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06-26-2013, 06:00 PM
Kafka understood what it's like to be lowly.
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06-26-2013, 09:38 PM
Damn I thought this was about Kefka...
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06-26-2013, 10:07 PM
Assume the sale, Kafka. Assume the sale.
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06-26-2013, 10:25 PM
Every girl is gonna reject you if you look like a giant cockroach. Game can only do so much!
[size=8pt]"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”[/size] [size=7pt] - Romans 8:18[/size]
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06-27-2013, 01:29 AM
Kafka later learned about game and metamorphosed into a solid player. He named that whole process - the trial.
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Franz Kafka - Rejection
06-27-2013, 11:02 AM
I have this hypothesis.
Without The Holocaust. Franz Kafka would never have become famous.
Even though he died about 17 years before The Holocaust.
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06-27-2013, 11:18 AM
+1 for quoting classics related to game and illuminating timeless principles.
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08-04-2018, 11:55 AM
Male disposability seems to be one of Kafka's main themes. He was definitely red-pilled and way ahead of his time in this regard and others.
"The Metamorphosis": Gregor Samsa is seemingly respected (or at least tolerated) as long as he's able to work and contribute to his household. When he morphs into something that a) not only cannot provide but needs to be provided for, and b) is hideous to look at, his family ultimately rejects him and are happy to let him die.
"A Hunger Artist": The title character makes money for his employers by making a spectacle out of his propensity for self-denial as a form of self-harm (which we eventually learn he secretly enjoys).
The Trial: Josef K., a successful and productive 30 year old, is accused of a crime that his accusers refuse to name. He is taken into custody by an unknown government bureaucracy and is told he needs to stand trial for this unnamed crime, and is offered only further abuse and humiliation when he tries to get to the bottom of things. The more he digs, the more of a brick wall he hits. After being entirely betrayed by all of society he submits to his own execution.
These are the fates of average (and sometimes above average) men in societies wealthy enough to become fully gynocentric. It is actually men who suffer the most under the tyranny of supposedly patriarchal structures like the nuclear family and government bureaucracy. These structures tend to provide shelter and safety for women, at the expense of the men whose labor and brainpower sustain them. Interestingly Kafka (a Jew) had a badly abusive childhood and died in 1924 at age of forty, around ten years before the Nazis came to power. Most of his family died in the Holocaust.
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08-04-2018, 01:40 PM
I remember reading Amerika, Kafka had some strange ideas about what the US was like.
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08-04-2018, 07:40 PM
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Counterpoint: We now live in a culture where the average person spends far more time looking at IG models than reading Kafka
I was thinking the same thing. One could say that boobs and hips have won. How much money has the latest Kardashian attention-whore made?
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Kylie Jenner has posted 5,435 photos on Instagram, and though she might not be the celebrity with the most followers (Selena Gomez still holds that title), she's become one of social media's top influencers. According to a new report, every single one of Kylie's posts is worth a whopping $1 million.
https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advic...am-income/
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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08-05-2018, 06:41 PM
I wonder what kind of novel Kafka would have written if he had suddenly gotten a lot of pussy... Probably not a very good one.
Suffering tends to be the best way to fuel creativity.