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The numb, self-Induced, concussive amnesia that social media provides us is very similar to Soma’s effects in Brave New World. I hope for the literary renaissance but fear our world has given up individuality to the viral hive mind
Alright, gonna break a lance for good old J.W. Goethe: I never experienced his writing as „infertile“ at all. When I was at school, we read many of his poems, and poems like „Erlking“, „The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice“ and especially „Prometheus“ were both exciting and moving emotionally and intellectually. I felt sympathetic to „The Sorrows of Young Werther“ (even though romance was very much a mystery yet), and I absolutely loved „Faust,“ where it was perhaps the first time I felt equally seen and challenged. I‘m not sure how well he Goethe translates into other languages, but I think his best texts are absolutely not infertile but instead offers opportunities for inspiration and growth. That‘s not taking anything away from the genius of Dostoyevsky. I would not want to miss either of them.
These deep talks on deep literature are the perfect background music for my mind. Im writing short stories (in portuguese, im from Brazil) and your insights are valid, though I do not agree with all of them. Thank you for the very nice afford, one can see it is genuine. You should check out some classic brazilian literature, there is some cool philosofical stuff.
@@danielbetancourt1483 there is só much good writers in brazil like, Machado de Assis, Jorge amado, Aluísio de Azevedo, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice linspector, and so much others
@@danielbetancourt1483 I dont know witch ones are translated to english, but, Im sure you can find Clarice Lispector's books in the US, shes a very popular 60's n 70s writer with a unique style and highly philosofical novels. There's also "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands", a masterpiece by Guimarães Rosa.
Alexander Sokurov who is a really great filmmaker talks about how books are superior to film and goes on to say how so far movies have only done damage to the world.
On the whole, it’s surely true that movies have damaged the world. They don’t create empathy for others in the way that novels do, and they normalize violence and explicit sexual displays. But that’s just overall. I would hope the filmmaker would acknowledge that some films have been positive for humanity.
Tasty video. I like this idea of a literature event. Sword fighting with Mishima, Fishing with Hemingway, Boxing with Mailer…Forming a rogue sect of freemasonry styled after occult Cormac McCarthy… Mishima is touching on something very ancient. He’s mind/body philosophy is Athenian, and the idea of building male centres of development, growing the body and intellect, I think this is the revolution. We just need to avoid killing ourselves. I have to say, Dostoyevsky can merge with any writer who came after him. He is a vital organ to the body of literature, or like a neurotransmitter in the critical brain. Raskalnikov is like serotonin, once you know about it, you find it in everything.
If you are able to read Goethe which seems! so easy... you will eventually see. For me school blocked Goethe. It's just a different path of gaining an overview and it is not for the impatient. Interesting channel. "Shakespeare is meant to be read alone later in one's life"... I fully agree.
Thanks for making this video Ian. At 5:55, you said Shakespeare is meant to be read alone later in life. I'm just curious at what age do you think people should be reading Shakespeare, and why? Thanks in advance Ian.
We don't revive meaning without actually doing something that really brings about the feeling or experience of meaning. People like me, who live only at the pleasure of the upper class, (like basically all poor people) our only meaning is convenience. I exist as a convenience store booze fridge that you can talk to. Can't wait to be dead. No mere writer is doing all that. Anyone who thinks otherwise will surely die in their cradle.
What's your favorite Dostoevsky book? I've read The Idiot but ironically (or not) I felt like I wasn't smart enough to understand it. Notes From the Underground just made me cringe but that kind of also felt like the point of that one.
Notes from the Underground is supposed to make you feel like the guy, someone who is refusing to better himself or his life but complains constantly about them
It makes them seethe that the greatest truths and gifts of consciousness and being have largely been recognized and rectified by the divine/transcendent throughout history
@zztopz7090 Crime and Punishment is a direct takeoff of Jonas from Martin Chuzzlewit. The psychologizing Dosto is famous for, pure Dickens. Rodya is just one of a list of characters directly lifted from his favourite English author. The complex plots of multiple characters to the point of overkill, interwoven chaotically and beautifully, sometimes brought to resolution, others left hanging... Dosto reads like a Dickens novel infused with Russian soul, taken to a darker place. You could argue that the Russian did it better. As someone who loves both, I prefer the Englishman, and Ian's off-the-cuff comment that felt like he was juxtaposing Dickens, meant for granny book clubs, with the _greats_ like Dostoyevsky didn't sit well with me. (Not indicting Ian here - if I was releasing videos with my ideas every day it would be a confusing mess). Just read what Fyodor had to say about him. => No Dickens, no Dosto. Hope that clarifies my position.
I don't think when he talks about "politics" he is talking about fighting Hitler. I think he is talking about staying on twitter 5 hours a day, debating losers online thinking you are making a difference, when in fact you are wasting your life away fighting for a conflict that was never yours. That seems to be basically everybody nowdays. Imagine using that time to make your life better.
Dostoevsky is good but overrated. His unnecessarily long novels are constructed of tedious upper-class household conversations, ultra-nationalistic naggings of frustrated incels (which he himself clearly sympathize with) mistaking their mommy land Russia with the body of God, never ending babblings of random drunks, almost cringe scenes of demonstration of religiosity and scenes arousing senseless pity, all in flat prose. He did write them so long to make more money, since they were being published as series. However, you might find some gems if you cut all the unnecessary and pointless content and reach the heart of the matter. His best work which lacks all these problems is his short notes from underground. That one is arguably a masterpiece.
Yeah like i can see the generational talent that he is as a fighter, and i can see that he has a really interesting story to tell, but saying more people should be like jon jones is kinda weird, in a sense people want to be like him bcs he can get away with those stunts, yeah people are imperfect but being a criminal is different
Right. It's strange to me that a teacher of children would openly advocate for that type of behaviour. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as having an overly passionate moment. But I hope he doesn't carry on with his students in that sort of direction.
🚀 Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious
📚 Book club, daily podcasts, and my writing: writeconscious.substack.com
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Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619345e
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🤔My Favorite Mishima Book: amzn.to/4836aXG
The numb, self-Induced, concussive amnesia that social media provides us is very similar to Soma’s effects in Brave New World. I hope for the literary renaissance but fear our world has given up individuality to the viral hive mind
Very well put. Terrifying that you’re fear may prevail.
Alright, gonna break a lance for good old J.W. Goethe: I never experienced his writing as „infertile“ at all. When I was at school, we read many of his poems, and poems like „Erlking“, „The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice“ and especially „Prometheus“ were both exciting and moving emotionally and intellectually.
I felt sympathetic to „The Sorrows of Young Werther“ (even though romance was very much a mystery yet), and I absolutely loved „Faust,“ where it was perhaps the first time I felt equally seen and challenged.
I‘m not sure how well he Goethe translates into other languages, but I think his best texts are absolutely not infertile but instead offers opportunities for inspiration and growth.
That‘s not taking anything away from the genius of Dostoyevsky. I would not want to miss either of them.
These deep talks on deep literature are the perfect background music for my mind. Im writing short stories (in portuguese, im from Brazil) and your insights are valid, though I do not agree with all of them. Thank you for the very nice afford, one can see it is genuine.
You should check out some classic brazilian literature, there is some cool philosofical stuff.
Hi, man!! Um brasileiro aqui tbm!! Fiquei curioso com sua novela
Could you recommend some brazilian novels?
@@danielbetancourt1483 there is só much good writers in brazil like, Machado de Assis, Jorge amado, Aluísio de Azevedo, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice linspector, and so much others
@@danielbetancourt1483Dom Casmurro and Brás Cubas are the starter pack to Brazilian literature.Both written by Machado de Assis!
@@danielbetancourt1483 I dont know witch ones are translated to english, but, Im sure you can find Clarice Lispector's books in the US, shes a very popular 60's n 70s writer with a unique style and highly philosofical novels. There's also "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands", a masterpiece by Guimarães Rosa.
Congrats on 20k - great job. It's coming.
Love this video. Incredibly insightful and gave me a lot of quotes to add to my commonplace journal!
Christ is risen from the dead ☦️
Splendid! I'm reading Mishima for the first time now (started with Spring Snow) and immediately sensed some similarities (that's why I'm here).
I subscribed to your channel because of Mishima.
Alexander Sokurov who is a really great filmmaker talks about how books are superior to film and goes on to say how so far movies have only done damage to the world.
Silly opinion
@@iammraat3059 Watch his movie Russian Ark and then call his opinion silly
On the whole, it’s surely true that movies have damaged the world. They don’t create empathy for others in the way that novels do, and they normalize violence and explicit sexual displays.
But that’s just overall. I would hope the filmmaker would acknowledge that some films have been positive for humanity.
@@howardroark3736 if you watched a couple of his movies you would understand the weight of his statement
Brother your videos are sweet. I have been inspired to check out Mishima by you.
Tasty video. I like this idea of a literature event. Sword fighting with Mishima, Fishing with Hemingway, Boxing with Mailer…Forming a rogue sect of freemasonry styled after occult Cormac McCarthy…
Mishima is touching on something very ancient. He’s mind/body philosophy is Athenian, and the idea of building male centres of development, growing the body and intellect, I think this is the revolution.
We just need to avoid killing ourselves.
I have to say, Dostoyevsky can merge with any writer who came after him. He is a vital organ to the body of literature, or like a neurotransmitter in the critical brain. Raskalnikov is like serotonin, once you know about it, you find it in everything.
When is the skool opening?
If you are able to read Goethe which seems! so easy... you will eventually see. For me school blocked Goethe. It's just a different path of gaining an overview and it is not for the impatient. Interesting channel. "Shakespeare is meant to be read alone later in one's life"... I fully agree.
Thanks for making this video Ian. At 5:55, you said Shakespeare is meant to be read alone later in life. I'm just curious at what age do you think people should be reading Shakespeare, and why? Thanks in advance Ian.
This is just whaf I needed to hear bruv 🦞🦊🔪
We don't revive meaning without actually doing something that really brings about the feeling or experience of meaning. People like me, who live only at the pleasure of the upper class, (like basically all poor people) our only meaning is convenience. I exist as a convenience store booze fridge that you can talk to. Can't wait to be dead. No mere writer is doing all that. Anyone who thinks otherwise will surely die in their cradle.
I read Notes From The Underground and Crime And Punishment. I didn't like either one, but I read them anyway. Being well read isn't always pleasant.
GREAT VIDEO!
Ian, which translation of The Bros Karaz do you prefer?
Brother, I would love to watch some UFC with you and then later go back and talk about books and authors again.😅
Could you do Mishima on Thomas Mann?
The World SITUATION in 20th century was EXACTLY HOW DOSTOYEVSKY DESCRIBED IT.and Nietzsche agreed
Bukawski knew man...
Dostoievski saves me
What's your favorite Dostoevsky book? I've read The Idiot but ironically (or not) I felt like I wasn't smart enough to understand it. Notes From the Underground just made me cringe but that kind of also felt like the point of that one.
I really struggled with the Idiot. Not so much his other work some of which I sailed through. If you can check out Kurosawa’s film.
Notes from the Underground is supposed to make you feel like the guy, someone who is refusing to better himself or his life but complains constantly about them
Crime and Punishment is the most traditional novel I think
An atheist cannot grasp the depths of Dostoevsky's or Goethe's writings. Or many other classics for that matter.
Wrong. There’s this little thing we call autism son.
Bingo
It makes them seethe that the greatest truths and gifts of consciousness and being have largely been recognized and rectified by the divine/transcendent throughout history
As an atheist who is often told he's not "really" an atheist, I'd say you're wrong.
@@thoughtful1233 You can never relate to prince Myshkin the way a theist who believes in Jesus can so how can it hit the same.
All is kool. But Dostoyevsky was NOT peace of shit. He truly and deeply loved women.
Without Dickens there would be no Dostoyevsky.
Pardon?
@zztopz7090 Crime and Punishment is a direct takeoff of Jonas from Martin Chuzzlewit. The psychologizing Dosto is famous for, pure Dickens. Rodya is just one of a list of characters directly lifted from his favourite English author. The complex plots of multiple characters to the point of overkill, interwoven chaotically and beautifully, sometimes brought to resolution, others left hanging... Dosto reads like a Dickens novel infused with Russian soul, taken to a darker place. You could argue that the Russian did it better. As someone who loves both, I prefer the Englishman, and Ian's off-the-cuff comment that felt like he was juxtaposing Dickens, meant for granny book clubs, with the _greats_ like Dostoyevsky didn't sit well with me. (Not indicting Ian here - if I was releasing videos with my ideas every day it would be a confusing mess).
Just read what Fyodor had to say about him. => No Dickens, no Dosto. Hope that clarifies my position.
*also want to add that I think Martin Chuzzlewit is one of CD’s worst works, yet it inspired a masterpiece
No offense bro but politics is not a revolving door. It’s the difference between Hitler and the Bill of Rights.
the difference between trudeau and trump
@@djamqueen poor dear
I don't think when he talks about "politics" he is talking about fighting Hitler. I think he is talking about staying on twitter 5 hours a day, debating losers online thinking you are making a difference, when in fact you are wasting your life away fighting for a conflict that was never yours. That seems to be basically everybody nowdays. Imagine using that time to make your life better.
Dostoevsky is good but overrated. His unnecessarily long novels are constructed of tedious upper-class household conversations, ultra-nationalistic naggings of frustrated incels (which he himself clearly sympathize with) mistaking their mommy land Russia with the body of God, never ending babblings of random drunks, almost cringe scenes of demonstration of religiosity and scenes arousing senseless pity, all in flat prose.
He did write them so long to make more money, since they were being published as series.
However, you might find some gems if you cut all the unnecessary and pointless content and reach the heart of the matter.
His best work which lacks all these problems is his short notes from underground. That one is arguably a masterpiece.
Jon Jones has been pretty shit for the last 4 years.... Gifted split decisions and one win against a white belt at heavyweight.
Yeah like i can see the generational talent that he is as a fighter, and i can see that he has a really interesting story to tell, but saying more people should be like jon jones is kinda weird, in a sense people want to be like him bcs he can get away with those stunts, yeah people are imperfect but being a criminal is different
Right. It's strange to me that a teacher of children would openly advocate for that type of behaviour. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as having an overly passionate moment. But I hope he doesn't carry on with his students in that sort of direction.