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mt.real
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i never know what to read anymore, every time i read anything that doesn't feel like a realistic (and therefore deeply cynical) portraying of the actual conditions of the world, i feel as though i'm wasting my time & escaping reality by not facing it, like using my imagination to dream of nicer things is a cardinal sin

and then instead i come here or to some other bullshit on the internet, because i've somehow tricked myself into thinking that if i can call it communication then it is a facet of reality & i'm not actually being escapist

maybe there is something to asceticism
#162
political car tune
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might i recommend a song of ice and fire by george r.r. martin
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drwhat posted:

i never know what to read anymore, every time i read anything that doesn't feel like a realistic (and therefore deeply cynical) portraying of the actual conditions of the world, i feel as though i'm wasting my time & escaping reality by not facing it, like using my imagination to dream of nicer things is a cardinal sin



this is a bad attitude and you are limiting ur BRain

#164
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A dumber thing than asking what you should read is asking why people are asking what they should read. *tokes a huge bong but then SMASHES IT*
#165
Kurdt
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and that bong was the state
#166
Dont Mess With Sucess
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acephalousuniverse posted:

ilmdge posted:

btw this is a stupid fucking post theres nothing wrong with asking people for reading recs or asking if something is sucky/trotty before reading it

no ur stupid

theres a big diff between reading reccs and "hey i'm enjoying this book but do you guys apply to this author?lemme know so i can lazily quit in the middle instead of trying to actually acquire insight via critical engagement w a text"

that type of shit is The Book Barn Esque. oh no my pages per day went way down this week bc stuff written by librals doesnt count!!! oh no this book is trotskyist imgonna get mindfreaked!!

"should i be reading this" jesus cjhrist

maybe some people prefer to read books their friends are interested in discussing, because to them, reading is not just personally but socially valuable.

#167
Dont Mess With Sucess
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for those people, literacy has been contorted into another means of conspicuous consumption, and they will be more useful to the coming anarcho-agrarian dystopia as fertilizer.
#168
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adorable slapfight itt
#169
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

the guy who took this video was approached by Al Gore who offered to pay for the rights to use it, and the dude denied him by (rightly) saying it was nothing to do with climate change and thus would be used fraudulently and manipulatively, owned


how is it that it doesn't have anything to do with climate change? is this the same bullshit about "oh brushfires happened forever i guess they're just happening a whole lot more now for literally no reason"

#170
mt.real
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acephalousuniverse posted:

this is a bad attitude and you are limiting ur BRain

i agree

though i can't just rewind to being 13 & reading a bunch of fantasy & sf because woo there are a lot of bad books. i have to "rediscover reading from base principles" or something (i claim)

#171
Mike Nelson here.
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acephalousuniverse posted:

dont avoid reading things just bc they're not ideologically pure

uhh fuck off, the opposite is true, only read proletarian literature.

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you aint can know whats proletarian till you done read it! a hyuck!
#173
Mike Nelson here.
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acephalousuniverse posted:

you aint can know whats proletarian till you done read it! a hyuck!

hi i'm snuffaluffagusuniverse here, just leafing through mein kampf, trying to get a better picture of this adolf hitler fellow. not a bad guy! seems pretty angry about rats and jews, but you never know until you read the whole thing!

that's what you ACTUALLY BELIEVE!!

i'm out........ *throws microphone into air, it never comes down*

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
#175
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imo read the classics, but not the bad ones.
#176
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actually every minute you spend reading that isn't reading or re-reading Capital vol. 1-3 and the grunderisse is counter-revolutionary