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Is this true ?

>> No.14510797

>>14510784
everything except evola, chomsky, and stirner

>> No.14510800

Mostly yes.
Aurelius and Evola are interesting on their own, they just got caught up in a bad crowd.

>> No.14510805

Not to biased which is nice for a change and I can generally agree with this

>> No.14510821

But for example why is Power regarded as midwit ?
The book talks about power and I think it is literally helpful for everybody. You dont need high IQ to understand this book and everyone can use the laws presentet in it. Same question goes for the Prince.

>> No.14510823

>>14510800
I feel like most people that have read Evola haven't actually. They just saw the memes or maybe like some random essay

>> No.14510868

>>14510784
There are a few smart lads in there, namely Margs :D, Campbell, and Alinsky. While the people who read them are often idiots, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Stuart Mill aren't that bad.

>> No.14510947

Why does /lit/ hate stoicism?

>> No.14510957

Evola is lowwit core but yeah that looks fine.

>> No.14510992

>>14510947
>just b a slave dude

>> No.14511005

>>14510992
Just be a jew

>> No.14511028

where the FUCK is red letter media

>> No.14511054

>When you've just read three of these books in a row and have an additional one on hold

I'm conflicted man.

>> No.14511511

>>14510823
This is anonymous forum operating on Poe's law. No one here does anything they claim to, except /v/ and /mlp/

>> No.14511871

>>14511028
This is book board

>> No.14511906
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>>14510784
this is so true. I'm glad someone recognizes it. at the end of the day it's just mental masturbation and spectacle to keep people entertained and distracted so they won't think about the really most pressing issues of our time (which are too disturbing to think about for mid-wits).

>> No.14511940

>>14510947
Aurelius is there because he's mostly seen on shelves with no other stoic literature, while the most you can grasp from 'meditations' without having read Epictetus is a few of the aphorisms.

>> No.14512384

>>14511906
if the chart was made today it would include kaczynski

>> No.14512514

>>14512384
lol. you're either a midwit or just ignorant.

>> No.14512522

this has just the right amount of bait to piss people off

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>>14510784
True bait only. Get back to your books

>> No.14512938

Add light novels and it's perfect

>> No.14512949

>>14510797
You're right. Those are full on half-wit core.

>> No.14512955

>>14510784
take out the bell curve and maybe you'll get somewhere

>> No.14513019

>>14510784
absolute truth, though campbell is a decent introduction to mythology

>> No.14513237

>>14510784
>chomsky
when it comes to politics, he's midwit-tier at best
when it comes to linguistics, he's elderwit-tier

>> No.14513259

>>14510784
Let me shorten this image macro for you:
>everything you discover through the New York Times bestsellers list is middlebrow dumbshit
Yeah, pretty much.

>> No.14513459

>>14510784
Akkad, Rogan, Rand, Rubin, and other ‘intellectuals’ of their calibre hold more appeal for downright retards than midwits. Other than that, youre right on the money.

>t.midwit

>> No.14513638

Wait, moldbug was a meme this whole time?

>> No.14513837

Missing Karl Popper

>> No.14514639

Hbomb is still an entertaining YouTuber.

>> No.14515076

What's wrong with Sowell?

>> No.14515243

>>14510784
The only thing that doesn't belong there is Machiavelli's The Prince.
Then again, if that is all you read of Machiavelli, you probably are a midwit desu

>> No.14515328

>let's just randomly throw pictures of people I don't like
was this made by Vaush, Ben Burgers or OP's mom (dad)?

>> No.14516156

> popular books bad

>> No.14517684

>>14510784
Watts and Chomsky do not belong here.
Evola is problematic, but he's not for midwits.

>> No.14517741

Only if they're audio books

>> No.14517785

>>14510947
>why do a bunch of flabby internet dwellers hate a philosophy of discipline and excellence

>> No.14517816

>>14515328
t. midwit

>> No.14517831

>>14512384
>I.Q: 168
>Midwit

>> No.14518179

I know nothing about economy.
What is a good book that is not Economics from Ha-Joon Chang?

>> No.14519305

>>14510947
Just as an unpopular girl in a sitcom defines herself with respect to the prom queen, /lit/ must define itself with respect to the popular boards that people actually bother with and enjoy, specifically /pol/, which fawns over stoicism, Evola, IDW, and righty eCelebs.

>> No.14520497

>>14510784
>Midwit
Yes its true

>> No.14520502

>>14510784
The Art of War is never a middle-core

>> No.14520508

>>14510784
>e-celebs mixed with actual controversial and well-versed figures that can be used to study both society and ideology

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>>14510784
>mainstreem = bad

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>> No.14520777

>>14520697
You can just smell the dilation pus from this image.

>> No.14520837

Evola being memed on /pol/ is pretty funny, because he would be against most of their ideas.
Against biological races, against NS and against a collective society.

>> No.14520898

How is 1984 and BNW midwit core? It's fucking distopian SF.

>> No.14520974

>>14510784
Taleb is not midwit-core in terms of quant finance, probability and statistics.

>> No.14520999

the anthem of the midwit: yes, but

>> No.14521020

Alan Watts, Evola and Chomsky don't belong there, as a matter of fact. I'd say Richard Spencer doesn't belong there either as most midwit fans he had dropped him after he had a breakdown and called people "quadroons".

>> No.14521219

>>14521020
Midwits don’t actually read Max Stirner, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, or Julius Evola either, but with /lit/ everything that isn’t written by a Marxist faggot schizo or hyper-depressed incel is just a meme.

>> No.14521264

>>14521219
Then who the hell reads Ayn Rand?

>> No.14521324

>>14510784
>no deleuze
>no russell
>no baudrillard

>> No.14521402

>>14521324
Baudrillard is gud

>> No.14521776

>>14511940
where do I start with Epictetus

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14521795

Me before and after reading stoic philosophy and reading all of Evola’s main works.

>> No.14521808

>>14520837
holy shit I didn't knew Evola was this based

>> No.14521828

>>14520837
>against biological races
>against a collective society

You have no idea what you’re talking about nigger. Evolas races are a race developed biologically alongside a religious and mystic symbol. The races develop and evolve due to the necessary caste system and involution occurs as the caste system breaks down.

A collective society is a stupid idea to Evola as a race would have no need for one. The group of people are so deeply rooted and connected with each other that no overarching government is needed to control them.

>> No.14521841

>>14510947
It's not as much a jab on stoicism as it is on Meditations, which is often bought by people who want to appear intellectual as a display piece.

>> No.14522134

>>14510784
Joe Rogan is simultaneously for mid wits retards and big brains, each gets something different out