aerdil posted:

all that is ephemeral and shallow

It really isn't. If you're a marxist you understand the influence of environmental factors and my environmental factors are pretty good

entirely predicated on and the direct cause of the fact that the majority of the world has it much worse

To some extent economically yeah, but African aren't dying because I enjoy the dazzling autumn sunlight reflecting off the harbour and eucalypts.

and you're going to die someday, most likely in excruciating pain

i really, honestly, cannot bring myself to care about this at all

aerdil posted:

eh, i don't feel the daily alienation of capitalist society is really all that abstract, you just have to think concretely about what the daily interactions with most of the people around you actually mean

Yeah work sucks, the media is dumb, girls are complicated, friends can be fickle and life is hard. I just don't see this as being a "capitalist" problem

Impper posted:

and yet those concrete thoughts are dispelled by the flash of a smile, a hug, a kiss

or even a joke or a laugh or a walk through the park

stegosaurus posted:

I have no real grounding, I've read parts of capital once and only passages of the grundrisse, I gave up on ancient philosophy, I skip around, I dont follow through on things, like this article on the mormon left I was going to write, or another article on workplace safety during the cultural revolution, or one about roman religion expanded from a seminar paper. I also dont do anything except donate books or money to things, I'm a lamer for sure.

I get the impression a lot of people here have the same lack of structure or formality

tpaine posted:

Impper posted:

i push away women i really like (ignore them is more apt). i'm drawn to women i don't like. i'm constantly lonely. i want to fuck all the time. i want to fuck new people. i would fuck jsut about everybody i see. i don't want to fuck. i'd give up everything just to fuck somebody new.i love peopel. i love women. i hate women that i love

oh john

oh long johnson

innsmouthful posted:

i'm only an undergrad

I start my undergrad in the fall

babyfinland posted:

AmericanNazbro posted:

i grew out a beard, even though it's slightly patchy.

dont even matter do it

it's really thick and dense, under my chin, and that's what makes it so bad.

AmericanNazbro posted:

babyfinland posted:

AmericanNazbro posted:

i grew out a beard, even though it's slightly patchy.

dont even matter do it

it's really thick and dense, under my chin, and that's what makes it so bad.

i grew mine out for about four months and then trimmed it back, now im trimming it every couple weeks or so

Impper posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Impper posted:

bhl is such a goon it's a disgrace that they put his stuff into that book. houellebecq's writing was fragile and beautiful, straight from the soul, and bhl couldn't separate himself from hackwork. it was a shame, but it almost makes the book funnier and better in its shittiness

yeah BHL's constant pushing of his own....joie de vivre i suppose, rang hollow and seemed to hide what drove him, although at the end when he started to talk about the joy of literature i found myself getting caught up a bit though. da Becq's stuff about how he can't write (or fuck) while in a state of clear lucidity was surprising and interesting. Have you read any Baudelaire? They both seemed to wax lyrical about him

yeah i've read a lot of baudelaire and i tend not to talk about it because most of the people i've talked about him with have ended up hating him hahah. there is one really funny story where he talks about gentle souls and how he fucks up a traveling salesman by asking him to come up to his sixth-story hellish apartment, driving him away, then tossing a flower vase down at him, causing him to trip and destroy his wares as baudelaire screams, "the beauty of life! the beauty of life!" that's one of the funniest things ive read.

the bad glazier. i like that story a lot. it illustrates the contradiction between living for aesthetics and being compassionate without trying to find a solution to it. i dont think there is one. very pertinent to both our lives

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Impper posted:

tpaine posted:
Impper posted:
i push away women i really like (ignore them is more apt). i'm drawn to women i don't like. i'm constantly lonely. i want to fuck all the time. i want to fuck new people. i would fuck jsut about everybody i see. i don't want to fuck. i'd give up everything just to fuck somebody new.i love peopel. i love women. i hate women that i love
oh john
i actually wrote that as a joke but i meant it kind of and it was bragging disguised as confession, like all good confessions

Sex is so trite though, really.

It’s fun but when I’m getting it (like now) I feel dumb about how much it governed my thoughts when I wasn’t.

my libido comes and goes kind of independently of outside factors. it freaks me out

GoldenLionTamarin posted:

living for aesthetics

i still really, really don't know what this means