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Is there a book that made your life worse after reading it?

>> No.16652462
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The Bible: made me ashamed of puberty

Six Degrees: made me terrified of the future due to catastrophic climate change

Norwegian Wood: made me start thinking seriously about suicide; it was never something I considered beforehand

Prometheus Rising: Destroyed my reality tunnel and left a big void in its place

The Communist Manifesto: made me a communist, and then unhappy as a result

Postcapitalism: made me think everything is fucked, and pretty unhappy about it too

Revolt Against the Modern World: made me finally doubt modernism (in a way no po-mo gallic nonsense ever could), destroyed any political engagement I had left and made me feel like everything was profoundly hopeless

>> No.16652916

>>16652462
please explain prometheus rising to me. i read the whole thing and did not understand any of it.

>> No.16653278

>>16652025
>mix-a-lot reccs moby-dick as well as thin-waisted, fat-assed girls
Based as hell

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>>16652025
The bibble!

>> No.16653951

The Way of Men by Jack Donaven was all downhill for me ngl

>> No.16654213

>>16652025
Anything by DFW makes me feel suicidal.

>> No.16654221

>>16652462
Wow bro ur all fucked up

>> No.16654233

Hogg
Awakened things in me I didn't know were there

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>>16652462
>Prometheus Rising: Destroyed my reality tunnel and left a big void in its place
Now you have a reality open space. You know what I recommend, don’t you anon?

>> No.16654338

>>16652462

>Bible
Read some harder Christian theology and try praying and fasting

>climate change

You won’t live to see it even if it’s the case

>suicide
read some decadent and pessimistic lit. They’ll play on those desires but turn them towards aesthetics.

>Prometheus Rising
Try reading some pyrrhonian skepticism and some better esotericism (this can range from boehme and Agrippa all the way to Linji)

>communist manifesto
Read books on economics and stop trying to do politics based on emotions or values

>postcapitalism

Read baudrillard and you’ll get this pill even harder but more realistic.

>revolt against the modern world
Realize politics has always been masturbatory and only helping yourself and your friends and local community has real impact.

>> No.16654753

>>16654338
>based brainwashed egoist boot licker

>> No.16654763

>>16653939
>>16654303
still waiting on your vaush defense

>> No.16654769

>>16654338
This anon is possibly the only good trip-poster on /lit/. Unrelated to this thread, but a while ago I recommended you some of Wagner's prose works. If you had time to read it, what did you think of it?

>> No.16654776

>>16654763
No, see he took apart Sowell in that clip. The end.

>> No.16654784

>>16654769
>Recommends the bible to a ML/troll
>good trip
Hi Frater

>> No.16654806

>>16654784
What? I recommended some of Wagner's philosophical work in a Schopenhauer thread and the anon asked for the link. Since he has previously praised Schopenhauer, I'm curious what he thought of that work. I don't know anything about the bible and the troll you mentioned.

>> No.16654810

>>16654806
why are you responding to retards

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>>16654233
This... I actually feel possessed by the spirit of HOGG.

>> No.16654854

>>16654776
you'd have to be a gold champion gymnast in mental acrobatics to even assert that vaush understood a single thing sowell was saying in that video as our anon friend wrote basically an entire short book about

>> No.16654872

>>16654829
this cant be real

>> No.16654888

>>16654872
It is.

>> No.16654894

>>16652025
the world as will and representation

>> No.16654934

>>16654854
Naw. I watched the video. Nothing complex was said. They pretended not to know what the subject was, again, in order to impress the room full of young spotless minded tories. When they talk about equality they’re talking about opportunity and fairness. The old motto was always “with liberty and justice for all” that’s freedom and equality. Equal treatment under the law. Instead of addressing it the same way you’re gearing up to do right now, they act a fool and say shit for the dumbfuck audience.
The fat guy spots it easily, calls it out. THE END

Hey. Don’t bother replying. Please

>> No.16654936

>>16652025
Against His-story and Leviathan
Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Thousand Plateaus

>> No.16655308

>>16654769

I quite enjoyed his ideas about Art and religion and have tried to integrate his conception of Art directly into my own theories of it among other things. I really appreciate the recommendation anon.

>> No.16655408

>>16654303
Im gonna need a sauce on that booty

>> No.16655534

Not worse but I've been a bit of a mad man since reading Valis and The Red Book back to back in the same pill fuelled summer of 2018