest people to ever live just happened to meet each other in the same city?
Not really. You're the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most, and all that. Do you think it's a coincidence that Aristotle's pupil, Alexander the Great, went on to become one of the greatest conquerors? The history of philosophy is full with examples of great philosophers who took classes or were direct students of other greats. Notably Wittgenstein/Russell, Arendt/Heidegger, et cetera.

[Anonymous No.11331245]

>>11326389
There was a great passage in my logic textbook of uni that read something like, "of course, people didn't have to wait for Aristotle to learn how to think logically. But Aristotle was the first to make a systemic account of how it works." That counts for a whole lot. Making these kinds of abstractions requires a lot of intelligence. I agree the post in question is hyperbolic, but there is no denying that without Aristotle (or an equivalent genius) Western philosophy or indeed our entire knowledge base would look radically different.

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>>11322103
i laffed

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>>11327129
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>>11326368
insight this profound belongs on reddit

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>>11327122
For a second I thought this was Carlos Castaneda. It sounds like something straight out of his books that Don Juan would say, and I’ve read Blood Meridian. That’s such a good passage I want to re-read it, though.

[Anonymous No.11332022]

give me gratification in the form of (you)s

[Anonymous No.11332045]

>>11331220
>You're the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most, and all that
Sure, this rule applies to people who are in e.g. the most intelligent 5% of their time. But does it apply to bizarre intellectual mutants that Aristotle and Plate are supposed to be?

>Do you think it's a coincidence that Aristotle's pupil, Alexander the Great, went on to become one of the greatest conquerors?
I think it had much to do with Aristotle's tutoring. Also it's not like Alexander was some kind of RPG character who leveled up his Conquering to 9999. He made his empire because the conditions were right.

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[Anonymous No.11332141]

>>11332022
kek

[Anonymous No.11332306]

Do you have what I expected what I got with The Remains of the Day?
Also is the movie worth watching?

[Anonymous No.11332382]

>>11332045
>But does it apply to bizarre intellectual mutants that Aristotle and Plate are supposed to be?

Fuck off faggot, stop trying to make this a meme

[Anonymous No.11332443]

>>11330854
holy shit I have those EXACT glasses, studied latin, and my dissertation was about how Modernism is completely fucked.

10/10

[Anonymous No.11332469]

>>11328627
thanks its been a really long time since ive read a 19th century introduction to philosophy comtean summary of why the presocratics were like kindergartners, really valuable stuff

[Anonymous No.11332472]

>>11320771
chomsky's better than the people he's lumped with here. he's done extremely valuable work

[Anonymous No.11332477]

>>11332022
context?

[Anonymous No.11332482]

>>11321104
go to bed bell hooks

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>>11332485
based

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>>11322738
the greatest

[Anonymous No.11333730]

>>11320837
KEK

[Anonymous No.11333733]

>>11333323
this is amazing, why haven't I seen it before?

[Anonymous No.11333739]

>>11333323
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.11333981]

>>11332443
are you gonna post it here eventually? I'd unironically love to read it

>inb4 "make up your own thoughts plebian"

[Anonymous No.11334023]

>>11326990
that's pretty gay

[Anonymous No.11334071]

>>11326499
reading this for the first time and just passed the bit where dorian first discovers he has to hide the painting, after basil explains to him how godlike and beautiful he is in exceptional detail. this is after lord henry has explained the relative uselessness of females. so you're spot on so far. No Homo, by Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.11334211]

>>11333981
It's trash and I'd just get roasted for being such a tryhard
But the title was "A Diagnosis of Modernity: Is there a Cure?"
I covered a lot of ground focusing mainly on the German modernist novels Berlin Alexanderplatz and The Magic Mountain sort of comparing the two as dialectic pieces tackling the same problems of modernism albeit from the lumpenproletariat's point of view versus the aristocratic's point of view.
I didn't really come to a conclusion and my advisor told me focus harder on the details since my thoughts and writing tend to be very "big picture" which doesn't play too well in academia's obsession with dissecting every minute facet of anything and everything.

[Anonymous No.11334250]

>>11334211
niglet i actually wanna read that shit

[Anonymous No.11334281]

>>11322491
nah, that's a much older meme

[Anonymous No.11334401]

>>11334211
sounds interesting anon

[Anonymous No.11334496]

>>11332072
based

[Anonymous No.11334504]

>>11333739
Schopenhauer was butthurt and jealous of Hegel. He was the "great philosopher" of his time and all the students went to his lectures instead of Schopenhauer's. He scheduled his lectures at the same time as Hegel out of pettiness. Nietzsche was heavily influenced by Schopenhauer in his early days

[Anonymous No.11334574]

>>11332443
Believe it or not, I made this starter pack. You wear Oliver Peeps too? Based.

[Anonymous No.11334606]

>>11334574
I choose not to believe it.

[Anonymous No.11334701]

>>11334574
Oliver Peoples is kinda overrated

Mykita, Maui Jim, and Cutler & Gross is where it's at. Hell, even Tom Ford is better quality than Oliver Peoples.

[Anonymous No.11334725]

>>11334701
Moscot and Persol are nice too, and all the ones that you listed are cool as well, but OP pioneered that classic look. I'm loyal to brands, my dude

[Anonymous No.11334731]

>>11334725
I love the look of Persol 649 but both my pairs have broken in the same place, namely in the grooves on the bridge. Never buying again.

Never seen a pair of Moscot in person.

[Anonymous No.11334943]

>>11326420
Read Kojeve

[Anonymous No.11335229]

>>11334504
>He was the "great philosopher" of his time and all the students went to his lectures instead of Schopenhauer's.
>He scheduled his lectures at the same time as Hegel out of pettiness

That doesn't make sense. If most of them preferred Hegel, wouldn't he get even fewer attendants that way?

[Anonymous No.11335264]

>>11335229
That's the point Anon. He's the jealous girlfriend saying "it's either her or me"

[Anonymous No.11335270]

>>11335264
Yeah, but the jealous girlfriend expects to win in this gambit.

[Anonymous No.11335494]

This one is both funny and sad at the same time. Its quite a long read but worth it.

[Anonymous No.11335534]

>>11334211
>my thoughts and writing tend to be very "big picture" which doesn't play too well in academia's obsession with dissecting every minute facet of anything and everything.

True, academia is a shit. I always find it sadly ironic that most academia is based on analyzing and referring to the works of very non-academic writers. Geniuses and innovators do whatever they will, then narrow overly analytical-minded academics lap up the crumbs from their table.

[Anonymous No.11335537]

>>11335494
this shit ruins my day everytime I see it

[Anonymous No.11335550]

>>11326484
>not the grug one

[Anonymous No.11335555]

>>11335270
dumb people shouldn't post on 4chan

[Anonymous No.11335597]

>>11333287
shit's lit
bravo /lit/

[Anonymous No.11335641]

>>11320916
Underrated Imagename.

[Anonymous No.11335709]

>>11326484
>Heraclitus isn't frowning.

[Anonymous No.11335720]

>>11321855
Calvinists are straight up hard determinists that believes the holy spirit controls you. They don't accept the ideas of free will.

[Anonymous No.11335729]

>>11322880
No shit idiot

[Anonymous No.11335844]

>>11320842
It's funny but it's actually emblematic of most of /lit/'s writing: pretentious, silly in an undeliberate way, over the top, and lacking in self awareness.

[Anonymous No.11336985]

>>11325527
Alcohol contains calories, so isn't a drug. Weed, while a type of drug, it gets it's own sub category because it's natural, completely safe and even cures many diseases and ailments.

[Anonymous No.11337415]

>>11336985
>completely safe
by that you strictly mean you can't overdose on it, right? because if you mean its harmless, you are a bit of a retard

[Anonymous No.11337431]

>>11332045
>dude environmental determinism lmao

[Anonymous No.11337586]

>>11325033
God, this is a nice one.
I couldn't even begin to describe the feeling i get from this picture.
That fake intellectual petulancy showed by his eyebrow gesture and the fact he took a photo of him reading Bataille.
It's always so easy to spot when a person is tryng to compensate for his lacking of whatever may be (confidence, happines, you name it).

[Anonymous No.11337641]

>>11331912
where is this from?

[Anonymous No.11337722]

>>11331514
bottom right is really unnecessary

[Anonymous No.11337757]

>>11337722
the left can't meme

[Anonymous No.11339180]

>>11334574
gregory pecks my dude
I'd post a photo of me in them but I don't want to camwhore

>>11334401
>>11334250
ok how do I post it for you guys?

[Anonymous No.11339831]

>>11332472
chomskyhonk strikes again...

[Anonymous No.11340131]

>>11339180
pastebin would be the best
Im readin Der Zauberberg right now, will definitely save it for after(not the current poster)

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>>11327564
Did he fall down the anal staircase?

[Anonymous No.11340419]

>>11331905
Kek nice one

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>>11336985
>Alcohol contains calories, so isn't a drug.
It's a depressant, which is a type of drug

[Anonymous No.11340587]

>>11326152
>

[Anonymous No.11340600]

>>11336985
>alcohol contains calories
No it doesn't, not in the sense that they're calories like in food. Alcohol just happens to be able to be used by the body for energy and is used over carbohydrates for energy, but cannot be stored as fat, which is why it's awful for dieting: any carbs you are earlier will become fat, essentially.

[Anonymous No.11340742]

>>11320965
>A funny picture I found on the internet or a twitter screencap is now a meme
Fucking hate that

[Anonymous No.11340789]

>>11336985
Bait, or retarded

[Anonymous No.11340801]

>>11340439
>everyone gnos

aaaaaaaaaahahah

[Anonymous No.11341074]

>>11327137
btfo
based black man :D

[Anonymous No.11341221]

>>11332477
Dostoevsky conceived the idea of Crime and Punishment in the summer of 1865. At the time the author owed large sums of money to creditors, and was trying to help the family of his brother Mikhail, who had died in early 1864. Projected under the title The Drunkards, it was to deal "with the present question of drunkness ... [in] all its ramifications, especially the picture of a family and the bringing up of children in these circumstances, etc., etc." Once Dostoevsky conceived Raskolnikov and his crime, inspired by the case of Pierre François Lacenaire, this theme became ancillary, centering on the story of the Marmeladov family. [...] Dostoevsky had to race against time in order to finish both The Gambler and Crime and Punishment on time. Anna Snitkina, a stenographer who soon became his second wife, was a great help for Dostoevsky during this difficult task.[9] The first part of Crime and Punishment appeared in the January 1866 issue of The Russian Messenger, and the last one was published in December 1866

[Anonymous No.11341293]

>>11320771

>tfw my chocolate waifu Ayaan is midwit

[Anonymous No.11341851]

>>11336985
Cocaine is natural. So is opium.

[Anonymous No.11341856]

>>11341221
So, you mean to tell me that “Crime and Punishment” began as an escapist murder fantasy?

[Anonymous No.11341893]

>>11326166
>Hawking
*Dawkins
FTFY.

[Anonymous No.11341915]

>>11326990
thats really sweet