No.23236 [Last 50 Posts]
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>>22649 No.23240
Can't cope with humanities, especially not orientalism. It's the most interesting field, but due a complex historical-academical process, the most revolting flavor of celebrating and enforcing tropes of Asiatic exoticism in ways that are reminiscent of the most stereotypical 19th century orientalists has won. They cloak their essence with pseudo-leftist terminology, but it's the same field with the same people. Was Said right all along? Is this field fundamentally irredeemable?
No.23241 KONTRA
>>23240Sayeed is literally just for people outside Oriental Studies/Asian Studies who want to be mad at the field. His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative. It’s a theoretical blind alley. A black hole of effort. Much like every Palestinian, only destruction follows in Sayeed’s wake as leftist academics seek to stiffle intercultural dialogue and learning from each other as something that will “infect” things with “biases”. Well, duh. That’s what the humanities are. Working around your biases or utilizing them to make something new.
Maybe once the Chinese century starts I will write a book titled “Occidentalism/西方热” that will mindkill generations of Asian scholars.
No.23242
>>23241>His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative.So, a regular postmodernist?
No.23251
Sometimes I feel like Japanese people understand things about Christianity better than the west
No.23252
>>23251That it's a slave religion for pathetic cucks? Don't worry, lots of people understand that.
No.23254
Why, yes, I have also read Nietzsche once, how could you tell?
No.23255 KONTRA
>>23241>he is giving us no alternativeHe does, you'd just learn sociology, economy and other acceptable social sciences to learn about humanity and thus, about the Orient. It makes sense from a purely materialist narrative.
Can't believe I actually defended him. This is what happens when you listen to some menopausal lunatic defend the thesis that Korean shamans have kept a mythological tradition alive, consistent and broad unchanged through the millennia via "orature" - oral literature.
This is the essence of the dark side of orientalism, notice that for this person the thesis would be indefensible if it related to some Armenian mountain mythology but because it's slant eyed folk, well, they're all just so mystical and magical that this "professor" believes this madness. And it's regurgitated to an audience of people of unquestioning but innocent teenagers who eat it up. The eternal Orientalist.
No.23257
all of this is moot, because western academia, western scientific and philosophical tradition, and what westerners think in general, should no longer be of any concern to anyone in the world going into the future
in 50 years people will care as much about the problems plaguing western institutions as they will care about the problems of economic calculations in the soviet union:
a handful of eclectic nostalgics trying to figure out where it all went wrong
No.23258
>>23257Europe is rising again, what "western" anything do you mean?
And who will be the future world hegemon?
No.23259
western science was solved/refuted by Marx, and western art was olved/refuted by dadaism. ever since then it's been nothing but retarded meandering around the point, trying to postpone the inevitable (post-modernism)
the last ~+-century has been an antechamber to the next stage of human history, with the rest of the world patiently waiting for the fat mall cop with a gun blocking the door, that being the west, to falter and blink, take their finger off the trigger, lower their arms for a moment, etc., so that humanity can finally wrestle them down and end this ridiculous, comical, tragic, retarded interlude between the two periods of millions of years of communism
seems like paul blart's vigilance is faltering yet again; we'll see if this ends in another tragedy, or if humanity finally does the thing, bada bing bada boom
>>23258>Europe is rising againlol. lmao, even.
No.23260
>>23259I mean on the one hand I enjoy that you seem to be back, but on the other hand, I am terribly sorry. What has happened?
No.23261
>>23260Nothing has happened.
Nothing has been happening for a long time now, that's kind of the whole problem.
No.23262
>>23261>abloobloo I have a stable life but can't do anything about it!What a dramatic bundle of sticks you are, why don't you join a theatre group if you desire drama so much.
Or trade places with me, my company is getting buttfucked by americans and I might or might not get evicted this year.
No.23263
My shift start in 11 hours and I think this shit about need wake up 3:30 AM and work from 5AM to 3PM is fucking impossible if you don't do drugs.
I crave sleep all the night, hell, but I need work and pay bills. I think I will just kill myself soon or later since there is no way of my life get better on this hellhole country.
They pay me 230€ after taxes, but that isn't money enough for someone pay rent and leave mom's home. It's brutal, it's Brazil... there is no hope for tomorrow, no solace, no parties (I'm not a normalfag) and no bunda (women hate me).
I thought I was about to leave this imageboard forever but I don't have friends and don't have other people to talk. My life is just wörk, sleep and go to the college campus.
I just want a peaceful life on the countryside miles away from the hellish Brazilian cities.
No.23264
>>23262did you know that fascism is both a genetic AND environmental phenomenon?
it's why it's so persistent and bothersome across the centuries. despite being seemingly defeated again and again, it re-emerges.
but when the third world rises up and seizes power in the World Proletarian Revolution, we will sterilize every German, baltoid and hungarian, nuke central Europe, and salt the earth.
it's the only way to be sure
some of you will be spared to act as entertainment in the open air zoos that Europe will be turned into: europeoid monkeys hooting and hollering and climbing on castles and chapels and gothic cathedrals (their natural habitat), as hordes of Chinese tourists throw peanuts at your dirt-covered children.
And God will smile upon the world
No.23265 KONTRA
>>23261>>23262>>23263Your life on capitalism.
Clean your rooms No.23266
>>23265>>23265My room is really clean! I love clean my room, clean the house...
I wish I could live a peaceful life somewhere far beyond from Brazil. Life here is getting so bad that I can't drink coffee anymore because is absurdly expensive.
No.23267
>>23266Sad. Every working man deserves coffee. It's one of the few pleasures we are permitted. Stay with your college classes as long as you can manage. At least that gives some hope.
No.23269 KONTRA
>>23268Whataboutism. It's funny how you want to defend the brazilians situation.
No.23270
>>23261>Nothing has been happening for a long time now, that's kind of the whole problem.Welcome to life as a childless adult aged 30-70, where the only major happenings are strange sicknesses, your childhood idols dying, and waiting for retirement.
No.23271
>>23269>in my magical dreamworld everyone gets everything for free in arbitrary amounts> because I just make property and trade illegal> telling me that it has been done is whataboutism> look at me I so smart The real problem is that we don't put people like you in camps. If we don't, we'll end up like the Russians.
No.23273
Swiss German women often look like Harry Potter’s house-elves
No.23277 KONTRA
>>23275Posting some random retarded picture of some random retard (it's you, I guess?) doesn't make your arguments any more valid. It's soyjak tier what you are doing, so I kindly ask you to fuck off.
No.23278
>>23187> Empty moralismI said nothing about ethical aspect of your behavior (yet guilty mind is never at ease). I mentioned your privileges only to show that you have every opportunity to live a happy life without any need to wait for utopia. Purely practical objective aspect.
However if you don't want to do anything, then your beliefs are good justification of being lazy, bitter and angry. Suppose that Germany faces a socialist revolution. What will you do then? Instead of finally cleaning your room
our room you'll continue to be a bitter cunt and wait for coming of capitalism instead of socialism.
No.23280 KONTRA
>>23277So your whataboutism was an Argument to justify the brazilians situation? Not sure what you want.
All posts following had no arguments, so there was nothing to argue tbh.
>>23278>claims did not moralize>continues to moralizeIt is 'interesting' that you cannot see this.
No.23281 KONTRA
>>23278> you'll continue to be a bitter cunt and wait for coming of capitalism instead of socialismA true believer will of course always and forever wait for the coming of true socialism.
No.23283 KONTRA
>>23255What we see is that Western sociology and economics repeatedly fails to account for outcomes in Eastern societies because they are using western concepts and terminology to understand a diverging sociopolitical tradition.
It’s a false premise that Humans are the same on the inside. They are not. Humans are humans, but their societies and ways of acting in a society couldn’t be any different.
Koreanist insane retards on the whole doesn’t mean Said was right about anything, it just means Koreanist are insane retards. Not all of them, but out of the “big three” I have the worst mileage with Koreanists.
No.23284
>>23283Like out of all the absolutely dogshit presentations I’ve ever seen 70% were from Koreanist where it’s either the aforementioned “500000 year old Shamanistic Joseon tradition” or “This is how I cope with Chinese culture influencing Korean art” to “I saw two Korean movies with subtitles: This is my wide-reaching conclusion on the topic.”
No.23287 KONTRA
>>23280>So your whataboutismThat wasn't mine, I was merely pointing out your hypocrisy.
No.23288 KONTRA
>>23287By posting some random data sheet?
No.23290
>>23288Oh my bad, the Data sheet was the whataboutism. So what is the hypocrisy? The brazilian working a shitty wage job that barely supports basic necessities like housing and food is not able to
afford coffee anymore. How is that not a normal occurence under capitalism? What does pointing out this fact has to with hypocrisy. You try to moralize a finding. Why?
No.23291
>>23288No? Are you blind or just dumb?
No.23293 KONTRA
>>23291Are talking into a mirror by Chance?
No.23295 KONTRA
>>23293>N-NO U!Staying classy as always, huh?
I was actually writing my post apparently while you were posting your correction, but I decided to leave it because you deserve it.Also,
>brazilianYou might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but you're certainly the biggest one.
No.23296
>>23295Do have something to say about the actual object of discussion or are you only able to talk about me? For whatever reason that seems to be your kink.
No.23297 KONTRA
>>23296I don't give a single fuck about your dumb unoriginal "discussion" (which we both know is not a discussion but just you trying to be the morally superior person), I just don't take kindly to hypocrites.
If anyone would ever go and say something about communism, you would be the first to chime in with a "B-B-BUT MUHHHH CAPITALISM". And as you always do, you try to deviate, divert and just ask counterquestions instead of actually engaging with the "object of discussion", because if you gave an actual answer you could be attacked for that.
I am not sure if you're even aware of that and just being a dishonest piece of shit, but I'll go with that, as it fits your modus operandi.
And as long as you are sowing dissent (because if you didn't notice (of course you didn't), as long as you don't make your smartyass hypocrite posts nobody is fighting), I will be there to call you out. Shame nobody seems to have done that irl so far, that might even lead to change of mind, if we can call your basic kind of consciousness a "mind" in the first place.
No.23298 KONTRA
>>23283>What we see is that Western sociology and economics repeatedly fails to account for outcomes in Eastern societies because they are using western concepts and terminology to understand a diverging sociopolitical traditionThen evidently the issue is decolonizing sociology and economics. Simple as.
Of course area studies are necessary, but I can't cope with a specific subtype within the field. A person who is rational when it comes to analyzing the western world but is entirely capable of adopting schizophrenic beliefs because orientals are mystic. This same person said that Said's Orientalism is "the bible" of our course. Incomprehensible madness. Maybe I'm just misogynistic, much to consider.
No.23299
>>23259> lol. lmao, even.Why not? EU may consolidate into a big superstate, "United States of Europe". It will have 500 millions of population with good education, powerful industry and developed culture. Right now it has problems with energy and resources, because USG cockblocks Middle East and Eastern Europe. But as Trump dismantles American empire, western-European core will acquire its periphery.
Surely, it's not an inevitable future. In 1814 and 1945 idea of European Union failed miserably. But this time it may have better chances.
>>23281But is he a true believer? As I said, for him communist beliefs aren't something basic, it's a cope for certain psychological conditions. I've seen such people turning their views 180 degrees when they needed a new reason not to clean their room.
No.23300
>>23297>Blabla you are such a moral personAll you talk about is hypocrisy. Hence all you care about is morality integrity. Stop projecting your citizens sensibilities on me.
You don't give a single fuck about why the brazilian has to live like that, indeed. And this is not a moral accusation but an observation. Because the answer inevitably will turn to the best of all economic ways to organize societies. You evade the object of discussion and satisfy your kink instead, because the answers you don't like. They hurt your sensibilities.
No.23301
>>23299>EU may consolidate into a big superstate, "United States of Europe".lol. Europeans hate the idea and they hate Eu. It's a project of disconnected libshit elites that is widely rejected by the population.
Pensioners who vote the parties their long-dead parents taught them to vote as well as law dare prevent EU collapse. Otherwise, we would have based AfD government in Germany and Le Pen in France and other eurosceptic parties in power everywhere.
EU is a bullshit and it gives common people nothing, it will end before 2030.
No.23306
>>23297> I will be there to call you out.I don't think that Farthuffer requiers any additional "calling out". After 2 posts you recognize that it's him and know what to expect, after 2 more posts he clearly loses his face.
You may use his posts as an excuse to express your thoughts on the topic. You may ask Farthuffer about the topic to see what people like him think about it. After all, he's very representative of certain type of Western Europeans. But argue and bicker with him, "expose", "call out" - that makes no sense and floods the thread.
Basically, it's the same thing as with "German weaklings will freeze" schizo.
>>23301> that is widely rejected by the populationThis is not a problem, eurosceptical politicians can be arrested and banned from elections like Marie Le Pen and that Romanian guy.
> it gives common people nothingMonkeys together strong. Modern economy, military, science are very large scale things. They're too big for Denmark or Netherlands or even France.
No.23308 KONTRA
Much better today. Went and visited Dante’s house. The museum itself was a bit mid but relatively interesting. I feel like this is ultimately more of a pilgrimage in a sense than actually learning stuff about literature or Dante.
Then went to see Machiavelli’s grave. Nobody really gave a shit about it unlike Michelangelo’s. Like sure but we all know who the real “Big M” is in that basilica.
It was a very interesting building but yeah ultimately I just went to see the tomb.
Honestly now that I think about it to most people this place isn’t even about Machiavelli it’s about the fucking David statue. Like honestly don’t really care about it at all I think. Really, it’s a statue but to me this place is mostly about Machiavelli, the Medicis and maybe Dante a bit, though I never really got into the Divine Comedy. (I did read it tho. Inferno at least. Yeah. I have some gaps.)
I think I’m feeling better, really.
No.23309
Talking with coworkers about work related topics literally seconds after I clock out. Damn. I could be getting paid for those minutes.
Eggs are an underrated dinner.
No.23311
>>23309I sometimes clock out and talk to my coworkers about private stuff for 10 or 15 minutes. These could also be written up, damn!
No.23312
>>23306> Modern economy, military, science are very large scale thingsNobody needs bullshit like the LHC or ITER, they are just a waste of tax-money. So-called scientists write up bullshit-papers devoid of all meaning, and politicians pay for it with tax money so they can brag about their 'successes' in 'science'. It's all a scam. Watch Sabine Hossenfelder, she exposed the Lord of so-called scientists. Once this becomes common knowledge, so-called science will just be cancelled, as it deserves to be.
Not overpriced ineffective German meme-tanks with cringy meme-animal-names keep the Russian army at bay, but domestic Ukrainian fpv drones.
>They're too big for Denmark or Netherlands or even France.The future is small and scalable. Like SMRs. Big centralized structures are a thing of the past
No.23320 KONTRA
Went to see the “mandatory stuff” today. So the Accademia Galery and the Uffizi. The lines weren’t bad at all, considering it was a Sunday and entrance was free of charge. There were people but everything was 15 minutes tops.
I saw the David and it was okay but I was mostly too preoccupied with looking at random paintings and trying to immerse myself in the proto.surrealist backgrounds of some of the early renaissance paintings in the “Announciation” genre. It was insanely interesting to just at the minor details of stuff.
Really liked Boticelli too.
Ultimately the problem was that it’s day three at this point and each day we can walk less and less (but we don’t!). It was just simply too much. By the time we were halfway through the Uffizi I felt like my lower back was going to break me in half. But we went through it even though like halfway through the exhibition you are given the option to just escape without seeing everything.
The Uffizi had an insanely huge gift shop where I bought the only piece of souvenir of the entire trip, a French edition of a manga adaptation of The Prince. I flipped through it, understood like 80% of the sentences and I was like yeah, I can read this and got it.
The way back to the hotel was hellish, honestly. When you walk +10km a day it really starts to show.
Got word back that I might be published again, they just need to get the exam season over with so someone can check my shit. But it’s really good that it’s in motion something is happening.
No.23324
>>23267Things are getting beyond bad in Brazil.
I wish I could immigrate to a better country and live a peaceful life, but as a 37yo introvert like me... I only see suffering until suicide, illness or a robber kill me.
It's 20:32 in Brazil as I type this post and my shift start in nine hours.
I wonder how fast my mental health will deteriorate even further.
I hope you guys live a life better than mine.
There is no hope in South America.
No.23338
Finally the state sponsored holidays are slowly beginning again, next Thursday and the following Monday are vidya game time, no wörk allowed.
Also masterfully sat out another task, by first shifting it to be FutureErnsts issue last Friday and then by half-assed contemplating about it yesterday while watching the market turmoil and finally coming to the conclusion to solve it not via a complicated design, but to shift the issue at hand from one place where it doesn't fit to another place where it simply fits.
My higher up eagerly embraced my idea as well, noting the synergies that are created by the shift of buildings.
At times I am terrified by my genius.
>>23336Rest in Peace, Herr Böhme.
No.23339
>>23338>Finally the state sponsored holidays are slowly beginning againFeels like an eternity, it's been full work weeks since end of last year for me. No idea why this struck me harder than usual this year, I don't think I usually take much vacation in the first months of the year. Maybe the true problem is a lack of change in private life, which makes rough work stretches appear even more annoying.
No.23340
>>23339Absolutely agree, the issue could be easily solved by going part time and only work 4 days a week. That one more day of regeneration is just what this aging Ernst would need, but good luck getting such a deal in a mens trade, only women may apply unironically.
At the very least it's just a few more years of this until my cats went on their last journey, then I have all the cards in my hand and can enforce any deal imaginable or just fold and walk away, we'll see.
No.23342
>>23339I hate that bullshit. It slows everything down, I want stuff to fucking move, move, move.
I want milestones done, check marks set, not week-long weekends where the week before, everyone lazes off in preparation and one week after, everyone lazes off to recover from drinking a liter of pure alcohol or eating an entire rabbit or half a pig or whatever.
No.23343
I’m talking more and more with people in my uni class. I’m overall less and less of the shut in I became during covid and god awful relationships. Unsurprisingly, most people are fun to interact with and well meaning.
It’s very hard for me to go to people to talk to them, I have to be invited somewhere or forced into a group to trigger a conversation, otherwise I have too low self esteem to think my presence could be appreciated. Today I even impressed a cinephile in my class with my movie knowledge.
No.23345 KONTRA
>>23343> Unsurprisingly, most people are fun to interact with and well meaning.lol. Most people are petty assholes and dumb as shit.
No.23346 KONTRA
>>23345Maybe I’m too distracted to notice the little things.
No.23347
It snowed today. I was sure our groundhog(lives under the shed)coming out of hibernation last week marked an end to sub-freezing temperatures. They should know, right? But, no. The ride continues.
>>23343>It’s very hard for me to go to people to talk to themI used to be the same, but now talk first in most interactions. Nothing deep, but in small talk the first mover gains an advantage. Decides the subject and forces the other party to think and respond. Agree that most people are decent and cool to talk to. At least on the surface, but that is where the majority of conversation takes place.
No.23348
>>23343Sounds good. Maybe you are more extrovert than you think, it's just a depressive vicious circle shutting you in.
I was depressed for many years and still ahve to be careful but yeah, talking to people and having small interactions
that don't lead to deep conversations, connections or whatever a lot of times are fun, boost my mood etc.
This is btw scientifically proven to lift the mood so keep following this route I'd say.
No.23353
>>23343I'm happy for you.
I gave up. I don't want talk to other people that aren't my supervisors or coworkers because I only want get drunk, eat, sleep or play piano.
Brazilian society hate introverts like me.
No.23359 KONTRA
>>23347>>23348Yes exactly, the small talk is quite liberating. I start with something and just see where it goes.
>>23353>or play pianoFor how long have you been playing?
No.23361
Today I overheard fellow colleagues discuss what they'd do if a dictatorship like the one that ruled for most of the Portuguese 20th century came back. They all seemed to be in agreement that they'd sooner face expulsion from the University, imprisonment or even torture than to have their fundamental rights restricted. After figuratively patting themselves on the back for their would-be revolutionary activity, they shared family stories, in which their grandparents took the role of underground clandestine freedom fighters. It becomes hard to understand how dictatorships even take root when everyone is a proud antifascist willing to risk everything for the cause of freedom. Even stranger was how Estado Novo pulled it off here, given that there seems to have existed a dictator, a hundred gestapo officers and a 7 million strong antifascist army.
No.23364
>>23361By the way, today I stumbled upon Estado Nuevo's propaganda in Wikipedia. I watched one soviet author's bibliography and in article about poem on Salazar's Portugal I saw:
> Another feature is also characteristic. Yevtushenko's works on foreign themes are usually imbued with Soviet pride, the superiority of the "new world", and are sometimes contemptuously condescending. "Love in Portuguese" is devoid of these motives. The author is clearly impressed by the power of the enemy, whose power leaves only the space of feeling for dissent. This feeling is conveyed by the author's address to the "Portuguese girl": "You and I, sister, are weak." (A similar mood can be seen in the poems “Barcelona Streets” and “USSR-Spain Match” about Franco’s Spain, where Yevtushenko also managed to visit.)> Some researchers explain this by the fact that the regimes of Salazar and Franco — which originated in the 1930s, with their irreconcilable anti-communism, harsh nationalism and corporatism, appealing to the traditions and images of the Middle Ages — seemed a stronger opponent than the Western democracies of the 1960s[8]. This impression was reflected by the poet of the sixties.If you follow the source to find out who are these researchers, it links article on kasparov.ru , liberal media by the former chess master. Article doesn't mention the full name or occupation of researcher, could as well be pseudonym.
Well, it's understandable given that Russian-language wikipedia is very provincial and moderated by Ukrainians. But that Taiwanese shilling in English-language wikipedia about Confucius was really unusual.
No.23366
>>23359>For how long have you been playing?Since 2006, but I never had classes and I mostly only play pop songs and some binge progressive rock stuff like Yes, Eloy and etc.
I want learn how proper piano technique so I can play Bach, Mozart, Liszt or Chopin without hurt myself in the process.
No.23370
>>23361Their heroic round was missing a razor-sharp analyst whose backbone is entirely made from sarcastic wit.
No.23371 KONTRA
Good day honestly. Discussed one of my projects with a professor. He said it's really promising based on my outline. Which felt good.
Got tasked with writing a book review for a journal again.
My leg's doing great so I ran a lot around town today. I was euphoric. Had a coffee too.
>>23361What I'm seeing here is that the people who are supposed to "resist", even if they hate the guts of the government, will readily become ticks and suck it dry however they can for grants and speaking opportunities.
I mean, yours truly was published by a journal running on state money and talked at hardcore right wing conferences before. It's that in a system where democracy is sort of dismantled, one side will hold all the cards, so there's only one dealer to go to and say "Hit me!".
And most young people do want to play.
No.23374
>>23361> I'm the biggest traitor> I'm a bigger traitor! > My grandfather was a traitor! > And mine was twice the traitor yours was!Disgusting. You should remember their names, it might help your career one day.
No.23378 KONTRA
>>23366Nice. Never heard of piano related injuries though
No.23379
>>23378It's mostly piano movers who get piano related injuries, not the piano players. Class differences...
No.23381
>>23380Football is a working man's sport, football mover is not a real job. Piano players are rich, whether they play as a past time or professionally. Becoming proficient on the piano is expensive. Lessons are expensive, so is the instrument itself. It also requires cultural capital. Playing football requires a ball, few dudes and a little space.
The middle-class man's piano is traditionally the accordion, more recently the 'keyboard'.
Piano mover is an actual job, and it's literally back-breaking labor. Poor people destroy their health for little pay so rich people can be fart smellers who play the piano.
Are you class enemy? After the revolution, we will set up courts to deal with people like you!
No.23382
>>23381Professional football players ruin their body and health to make a living. Pay some respect.
No.23384
>>23382Playing any sport professionally is a capitalist aberration.
No.23385
>>23384> capitalist aberrationPeople in socialist countries also like to watch professional sport. Before capitalism people gathered in Coliseum, watched Olympics.
No.23386
>>23385Competition is entertaining to me, that's why I like to watch competitive sports/games. Not interested in exhibitions, I'd rather watch lower level competitive games than high level exhibitions. Maybe it's the feeling that something is at stake, which rarely happens in my well protected western life.
No.23388
>>23386>Maybe it's the feeling that something is at stake, which rarely happens in my well protected western life.I think you should enter the next war zone so you can think of yourself as Ernst Jünger for a few moments. Best cure for pampered western asses as well all know.
No.23391
>>23385> People in socialist countries also like to watch professional sport. There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.
>Before capitalism people gathered in Coliseum, watched Olympics.Rome had many elements of a capitalist empire. The Republic came to an end after Caesars genocide of the Gauls, and the 'fascistization' of the Roman Republic, which then ended in an empire.
There was capital accumulation in the form of mills, mines, and giant plantation-like farms, which the upper class had worked by slaves. The former farmers all turned (lumpen-)proletarian and left the countryside for the city, where they lived in poorly built tenement blocks that endangered their health and collapsed often. Fire was a constant danger. People lived in conditions not dissimilar to 19th century pauperism.
Picture related, the maggi-factory during the 19th century and an artistic representation of a Roman garum-factory. Even the problems of making cheap low-quality foods for the lower-class masses taste like something was the same, and it was 'solved' with similar methods. Just produce some strong umami-tasting fermented liquid that enables people to eat their bland or even rotten starch-food without any meat or fat or vegetable. Might also give them cancer or shit, but who cares.
No.23396
>>23391> There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Streich - who is this guy? What's his profession?
No.23403
Yesterday was odd. I woke up late. Nobody is doing groceries, and I kinda don't have the money so I've been skipping lunches. I had a pretzel and some biscuits basically.
And a coffee. I really like that Italian coffee I got.
I felt really frantic. My words were a bit jumbled in a sense. But I could express myself in Chinese. And German. And English. And Hungarian too.
Got my "review copy" of a book. It's nice. Not the book itself, but rather how there is this old-school feel to a professor just telling you in a letter that he will drop it off at the guardroom in one of the buildings and you can just go there and pick it up from an indifferent guardsman.
It's a package, it has your name on it and so on.
Of course I forgot which building I was in so I went outside, checked the sign for the right letter and then went back in. Probably the coffee.
A classmate was like "How long have you been at this university?" and yes, I have been here for 5 years now, but the point is, 99% of the time I don't need to know what building this is.
I've decided to go to some right-wing hawkish conference. Best to get on a train right as it derails and kills everyone on board.
Honestly I can't stand foreign policy people. Every single foreign relations BA retard thinks they are Kissinger or some shit even though they are just right-wing dickheads in a mid suit.
(On the other hand, all sociologists are wannabe communist pothead retards. I wish I could see them fight to the death.
t. philologist)
(But we must remember Nietzsche: "I think out of a hundred philologists, ninety-nine shouldn't be philologists at all." I'm the one.)
(Realistically, out of the two I am more jealous of the foreign policy bloodsuckers, I have been retooling myself a bit for more modern stuff so that I could be eligible for that shit. I could conquer the world. Or at least a humble ministerial department maybe.)
I'm in a very odd state of mind right now for some reason. Must be spring.
I need to get running.
Honestly I've skipped a lot of running but it feels like that despite the +10kms a day I walked in Italy, my leg has recovered, I did some insane sprints through town in the past few days and my leg is fine.
No.23414 KONTRA
>>23391>There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.Attempt at irony or just big retard?
No.23416
>>23413tfw my manual dexterity, endurance and precision are not appreciated.
No.23417
>>23396> What is his professionElectrician, then sports teacher.
>>23414Not joking. Athletes all were employed in regular capacities at regular plants and institutions. If the club was called 'vorwärts', the players were soldiers. If it was called 'dynamo', they were police officers. If it was called 'Lokomotive', they were railway workers. Of course, top athletes were given time off for training and competitions, but it wasn't like it's in the West where they didn't have real jobs and are all multi-millionaires. There were no sponsorships where some rich capitalist just buys the entire team and then owns it, like it's just another business enterprise and all the athletes are his slaves.
No.23418
>>23413Amazing, I don't have any of those. I don't even know what "systems thinking" means
No.23419
>>23418✨🪄it means whatever you want it to mean 🪄✨
Notice how the upper-right quadrant is filled with feel-good buzzwords allowing for projection.
No.23420 KONTRA
>>23417>Not joking.No, just clowning lol.
Today we also have Sportsoldaten and Sportpolizisten.
And just like an artillerist does artillery, the sports soldier does sports.
Which means his job is quite literally being paid for being an athlete, i.e. a professional athlete.
And taking all kinds of communist shenanigans at face value (or at least arguing in that fashion on imageboards) only indicates that you are either very dumb or very dishonest, probably both.
No.23422
>>23420Obviously not comparable and an excuse guided by the examples I made. Had I used Turbine and Tractor instead of Vorwärts and Dynamo, you couldn't even have come up with it, so you didn't even have a point.
No.23423 KONTRA
>>23413I can hardly believe reading and writing won't be necessary. But I see coworkers who rely and AI to write and even read by summerizing. It's cuttting time but AI is prone to mistakes in writing and often is mid in the results. Guess we need prompt seminar to improve.
No.23424
>>23418It means to understand things/phenomena as systems. Not new, it was hyped on and off since WW2 I'd say.
No.23425 KONTRA
>>23422>Obviously not comparablelol, lmao even, didn't read the rest of your drivel
No.23427
>>23425Do you often plug your ears when people say stuff you don't like?
Like the truth No.23428
>>23427Plugging my ears would not prevent me from reading your drivel, moron.
No.23430
>>23418Isn’t that like structuralism?
No.23432
>>23430What is post-structuralism then? And when it will be a core skill?
No.23435
I think I will be fired from my dead end job.
Some female coworker did something that almost killed me and I snapped so bad that all other people are scared of me.
I think I will be fired as soon as Monday, hue...
I'm doomed. I will be homeless.
No.23436
I hate myself and want to die
No.23437
I want to kill myself
No.23440
>>23435I can't say what I actually think about this, because that would be enticement to a crime, euch is a punishable offense according to the German criminal code. Of course, I am not a criminal and I won't entice anyone to commit a crime.
However, how people are fine with having someone pay for someone else's fuck-up is beyond me. Most people seem to not have any sense of justice. They hate it when actions have consequences.
I wonder if humans are actually two species. A share of so-calles humans is really human, but that's a minority. The other part just has human form. They look like humans, they walk and talk like humans, but if you stripped away their skin, you would find that they are anthropoids. Like the roach in men in black, they wear human skin as a disguise, but they are not actually humans. They are giant insects. Inverse Gregor Samsas, so to speak: they look human, but they have the soul and mentality of crabs.
The anthropoids contribute nothing to society, they are the litterbugs, the thieves, the incompetent coworkers, the criminals, etc. They are parasites of the human race. World History is an eternal cycle: the anthropoid thrive, they overwhelm genuine humans, society collapses, wealth declines, there is no more room for anthropoids, anthropoids decline, humanity thrives, repeat.
No.23443
Time to drink a bunch of caffeine for motivation and help.
I did an real proctored IQ test and have very high verbal IQ.
I sound much smarter than I really am.
I am pretty good at learning languages - tested into higher level german with barely doing work or studying - and could understand teacher without studying at all.
>Why did you choose to study german?
Well, I use an obscure imageboard and I like shitposting.
My german teacher told me I reminded her of Klaus Kinski.
No.23448
I'm too fucked to fuck right now
No.23449
Cool imageboard:
Chakai.org
No.23450
>>23440Germans are retarded
No.23451
>>23261The quadratic association seen between IQ and risk appeared to be due primarily to an increased risk of pure bipolar disorder in men with the highest verbal or technical abilities.
Ernest Hemmingway had bipolar disorder.
Here's what I wrote when I was Manic:
No.23452
Lol imagine being psychotic like the brazilian
Cringe fat
No.23453
I took the small jutting tendril and pulled with some effort. I didn't know why I was doing this, but something about it seemed attractive to me.
It was stuck in a brown, maroonish clay pot with some horizontal patterning. More came out from the dozens of rocks aloft the pot as I continued to pull. It appeared somehow sticklike but smooth, and was increasing in length as I pulled, now with more effort. I pulled and pulled - gave it everything I had - and took it out with one burst of energy.
I must take it home with me, I thought.
"Sorry, I have to be somewhere right now"
I looked up and saw Artifax, who then promptly disappeared. I had known him for a while, but did not have the chance to get a word in before he left. It was shame - I hadn't seen him for months now, and I wasn't sure what he was doing here, wasn't he out of the country?
I sidelined these questions, and continued walking home. It wasn't very relevant, and I hadn't spoken with him recently. I had no idea what he was up to.
I got home and allotted the tendril below my lofted bed. I hope my roommate wouldn't mind. It was mine, and I didn't think it would look great with the coral-like lighting near my bed stand.
While sleeping I felt a small growth in my vicinity. I wasn't sure what it was, but sure enough, I saw the tendril arisen over the side of my bedrail. My tendril spoke: "Believe in God"
"You need more Calcium"
It spoke with a sallow, basal voice. It sounded like my own voice, heard from the inside - wanting to get out. The voice was low and smooth, just as smooth as the sticklike figure I pulled out of the ground. I felt some rumbling inside my body; I disagreed with its judgment and I have more than enough calcium thank you.
I take multivitamins daily.
Although I had for a second, thought of going to the pharmacy; I knew my own body.
The next day after I had breakfast and spoke with my mates about the tendrils. I asked one across from me about what it said to him.
"Well my Tendril is a feminist"
"What do you mean?"
"He was talking to me about women's rights"
I had flashes of a white animal, ghostlike in appearance. With a mouth open wider than naturally allowed. A mix between a crocodile and a rodent. A crocodilian whitish mouth roof with bulging, opossum eyes. My heart was beating, and I could feel the blood coursing through my veins.
I had thought that maybe I was the only one who heard these tendrils - or that I was really the only one with one of them. Was I just imagining things?
The tendril answered "Yeah Buddy.." again in its sallow, basal voice.
No.23454
>>23450My father is legitimately probably a genius.
He got higher than 130 in the Mensa test.
I can hear him yelling at me in my head right now
BASED
No.23456
>>23454Like I'm literally hallucinating right now
No.23457
He has written several books and books of poetry and has won awards.
Here's a funny rant I wrote while manic:
It's pretty funny tbh
This fantasy that leftist want, economies run by worker-run syndicates/voluntary-associations/whathaveyou, just falls apart unless they're commanded top down by a strict administration. The notion that a group of even skilled laborers can ran a company without administration is just farcical at its face. Personal anecdote: I've seen workers just leave debris on the floor unattended and just work around the mess until it piles up and compounds where it gets in the way. You need someone on the floor to tell one of them to clean the shit up before it spirals out of control or else you'd waste more time cleaning it up or containing a massive load and diminishing productivety all the while. People are not born industrious. In fact, most people are born sloths. It takes a combination of initiative and, more importantly, need to make someone industrious. Most workers don't even want to work smarter or harder. They'll just keep doing the same thing over and over so long as they get their keep. These fantasy leftist scenarios all make about as much sense as putting lifestock in charge of the farm.
I can't see any place run by workers ending anywhere than a retarded form of direct democracy where nothing gets done and everyone just keeps passing the buck. Every critical decision would be democratically decided by floor-level workers, through either national votes or simply letting "the workers", whoever that may be, do whatever they damn well please, which could end in workers scrapping what could be highly valuable projects just because they don't feel like it. In the end, you need someone telling them to dig the fucking hole or else. At least communists don't mind directly managing worker affairs at gunpoint or some other form of Kafkaesque coercion.
This fantasy worker-run co-op assume workers can collectively calculate currency/prices, allocate resources, assess the public needs /demands and keep rates of production sufficient to accommodate the market. Since absolutely no force can pressure an entitled syndicate worker from opting out of production, they would rarely produce anything other than political propaganda and cartelized labor. Complicated chains of production requires complicated organized structures and chains of command, which a ragtag group of workers cannot democratically dictate.
Lastly, the CNT-FAI that western leftists fetishize is only possible at a mass level when Jonestone-style indoctrinated people enforce social norms with undying fanaticism. That kind of society is one where you're resigned to a life under the tyranny of a formless menace. Is that the free individual anarchists should imagine? Only if you like gaslighting yourself or you like killing catholics.
No.23458
Okay, I'm done.
Sorry for the crazy posting
No.23467 KONTRA
>>23454My father is 150IQ and my brothers not much less. I’m a upper tier midwit. It pisses me off, I’m in constant resentment over how less intelligent I am compared to people I love.
>>23458That’s alright
No.23468
>>23440Well, now I will surely get one of those jobs that I need work from 14:00-22:00 and that means I will also leave college for good.
I don't like violence. I live in Brazil and here is one of the Earth's hotspot for violence, God, I only wished to be a Veterinarian living in the countryside and only taking care of cows and horses but as someone for a really bad upbringing... that was impossible.
I don't know what will happen with me from here aside homelessness if I don't find a job next two weeks.
No.23470
Fun fact: The dutch term for biplane is "Dobbeltdekker". Dutch is just too cute and adorable.
No.23471 KONTRA
>>23467Stop spending so much time with your family, get a job, be your own man, problem solved.
No.23472
>>23468Feeling bad for you. There's still a small chance you won't be fired. (Not monday yet.)
No.23475
I reset the trip-odometer on my car. Keeps track of my miles-per-gallon. Starting from zero, with a small sample size, I drove home from work with a lot of coasting and minimal breaking. Hit a peak of 27.4 mph. Can't maintain that though. Just idling in my driveway this morning dropped it under 25. It should level off between 22-23.
>>23435In a just world, the unsafe coworker would be the one without a job. I'm not usually a fan of strict rules, but anyone in blue-collar work who- either through incompetence or laziness- puts someone in danger should be fired on the spot. We're willing to sweat for dollars, doesn't mean we want to die for them.
No.23480 KONTRA
Yesterday I had a really bad time I feel like but I worked on some translations and then I also played some Company of Heroes 2 with friends. It's peak historical experience because I have a German guy screaming at me for making the worst possible tanks leading to our mutual destruction at the hands of an overwhelming enemy force.
Wrote an email to a foreign university requesting a file from their database. I wish I had the entire book not just this one part of it though. Seems relevant to my research but it's expensive and out of print.
I might just keep requesting parts of it from the database until I can piece it together but this one should be enough for now.
Today I woke up okay-ish. I went out into the garden and planted some flowers and took out the teaplant so that it's in the open instead of my room.
But mostly I just focused on cleaning out the summer "basecamp". Yet again my father spent the entire winter just dumping random shit in the garden so the mess is insane.
I filled in a giant hole one of the dogs dug and put away a bunch of planks and also scrubbed the paths clean.
In the end I think I managed to set up a relatively pleasant place for outside studying yet again, even though I got pretty tired.
Also cleaned up the room a bit.
I baked some rosemary bread again. It wasn't nearly as good as the stuff they had in Italy and that makes me so disappointed. It's probably the heat. Or I did not fold it enough times. Maybe both.
Did another playtrough of the ENA game. Had a friend "supervise" it because he knows the thing inside out after maniacally playing it through multiple times. If anything, it was odd to see how where I was suspecting secrets, there were none, and I routinely glanced over some stuff.
Then we played some more Company of Heroes.
It was a pretty good day all things considered.
No.23481 KONTRA
I was quite depressed and lay in bed all day. I was hallucinating as well.
I took medication that I don't like taking because it makes me feel very uncomfortable (I especially hate taking it when I have no symptoms) - but when I take it greatly improves mood and psychotic symptoms.
Caffeine gives me much more energy, but the energy is uncontrollable. My sleep schedule is a game of Simon.
Time to catch up on 4 weeks worth of work.
No.23491
Weather was nice today and I took advantage by cutting back our overgrown bushes. Wanted to get it done while they were still dormant. Looks much better and hopefully my neighbor will appreciate it. She's a garden person. A variety of carefully maintained plants and beds. Even tucks some under blankets for the winter.
>>23480Tis' the season for yard cleaning.
No.23508
>>23472I had quit the job before do something that probably could end with me arrested, killed by the cops or sued.
I don't know what will happen to me now...
No.23523
What if one could use his depression as a starting point to achieving pure rationality through something like IDIC? You don't feel anything anymore anyway, so why not make use of it?
And unlike autists and assburgers who don't deal with regular people's feelings you have the advantage of actually being able to understand them.
No.23531
>>23508>I don't know what will happen to me nowDon't worry about the big picture, just try to do the next right thing. Whatever that may be in your situation, and however small the step. Then, when that is done, figure out the next-next right thing to do.
>>23523When you're depressed, everything seems meaningless. Making use of that state of mind to initiate change requires that the change have some ultimate meaning. It may, but when you're depressed you can't see that. It's a circular trap.
No.23590
What's the maximum amount of movies a human should watch in his life? When is it too much?
No.23593 KONTRA
>>23590P.S.: or her life, for that matter.
No.23611
>>23595I keep reading "Laster 2025" and think about trucking.
No.23612
Anyone Else hate their siblings? I mean I'm glad I beat my brother when we were children, because of turned out, the little pissant deserved more.
No.23616 KONTRA
>>23612I have nothing but love and admiration for mines
No.23618
Moshi moshi, watashi no wa Erunsto desu
No.23624
>>23618Sou desu ka?
Sugoi!!
No.23655
Wasted most of the day in VC, listening to some soylennial TV show in German. It's honestly amazing how dogshit TV is. And how it's still better than it was 15 years ago.
But I finished two tasks for a seminar and I also wrote the book review I had to write. Honestly surprised by the progress.
I slept terribly. Went back to sleep. Completely enervated. Didn't have lunch. I just had toast and cheese once in the afternoon.
I've decided that even if I have nothing to do and money is scarce, I will just go out and eat something tomorrow.
No.23656
Thought about going to a local whore, stalked her, found her TikTok. Lotta videos about aquariums, video of her taking apart an aquarium pump. Which is OK, whores can be into aquariums. Video of her removing rocks from her protector's garden. Her form is terrible, my back hurts from watching. I mean, I get that the relationship between whores and pimps is not exactly one of mutual respect and care, but come on, does he want to give her herniated discs or what? What would he get out of that?
Also, I am disappointed. The pimp looks straight like a soycuck-meme, complete with receding hairline and badly groomed beard, lol.
No.23659
Foreigners of /int/, I want to ask you something:
What would you say are the defining physiognomial traits of Germans? Something that makes you say "this is a German (or Austrian)" when seeing them in a picture?
I am asking because I just found a thread in a british forum about people showing their faces, and while it's a british forum with mainly british faces (some REALLY stereotypical bongs), there were also a few Germans that were immediately identifiable as such just from the pictures, but I just couldn't make out why exactly. How does a German "look"?
No.23660
>>23659According to my experience in playing Ethnoguesser (I score more than all of my friends btw),..
In general there isn't a single "German look", it's several phenotypes which aren't defined by borders of Germany and Austria. Instead of applying formal criteria (rectangularness of face and so on), it's better to compare photo to the Germans you know (celebrities or IRL people).
No.23662
>>23659Not a good ethnoguesser, but
>>23660 pic 3 is what I would consider a stereotypical German face. If I had to describe? Rectangular with wide cheekbones and eyes which are slightly undersized but not to the point of being beady.
No.23663
>>23662Aside from the features you mentioned, a slight fleshiness of the nose on an otherwise healthy frame is characteristically German. Possibly related to beer consumption or Judish admixture.
t. haplostronomy-pro
No.23664
>>23662G3 is clearly Bavarian and as such alpine race:
>face of roundness>head of shortness>nose of broadness>essentially peasant charactert. race theory pro
No.23670
I would like to get a new laptop, but a model of a similar class I bought 6 years ago now costs a good 2000 Euros.
I could afford it, but I don't want to.
I wish I could shed the povertymind.
No.23671 KONTRA
>>23670Buy used/refurbished.
No.23672
>>23670>I wish I could shed the povertymind.Best mindset, It will ensure that you never run into financial troubles in your life. Income should only limit spending habits, never increase them. There's a reason even some millionaires manage to go bankrupt. I still feel like the 1% when getting my bi-weekly Sushi fix, because of growing up in a poor
first world family.
No.23675
>>23531Well, I miraculously got a new job, but I had drop out college for good. I feel empty.
No.23676
>>23672> Sushi> Bi-weeklyI facepalmed when reading. Otherwise, I agree. 2000€ for a laptop is bullshit.
No.23677
>>23675Sorry to hear that you had to drop out. I feel sad for you.
No.23678
>>23676Biweekly means every other week
No.23679
>>23678Why eat sushi when you could get ramen tho? Smh
No.23684
>>23679I like both sushi and ramen, but matcha... Swamp-smelling nasty-tasting greed liquid - I'm not Shrek to drink it.
No.23703
>>23672>growing up in a poor first world family.Same. As a result, every purchase involves a debate over whether I actually need
new item or can simply do without it. Except for socks. No more wearing them with holes and broken elastic. These days I buy new socks without hesitation.
>>23675Congrats on the new job. Is there a chance you can return to school later without losing the progress you have made so far?
No.23707 KONTRA
>>23698Lol. I spend about 1000€ a month, including rent and car.
No.23709 KONTRA
>>23707Where do you live?
1000€ is what I spend after rent and other overhead is paid and some saving and etf invests are made.
Don't have a car though, does not make sense.
How much do you pay for your car every month?
No.23716
>>23709>Where do you liveSomewhere rural. Rent (including utilities) is 530€/month.
>How much do you pay for your car every month?I calculate with a 140€/month deduction on car value, 50€ on fuel, 50€ on insurance, 100€ on maintenance.
This leaves me at 250€ to spend per month. That's twice my spendings from ten years back, but that's inflation. I eat lots of oatmeal, legumes, rice and vegetables. No meat, no dairy.
No.23717
Sheeple are completely unaware of coming collapse. Trump/Musk are just symptoms of collapse that is now ongoing. Dumb sheeple still think there will be a 'return to normal', beacuse they are pathetic&deluded. LOL WHAT CUCKS.
No.23726
>>23716Rent including utilities is close to 800€/month and I have a cheap apartment tbh.
I use the best thing a government could do in the last years, the D-Ticket for 58€ and spend about 40-60€/month in car sharing depending on how often a month I get back from my gf during weeknights to be independent of the night bus timetable.
So I assume you have a decent job and thus have a lot of savings, what are you doing with those savings? Do you want an early retirement or what is the plan?