What is the most socially acceptable, urbane, and un-profound literature to consume to virtue signal my already manufactured morality to the wider populace of consenting desk bugs, retail slaves, and urban socialites?
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>Chomsky
>Zizek
>Anyone black
Chomsky is great as all frick, but IQfy NEVER talks about his actual books and instead has seemingly been psyoped into only talking about random one off quips in interviews that barely matter instead of discussing anything substantial he actually wrote. It would be like somebody never talking about anything Marx or Hegel wrote, and instead only bringing up records of them saying some shit to some newspaper reporter or criticisms of their work by other people.
>wider populace
the wider populace is too ignorant to even be impressed.
All literature is for midwits
The thinking man has moved on to cinema
kino?
I hate movies
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. Filmbuffs are the biggest midwits of them all.
10/10 b8
1984, Brave New World, and Handmaid's Tale
1984 and Haindmaids Tale are slop, Brave New World was incredibly prescient
>he doesn't know Orwell pretended to write about the right in order to write about the left
Why does everyone keep praising BNW?
It got less shit right than 84, people aren't engaged in a unending drug fueled orgy, they are faced by a normalization of poverty and anger at a foreign state while not getting laid.
People are engaged in bread and circus.
And 84 didn't mention bread and circus? Do people miss the bigass television in the center of the room with a camera on top?
It's about the methods. In 1984 the people are suppressed and mindbroken by the explicit activity of the state, in BNW the populace brainwashes itself through dedicating their existence to mindless entertainment and notions of "social progress". 1984 is an idea society as dreamed up in a dictator's war room, BNW is an ideal society as dreamed up in the faculty lounge of the sociology department
Maybe if you're poor. I grew up around the ultra-rich (gulf petrostate) and BNW nailed it lol.
>unending drug fueled orgy
That's what comes to mind thinking of US being high on corn syrup.
One part from BNW I found very prescient though was the description of the movie theater. Modern movies are becoming exactly like how they are described. Pure emotion and absolutely no logic or story
good bait.
typically, they are socialists who can't refute Orwell, so their cope is to try to memory-hole him by constantly changing the subject to BNW whenever his name is mentioned
>Brave New World was incredibly prescient
Haven't read BNW, but the Orwell part should have been made abundantly evident to anyone with even a modicum of critical thought. Have you slept under a rock these past four years?
We're not there yet, but the ruling elite is often explicitly fabricating and memoryholing events for their narratives.
They're fun to read as a teenager, when you're starting to get an inkling of how social control systems work.
Past that point, I dunno. Good fodder for campy sci-fi movies.
Anything written by a woman, usually
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>israelite author recommended by Gates
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Epstein Island Realism
McCarthy, Vonnegut, DFW, Hemingway
I look like the middle witted guy but with long hair
Homer
Hesiod
Pindar
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Thucydides
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato
Aristotle
Popper, Russell, Camus