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bhbhbhhh t1_j1k6qmz wrote
Reply to comment by ONEAlucard in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
I would say that “What does shame have to do with it?” is a bad faith response.
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Reply to comment by Nemo3500 in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Deciding that that people you loved who died didn’t really matter isn’t an option for many people.
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Reply to comment by MightyKrakyn in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Guy at the top of rollercoaster hill: Why are you all screaming? Can’t you see that we’re higher than the start of the ride?
bhbhbhhh t1_j1k2qx1 wrote
Reply to comment by ONEAlucard in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
You think the OP spoke of superficiality and thought it a good thing?
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Reply to comment by Nemo3500 in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
In the commonplace sense that people inaccurately use nihilism, it mostly just means thinking things are really, really, bleak. OP, like myself at a you ger age, probably took the existentialist road and saw meaning in the contuity of humanity, nature, etc., which directly caused a despair that wouldn’t affect a nihilist who doesn’t care about those things.
You may be mixing up cause and effect - people tend to feel despair because they think the things they already find purpose, meaning, and value in are going to be destroyed or ruined.
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Reply to comment by Nemo3500 in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
The despair I see in people is not a belief in meaninglessness, but the belief that the meanings there are in the world are absolutely horrible.
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Reply to comment by eyes_wings in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Why should a human care about what is relevant to “the universe” and not human beings?
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Reply to comment by ONEAlucard in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Does that make it less shameful?
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Reply to comment by MightyKrakyn in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
Look up some information on the current state of literacy among young Americans in grade school and college. It’s not so easy to dismiss when it’s being measured and studied.
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Reply to comment by Scoobywagon in What unusual combination of genre and setting would you like to see more of in books? by T_Lawliet
Bloodlines by Chris Wraight
bhbhbhhh t1_j0t2qg0 wrote
I wanted to become a visual artist in high school. Developing a reading habit completely and totally destroyed my career prospects.
bhbhbhhh t1_j097rod wrote
Toby Longworth narrates the Gaunt’s Ghosts books with many Welsh and Russian accents. Makes the book feel that more real.
bhbhbhhh t1_ixrkpl9 wrote
The author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant was in exactly your position when he read one of David Weber's worse books. So he made a full rewrite of the novel.
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Reply to Just finished Fahrenheit 451 and I think I've found me a new favorite author by bookworm579
I don’t disagree with him in disliking the anti-intellectualist streak of American culture, but he’s annoyingly hamfisted about it.
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Reply to The deep meanings we extract from books are not a reflection of the author's genius by virtualaenigma
Yes, there are books that express thoughts of such complexity that it is impossible think that the author accidentally jumbled the concepts together.
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I’m scared I won’t like it as much as Blue Highways. I also have a copy of “In America,” about following Steinbeck’s path in the 21st century.
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I don’t care whether something is connected to the main plot or not. I care whether it’s entertaining or interesting.
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Reply to comment by TheBuff66 in Books that you decided to read and/or buy because it influenced the writer/book you read previously.. by Prestigious-Dog-1090
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is one of the other major starting points for 1984.
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Reply to Books that you decided to read and/or buy because it influenced the writer/book you read previously.. by Prestigious-Dog-1090
A random college guy suggested I read Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake after he saw that I wanted to read Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I also tried to read Viriconium by M John Harrison for the same reason - less enthused with that.
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Reply to The Divide a Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions is the most depressing non-fiction book I've ever read by Silent-Thund3r
Remember that economics is a heavily disputed field and a book on the world economy should not be trusted in a way that one on long-established physics and chemistry knowledge can be.
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Reply to Why are books always changed or cut major scenes out when adapted to film? by hushpolocaps69
Novels tend to have more than two hours of happenings in them.
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Reply to comment by CrazyCatLady108 in Poverty descriptions in old books that doesn't seem poor in today's property market by p_romer
Nevertheless, it sounds like he was much better off than the really poor inhabitants of the city, the ones who could never imagine having a bed to themselves.
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Reply to comment by walkinmybat in The way people speak in The Count of Monte Cristo. Can someone explain? by foxdna
When I read Gogol's Dead Souls I had two different translations on hand. The translation from the 1950s was simply much better written, but unfortunately had omissions.
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Reply to comment by chortlingabacus in The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Does it pick up? by vincentx99
It’s so funny that this is the dark mirror image of the comments on reddit that insist that chraacter and emotion are all that matter in books and everything else is irrelevant.
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Reply to comment by ONEAlucard in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
I think it’s shameful because I can’t imagine not being ashamed of seeing my country’s educational institutions fail after spending centuries building up a proud tradition of excellence and cutting edge research.
What do you mean, it has no meaning in this situation? Without any explanation, all I could do was speculate. It’s not arguing in bad faith to ask a question in order to clear up your uncertainty about what the other person things.