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What books will help me understand the society I live in?

>> No.15728693

decline and fall of the roman empire

>> No.15728696

white fragility

>> No.15728701

>>15728590
being there by jerzy kozinski

>> No.15728710

>>15728590
I turned myself into a meth head morty! IM METHHEAD RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK

>> No.15728720

The Subtle art of not giving a F*ck

>> No.15728725
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>>15728590

>> No.15728726

If you want to understand niggers and police brutality then I'd suggest Watching The Wire.

It's one of the highest rated shows and is often referred to as "TV as literature".

Besides that, David Foster Wallace and Don Delillo explain things but they do it in a pre internet era.

DESU we're still waiting for our internet era masterpiece.

>> No.15728741

>>15728725
...is this real?

>> No.15728769
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I love black people unironically

>> No.15728793
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>> No.15728795
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>>15728741
Yes, it's 2020 and liberalism is reaching it's peak.

>> No.15728812

>>15728590
Who the fuck is George Floyd?

>> No.15728818

>>15728710
kekd

>> No.15728827

>>15728725
>>15728795
God fucking dammit this is gay

>> No.15728843

>>15728590
This picture gives me anxiety

>> No.15728877

>>15728812
A nog who died from a drug overdose; idiots appointed him the patron saint of criminality.

>> No.15728886
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>>15728795
>has outdated attitudes
>has outdated language
>has outdated depictions
>made in 2019

>> No.15728900

>>15728590
The Denial of Death.

>> No.15728907

>>15728886
It's 2020! Get with the times you filthy bigot!

>> No.15728912
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>>15728843

>> No.15728915
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>> No.15728971

>>15728725
>Known for its racism
>First black Oscar winner
Am I missing something?

>> No.15728991

>>15728590
Society of the Spectacle
Dark Age America

>> No.15729018
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>>15728590

>> No.15729019

>>15728725
I dont get it either: the movie depicts a time where slavery was an important part of society. if they go and make a movie of that time that ignores it or pretends people behave differently what's the value in that?

>> No.15729028

>>15728971
>Am I missing something?
maybe the fact that she had to sit in a separate table from her co-stars and she almost wasn't let in because the hotel didn't let wogs in

>> No.15729033
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>>15728912
Lmfao someone needs to use pic related for the kneeler.

>> No.15729042

>>15728725
It is funny that now Netflix has put this in the description every rightist internet person seems to love Gone With The Wind. It's silly and embarrassing for them to let everyone know they aren't racist like this, but it is even more embarrassing for people to watch the film and miss the fact that it represents the antebellum South in a positive light.

>> No.15729062

>>15728915
Based and Sowell pilled.

>> No.15729098

>>15728795
Didn''t the remake have Jasmine become sultan in the end, and gave her a "muh vagina" song and a reprisal? What do these people want?

>> No.15729103

>>15729019
You're dealing with historical iconoclasts who want to use history to justify their actions while simultaneously destroying and rewriting said history.

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>>15729042

>> No.15729125

>>15729042
>it represents the antebellum South in a positive light.
>the artist has no right to his point of view
what kind of art do you want?

>> No.15729148

>>15729125
Leftists view art as a political tool used to gain or solidify power. As such, the only acceptable art is that which comports with their own political views. Anything else should be censored or destroyed as it threatens their political power (they would likely word them in an emotive way in order to trick people, e.g. saying that such art could lead to an increase in "oppression").

>> No.15729159

>>15728769
I'm sure they'll love you too, and will show that love soon

>> No.15729174

>>15729148
I could be called a leftist myself and I don't view art like that. I think you mean authoritarians

>> No.15729193

>>15729174
No, I'm talking about you.

>> No.15729205

>>15729193
>talking about you
you were talking as if referring to someone else yet you were answering to my own post
what gives?

>> No.15729216

the enlightenment & liberalism were a mistake.

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>> No.15729285

>>15729125
Where in my post did I say the artist has no right a point of view? All I said is that it is laughable that right wing people on the internet pretend that Gone With The Wind isn't racist. I'm not stopping you from being racist (or anyone involved in the production of the film, if they are still alive somehow). I am just pointing out that the film is obviously racist and morons like >>15728971 who think it isn't are embarrassing themselves.

>> No.15729368

>>15728590
The Culture of Critique.

>> No.15729442

Rick and Morty is a great example of Nietzche's philosophy. Why the hate?

>> No.15729457
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>>15728769
ok now replace the capitalists with jews and you are a Nazi

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>>15729457

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>>15729481
Six corporations in the United States controls virtually all the mass media. All six of those corporations are headed by jews.

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>>15729491
yes?

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15729499

It's embarrassing that our moderation is so shitty that this thread is still up.

>> No.15729510

>>15729497
Yes.

>> No.15729647

>>15729491
give me names anon

>> No.15729662

>>15729107
>>15728912
Lmfao hahah

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>>15728725
what the fuck it's real

>> No.15730139

>>15729285
>the film is obviously racist
It's not obvious to me. Mind explaining how it's racist? I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm curious.
From what I remember it portrays a certain society, where blacks were slaves/servants. But I don't recall it making any racist statements.

>> No.15730156

>>15730139
They told him in school that the South was an evil, racist, nigger hating dystopia run by while devils so if you show anything good about it or any of the white people who lived there it's racist.

>> No.15730163

>>15730017
Basato fratello italiano. Netflix and tv in general are pure propaganda, don't waste your time arguing with that. Grab a book and leave that garbage. Look at this:
https://youtu.be/MY8Nfzcn1qQ

>> No.15730174

>>15728725
Yep I'm voting for Blumpf, unironically

>> No.15730209

>>15729647
AJBds, ELnasu, AJBhD, AKBDJK, CNIbhN and Fuck.

>> No.15730275

1984 and Behold a Pale Horse

>> No.15730800
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>>15728590
Didn't Nietzsche predict things like that with his Master–slave morality?

>> No.15730842

>>15729028
Still won the Oscar stupid faggot.

>> No.15730845

>>15729285
it's a period piece mate.... what ...how... what do you want the depiction of blacks to be? On one hand you can't have then be anything else than completely oppressed weak and vulnerable. On the other hand doing exactly that is seen as racist and problematic.
Do you just remove black from movies depicting the civil war?

>> No.15730859

>>15729028
OH so you are judging the movie based on the treatment society gave to it's actors based on their ethics at that time. So therefore, using your current morality as standard, it's bad and evil.

>> No.15730875

>>15729499
this board is better without the awful moderation

>> No.15730886

>>15728725
What the fuck?

>> No.15730928

>>15729285
You're retard, and an obvious example of what >>15729148 says.

>> No.15730942

Sex and Character

>> No.15730955

>>15729285
portraying the south in a good light (I'd agreed with that) is not the same as being obviously racist
In my view the artist should have the freedom of expressing how he views things without being presented as something with such a heavy conotation like racist, or else we're just scaring potential artists into conformist (influencing their future work .
Don't see a point in that.

>> No.15730991

Ortega - Revolt of the Masses
Fisher - Capitalist realism
Lenin - Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (Popular outline)
Debord - Society of the Spectacle
Nietzsche - Zarathustra & Human, All too Human Vol. II.

>> No.15731015

>>15730991
Nietzsche was anti-comunist tho

>> No.15731016

>>15728590
>reddit screencap
>post tangentially related to board topic
you know what to do...
lao-tzu'd

>> No.15731261

>>15728900
+

>> No.15731345

>>15728590
You can tell they really didn't want his pupils to be anuses.

>> No.15731354

>>15731015
Nietzsche was anti-communist for much the same reason as Stirner, he thought the workers should just do it and seize the means of production.

>> No.15731362

>>15731354
Nietzsche never said a single thing about the workers seizing the means of production and you will not be able to quote anything of the sort. He did say that he hated socialists telling the worker to not be content with his simple life though

>> No.15731374

>>15728725
>known for its racism
Are they saying that the movie itself is known for racism, or its known for its portrayal of racism?

>> No.15731382

>>15729042
I dunno, a good friend of mine who is very black rights absolutely loves Gone With The Wind and is especially pissed off about this.

>> No.15731393

>>15731374
Those are the same thing to leftists.

>> No.15731760

>>15731393
>leftists
corporatists*
It's all branding bro.

>> No.15731766

>>15728590
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

>> No.15731771

>>15728590
The Myth of Sisyphus

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>>15728590

>> No.15731819

>>15731354
>left-wingers STILL think Nietzsche would have advocated for them

>> No.15731837

>>15730845
Based on recent events I think he'd rather we just stopped talking about the civil war altogether.
I bet these leftists won't be satisfied until American history textbooks just say "White people are evil and inferior to blacks, who just appeared in the US one day"

>> No.15731841

>>15731793
I must read this!!!!

>> No.15731850

>>15728725
christ

>> No.15731861
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>>15728590
Really, unless you read this book nothing that you experience in your society will make any sense. Once you read it, though, it all falls into place: everything finally makes sense.

>> No.15731944

>>15731819
>Nietzsche would have advocated
Check out this Last Man, jeez.

>> No.15731963

>>15731944
Is that the wrong way of saying it? Sorry, not an EFL

>> No.15732013

>>15729457
Yes.

>> No.15732029

>>15728590
Will you get baptized, anons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlP9qf_zKU

>> No.15732055

>>15729491
ceo of twitter is not a kike and it's more influential than any other company

>> No.15732134

>>15732029
Idk what to say. Seems sincere but also spooky.

>> No.15732157

Is it that hard to respect other people

>> No.15732174

>>15732157
Fuck you

>> No.15732186

>>15732157
Why should I respect criminals and drug addicts?

>> No.15732241

>>15728886
the accelerating purity spiral cycle is just planned obsolescence for media products, it's actually surprising the big 6 didn't think of this sooner

>> No.15732247

>>15729019
it's yesterdays fault for not being tomorrow

>> No.15732260

>>15731015
>implying this makes him pro-capital

>> No.15732266

>>15732157
I’m showing more respect than he did to the pregnant woman’s belly that he held a gun to during a robbery.

>> No.15732272

>>15729481
based

>> No.15732473

>>15728900
Reading that now, quite good

>> No.15732803

>>15732157
Respect is earned, not granted.

>> No.15732880

>>15732803
This brings up a good point that very often those who vehemently demand respect are often the least deserving of it.

>> No.15734407

>>15728710
I caaan't breeathe Morty! *Burps MORTY I CAAAAAAAM'T BREEAATHEEE!

>> No.15735118

>>15728590
>a halo
Apparently to become a saint in modern society all you need to do is die. Your past misdeeds don't matter, for you were a good boy who did nothing wrong

>> No.15735132

>>15729018
my mom bought this for herself. meme book or thought provoking?

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>> No.15735148

The Madness of Crowds is extremely relevant today. As is pretty much any Sowell book.

>> No.15735158

>>15728590
Atlas Shrugged

>> No.15735166

>>15732157
Floyd was a worthless criminal. Just because he got killed in an unjustified way, doesnt mean he's suddenly more noble.

>> No.15735209

>>15729491
>All six of those corporations are headed by jews
Meaning that they are lackeys for the old money WASPs that fund them and head the board.

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>>15728590
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub%27s_Tales_to_His_Grandson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antichrist_(book)

>> No.15735404

>>15735209
Why do you so desperately try to twist things to fit your narrative? Old money wasps? Are you legitimately retarded? This isn't 1878. It's Jews. Your post just highlights how people will scream and scream something other than the truth because the truth is inconvienent. You're not convincing anyone dude

>> No.15735416

>>15732157
I don't respect criminal drug addicts. Fuck you and fuck off. Suck my dick faggot nigger

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>>15732241
what's the breaking point? when does it reach terminal velocity?

>> No.15736189

>>15729491
Ceo of BASED is a white man though

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>>15728590
Christopher Noanal's The Dark Night

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>>15728590
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil.

>> No.15736674

>>15728971
>Dude they gave her a trophy!
>That must mean she has been totally accepted by her society!!!
You sound this dumb right now, dude.

>> No.15736677

>>15732157
This shit made me laugh like I haven't done in years
Cheers cunt

>> No.15736846

>>15728725
Stop falling for obviously fake shit, jesus. take about two seconds to confirm this is not true

>> No.15736958

>>15736846
>this is not true
Are you retarded? Is in their official page

>> No.15737110

>>15728793
cancer

>> No.15737137

>>15732803
based

>> No.15737202

>>15735166
>unjustified
reminder that floyd wasnt suffocated or murdered. he was high out of his mind, all the cops thought he was high, store owner came out to vouch for the fact that he was high, I heard he was even frothing at the mouth, a sign of OD, which would be why the cops called an ambulance for him before they even put him on the ground, the drug floyd took was fentanyl which is known for causing respiratory problems, and floyd was complaining about not being able to breathe before the cops even put him on the ground. he also had shitty cardiovascular health because hes a druggie nigger who can't take care of himself and had veins that were 90% clogged up. All of this combined with the stress of arrest and resisting arrest led to a heart attack, which was the conclusion from the autopsy. The knee on his neck was harmless. FLoyd would have died no matter how they restrained him.

>> No.15737341

>>15736846
>>15728725
Its real, seems to depend on where you access it from, you can see the "racist" description appears for the canadian english link, but the old description appears for the chinese english link.

>> No.15737436

>>15736846
absolute COPE of liberals lol

>> No.15737600

>>15729497
Uh based?

>> No.15737681

>>15728696
>>15728793
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgnX84KD7A

>> No.15738436

>>15731861
I’m actually afraid of reading that book.

>> No.15738451

>>15728590
1984

>> No.15738469
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>>15729491
So jews are the real master race

>> No.15738498

>>15738469
>ticks and leeches are the real apex predator
lol

>> No.15738507

>>15738469
all those jews are just possessed white people and indoctrinated to worship money
actual semitic/brown jews aren't doing anything

>> No.15738511

>>15737202
This, also chokeholds and legholds were common police practice for eight years in Minneapolis and were approved by the democrat run police department.

>> No.15738553

>>15737681
That review is quite symbolic for white fragility.

>> No.15738763

>>15728590
Why isnt he popping his fentanyl pills and meth?

>> No.15738811

>>15732803
I've never heard someone say this who wasn't an utter faggot.

>> No.15738825

>>15731362
There's a ton of stuff in KGA and KSA but good luck getting access to those atm.

You have some bits here and there in his major works, like in I think Gay Science there's a section called something like On Noble Manners where he really lays into industrialists and basically says that of course you're going to have worker uprisings with such shitty, alienated leaders.

>> No.15738842 [DELETED] 

>>15737681
niggers are cancer whats new

>> No.15738848

>>15738553
Your comment is symbolic for white fragility

>> No.15738889

>>15728710
>...and his skin turned completely black! I shit you not, it was the funniest shit i've ever seen

>> No.15738900

>>15735404
Nazi

>> No.15738902

>>15738842
yea

>> No.15738909

>>15728971
Racism is currently a meaningless work.

>> No.15738963

>>15728726
What would such an internet-era masterpiece entail?

>> No.15738971

>>15728793
I saw this book irl in a shop today, it's far shorter than I imagined it.

>> No.15738977

>>15737681
>Actually I'm not racist and our society is while flawed is overall very tolerant
Lol ur fragile

>> No.15738988

>>15738977
Meant for: >>15738848

>> No.15739028

>>15738553
Jews aren't white