The advantage in buying used books over new ones is that you don't actually have to read them and it still looks like you have. People won't call you a poser when they see the cracked spine on your bookshelf.
If anyone wants to know what a philosophy seminar looks like in 2024
>on book 4 of the republic
"plato is using reactionary conservative rhetoric"
"there's no place for class revolution in his 'ideal' city, that's why bad"
"we have to talk about race, Athens was old white men"
"my definition of courage is when you go against the established norms, Plato isn't describing actual courage"
"there's no place for individual expression, how about how that makes people feel ?"
"we have to put into context that Plato is a misogynist"
The extent to which we are cognitively segregated is severely underappreciated by most, and this is why you hear "but everyone is smart in their own way!". No, everyone around you seems smart because you are in a cognitive caste.
Leaving tomorrow for my solo 3 month backpacking trip across Europe. Taking these two frens with me. Might be a bit less responsive to dms and replies - but will be xosting anthropological observations about the European, capturing your strange ways and mores.
I am a sensitive young man who likes to lift, disillusioned with the state of the West, most men and women, and my favorite authors are Nietzsche Jünger and Mishima
Zoomer girl sitting next to me on flight
We were talking, one thing led to another
And we listened to music on my wired headphones.... one earbud each.....
"You really think he'd do that anon ? You really think Plato would preserve philosophy as a breeding program for higher specimens and higher culture behind an esoteric doctrine of Platonism, only to be rediscovered by Nietzsche thousands of years later ?"
This common meme goes around implying it was much easier to be an intellectual before because you could just make shit up but what it misses is just how cultivated these guys were compared to today, and they obviously read a lot, even if they didn't cite all their sources.
Passed the first selection process of this job application, now they want me to film myself selling their product for 10 mins. Whoring myself out like an only fans girl.
@Howlingmutant0
@snowlikejonn
Here you realize just how important nipples are for the aesthetic. I don't even want to jack off to this sad lump of flesh
Refreshing to see France have such a strong book culture still alive (or at least preserved). Went to 4 book stores today, and for a small city (300k pop.), Nice is very impressive. Easy to find classics in beautiful out of print editions. Can spend hours just exploring.
just one more book bro. I promise bro just read one more book and you'll understand everything bro. just one more book. please just one more. one more book and you will understand everything. bro come on just read one more book. bro bro please just one more book bro I promise jus
That America has *the best of everything* is currently not true. For example, I don't think this is true of education. Furthermore, Paris is undeniably beautiful. This engagement-baiting slop is really something else.
Many of the people I follow are probably in the top 5% of most well read in the world. I feel like they've read everything I haven't and more. Feels like I'm constantly playing catch up but being intellectually mogged and humbled is a motivating thing.
You must be psychomaxxing. Delete your Instagram. Delete your Facebook. Delete your LinkedIn. Delete all your social media. When women ask you where you live, smile and answer "don't worry about it". "What do you do for a living ? "Wouldn't you like to know". Women go crazy for
If a young man is in search of adventure, excluding the army, where should he seek it ? Is sailing still worth it, or has it also become automated, boring, bureaucratized. Seeking advice
David Gilmore comes to the same conclusion as Paglia while surveying masculinity throughout very different societies.
Girls become women ''naturally'', boys must be made very painfully into men.
Some excerpts.
🧵
Paglia reflects on the memoir's potential as a college text, to be invoked as a talisman for smoking out sanctimonious Leftist schoolmarms & Rightist pharisees alike.
Paglia's whole philosophy is summed up between the vertical highlights. Cute reference to Western chemistry.
🧵
Paglia : Cats are beyond good and evil
“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their “evil” look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it”
"you're reading evola ? what is that ?"
"..."
"idk about that, its giving fascist vibes. oh he was an artist before he started ? isn't that like Hitler ?"
"wow you pulled all of your understanding of Hinduism through Schopenhauer's reading of the Upanishads ? I personally prefer the coincidental syncretism between Heraclitus and certain eastern philosophies"
🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE !!!! 🚨🚨🚨
Most special guest on most viral show, Talk Tuah, Dr. Alamariu and Hawk discuss the esoteric origins of philosophy as a eugenix breeding program for revival of aristocratic regime. Tune in for more !!!
every time before starting a classic book I tell myself very naively "pfffff these classics can't be THAT good everyone's just glazing"
and every time I finally start reading them I get incredibly humbled "ok this is actually even better than what I could've imagined"
Libtard on fire. Palestine. Dating discourse. Twitter sucks now. Ukraine. Libtard on fire. Israel. America fascist. Palestine. Libtard on fire. Dating discourse. Age gap. Ukraine. Trump. Libtard on fire. Palestine. Twitter sucks now. Iran. Dating discourse. Palestine. Age gap.
"Your favorite author is Mishima and you love to work out in the sun and tan and listen to Wagner ? Wow, I've never met anyone like you anon, there's something about you... it's hard to explain..."
Was chatting with a friend in a coffee shop and casually mentioned I'd maybe like to see El Salvador because "Bukele has seemingly cleaned it up quite nicely" loudly. Got a strange look from a guy at an adjacent table. You must be scaring normies out in public at all times.
I hate the sad boi aesthetic, quit moping around, you need to get your shit together and actually start scaring the hoes. You need to prowlmaxx and follow women around at night, breathing heavily. You need to exclusively give one word answers. You need to cultivate mystery.
Domestic life is so mentally tiring. I live alone, but have been spending lots of time with family lately, as some relatives are visiting. I don't understand how people do this 24/7 without losing their mind. I feel like I'm going insane and need to retire to a monastery.
This is the building in which Nietzsche rented a room on his first visit to Nice.
On the plaque it is written "Here the 2nd of December 1883 Nietzsche started his stays in Nice"
He sojourned in Nice every winter from 1883 to 1887.
In Nice he finished TSZ and started BGE.
Both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein (especially early W.) critically examine how mechanistic, scientific, and purely factual interpretations of the world are essentially "meaningless", since it can say nothing of its value.
Excerpt from book 5 of The Gay Science
🧵
"Youth is a glorious beach at the edge of the water, where women seem at last to be freely available, where they're so beautiful they don't need the falsehood of our dreams."
Thinkers and authors I've read and enjoyed, and who have influenced me the most over the past couple of years
Nietzsche
Heraclitus
Spengler
Fukuyama
Wittgenstein
Houellebecq
They won't tell you this but you literally can just read 10 books at a time. And absolutely no one can do anything about it (aristocrat of the soul btw)
You claim to be an “aristocrat of the soul,” yet the soul is the form of the body and the “aesthetic” pictures you post of yourself reading books outside clearly display your working-class hands, a slim cigarette burning between your pauper sausage fingers. Curious.
From now on there will be 50 readings of the Futurist Manifesto every morning, 50 readings of Beyond Good and Evil every night. There will be no more blackpills, no more dooming, no more destroyers of my spirit. From now on will be total organization. Every thought must be sharp.
Madrid mega thread
Can't recommend it enough - I loved the city - great energy, great atmosphere, lovely to walk around, clean, incredibly safe, beautiful people, go visit ! Some thoughts and locations visited
🧵
>looking for bus
>meet Korean guy looking for same bus
>gives me apricot for my nectarine
>he's 50, salesman
>tell him I majored in philosophy
>points to my forehead "ah you big brain philosophy yes haha"