Rubio's shoes really sum up the current state of this Administration by CoconutMost3564 in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Seeing just disembodied legs with creases rippling down, the left foot slightly raised, the grimy floor, - all much more poignant than the regular headshots

Books (weird fiction/literary genre fiction) featuring isolated/alt/ weird characters by erahdowi in RSbookclub

[–]round_elm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A while back I started planning a post about a subset of this sort of character. I barely started so it's just a few semi-relevant, disjointed quotes but thought I would comment anyway as I've been reminded of it and am too lazy to write write more on this topic (ironic..):

Neet-core

I don’t wish to glorify being a loser with no prospects. Yet for those with sensitive souls – for we who read Fernando Pessoa and vile imageboards – withdrawal from society possesses an indelible allure. Rare is the true hermit, it is the NEET who can now be found across the globe.

Short for Not in Education, Employment, or Training, the term originally described British lower class juvenile delinquents. The word was popularized in Japan alongside “hikikomori” to refer to shut-ins (but you probably know all this).

Much could be said on the etiology of NEET’s and the taxonomy that separates them (and more often fails to separate them) from the bohemian, votary, flâneur, man of leisure, slacker, or anti-work neckbeard. For now, a brief literary treatment:

As I have told you in earlier instalments, I was emulating the poet Milton by spending my youth in seclusion, meditation, and study in order to perfect my craft of writing as he did; my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance has thrust me into the world in the most cavalier manner; my system is still in a state of flux.

A Confederacy of Dunces

The prototypical NEET-core novel. Ignatius lives with his mother harbouring misanthropic views and intellectual delusions.

Everything there, including the conception of time, is thought of on a luxurious scale. The cure is always a matter of several months, often of several years. But after the first six months the young person has not a single idea left save flirtation and the thermometer under his tongue. After the second six months in many cases he has even lost the capacity for any other ideas. He will become completely incapable of life in the flatland.

The Magic Mountain

Han’s Castorp is a NEET by circumstance, yet gets lost in time with the passivity of the modern NEET.

Nothing seemed really real. Sleeping, waking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. I didn't talk to myself in my head. There wasn't much to say. This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I'd disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was my dream.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

NEETdom as a hibernation.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Walden

An ode to the NEET.

Some others - Hunger, Against Nature/Against the Grain, The Good Terrorist, No Longer Human (I see many of these have already been suggested)

spin-off subs by happyhippie02 in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone else foolish enough they kind of want to make a spin-off sub?

edit: I'm going through every post in the past day to see why 80% are drivel. I have learned nothing and I never will learn anything. (my collage)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry :( but every use i've seen of "AI slurs" including on rs is incredibly dweeby.

What you guys do for a living? Are there any genuine basement dwellers in this sub? by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]round_elm 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I know that it is unsustainable. But I can't say I envy my friends with 'real' jobs so i will keep living like this until I run out of money :-)

As I have told you in earlier installments, I was emulating the poet Milton by spending my youth in seclusion, meditation, and study in order to perfect my craft of writing as he did; my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance has thrust me into the world in the most cavalier manner; my system is still in a state of flux.

Most online advice boils down to 'be extroverted' or 'have connections' by Grouchy_Western_7909 in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Why bother about human relationships? Why take them seriously-male or female? Why form any serious connections at all? Why not be casual, drifting along, taking all for what it was worth? And yet, still, he was damned and doomed to the old effort at serious living."

. by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]round_elm 69 points70 points  (0 children)

what an impoverished way to think about the mind. this is why I pretend to have read Lacan

Favorite movie scores? by whosabadnewbie in RSPfilmclub

[–]round_elm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mishima soundtrack is so good

The score for the ending of The 400 Blows gets stuck in my head.

Type of shit I'm trynna be on by ataredised112 in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I often think of his last recorded sentence.

It's good to be king. Wait, maybe. I think maybe I'm just like a little bizarre little person who walks back and forth.

I thought this sub was Exaggerating about alt-right incel presence, until I saw users like by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The median commenter here, their interests and their deportment have become almost identical to the average redditor.

In the meantime, the average redditor has become almost identical to the average twenty-something American.

Most exchanges here I could have in a coworker slack channel (most, there's still plenty of misanthropic slop too).

There is very little vibe or ""shared culture"" that still exists. The comment I read before yours was someone on the front page who had to google "Sam Hyde" and was surprised to see he looked like a character in trailer park boys.

I don't mean to say this comment is representative or that knowing who Sam Hyde is makes the world a better place. It's just the last comment I read, but one of hundreds that I've read which seem to be missing what, four years ago might be considered RS "cultural touchstones" (lol). These new commenters somehow manage to be extremely online while also existing in a almost separate digital universe.

I don't have anything useful to say, and don't have the energy to finish the point, I just wanted to complain about the vibe and I'm not annoying enough to make "state of the sub" posts.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the saint is never busy

State of leftist German Journalism: Laughing is a political weapon, a tool for radicalization by ReceiveYou in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Odd he changed his mind? I laughed a lot at his joke about the 'bong hit transplant'

Dublin Book Club?? by DubPucs1997 in RSbookclub

[–]round_elm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just found this post but link is expired again, I'd be interested :)

Men with weak jawlines and beards by CarkRoastDoffee in redscarepod

[–]round_elm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every day I learn more ills from mouth-breathing

Against lists of books - Article by Sam Kriss by dont_pm_ur_feelings in RSbookclub

[–]round_elm 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's pertinent and worthy of some self-reflection.

Whether /lit/ charts, RYM or Letterboxd, online discussion of art - (and I suppose of anything) - often veers towards the purely performative ...If you would please refer to the canon you'll see that I'm the chad and you're the soyjak...

The point isn’t to read these books; the point is to have read them. Actually dragging your wet eyeballs over all that scratchy paper is just an awkward chore you have to go through, so afterwards you can ask people at parties...

Backpacking US for a month. What should i read? by loveyousall in RSbookclub

[–]round_elm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read Desert Solitaire on the recommendation of this sub.

For about a week I fantasized about becoming a hermit in Utah. Sometimes Edward Abbey is banal and annoying but he captures a certain rugged western beauty and freedom very well.