Empire- Gore Vidal
Really like it but I put it down for a few days and lost momentum. A very unflattering portrait of my favourite president, I might add.
>The Rainbow by Lawrence
A favorite I try to reread every year >Anti-Education by Nietzsche
I just started but I can already see the style and themes of later Nietzsche in fledgling form. Haven’t read enough to have an opinion on the content yet >I-Ching
Slowly making my way through it. It acts as a mirror and helps me examine myself >some Rilke poetry
An old favorite
>Anti-Education by Nietzsche >I just started but I can already see the style and themes of later Nietzsche in fledgling form. Haven’t read enough to have an opinion on the content yet
He was very prescient about the university turning against itself and breaking souls down instead of building them up. It isn't new in the Woke era, it wasn't new in the '60s, it's a development of centuries
Yeah I read the introduction and it reconfirmed my belief of Nietzsche as one of the great minds. He is polarizing in general; every subgroup has people who hate him and people who claim him. To have observed and lectured on the topic of education as a 24 year old in 1872(?) spotting issues that have more forcefully entered the conversation 150 years later is impressive
> Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to beearnedin increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the veryprocessof modeling. It consumes evermore computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselvesI.
Clay machine gun
Any good?
The company of women
I am reading Hesse
The Magus. I liked it at first but I'm like 200 pages deep and it's starting to feel pretty pompous
I have this on my shelf but I should probably start having sex again before reading about cucks and bulls, I might rage
Empire- Gore Vidal
Really like it but I put it down for a few days and lost momentum. A very unflattering portrait of my favourite president, I might add.
>The Rainbow by Lawrence
A favorite I try to reread every year
>Anti-Education by Nietzsche
I just started but I can already see the style and themes of later Nietzsche in fledgling form. Haven’t read enough to have an opinion on the content yet
>I-Ching
Slowly making my way through it. It acts as a mirror and helps me examine myself
>some Rilke poetry
An old favorite
>Anti-Education by Nietzsche
>I just started but I can already see the style and themes of later Nietzsche in fledgling form. Haven’t read enough to have an opinion on the content yet
He was very prescient about the university turning against itself and breaking souls down instead of building them up. It isn't new in the Woke era, it wasn't new in the '60s, it's a development of centuries
Yeah I read the introduction and it reconfirmed my belief of Nietzsche as one of the great minds. He is polarizing in general; every subgroup has people who hate him and people who claim him. To have observed and lectured on the topic of education as a 24 year old in 1872(?) spotting issues that have more forcefully entered the conversation 150 years later is impressive
Blindsight
> Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to beearnedin increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the veryprocessof modeling. It consumes evermore computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselvesI.
hospital of the transfiguration by Stanisław Lem
Runaway Horses by Mishima
Master of Go by Kawabata
Titus Groan by Peake
The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Hamilton
For Whom the Bell Tolls
fake suicides part
and
revolutionaries killing priests part
were kino
The Lime Works by Bernhard.
House of leaves. It's alright. Being bloated for the sake of bloat is getting old fast.
I'm most of the way through the Odyssey but I stopped to re-read Submission because I've been feeling down and I want to wallow in it.
three chapters into stoner. man this is gonna be really depressing isn't it.
based depression bros
Gravity's Rainbow.
east of eden. so far its beautiful and i have no idea where its going (which is exciting)