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Corngold

@sushi_is_cringe
DeLillo is super cucked. Read End Zone.
Blatantly homoerotic. White Noise is also complete pulp. He regurgitates the same propaganda he appears to criticize. Very uh... Frankfurt School / Marcuse / Baudrillard-esque semitic fakery and kitsch.

Corngold

@sushi_is_cringe
Schopenhauer was an incel and essentially a neoliberal xenophile.

Luke

I don't know. Maybe: Ray Peat - Generative Energy?

Corngold

@Luke
He wants fiction. Is Peat fiction?
I think he should read Henry Miller

Milk Destroyer

I have these 3 on my list after hearing Ray talk about them in regards to things that sounded interesting:

https://archive.org/details/the-new-paradigm-bockris/ Ray mentioned this book when talking about "evidence of an afterlife".

https://archive.org/details/synchronicitybri00peat Stories about Synchronocity.

https://archive.org/details/themurderofchrist/ Ray said this book gives example of communism's relation to early Christian ideas.

@Corngold basically low energy doomer is all i can think of to describe cuckishness

jamezb46

@sushi_is_cringe

I don’t think he was an “incel”

He was highly intelligent, and is actually famous for having a high sex drive that influenced his philosophy. He probably had extramarital sex, though.

jamezb46

@Corngold

Have you read Schopenhauer? Have you read his On the four-fold root of sufficient reason? Have you read his critique of Kant? Or are you just parroting what others who don’t actually read the source material say about it?

Corngold

@jamezb46

You can read the source all you want. Just like in art, nothing in philosophy is original. Was he just parroting the four-fold path of Buddhism? Maybe Jung has more to say on this. Philosophy is as an art and an activity. Besides the pre-Socratics, Wittgenstein is really the only one who "awakened" anything of consequence for me. A lot of modern philosophers (post-Renaissance) are basically playing the role of sociologists or psychologists. Understanding man in society, or, the mind in man. Yes, it's both but none of this is new.

Corngold

@sushi_is_cringe said in peaty books:

basically low energy doomer is all i can think of to describe cuckishness

I don't know Sushi, sitting down and writing is basically hermitic - it's recoiling from life. Vitality entering the pen instead of the phallus, right? The "vitalist" or high energy non-doomer "writer" is one who does not write.
But in all honesty you should consider reading fiction from any of the fiction authors I mentioned. I don't read fiction very much anymore - I think we will agree that Peat has shown how much fiction exists within "non-fiction," science, and academic work.

@Corngold ok thanks

@jamezb46 ok thanks

jamezb46

@Corngold

Respectfully, my friend, On the Fourfold Roof of the Principle of Sufficient Reason has nothing to do with Buddhism. It’s a thorough analysis of causation and it has implications for free will, mathematics, physics, and logic. It’s metaphysics.

Sure, you could claim that it’s not “original”, but so what? That doesn’t mean it’s not valuable. Is it “original” to build a house from pre-existing materials, or is that a worthless endeavor? Besides all our perception is from nature and so is again not “original”. So what’s the point in insisting on “originality”. Do you mean to suggest he wasn’t an original thinker in the common sense? He most certainly was.

Luke

@Corngold said in peaty books:

@Luke
He wants fiction. Is Peat fiction?
I think he should read Henry Miller

Hm, it may sound like fiction to bystanders, but it isn't

I'm not well-versed on the internet slang and are not sure what the currently approved definitions of chad and cuck are. But maybe Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk? The book that the hundred times more popular movie is based on.

I suppose he would call Hermann Hesse a "cuck", but many of his books like Peter Camenzind, Siddharta, Narziß und Goldmund could be a good read for a young guy trying to find his own way in life.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell tolls and Fiesta
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities (cuck potential, but you'd probably liek the character Sydney Carton)

Adam Zamoyski - Napoleon

Since you mentioned books for children:
Michael Ende - Momo (not a joke, good book for adults especially in todays world).
Lucky Luke and Asterix comics

If you are into sports:
David Halberstam - Playing for Keeps
Bill Russell - Go up for Glory
Jerry West - West by West (you'd probably call West a cuck though)

laoa

Have you read the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio?
Made we wonder about our place in the universe and the host of unknowns in it, even if you dont believe in space as it is portrayed in our society. The main character has some strong hero characteristics but also some anti-heroism. You want the main to succeed but he doesnt always and if he does there's always a doom element in it, yet he never gives up on his beliefs and his pursuit of the truth about himself and the universe (not in a boho hippie way).

If you like antihero dark epic fantasy then maybe The Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence is your thing. It's been a long time since I've read it but I remember the main character being strongly anti-hero with an interestingly dark mind. Also some gore. Should read it again soon