Netscape4Ever
Netscape4Ever t1_j0mxl4x wrote
Isn’t this just cause and effect? How does endless cause and effect reveal our interconnectedness?
Netscape4Ever t1_iydmbpl wrote
Reply to As a non-American, reading On The Road, felt like a snapshot of postwar youthful Boomer mentality. by [deleted]
On the Road is definitely a period piece and won’t last a few more decades in the public consciousness. It’s very poorly written. I think Kerouac boasted he wrote it in two weeks. Yea I can fucking tell. It’s such poor human representation it has zero literary merit. We read this in undergrad a few years ago and my professor, a boomer, said it was his favorite book. None of my classmates liked it. I remember me and a classmate talking about how crappy it was. I know Kerouac isn’t a boomer but nobody but boomers praise it. I don’t know why. The characters are totally flat. Who gives a shit about its ideas of freedom or open road or rebellion if you got no characters to sell them.
Netscape4Ever t1_iyc3oyp wrote
Reply to comment by TehPharmakon in Nietzsche's American Idol: in Nietzsche's Overman to his Death of God we can see the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson who "exercised a continuous influence stronger than that of any other writer on Nietzsche" and was “one of the prototypes of Zarathustra” by thelivingphilosophy
Thoreau. He had dinner with his momma every week while living in solitude at Walden pond.
Netscape4Ever t1_ivwdhk2 wrote
Reply to What are your "reading goals"? by basketsnbeer
Read my way up through all the books people have talked about aka the “classics.”
Netscape4Ever t1_isr2tn2 wrote
Reply to On Reading Literature as Philosophy by lucaruns
Wow that was an annoying read. This person needs to reevaluate their major(s).
Netscape4Ever t1_j0n6saw wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ‘Sympatheia’ - How Everything Is connected by Melodic_Antelope6490
So nominalism? Doesn’t interconnectedness erase relations altogether?