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I feel like this take is a little misguided, no single book changes you as a person not even a single thing changes a person. It’s how you interpret those experiences personally. Especially with art, there is many ways to interpret most art, some people read books like “No Longer Human” and walk away with the lesson that they are not alone , whatever struggles they have are not only personal to them ! Other people just take it as motivation not to SPIRAL FURTHER than they already have , and some hate it just because it’s SUPER DARK and that’s all they got , and in the end it’s all valid but none of it was written to teach you ANYTHING! it was simply a final passion project but a legendary author.no more and no less

Interesting and thoughtful video. Best wishes.

I would say Wokeism not nerds destroyed literature and art

I wonder if Mishima had ever read any of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He read Nietzsche

It's funny because Mishima was a gigantic nerd.

You've put to words what I couldn't articulate when it comes to this perpetual childhood. Glad I found your channel and I gotta look up Thomas Pynchon next time I go to the library.

Well said

Bro. With all due respect. Slow down and annunciate!

This makes me want to know your opinion on James Joyce.

Mishima forewarned us about Joss Whedon

Have you ever read Imperial by Vollmann? It's an incredible history of the hardscrabble Imperial Valley in California. Vollmann went out there and lived there in his time researching for the book. I'm impressed with the actual blood, sweat, and tears he put into researching and experiencing one of the most overlooked places in the country to write that book. Worth the (very long) read!

Based, i (a nerd) hate nerds.

50 intelligent well read people will make 50 different tier choices, some commonalities and a few striking differences. That’s how I view your list. But I enjoy your video though I clearly would make a different tier list.

Bro deleted my comments 😂

I will give it one Google search and he better not be a war criminal

I don’t quite know how to put this, but it bothers me that you’re so hard for DFW. Lit Bros are just Tec Bros without money. Both are insufferable.

You're confusing Autism with apathy and nihilism. Austic people experience intense emotion and desires and often ascribe great meaning to the things around them, their interests, relationships, and routines.

Creativity and story telling is the power of the gods. It's what we do with our creativity that deems it worthy of the gods as sacrifice. It's funny. Early in my 20s, I wanted to enlist into the military to experience life like J.R. Tolkien (due to medical reasons I was disqualified). I quickly understood that my genuine creativity was limited to my real-world experiences. Otherwise, if I didn't live life, what could I write about that hasn't already been written about by worldly authors? lesser versions of their craft certainly. I guess what Im trying to say is don't be afraid to live your life and enjoy it for what it is. Use your life experiences to inspire you to create something new.

Nerds ruin all art they touch that isnt made for children, like comic books or video games. Movies are the latest casualty.

The Fluxus movement during the counter culture tried this ... they even had one John Lennon of the Beatles helping ...funny thing is as soon as he shared the source of the song imagine he was not around much long after that... Always in jest is what I learned from Maxwell's demon illustration but it holds other secrets and some can never be shared in the open freely. .. beauty of chiaroscuro requires shade as much as it does light

Good discussion here. One unfortunate reality I’ve noticed in the modern geek community is this situation where you have a large portion of the community being comprised of individuals with high intellect but low emotional understanding and health, low physical fitness, and little to no spiritual connection.

Very interesting breakdowns thank you 🙏🙏I can relate to this duality about marriage like most women and even men like you said.

Awesome advice on writing..terrific podcast

I heard once that the problem was not nerds, but geeks, they are probably interchangeable terms, but the idea is as follows: to be a nerd, you had to study a lot and excel, in sciences and math for example and have some intellectual depth. On the other hand, a geek can be someone who lacks any academic achievement and is generally obsessed with videogames and anime. You can reason with a nerd, but a geek is basically an NPC. I might be wrong but it's a difference I've noticed.

Trump is the only one not to start wars. Not saying how to vote. Just facts.

What would you advise more precisely to women ? because I can see that you targeted more your male audience which seems to be a majority of men as you said in previous videos (sorry for my bad english it's not main first langage)

I’ve read a story or two by Mishima, and the majority of his work is him b••ching about life in post-WWII Japan. Guess that tends to happen when you’re descended from a shogun

While any pursuit can become a rut, fantasy provides a framework to explore ideas that simply can't be realized or cleanly articulated in a meaningful way. Real life is very often monotonous, chaotic, and seemingly meaningless; and that's not even a bad thing. There's a time to make your life an adventure and then there's a time to keep things as stable as you can, often to preserve the treasure gained from the adventure. A little escapism helps people cope with lives that need to be stable and all the stress it takes to maintain that stability.

FYI NO NEW WARS UNDER TRUMP AND ABRAHAMIC PEACE ACCORDS, “bruh”.

I mean escapists fantasy like a lot of trashy isekai novels have become the same exact story with the slightest of differences like "Mc Donalds" consistently the same stuff (There are acceptions Mushoku tensei and re zero are good examples of plainly put fantastic lit from the isekai genre) I stopped writing my isekai webnovel because I wanted to make something no one else could and have some sort of impact one people and there for the world

Thematically The Judge was pure evil. He is never seen eating, drinking or sleeping. He is immensely smart and seems to have lived a life longer than the years he has on this earth. He plays the fiddle and dances. Thematically he is the devil in human skin.

I'm a screenwriter and I think I found a good technique. 1st draft is typed out--that first blast of inspiration comes out quicker and gives you less time to let your inner critic get ahold of you. 2nd draft, long hand--you look at you wrote in the first draft and begin to shape your story more clearly. Maybe some wild idea came out in that first draft that you would've shunned if you were going long form. I think it's a nice balance and it seems give you the best of both worlds.

Real writers are universal geniuses. If you aren't a rennaissance man, you are not a real artist.

I love this video. It reminds me of a quote by Frank Frazetta where he said he wasn't what people expected an artist to be. He worked out, he liked to hunt, and this primal attitude showed in his drawings.

Yes. Immediately I can tell you get it in this video. The novel is American myth building and is executed masterfully by McCarthy’s prose.

Reminds me of a Bukowski quote. I think it's a conversation with Celine in Pulp. He says: Writers use to live more interesting lives than they wrote, then they wrote more interesting lives than they lived, now their lives and writing are both uninteresting.

Yes, on commas, what the fuck.

its all differing philosophies. Nihilism is common and is profane

Books are a medium that carries thoughts. If you want somebody else's voice in your head it better be somebody smarter than Rowling.

watching your videos, i imagine you're regarded as one of the select few Cool Teachers by your students at the school you work in.

I’m already halfway caus I’m already lonely and depressed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻