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Anonymous01/26/26, 10:14No.25046030
>“Cormac considered contemporary fiction a waste of time,” said [Cormac's brother] Dennis, “because contemporary writers no longer have a legitimate culture to feed their souls.”
Well, was he right?
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Anon01/26/26, 10:16No.25046033
Probably. I don't read contemporary literature either.
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Anon01/26/26, 10:20No.25046035
Yeah. I kinda agree. I have read contemporary lit and IMO it can't carry its own self-importance.
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Anon01/26/26, 10:28No.25046043
Define "legitimate culture"
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Anon01/26/26, 10:30No.25046047
So much so that it‘s surprising he had a direct good take instead of sliding backwards into saying something meaningful (like the rest of his perspective on getting tired of the Santa Fe Institute.)Was reading Delillo this weekend and took away from it that he is only able to practice rote technical quality because there are no overarching aesthetic ideals left to bridge the gap from good to great. I put Pynchon in this category also.
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Anon01/26/26, 11:46No.25046114
Yes, but he was hardly the first to notice this.No one, not even the artist, lives independently, apart from the surrounding world and nation. Each is intimately bound to his culture and nation, and in each that which is common to all flourishes. The general worldview, of which some are aware of only in a confused way, finds the source of its creative form in the soul of the artist. If the native soil of a nation is a desert waste, the soul of the artist will also be unfruitful. Each great work of art comes from its time and from its nation. It cannot be decreed. If the nation and race are healthy, and if the national passion which affirms the faith and worldview are genuine and alive, then a great national art will also develop. The unfruitful apparatus of boards and government regulations can add but little.— Eugen Hadamovsky, ‘Propaganda and National Power’As far as my own orientation goes, in any case, I know that, according to our human experience and history, everything essential and of great magnitude has arisen only out of the fact that man had a home and was rooted in a tradition. Contemporary literature, for example, is largely destructive.— Martin HeideggerModern mainstream Western culture is worthless because there’s no healthy homogeneous culture beneath it. How high can a tree grow in an inch of soil over concrete?
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Anon01/26/26, 11:47No.25046116
You just don't like the modernity of Game of Thrones, you want simple literature like in the past where there is Lord of the Rings
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Anon01/26/26, 11:52No.25046123
Your little world was shaken when the mental hospitals in America were closed, and the George Martins became free.
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Anon01/26/26, 11:52No.25046124
No. Cowardly take.
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Anon01/26/26, 11:53No.25046125
>guy in an industry tells you all the other people in the same industry suck except him.
Many such cases.
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Anon01/26/26, 11:56No.25046127
Obviously true. Old McCarthy was always talking about Spengler. While technically it is still possible for great literature to emerge, and I do not consider McCarthy to be great literature, it is extremely unlikely given the current state of the world.
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Anon01/26/26, 13:22No.25046189
>chuds thinking McCarthy is validating them
Read the Passenger. McCarthy’s politics are too complex for left-right dichotomy, but he clearly has a fondness for the alienated and the marginalized. McCarthy’s conservatism is just his pessimism and historiography bleeding through.
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Anon01/26/26, 15:46No.25046351
Seems like a grim conclusion naturally reached by someone who traveled the world as a tourist since his youth, had a bad relationship with their parents, and by the time they were ready to return home realized that their specific town and culture they were raised in had been completely changed. Similar to a lot of the mid-20th centuries counter-culture warriors, but McCarthy has a sort of eurotrash flair to it as well. If anything the real issue is that the culture is too strong and even the modern "counter-cultures" aren't truly divided from the economic or technological ecosystems of the monoculture so they're still heavily tied to it
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Anon01/26/26, 17:13No.25046522
Fucker was named Charlie McCarthy, he had to change it to stop hearing ventriloquist jokes, and thought eschewing punctuation made him badass. Suck on that, friendo.
Fags here get erections at Judge Holden because it's the first book they read without pictures.
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Anon01/26/26, 17:21No.25046539
yes although you could argue some of his books/essays are part of the problem, especially the ones "teaching" midwits who have never read witt or donald davidson what philosophy of language is supposed to look like
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Anon01/26/26, 17:59No.25046617
Most nonfiction is also fiction pretending
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Anon01/26/26, 18:05No.25046631
Ah another fine episode of “you retards will argue about anything”
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Anon01/26/26, 18:05No.25046632
this is why I only read books by Amish writers where rumspringa is their call to adventure and strip clubs are like their ring of temptation
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Anon01/26/26, 18:20No.25046674
>“because contemporary writers no longer have a legitimate culture to feed their souls.”
we have multicultural fiction now
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Anon01/27/26, 01:10No.25047683
>Contemporary literature, for example, is largely destructive.Slash & Burn, Seed & Feed.
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Anon01/27/26, 02:40No.25047924
>Manchildcore reader can't into philosophy
Shocking! Imagine my utter shock!!
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Anon01/27/26, 02:55No.25047968
Yes. Libtards took over culture and turned it into a degenerate cesspit struggle session.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:09No.25048010
Corncob's glazers and Corncob's haters need to just get over their repression and have gay butt sex with each other. It's every thread with these guys.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:11No.25048019
How do McCopethy fans cope knowing every thread about their middlebrow pseud is a clownshow clusterfuck?
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Anon01/27/26, 03:12No.25048025
>i need buttsex to happen now because i have porn addiction and adhd
sucks to be you, fag
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Anon01/27/26, 03:17No.25048033
All I'm saying is that you hate what you really want, and it should be no wonder why Corncob's books, with all its violent content and whatnot, attract repressed homosexuals -- both admirers and critics alike.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:20No.25048039
>I NEED IT NOW I'M SO CLOSE PLEASE JUST LET ME BURST
go to horny concentration camp.
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Anon01/27/26, 09:20No.25048563
i can't sneed
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Anon01/28/26, 01:02No.25050081
What is it about Cormac that makes loser trannies seethe so much. The same faggot makes the same boring threads about him over and over.
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Anon01/28/26, 01:02No.25050082
this is like so problematic and fatphobic
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Anon01/28/26, 07:42No.25050710
I am absolutely 1000% of tired of anyone thinking that authors need to be treated like gods and that all of, or really ANY of their opinions that exist outside their actual literary works need to be paid attention to in any way.I do not. fucking care. about what ABC thought about XYZ. or how that's meant to influence how I think about it, which is always the implied intent. Really, just shuffle off the coil with this noise.
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Anon01/28/26, 11:29No.25050910
I haven't read any book published after 2005 (except for a couple of Pynchon books)